garygnu

get a oil catch can.great job!

AW794

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Sorry it took so long. I was waiting on getting my heads back from Mike at TEC. He installed the valve springs and retainers for me. As well as decked the heads.

New ls7 lifters soaking and ls2 lifter trays


A shot of the mild porting


Oversize valves



.040 cometic




Both heads installed and torqued. Powersteering pump found its home aswell


I took some measurements for the pushrods i need to order. Thats all for now! Next up is re installation of the water pump, radiator, and fill up with water.

1SLwLS1

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Looks good. They look like 241s? What did he set your cc volume at?

King Nothing

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cool build, but why 2 months? i'm guessin you have a car as a DD

AW794

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Yea i have a f250 i DD. I also dont have a lot of free time to work on it, so i get to it when i can. Which is usually about once a week.

ae13291

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really nice build up so far.

01ssreda4

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Good job

ausls1

looks awesome, i like the fly cut idea, gives me some ideas for when i do mine, i'm in 2 minds about doing the heads with the cam iv got (218/224 114lsa), but i think i'll do heads and new lifters when i put my cam in after reading this, interesting to see what it makes when done, awesome job. what size valves did you put in? or leave that to the machine shop?

King Nothing

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ah that explains it . . . keep truckin along and you'll love it when it's done!!!!!

Shockwave179

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I don't know if it was mentioned but did you drill holes in the LS2 lifter trays?

blsnelling

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I drilled 1/4" holes in them on my LQ4 build.

02fbody35th

how come you drill the holes?

Pipelayaz

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It prevents hot oil from puddling in the trays.

02fbody35th

ohh ok makes sense, you would think that they would have passages for that from the factory

AW794

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No it wasn't mentioned, and no i didnt drill holes. I honestly didnt know i had to . How big of a deal is this?

AW794

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Thanks!
2.055 intake and 1.60 exhaust

bene

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I didn't drill mine however I've heard of this method before.

ausls1

oh ok, sweet, will chase some up for mine, i want to do the lifters so if i do will defenatly do the heads, will be doing the install myself as i'm in the trade, but will get a machine shop to do any machining, top effort though.

i don't think the holes in the lifter trays would be a huge issue as they would be there from factory if it was, always a good idea though but id say you will be able to get a way with it, first iv heard about drilling holes in them anyway.

RobZ

Looks good,what compression do you have now?I've read that fly cutting lowers compression,but not sure by how much.

AW794

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Im not 100% sure. I probably picked up with the thinner head gasket what i lost after flycutting