Completed Project Brandon's mild 4.0 OHV build

[jd4242]

Damn crack!! You get anything hunting? You got that motor pulled out yet?

 

[Brandon96]

Yeah, bagged me a 195lb doe at 347yds with a Remington Model R-25.. first season/kill I got to use her! I was so excited!

Supposedly they started on one of the heads, completed the valve/spring job and began to work on the other one when they noticed the crack.. ARGG!!

No the old block is STILL sitting in the truck.. maybe I can pull it out monday, as Mon - Fri are the only days I have access to the engine lift.

 

[jd4242]

Yeah, bagged me a 195lb doe at 347yds with a Remington Model R-25.. first season/kill I got to use her! I was so excited!

Supposedly they started on one of the heads, completed the valve/spring job and began to work on the other one when they noticed the crack.. ARGG!!

No the old block is STILL sitting in the truck.. maybe I can pull it out monday, as Mon - Fri are the only days I have access to the engine lift.

347 yards DAMN!!! my rearend went out in my truck last night so looks like ill be out next weekend trying to switch those out!!

 

[Brandon96]

Got all my stuff painted tonight..

The machine shop still hasn't picked up a new head for me to replace the one they cracked.. yeah.. they cracked it. Just goes to show how much Porting/Polishing is going on!! :

Yes I realize the tensioner isn't painted.. that one has about 1/8th of play in it and the bearing sounds like a dying cow.. it's going to get replaced here soon.

 

[jd4242]

How did they crack it?? Also you didnt have atleast that lower intake gasket matched and p+p?

 

[Brandon96]

To be honest with you, I don't exactly know what you mean by gasket matched, but it has been smoothed/polished and the humps near the bottom, just before it goes into the heads have been knocked out/smoothed. I left it up to them on the P+P..

My best guess is it was either mishandled or cracked during the heat bath/chemical treatment.. I'll find out tomorrow when I go see them.

 

[jd4242]

Put your lower intake gasket up to it on the bottom and see how far off it is.he had to come through the sides on some of them to get them to flow and open up,last pic.these pics where before he was completely done

 

[Brandon96]

Ah, see that's what I was thinking.. just another case of R-tardeness..

The answer is yes, but no. Yes, but not nearly to the extent yours is. They are noticeably wider, especially on the intake-to-heads side, but you have to know what your looking at or seen them before.. mainly it was just smoothed down and widened closer to the injector hole.

Yours has a TON of work put into it.. especially if those are the pictures of it not even completed!!

 

[jd4242]

Gotca

 

[Xeek]

you forgot to paint the alt, iac, coil, egr. intake needs a cleaning to.
i love the color tho. that sucks they cracked the head

 

[GRNMACHINE]

Brandon,
Lookin good! What paint did you use?

 

[Brandon96]

I tried a few techniques on the other set of valve covers I had.. but this one seemed to work the best:

- Cleaned/acetoned them and let them dry in front of a heater for 15mins
- Sprayed a light base of Dupli-Color's 500 degree Ceramic Primer then heat gunned it
- Sprayed another layer of Primer and then let sit near the heater for 15mins
- Sprayed a light coat of Dupli-Color's 500 degree Ceramic Mopar Green then heat gunned it
- Sprayed another layer of Mopar Green and then let it sit near the heater for 15mins
- Sprayed a light coat of Rustoleum's Fluorescent Yellow then heat gunned it
- Sprayed another light coat of Fluorescent Yellow then heat gunned it until I could handle them

I'm talkin LIGHT coats on each one, especially the Mopar Green

As I finished each layer on each part I let them sit in front of a propane heater, after I finished them with the yellow and they were drying I SWEAR every time I looked over they just kept getting brighter and brighter.. Can't wait to see what they look like today!

 

[jd4242]

Rusto makes a high temp high gloss clear.i used it over everthing,protects the paint,makes it shine like crazy and anything that gets on it just washes right off.

 

[Brandon96]

I was scouring home depot for that... have yet to find it

 

[jd4242]

Got mine at autozone.it really made a difference

 

[GRNMACHINE]

Going to have to try painting some things using your technique Brandon-Looks great!

 

[Foxracin]

Like the paint. Should look good. Keep up the good work.

 

[Tyson128]

Looks Sweet!!

 

[Brandon96]

1. lookin good
2. prettyy
3. ouch.
4. OUCH!!!
:frustrate:fire:

So how does one go about getting money out of a cracked head?

 

[Ronin8002]

is that the head that supposedly was good? Or is it the one that you said was cracked already?