G'day Guys,
just a quick update on the engine rebuild, The engine runs exceptionally well with lots of torque, at first the accelerator pumps were set way to rich and I ended up winding the nuts almost to the end of the thread (5mm) which improved things lots. The cars covered about 1800km since the rebuild and puts out lots of power,( even with the slightly restricted rev limits) regarding the piston clearances, the forged CP pistons exhibit no slap even when the car is started from cold and rev freely with no sign of raised temperature at all. The SJ tubular manifold seems to work well allbeit a bit loud with the new muffler. I have revved the engine under acceleration up to 6000 rpm a few times (its hard not to get to carried away) and as I said the power is impressive it was worth fitting the oversize stainless valves. It may be my imagination but balancing of the pistons and rods seems to have payed off too, the car is very smooth even at at idle when you can hardly feel it running at traffic lights.
Altogether Im really happy with the result and wouldnt hesitate to reccomend the components used in the rebuild.