Just a couple of springs, no big deal.

So generally speaking I love spending my Saturday at the shop where I work and chipping away at the endless list of things that I need to complete on my race car before I go to take my provisional competition license class in February at VIR (Virgina International Raceway).

A part of what I did today involved transferring valve springs from one cylinder head (an old race engine I had previously), to another (the current engine that I will be using in the racing series that I am entering in this year, Honda Challenge). This job is not terribly difficult, although it is sometimes very tedious for a person with compulsion (me). Using a higher spring rate, performance oriented valve spring combination is critical to a race engine. This is to maintain high rpm valve stability (basically, if you're at redline for twenty minutes, you need things in your engine to be overkill / and over engineered)

On to the pictures!

A picture of the donor engine.

A picture of the valve spring compressor on the valve spring.
(This is the more important of the tools needed for this job, this compresses the spring to then release the valve locks, then free the spring).

This is a comparison of the two valve springs, the ones on the left are the old springs that have been removed, and the ones on the right are the ones that are going to be installed.

What a head looks like with all of the valves springs removed.


A happy camper, now that this engine is ready to g0!

Next installment will be about either installing the engine and transmission in to the car, and / or fabricating the mounts for the RaceTech seat.

NBD.

sander.