Thread: Operation SR24VVL IN PROGRESS ONCE AGAIN

I'm really sorry to hear this Ric. If i build a VE its going to be small potatoes. These 2.4 builds don't seem to get the head gasket sealed unless you do things just right.

Sorry to hear about your setup ric.
Check your PM.

yup its doable, the clearances have to be 110%.

i feel 90mm is a much safter bet as you have some play with the maz gasket.

this is something it took 6 or 7 failed 92mm bewteen us all to figure out. theres more 90mms running around then 92mm so that in its self says it all.

stratton.

i would like to have seen more 2.3's honestly, everyone skipped right ahead to the 2.4's

Hell if you look at the K series, they are still going through crap with their big stroker builds 2.6 and 2.7L motors. Whether it be from sleeves dropping/shifting, headgaskets, rod bearing, piston to valve contact. You look at the precentage of those 2.6L and 2.7L builds that fail within a couple months of being built and you will see the average of failure is way higher than the success rate.

And just like some of you guys they are using a factory K series metal gasket and having it bored out to match and seems to be the best results as the aftermarket ones have all seemed to have failed. However they are only going to 89mm bores from 86mm. So not quite the expansion going from 86 to 92. All in all you guys all paved the way and im sure while a lot of the failures were sleeve related problems, others headgaskets from reusing and so on, and a couple bearing failures, im sure more will continue to try these builds. I mean hell even 260whp almost guranteed even using just off the shelf parts is pretty good in my eyes but i know most were expecting more.

You are definitely a different group of indivuals that stuck with something and tried to pave the way for bigger and better things and you did just that. Fact is, it gets expensive and very fast especially when stuff keeps going wrong. You look at most all the big stroker, big bore k series builds. Almost all of them done by shops w/ sponsors and so on because they are big money motors to do the things they do, break the stuff they do, and keep up with it.

So you cant say you didnt give it a shot and I hope to see more come in the future and im sure we will.

yea man you guys are definitely pioneers

a new plan has evolved.
..press on with the 2.0 install w/N1's and so on. i'll try to enjoy driving it as much as possible, but, i KNOW ME!
i WON'T be satisfied with the performance drop, after driving the 2.4 this summer.
more to come, chaps

^I'm sure the car is going to feel slow for sure. 88mm at 12.5 would delete expensive block work, sleeve worries, and head gasket woes. Something to consider. I know Stratton is interested in this setup.

I thought 88mm was over the limit w/o sleeves.

thought wrong

88m with nitrous do it