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For the rotating assembly, no such thing as "too much" assembly lube. Where do you fear you used too little? Just as long as there is a good solid coating (as you put it) on the wear surfaces, you should be OK.
Just on the main journals/bearings. I was trying to be bit conservative as I wasn't sure how much I was going to need. Everything spun just fine, silent as a mouse, but I don't want to fire it up for the first time and have all of my bearings simultaneously fail lol.
Sorry for the lack of updates! I haven't really had much to do. Mostly just waiting on parts to arrive. Heads should be here in a couple of days, and the bottom half of the motor is complete.
Pictures don't do these guys justice. Tony wasn't kidding when he called them "Aluminum Art"
Firstly, I have to point out just how high quality these are. You can definitely tell how much time Tony puts into each of these heads. Every machined edge, from the seat of the valve cover gasket, to the edges of the combustion chambers themselves have been beveled so you don't have to wear welding gloves just to handle them.
On top of that, the porting work is fantastic. You can definitely tell where your money went in these, and it is money well spent.
But enough talking, here are the pics! Just don't let your wife catch you looking at them
Remember that scene in American pie with Shannon Elizabeth and the kid kept creaming his shorts? Not gonna lie that was me when I got mine. They are phenomenal pieces
I really thought you were going to go with Tony's Sportsman 223 heads. I have 2 sets of 243's. I was planning on sending the better set to AI to have ported but then I saw the price and it is so close to the sportsman's I can't bring myself to send them off to get work done on them. I dread calling Tony, as I know if I call to get the 223, I will talk myself into the MMS 220s and blow my budget out the window. Awesome build OP, can't wait for results.
Last edited by Chrisingermany; 08-25-2017 at 01:04 PM.
Remember that scene in American pie with Shannon Elizabeth and the kid kept creaming his shorts? Not gonna lie that was me when I got mine. They are phenomenal pieces
Yeah, I may have gotten a little... over excited when I cracked open the box.
I really thought you were going to go with Tony's Sportsman 223 heads. I have 2 sets of 243's. I was planning on sending the better set to AI to have ported but then I saw the price and it is so close to the sportsman's I can't bring myself to send them off to get work done on them. I dread calling Tony, as I know if I call to get the 223, I will talk myself into the MMS 220s and blow my budget out the window. Awesome build OP, can't wait for results.
I almost went with the Sportsman's. Especially after seeing how well they flowed and what kind of numbers other people were putting up with them. But I'm a "do it once, do it right" kind of guy, so I figured I could suffer through a few weeks of eating Ramen for dinner. Definitely worth it.
I really thought you were going to go with Tony's Sportsman 223 heads. I have 2 sets of 243's. I was planning on sending the better set to AI to have ported but then I saw the price and it is so close to the sportsman's I can't bring myself to send them off to get work done on them. I dread calling Tony, as I know if I call to get the 223, I will talk myself into the MMS 220s and blow my budget out the window. Awesome build OP, can't wait for results.
I really thought you were going to go with Tony's Sportsman 223 heads. I have 2 sets of 243's. I was planning on sending the better set to AI to have ported but then I saw the price and it is so close to the sportsman's I can't bring myself to send them off to get work done on them. I dread calling Tony, as I know if I call to get the 223, I will talk myself into the MMS 220s and blow my budget out the window. Awesome build OP, can't wait for results.
Don't forget though that with the MMS heads you'll probably want to go with the bronze guides and roller rockers which put the price a bit much north of a ported set of 243's.
I posted a thread over in the Stereo section, which gives one of the many reasons I was able to do a really optimized build like this. If you guys are into car audio and have the time, go check it out. (If you aren't into car audio... go look anyway!)
Rods should be arriving Monday, after that the whole motor will be assembled, and it's just a matter of waiting for the headers to come in (figured I would bolt those on on the stand vs. trying to get them in with the motor in the car).
Got the balancer on last night, holy crap. Even without the bolt I don't think that thing'd be going anywhere. It cracked the hardened washer that proform provides with their install tool.
06-09-2017, 05:41 AM
