i'm soon to be building a turbocharged engine for a mate of mine's car he plans to drag race. it's an, um...."older" straight six engine with pushrods and siamese port head.
so yeah, a 202. now please, i'm not looking for info pertaining to said engine, more on the assembly side of things and what to look out for, considering i have never built and engine FROM SCRATCH.
the head will be professionally machined with bigger valves (using the VK 12port head), Rhodes lifters and iskendarian springs.
a crow cam, pushrods and actuators are being fitted.
the bottom end is copping ACL HQ racing pistons with a 30cc dish machined in them to bring the CR down to 7.2:1, moly rings and ACL bearings.
block is copping sleeves in the water / oil jackets (and recesses in the head) and i'm not "o" ringing the block at all, just relying on a thin copper head gasket and good tune. rods and crank will be shotpeened and polished (like a mirror) with chamfered oil galleries.
other than that, nothing is being done except for a light hone and the journals checked for trueness.
i consider this a very budget build (except for the rhodes lifters), but as stated i'm going to have to put all this together myself.
when i have the machine shop work their magic, do they work out all the clearances? is there anything i have to worry about when bolting the bottom end together - like fitting the bearing shells and crank or is it all straight forward once everything has been worked out?
i do plan on getting a manual for this, but just after little tricks and snags etc etc
cheers