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on another forum today and thought it might bring back memories (or nightmares) for some on here.
Hi ****
I know how you feel as I only got mine back on the road a week ago after a total rebuild of my LS6 engine after finding out I did not get what I asked for or what I paid for........agrrrrrr Been off the road for 6 months....agrrr
My so called engine builder was :- Geoff Jeal, Little Aston, Near Banbury. Some may know of him as he was big with the Corvette boys especially the ZR1.
He should of rebuilt my engine with a new standard 350 crank with new forged rods and pistons, upgraded push rods with higher ratio rocker arms, and port the throttle body.
Well after 18 months of not being happy with the performance, lack of torque, vibration at certain rpm, even after paying him for two rolling road sessions, over £600, I decided I had to do something.
In the end Ken Coleman at EDA said he would strip and rebuild it for me, after I took my car up to him so he could see it for him self, and agreed with me that something was wrong and that it was possibly that it had not been balance either, which what I was beginning to think.
When Ken took the heads off , the reason for the lack of power was that the pistons were 208 thou from the top of the block, when actually they should of been out of the block by 10 to 12 thou. The reason was he had used the pistons and rods for a stroker combination, therefore leaving the pistons down the bore. You cannot believe that somebody would do that and leave it....
There were allsorts of others bits and pieces which was wrong too.
But when the engine was totally stripped we found that neither the push rods or the higher ratio rocker arms had been upgraded, and were my original standard ones.
The other annoying thing was my comsumption had gone from 26-32 to gallon to struggling to get any were near 20 miles to gallon, and thought it was the higher ratio rockers. I asked him on many occasions for my original ones back but he kept saying he had not got them there and he would send them up to me.
Geoff Jeal has now moved and living in the US......
Ken @ EDA have sorted it and had it on the dyno on friday and got 434.4 bhp with 467.1 lbft of torque, so I now have my torque back.
I would highly recommend Ken Coleman at EDA for any engine work.
Regards
*****
Hi ****
I know how you feel as I only got mine back on the road a week ago after a total rebuild of my LS6 engine after finding out I did not get what I asked for or what I paid for........agrrrrrr Been off the road for 6 months....agrrr
My so called engine builder was :- Geoff Jeal, Little Aston, Near Banbury. Some may know of him as he was big with the Corvette boys especially the ZR1.
He should of rebuilt my engine with a new standard 350 crank with new forged rods and pistons, upgraded push rods with higher ratio rocker arms, and port the throttle body.
Well after 18 months of not being happy with the performance, lack of torque, vibration at certain rpm, even after paying him for two rolling road sessions, over £600, I decided I had to do something.
In the end Ken Coleman at EDA said he would strip and rebuild it for me, after I took my car up to him so he could see it for him self, and agreed with me that something was wrong and that it was possibly that it had not been balance either, which what I was beginning to think.
When Ken took the heads off , the reason for the lack of power was that the pistons were 208 thou from the top of the block, when actually they should of been out of the block by 10 to 12 thou. The reason was he had used the pistons and rods for a stroker combination, therefore leaving the pistons down the bore. You cannot believe that somebody would do that and leave it....
There were allsorts of others bits and pieces which was wrong too.
But when the engine was totally stripped we found that neither the push rods or the higher ratio rocker arms had been upgraded, and were my original standard ones.
The other annoying thing was my comsumption had gone from 26-32 to gallon to struggling to get any were near 20 miles to gallon, and thought it was the higher ratio rockers. I asked him on many occasions for my original ones back but he kept saying he had not got them there and he would send them up to me.
Geoff Jeal has now moved and living in the US......
Ken @ EDA have sorted it and had it on the dyno on friday and got 434.4 bhp with 467.1 lbft of torque, so I now have my torque back.
I would highly recommend Ken Coleman at EDA for any engine work.
Regards
*****
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