Brief Description: Piston Cleanup and Pressure regulator swap
The pistons cleaned up really pretty easily using a brass brush wheel and then a scotchbrite ball on a drill. I was able to "hone" the cylinders as well using the ball for what is called a Ghetto Hone job. Not ideal, but hoping it will allow those rings to reset themselves now and reduce the excessive blowby. I'll be flooding the cylinders with MMO overnight here soon to free up any possible stuck rings and then using Mineral oil for a typical break in for the next 50 hours and flying her WOT down low. I've got this funny feeling that this engine was never broken in and I'm about to realize some awesome power. We shall see. Even static RPM will tell. I also removed the fuel pressure regulator since it wasn't holding 3 bar very consistently and replaced it with a genuine Bosch 3 bar regulator. The new Regulator had a tighter screen and higher quality construction. In the past I've heard these fail, so I decided it was a good time to put this one to rest. The Valves came in and the heads are getting the 3 angle valve job right now. I should have this beast running next week. Only this time with Auto Fuel.
