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Camshafts, bearings and intake

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Here are the camshafts. Coatings for more slippery 🙂

Sadly, at the moment they’re the only engine bits I have. Rest of the stuff is at Martelius’

The bearings thing.

I spoke with a friend about conrods in general and also about symmetrical conrods, when I realized what the “always turn the engine to normal rotation direction” means. I’ve thought it had something to do with piston rings but oh boy was I wrong. It’s about bearings.

See the little notch there? The bearings should have a tang that goes into that notch. If the engine is turned “backwards”, the bearings could dislocate and jump off the notch, maybe resulting spun bearings.

Fuck I’m an idiot! I havent ever realized this before 😀

Second peek to the intake! Still much to do.

Some details along the way

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Ok, this thing had bothered me some time. One of the intake pipes had been spraying oily mist around the engine bay. Being lazy, this took me some time to fix.

There is a second problem too. Every time I floor the car for a longer time, the whole car smells like belts were slipping, but it goes away pretty quick. No idea what that is.

Meh. A mess and I spent a whole day cleaning and sweeping.

First peek into my custom intake plenum! Parts are from a different prototype, but they were good to get some needed measures.

Pile of bits and parts. Trying to keep everything in order.

Widric the dwarf viking came to garage to check some wheel options.

His stock 16″ wheels from the older Impreza didnt fit over the 4/2 brakes, so we tested the Advan Sienas as well.

Advans were spot on. Except the bolt pattern.

Widric has a set of 5×100 -> 5×114.3 spacers, but alas, the wheel poked out too much. You can see the frustration on his face 😀