My 3.2 Build

[irobertson]

Originally Posted by ozracer

Post some pics as you go along i like your attention to detail this should be a great build. Are you building to oem spec or have you planned some performance upgrades?

Hi ozracer,
Thanks for the nice comment.
I'm building the engine itself to stock spec, but I just got a set of B&B headers and plan on a Steve Wong chip.

[TT Oversteer]

I had about the same amount of squeeze out with the three bond on the case perimeter. It looks fine to me.

[efhughes3]

Looks pretty consistent along the length....I had about the same.

[irobertson]

Thanks guys. Always nice to hear the experience of others, especially when wading in uncharted waters as I am.

[500_19B]

Hello Ian,

Looks great!

As for the squeeze out: It looks very similar to mine. It was one the the 6,798,465 things I worried about. However, absolutely no leaks at all.

Henry's method really is good.

And, its a balance: Yes, we want full coverage on the bonding surfaces, but we don't want to goop so much on that we end up with globs of the stuff on the inside.

I think you are good to go!

[irobertson]

I haver a question about cleaning the corrosion out of the rocker shaft bores.
I don't want to glass bead because that will rough up the surface, so I'm thinking about switching to soda blasting.
Has anyone soda blasted their cam towers?
If so, did you experience any degradation of the cam bearing surfaces or the rocker shaft bores?

[LukasM]

Nice work on the engine assembly, at least as far as you posted! What was the outcome in the end, did you get it to run nicely and did it stay dry at the case seam?

Originally Posted by irobertson

I haver a question about cleaning the corrosion out of the rocker shaft bores.
I don't want to glass bead because that will rough up the surface, so I'm thinking about switching to soda blasting.
Has anyone soda blasted their cam towers?
If so, did you experience any degradation of the cam bearing surfaces or the rocker shaft bores?

What did you end up doing there to get rid of the corrosion?

Cheers,
Lukas