96 Beretta Project

[3400-95-Modified]

It weighs a lot less when in individual pieces I do have a ground level door, well the basement is about 8" lower than the door, but the bigger question is will the stand fit through the two door frames it has to go through... According to my trusty tape measure it should by 1"... but we all know how well that works out.

[88GTRacer]

Lmao! How did you get it in your basement in the first place?

[3400-95-Modified]

SO yeah things never work the first time... I should have thought of this but when I did the outer CV's for N-body brakes the whole outer assembly was swapped onto my axle shaft... This time I only had the inner output stub for the 60e-HD and it didn't come with the tripod inner parts. Come to find out the Beretta parts, or the ones used on this axle do not fit into the larger splined output stub needed for the 60e-HD diff.

Hopefully Jeff from EP has one of these tripod's that he can send to me so I can get this axle back together.

Beretta output stub on the bottom.. you can see the difference.


I got my pushrods yesterday as well... Tonight I'll be installing those slapping on the rocker covers and then trying to figure out how to get the engine out of my basement... LOL

[ericjon262]

Looking good!

[3400-95-Modified]

Windage tray on and the timing cover is on since that photo... Will be dropping the pan on and doing the lower intake soon. Waiting for pushrods to arrive before closing it up for good.

[3400-95-Modified]

Slow going but it's progress...

Pushrods on order and I'm going to be fitting the re-positioned windage tray to the studs tonight

[3400-95-Modified]

That was my other option and I was not fond of it at all... I would rather run the stock hardware than no windage tray so I decided I would make one work.

Finally got the heads assembled though and one on the block to measure for push rod length and figures... Stock length gets me .073 preload and Ben said that is ideal so he ordered them. I'm still going with aftermarket push rods because of the increased wall thickness of the rod itself. So hopefully the last of the parts will be here soon!

[ericjon262]

I ordered ARP studs and then went back to new factory hardware. I think you tried harder than I did as I was pressed for time. I asked a similar question and someone- maybe ericjon262 abandoned the windage tray.

Love the build! Would like to see it at the track when you get there.

Sam

I'm not currently running a windage tray, it's something that is bothering be quite a bit. I plan to fab one up soon to correct that.

[3400-95-Modified]

Giving them a good wash down today at work in the cleaner and then hopefully assemble them sometime on monday... YES the rest of the week is FULL already with plans... Oie...

[3400-95-Modified]

Yes time serts are a threaded insert that is used to replace weak aluminum threads I did it because it's very common for these threads to pull out and I've had the heads together and apart so much I was concerned with them lasting since I was also increasing the spring pressure. The chamber coating helps keep heat out of the aluminum head as well as reduces hot spots. It's a ceramic coating. My pistons are also top coated but with a different material since I had those done somewhere.

[robertisaar]

What is time serted? I've never heard of that.

time-serts are like heli-coils on steroids.

popular in the northstar crowd due to their blocks having the headbolt threads disintegrate in earlier engines.

[Heartbeat1991]

What is the advantage to the piston coat on the combustion chamber? Just to keep it clean?

[Heartbeat1991]

What is time serted? I've never heard of that. I have a set of like new Comp gold 1.6 roller rockers I'd like to find a way to use on my 3400. I had them on my LG5 and I don't want them to go to waste.

[3400-95-Modified]

Trying some new things....

Had to re-do the valves since this was only a test and I had not surface prepped them enough. I did a torch test and it held up to direct torch flame very well until I hit a tiny spot that had something under it which caused it to bubble. SO I will be cleaning them up really good tonight and then re-spraying them.

[3400-95-Modified]

The missing pieces to the puzzle....







Time-serted threads on all rocker mounts.