Livernois Motorsports Posted June 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Putting the piston rings in the cylinder to set the proper ring end gap before the assembly is dropped in. A few more final details before the piston/rod assemble is placed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Rings are ground to fit, rods are attached to the pistons and everything has made it in! On the home stretch! mrhighcaliber 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 With the short block coming together, we turn our attention to the cylinder head department. First steps in taking these stock 3.5L heads to the next level is a proper cleaning and inspection. We must ensure that there are no imperfections, cracks, or issues that could cause harm to the motor down the road. A few photos in the cleaning bay before they are moved into the Cylinder Head room for final inspection and assembly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 The heads have made it into the climate controlled cylinder head department! Everything is laid out nicely before the assembly process starts. After the thorough cleaning, the valves are lubed and dropped into place followed by the valve stems. The springs are compressed using one of our hydraulic bench presses and the retainers are added. Buckets will be followed by the cams and topped off with the caps where everything is torqued to spec! After re-assembly, we move the heads to the engine build department where they should be putting the head studs in now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 A few more photos.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Our Powerstorm 3.5L EcoBoost Head Studs have made it into the short block! These Powerstorm Head Studs allow for greater clamping force to keep the cylinder heads in place under high loads from built 3.5L EcoBoost engines like this one. The studs are also broached for ease of installation and come with all the required hardware. With the studs in, we are waiting on the final assembly of the heads and we are set to finish this project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 The heads have been assembled and have made it into the engine build department! We should see them going on the short block sometime tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Heads are on! WOOOO! Now we are in the final assembly process to wrap everything up, make sure things are torqued, marked and then out the door it goes to a happy customer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpd1151 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 I'll PM you my address, so that "happy customer" will be me as its' recipient. Wouldn't mind replacing my 617awhp LMS built EB with an even newer, more powerful (expected) 800+ awhp LMS built EB. Oh yea baby! Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhighcaliber Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 I'll PM you my address, so that "happy customer" will be me as its' recipient. Wouldn't mind replacing my 617awhp LMS built EB with an even newer, more powerful (expected) 800+ awhp LMS built EB. Oh yea baby! Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk Well just pass along that 617awhp build to me. I'll come pick it up. ???????? I'll give u an offer you can't refuse *slides crisp 20 dollar bill across table* Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpd1151 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 That could be a workable scenario for me for sure. Hell yea! Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk mrhighcaliber 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 Over the past couple of weeks, we have taken you deep into the build process of this very special 3.5L EcoBoost motor build. We have shown our Powerstorm products, our machining work, and the amount of detail we put into each build. The long block is all that is left, waiting for the shipping process. It will be shipped out and in the customers hands to drop into their race application. For now, we move onto the next project. Thank you for following along! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livernois Motorsports Posted June 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 More photos.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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