For anyone that want to have a motor built in the portland metro area I do not recommend M&B cylinder heads in NE Portland. After having the short block assembled by M&B and I felt something wasn't quite right. The short block was very hard to turn over by hand and thinking the cylinder wall to piston gap was tight. I decided to have another machine shop take a second look. They have found out the bores were tight and tapered. Also It wasn't really necessary but I had M&B do a line bore of the block for the stroker crank. The new machine shop had found out the line bore that was performed was not even straight. I basically paid twice to have my motor worked on by two different shops.
Anyway I have made some progress. I had to repaint the block. The new machine shop decided to take the paint off the front around the water pump and front seal plate. Also for anyone that wants to use a penta 531 head you need to drill a tap the head for the coolant temp sensor. Also there is a hole for a coolant passage by number four intake port that needs to tapped with a M14x1.5 tap.
I powder coated a valve cover and polished the VOLVO letters. I had to wet sand the areas that were not taped off from powder coat. Then wetsand again with 2000 grit then polished.
I did purchase a air filter and backing plate. Also the throttle linkage from jenvey.
My coilovers are almost completed and will be sent to platting soon. Also a video of clamping in the lathe to bore the old strut tube from the spindle. Then press out to insert the new strut body
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At this point when I'm ready I'll be removing the b21f out of the 242 instead of putting the getrag and doing the whole thing at one go. Ill be prepping the engine bay myself and having someone paint it instead since I'm not quite setup at the moment.
I know how things can be. I'm slow with projects. You're doing some wonderful work.
I have too much going on and try to take on too many projects. My goal is to have this done by spring.
if the trunk stripe goes straight across, instead of following the indentation in the lid, I know who owned that car many years ago. Was one of the former PSVCOA chapter presidents.
his name was wes? the floor mats were personalize with wes's 242 GT. I threw them away because of mold.