megachad Report post Posted June 15, 2018 When I got the car I found a binder over 3" thick of service history on the car!! I was amazed. In that binder were pictures of an engine out and I had to know what it was all about first hand. So I made a call to murcivu and he told me to get in touch with Dave. So I learned a ton today. Thanks to suzukidave for spending a ton of time on the phone with me. He was the previous owner of the car before murcivu. When he got the car the engine didn't quite run right. He took the valve covers off to check some things out and the cam shaft was actually able to move side to side by hand.. So he undertook a major engine overhaul that took over 40 minute conversation on the phone to talk about! ha. long story short. driver side head and engine block were the only thing in perfect condition. so he left that head alone but did the valve adjustment and made sure everything was tip top. Hydraulic tensioners were raplaced with the manual ones found someone that knew his shit and was currently rebuilding an old gt250 motor. sent the other head to him and had them line bore it and add customer bearings and did a full valve job bottom end was full of copper. so he spent over 40 hours cleaning out the entire block and oil passages and lines etc. sent the crank to a guy in florida that works on nascar engines and did the bearing 10 over with custom hardened racing bearings for the rods and crank. had the crank nitrite coated and polished brand new lambo rods and pistons with custom total seal steel rings custom machined oil pump everything set at euro spec timing while the engine was out he got a lot of information from evans and lambo shop that was in orlando he noted. He found the best of the best for everything that needed to be done and really went the extra mile on the engine. Evans gave him info on who to contact for the kevlar clutch and plate kit so that was installed as well. I couldn't be more happy to learn all of this info about the car, and to know it has been in true enthusiast's hands for most of it's life. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
murcivu Report post Posted June 16, 2018 When I got the car I found a binder over 3" thick of service history on the car!! I was amazed. In that binder were pictures of an engine out and I had to know what it was all about first hand. So I made a call to murcivu and he told me to get in touch with Dave. So I learned a ton today. Thanks to suzukidave for spending a ton of time on the phone with me. He was the previous owner of the car before murcivu. When he got the car the engine didn't quite run right. He took the valve covers off to check some things out and the cam shaft was actually able to move side to side by hand.. So he undertook a major engine overhaul that took over 40 minute conversation on the phone to talk about! ha. long story short. driver side head and engine block were the only thing in perfect condition. so he left that head alone but did the valve adjustment and made sure everything was tip top. Hydraulic tensioners were raplaced with the manual ones found someone that knew his shit and was currently rebuilding an old gt250 motor. sent the other head to him and had them line bore it and add customer bearings and did a full valve job bottom end was full of copper. so he spent over 40 hours cleaning out the entire block and oil passages and lines etc. sent the crank to a guy in florida that works on nascar engines and did the bearing 10 over with custom hardened racing bearings for the rods and crank. had the crank nitrite coated and polished brand new lambo rods and pistons with custom total seal steel rings custom machined oil pump everything set at euro spec timing while the engine was out he got a lot of information from evans and lambo shop that was in orlando he noted. He found the best of the best for everything that needed to be done and really went the extra mile on the engine. Evans gave him info on who to contact for the kevlar clutch and plate kit so that was installed as well. I couldn't be more happy to learn all of this info about the car, and to know it has been in true enthusiast's hands for most of it's life. Such a cool story. Never even knew all of this till now. So glad you're mechanically inclined and appreciate what Dave has done to the car. Yeah, when he gave me that thick book, I thought it was written in Morse code...LOL. Told you the car was meant for you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
megachad Report post Posted June 16, 2018 Such a cool story. Never even knew all of this till now. So glad you're mechanically inclined and appreciate what Dave has done to the car. Yeah, when he gave me that thick book, I thought it was written in Morse code...LOL. Told you the car was meant for you. It is pretty awesome all the things he went through! Thank you my friend! I feel as though it was. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chipster Report post Posted June 17, 2018 I actually almost bought this from Dave back in 09 when I was looking. But it was white on white and I ended up doing white on red. Cool story though. Dave is good people! He answered a lot of questions for me back when I had trouble with mine in 2010. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destructo Report post Posted June 17, 2018 Glad to see the LP community is a great group. Very cool find. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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