The 2GR-FE has been stripped, cleaned, inspected and now ready for the machining.
The plan is for major head work. This will involve port and polish, increasing the exhaust flow, stronger valve springs and camshaft upgrade but the rest will be pretty standard. Head studs will be used with the bottom end staying in a pretty standard set up as its very good in this state.
The intake will be standard aside from a 75mm mechanically operated throttle body. After a few discussions with people who have worked on this engine, this is all that's required for my level of entertainment.
Power output? Hard to say an exact figure but anything from 200-250 rwkw.
I have received the Racepak dash and power module but have not started with the installation. Really need to get this up and running.
Still out on the ECU but at this stage I have enough to keep me busy.
Here is a video clip of the dismantling of the engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-XUFhneew&list=UUgPykxhEsmP_GvZz_fJD5zA As I did not have the car ready for the Wakefield 300, I still managed a arrive and drive deal with Tampered Motorsport. They had a Nissan Pulsar Cup car available for the race. My co driver was a young go karting hot shot who had driven the car in the first round of the series a few weeks before the 300. The car was very poorly set up when we arrived but after a few hours work I managed to get the car to a decent set up the night before the race. While it was still in a poor set up (30mm toe out up front/15mm toe in at the rear/camber was steering the car off the track/car was too low with crappy roll centres) we went out in the rain where I qualified mid field.
On the race day, I started the race where I was held up at the start and then had to work to catch up and start having some fun. We were going well until the pit stop when it was discovered I had destroyed tyres! We had to take a tyre change/fuel and driver change. That hurt us a lot then my co driver went out and had a go. Unfortunately we suffered a clutch failure (all the pucks were stripped off) which ended our race.
One thing I can take away from the weekend was breaking the lap record for Pulsar Cup cars at Wakefield Park with a less than perfect set up against many teams who have been racing these cars for years with well developed cars.
It would be great to have a team of guys from the forum get together to campaign a car in the W300 2015. Ian and Pete have helped out in 2013 and hope we can do the same in 2015.
Here is some footage from my incar camera: I will sort out some better footage in coming weeks of some cleaner driving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkERCdo6LLs&list=UUgPykxhEsmP_GvZz_fJD5zA