lol i love japanese to engrish conversion
haha you are the ‘new man’ , how perfect.
I love trying to read emails from the guys in our Japan or China offices. Always interesting.
Dan
I think my head is going to be done tomorrow.
These should be done today. The blanks are done, just need to circular mill the center bore to size and then drill the 16 holes. 
I’m sending you a PO for that, we need (4) down here…LoL
Josh, I could probably get something made for you for about 1/2 what a BBK costs…
I have a good supplier for the parts and can do the brackets for free. 
well, in that case you can whip me up 2 sets.
^^NICE!!
That is killer
Wonder if this will stop…
Got the head back from the machine shop. It’s installed along with:
Intake manifold, fuel rail, plenum, throttle bodies, oil cooler assy and air distribution assembly.
The ugly part involves the valve lash. It takes a really long time to do the lash adjustments on these motors because the cams need to go in and out so many times. I’ve made my initiall measurements and now need to find/wait for shims…
The intake side all the shims are too big, which is cool because I can have them ground down.
The exhaust side, however, are almost all too small. I can get 13mm kawasaki motorcycle shims, but the RB are 12.3mm. This means I’d have to somehow turn them down some… I’m not sure what I’m gonna do yet. The outside profile isn’t critical, so I might be able to do this on a belt sander…
More later…
i love this newman keep up the good work.
Ugh.
I checked the exhaust valve clearance. They were all OVERSIZE, which means all the shims I have are too small and can’t be cut down. To make matters worse, the Kawasaki ones do not get as thick as I require them to be. (I need eight >3.10mm which is the Kawi max)
I checked the rockwell hardness on the OEM parts and they’re 65C, which is bearing hard, probably 52100 chromium alloy steel.
So I ordered up a 1/2"OD 6 foot piece (shortest I could get) for 15 bucks. I’m going to turn the OD down just a hair to ~.475", then use a wire EDM to cut it into discs about .150 thick.
Then I’ll send them out to get heat treated to 60-65C, then put them on our surface grinder (magnetic table) to make them the appropriate thickness.
A huge fucking pain, but better than waiting 4 weeks for OEM parts from japan for 10-20 dollars each.
Yea but OEM from japan just sounds so much cooler…
Still trying to get the valve shims done.
I have about 20 blanks done right now, but i’m making about 50 so if I ever change cams, I can reshim without having to wait… I am going to get them to the heat treating place tonight, I hope…
dropped of 30 something valve shims to the heat treater today. Will have them back before the weekend, then I need to surface grind them, then put the cams in! woot.
also ordered some ARP exhaust manifold studs today.
sweet man. Coming together.
You get the rotor hats out for anodize yet?
Dan
That is hard core, making your own shims. I love it!
Ugh I wish we had all those machines down here… I might have to take up brake offer after the rally.