Mint VP V6 Sedan soon to be boosted!

[Holden202T]

honestly I dunno, I've heard anywhere from 14-20 psi depending who you talk to ... I guess its luck of the drawer too, like this motor every cylinder handled whatever boost it was except this one!

[VL400]

Job well done on that one

[Holden202T]

Finally got all the bits and some time to get some done!

good bolts

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good heads

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good times

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So got my mate to service the heads, bare minimum skim to make sure they are flat, re-cut valve seats and new stem seals!
Theres a set of ACL Race Series head gaskets in between the heads and block so hopefully between that and the arp bolts all the gases will stay in there correct spots!

[delcowizzid]

did you have to cut the ends off the studs to get the manifolds on we had to flush them flat with the nut with a 1mm disc

[dbrickz]

Nice ride should be bustin tread soon enough my vp build will be simular but water cooled twin turbo big front mount. Oil cooler i hope it turns out as good as your build

[Holden202T]

Haven't done anymore yet, but the studs are pretty flush as it is ... Will let you know!!

[Holden202T]

getting there!!

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[vlad01]

looks clean!

[Holden202T]

yeah came up really good, one of the things my mate does when servicing heads is sand blast them especially in the chambers, they were clean as, and I used the parts washer to clean the manifold and tappet covers, they came up well!

this car has always been pretty clean so made for an easy job

[Holden202T]

did you have to cut the ends off the studs to get the manifolds on we had to flush them flat with the nut with a 1mm disc

You bloody jinxed me!!

I went to put a header pipe on and after about 20 seconds not being able to find the hole I worked out that the header wasn't going down far enough so I then washed my hands and shut the roller door and here I am!!

Being that the engine is already in the car I am going to look at grinding the header flange a bit if possible as I'm not real keen to try and grind the studs as they are too hard to get at.

I'm gonna see if my mate has a spare stud I can use to dummy up a motor to work it out.

Other than this issue the motors pretty much ready to start at the moment so once I sort this issue out it shouldn't be too far off going!!