Building Tyler Thomas's 199X SC'd Beretta

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Yeah that's right I get the joy of building yet another Beretta...

Specs, 3400/3500 engine
WOT-Tech cam (I'll get the specs)
Ported heads, SS Valves Comp Springs/locks/retainers
Cometic Head Gaskets
Scat H-Beam Forged Rods
Diamond .020 over Forged pistons top/side coated
RE-Engineered RSM SC setup
WOT-Tech Headers
And I'm sure I'm missing a BUNCH of stuff...

Owners Progress Pics on the new shell this engine is going in.


The old setup before removal


Than the removal


Rust free shell from Chad


Stripped the interior


New interior went in aside from door panels

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Engine work began mid FEB repost from bnet

Drove out to Allentown PA to meet Tyler and pickup basically his whole drive line so I can drop it at the machine shop and start building it soon so when the weather breaks and is a bit nicer to allow me to have space in my garage he will drop off the completed shell that he is still chugging on and I'll mate the two together and hopefully get a decent tune on it. I foresee this tune taking a while since it's a one off setup and very unique to what a 97 ECU can interpret.

This was posted on Facebook just before I went to meet him by some other user... How appropriate.



Tyler's Geo all packed up.



The dis-assembly of the short block...



Pretty caked up with oil residue... Not sure if I should trust the 60k note he was told on the mileage... I think it had more than that.



Old Pistons



You can see the new forged ones with SCAT rods in the bottom left of the photo and in the bottom of the first dis-assembly photo.

Hope to drop off block on Monday since the shop isn't open on the weekends... Main journals are a bit in question by me, may just need oversized bearings, as well as he had a bad lifter starting to take out the lobe on the cam... Good thing he decided to rebuild this winter.

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More Progress on his end



Battery box relocation with 0/2 gauge welding wire..


Cradle assembled, cavi poly control arm bushing mod, poly z26 sway bar bushings, painted ect..


Heres a better pic of the cavi bushing mod, also welded the seams..


Rear axle assembled, cavi rear disk mod with drilled/slotted rotors, z51 piggybacked sway bar, poly axle bushings


Installed


Finishing up the interior


Seat belt delete plate


Seats in



Reppin on the strut bar


It's been a while, Jon said my block and everything is still at the machine shop, I've been getting the rest of the work done here on my end..

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My progress after finally getting the machine shop work back

Maybe if the parts are close enough to each other it will build itself....

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Spent half the day fixing my dads leaking 1929 Model A gas tank... And then as you know I had to clean the block since it didn't get blasted at the machine shop.

Pistons and rods all cleaned up and ready to be re-assembled.

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Progress from Monday of this week.

PTFE Rear main seal.


Crank and scraper installed




Installing Piston Pins and Spirolox


Pistons assembled.


Measuring the bores... Every one was within .0005 3.642 or 3.6415


Cam bearing install... I hate hammering them in, Just seems so rough on the bearings but that's how you do it.


Two holes on the front bearing like stock had.


Set in like stock to prevent any oiling issues to the timing set.


Also checked the alignment of the oil holes on the thrust plate to ensure they would flow oil well enough.


More to come after tonight... Rings were all fitted on the pistons and all gapped properly so I hope to be installing the pistons in the block tonight, then I can verify the clearance necessary on the crank scraper to the rods and torque that all down and then get a cam in it and go from there.

Few pics from last night... Not much of pistons going in because it's a very oily job...



Timing set and cam in.


Purdy


Swapping lifter springs


For those who don't know the difference, Stock on right, LS ones on left.


Finished all the lifters, forgot how much of a pain in the arse those are.

Installed them and the clean windage tray then spent the rest of the night putting red nail polish on this thing...



Up next is starting to close this thing up.

[1QUICKHATCH]

Looking good!

[Superdave]

Nice work!

I admire you guys with clean shops... I can never keep mine like that. lol

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It's only slightly clean... LOL I strategically place the items before taking photos.

[Superdave]

lol, I try to do that... then it all goes back.

[carbon]

Jealous of folks that actually get to work on stuff...

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Few updates from this weekend.

Heads






Cometic Head Gaskets

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And then onto the transmission...

I love exploding valvebodies... LOL


Case all cleaned up




All the parts cleaned.




EP LSD

[Superdave]

Looking good!

[young gun]

Awesome stuff! I wish I could tackle such a job. I don't think I will ever tear open a transmission