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I just thought that I'd drop in and say "hi". I've been a bit busy with the SS and I haven't really done much to the car. I've installed the 52 mm radiator and deleted the header tank. And the rocker cover has been sent for chrome.. That's about it. I had a few spare parts floating around, so I decided to put them to use. I used a FG series one block. It sonic tested the best that I have found - 0.125" was the thinnest section in any bore. The others were very meaty. We offset bored that cylinder , to help keep it as thick as possible. The block has also been surfaced and machined for 14.3 mm head studs. Crank is the same as the current engine. Factory, with nitride and stress relieving. I put some ACL bearings with 360 degree thrusts. A short time later I decided to install a torrington bearing. As I'm unsure as to where or how I might use the engine, I thought it best to cover both bases. Just in case I use it with the 4l80... Same Atomic Phat rods and thick wall gudgeon pins as the last engine. The JE's have had the full coating treatment (Crown and skirt). The mains have the regular main stud, girdle and windage tray. Atomic Heavy duty timing chain kit takes car of the timing gear, with Atomic also supplying an oil pump and lifters. I managed to get a good deal on some parts for the head. This one will be the same spec as my current unit. Unfortunately, there is a bit of a back log on the head porting. I can't see it happening for a few months. 😞 A bit of topic, I found out that these are the same as those used by Spiro back in the day, and I believe that Atomic also use them in their stage 5 heads. They certainly flow a lot of air... Well, that's about it for now. The blower for the SS will be arriving while I'm away at work, So I can't see myself getting anything done on the XR and time soon. It'll be full steam ahead with it. I'll pop back when there is more progress...

According to google maps I pushed the honda a good 500 metres this afternoon after the fuel pump gave me the bird and farked me in the ass. Lucky the carnt is light cos be farked pushing it further than that #goddamncocksucker

Unfortunately I’ve made a fair rule to stay away from Crypto and party in the Micro investing platforms over longer periods and the excitement of positive volatility isn’t there but the sadness of negative isn’t either haha. For tax reasons I need fully franked dividends and management around Crypto is too time consuming for me despite the good stories like safemoon Even though I don’t Crypto I do keep an eye on the pie out of pure interest to help with decisions on my platform and those cheeky cheap stating coins are testing me especially with the rapid growth. Keep us in the loop Gaz

Haha while we're posting autos in the manual thread, here's some auto territory times with 5000lb+ race weight 400 awkw 1.98 60ft 5.22 330ft 7.84 1/8 10.11 1000ft 12.01 @ 118/190.75 504 awkw 1.99 60ft 5.19 330ft 7.67 1/8 9.78 1000ft 11.56 @ 124/199.88 550ish awkw? 2.25 60ft 5.52 330ft 7.99 1/8 10.10 1000ft 11.83 @ 127/205.25 Will have to up my launch game and other excuses

Yeh that whole post is a literal list of everything you should not do on a turbo falcon in that manner Go see a reputable turbo falcon workshop mate

Not fussy just love anything fast and loud !

Safemoon is gaining fast traction !

it's really up to you if you'd like to combine them in this thread or do a separate one... but since it's not actually a SS forum, this one probably suits it enough to post details.

morning @k31th! @gaz097 my brother did some trading in crypto currency for a bit. Was never my thing but he enjoyed it, In the 6-8 months he did it, I think he made around $800-1k profit. He doesn't do it any more though. Stopped when him and his Mrs started looking into building a house - figured the money he'd be putting in to crypto was best saved for a house

Identical in every way mate

always love your progress updates, irrelevant of how long it takes you to post 'em this car is always a monster