new built 1950cc engine with gt3076r

[tinkerbell]

vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry lucky!

but sleeving is so often borjked by these yanks,

why so hard to install liners???

[dougie_504]

So does this mean that the head pretty much doesn't seal properly to the block around cylinder 2 and just pisses water into the cylinder from the sleeve?

[Scholzey]

He said, We stress-relieve the blocks and do everything possible to settle the sleeves in the Dart blocks.

So I guess it's just old fashioned bad luck.

With the sleeve being lower, it creates a little lift of the gasket between the cylinders, which allows water to come in. I guess of it wasn't o ringed, the seal would be worse, and the leaking more pronounced.

[Scholzey]

Icing on the cake.

Went to the hyperdome, bought some stuff( long range nerf gun lol), took it to the car then went to the movies. Come back to an empty car. Lost my gf laptop and overnight bag, which is basically her whole life at the moment because she is a poor uni student, her travel photos, uni assignment and notes. And my battery drill which I don't really care about.

Since things happen in 3's I wonder what's going to go wrong next.

Anyway back on topic, I decided to max out my setup, which means the biggest turbo that will fit my setup/physical size constraints.

Gtx3076r..

Oh almost forgot,

I got a 45 series 4 port Mac valve which let's me run big boost with a soft wastegate spring as it switches boost and atmo between top and bottom ports of the wastegate and also ordered a 3psi wastegate spring, so hopefully I can grip first gear on drag radials at the track, and also run like 25psi or whatever.

[Sexc86]

4 port mac valve sounds interesting ! especially since you can only really add 10psi'ish with conventional boost solenoid valves!

Good luck mate!

[Scholzey]

the new block has been heat and cool cycled with the new apparatus which loads each sleeve individually and should be removed from it tomorrow. machining work will start straight away, and larry said that it should be together by the weekend.

hopefully the shipping process will start early next week.

[dc2r-0636]

awesome, good luck !

[Scholzey]

Engine builder said


We had poor results with the new block after all of the work. I'm beginning to think that Dart is having machining issues.
We removed the sleeves from your block, re-machined the receiver notch just below the deck and installed new sleeves. After a week of "stress", we can not make the sleeves settle any more.

So it looks like they have it sorted now, but if any of you guys go dart, be careful! Might be more trouble then it's worth if your engine builder isn't really on the ball.

[dai-16t]

Shuld have just fitted a set of darton MID sleeves here in OZ. Would have avoided all the head FuC$ and save a hella lot of money!

[Slaz]

Crap, mid sleeves are the worst but Dart blocks are known for issues and seems your unlucky enough to have got one. Question is, if it goes again, what is Larry going to do for you?

[dai-16t]

Those pretty crap mid sleeves are working just fine for me

[Sexc86]

+1. Stock sleeves + closed deck is the way to go !

Engine builder said


We had poor results with the new block after all of the work. I'm beginning to think that Dart is having machining issues.
We removed the sleeves from your block, re-machined the receiver notch just below the deck and installed new sleeves. After a week of "stress", we can not make the sleeves settle any more.



So it looks like they have it sorted now, but if any of you guys go dart, be careful! Might be more trouble then it's worth if your engine builder isn't really on the ball.