JPR

This Darton wet sleeved block is being prepared for Mr. Ezss <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" /> Just waiting for the new product numbered piston skirts. Thanks Chris!


http://www.quicktimeperformance.com/pics/jprdarton3.jpg


Bears re-furbished S2 LS6 heads, just wanted to throw this one in too.. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />


http://www.quicktimeperformance.com/...prbearhead.jpg


Found 3 bent valves upon disassebly and 3 other slightly tweaked ones so I decided to completly re-do them completly over again, there not cleaned up but you get the picture so-to-speak.


Joe.

<small>[ March 19, 2003, 09:21 PM: Message edited by: JPR ]</small>

Bear

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OMG Joe. They look great. My head never looked so good. I hope to be on erics pace as well. That will have to wait till the after the house. See u Sat. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />

ezss

Cool! Im pretty excited about this whole project, hopefully everything will work out.

As part of the project Im upgrading to a 232/236 cam and joe is re-porting my ARE stage 2 heads, to make them into JPRish stage 3. Hopefully Ill have some kickass numbers in a couple of weeks!

We originally planned on an LA sleeved 382 with a 4.1" bore, but I twisted Joe's arm a bit into doing the dartons --this is going to be a 387 with a 4.125" bore.

No cage yet in the car, I probably wont get many passes without it. The car is already kinda a boat at just over 3600 pounds with me in it (and thats with lightweight rims and skinnies).

Barry thanks for the pics.

<small>[ March 20, 2003, 08:45 AM: Message edited by: ezss ]</small>

ezss

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Bear:
<strong> OMG Joe. They look great. My head never looked so good. I hope to be on erics pace as well. That will have to wait till the after the house. See u Sat. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bear, those heads look great! Now with just a little weight reduction... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Phil99vette

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Joe,
Is this the first try at the Darton sleeves? I am interested in getting a block built with those sleeves if you could pass on some info it would be great.
Phillip @ phillip_eclipse@hotmail.com

Black Sunshine/ 00SS

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Ezss, that's very similar to the combo that ARE is building for me right now. A 393 All Bore, with the same 232/236 cam I was running in the stock block. 4.100 bore x 3.72 Stroke

Mine should be done by the end of next week. I'd like to compare # and track times, to see how close we are.

Looks good Joe.

JPR

Hey Phil97,
I had 4 dry sleeved blocks prepared and had a bad experience with the first one right out of the machine shop, come to find out it was only the Cometic head gaskets leaking after 2 sets on the same motor, Sooo, I was contimplating the Darton system, then read some bad rumors about them online that ended up to be untrue. "Ezss" Eric and I spoke at length on the phone about how I would go about doing future all bore blocks and I was just about to give up on them after investing close to 11G's into the dry sleeve set-up for what I though was a loss of blocks/labor/sleeves at the time.. (because I was almost convinced the dry sleeved blocks were leaking.. NOT the case) Anyway, Ezss convinced me to speak to the people at Darton and get some feed back before I give up, I have had nothing but great input from them, they are very eagar to answer all my questions to the letter, and they backed phone conversations with technical content e-mails and phone numbers to reach there design Techs at (I'm inquisitive to a fault) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> . I have 3 Darton system blocks now that are in various stages of build/boring/delivery and I feel very comfortable with my pursuaded decision! No doubt I can build a motor, it's just I don't need pre-existing problems before hand. Ezss's motor will show very nicely and I learned a couple things on the way to his build, like... use bigger cams to avoid too low of peaks!

Joe.

ezss

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Black Sunshine/ 00SS:
<strong> Ezss, that's very similar to the combo that ARE is building for me right now. A 393 All Bore, with the same 232/236 cam I was running in the stock block. 4.100 bore x 3.72 Stroke

Mine should be done by the end of next week. I'd like to compare # and track times, to see how close we are.

Looks good Joe. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I will certainly post the results, both dyno and track and look for yours. I suspect because you have an A4 that they may not be all that similar, but we shall see <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Good luck!

Fenris Ulf

Looking good Joe! When is it all going together?

InvisibleSun

Any updates???

ezss

Looking more like next weekend (4/12)for the dyno, we wanted to change the headers while everything was apart to QTP 1 7/8 with merge collector, but Joe hasnt worked it the details with with Barry@QTP yet.