5sgte engine build-canceled

[grassdragger738]

Thank you

[cuttyman9]

So a few updates;
The beams intake cam won't work without heavy mods.

I may buy joes beams head to tinker on, so I'm saving the intake cam

The tensioner, crank gear and tensioner pulley are all 3sg(t)e parts and the water pump, idler and oil pump are all 5sfe parts

Late 5s oil pump has a location for a crank position sensor for those who want a distributor less ignition. You need a 3s gear that has notches though.

Ring gap has been set for street/boost applications in case I change over.

I've since bought 3rd gen 3sge cams (manual trans) to make use of.

Beams exhaust cam does bolt in with no modifications, it has roughly 9.6mm lift.

Will post accurate specs of gen 2 cams and gen 3 cams along with beams intake cam(as best I can) and the beams exhaust cam




Preparing for paint^


^preparing for paint


^painting


^painting


^shiny and painted, British racing green!!






^rear seal


^head locators, need these for the oil pump too to align the seal correctly






^oil pump locators


^oil pump and water pump installed


^gf's legs


^oil pump pickup installed, 40 bucks through the dealer with the discount.


^studs installed for testing the spare head gasket, the thickness is 1.4mm for stock late 5sfe MLS gasket.


5sfe head gasket (late mls gasket, EBay replacement)



^ head installed for testing, so far all are non interference for gen 2 3sgte head/cam/big valve combo and the beams exhaust cam is also non interference. Will double check when the gen 3 cams arrive.


^ gears installed

[cuttyman9]

[cuttyman9]

So a bit has changed.

I've determined that I'm not happy with the gen 2 head for this motor so I plan to pursue making a beams black top head fit.

The advantages are:
-Vvti(going to maintain at least the intake side which will allow me to achieve my midrange performance goals)
-ITB's off a 20V (easily adaptable and plenums are available)
-Top feed injectors
-Coil on plug (COP because the 5s late pump has a provision for a crank trigger, the beams gear has tick marks for it)
-Better flow path to the valves
-CNC'd versions are available
-valves are the same size as a +1 gen 2 valve

This shouldn't be too hard to make work, but I will have a bit more of a challenge.


Also other changes are going full standalone, changing to turbo as I recognized that one of my goals is to be faster than a 13.99 in the quarter (no this is not a drag car, that is just what I feel it should do if I'm investing this amount of money and NA will not achieve that)

Will add more pics and details as I go.