My n/a super b3 build

[drumnerd33]

This is my first time starting a thread on this forum so please bare with me... i have been on here for a while and done minor things to my festy, when i bought the car a year and a half ago i was just looking for gas milage to get to work... picked up my 88 carby for 400 bucks and got it road worthy, then i really enjoyed driving it and joined this forum and saw just how much fun you can have with these cars. now im hooked, i actually sold my 91 fox body that i had partially built just so i could make my festy more fun. so now im building my b3 n/a for now... but i spared no expense on this so far. matt dickmeyer has done all my head work and engine building parts only thing he didnt do is my block work which i had a local machine shop do.

I decided to go with hydro lifters as to not deal with adjusting my lash all the time, and since i needed a different head to do that i just decided to go with the aspire head and ad the roller rockers to go with it. here it is when matt recieved it.
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Here is matt porting
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here is the custom made oversized valves
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good pics of the 5 angle grind
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custom grind cam
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matt had to grind my .40 over pistons to a larger valve relief for the larger valves
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before and after
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had to grind down the valve guide for the larger lift so that the spring retainer does not hit it
here you can see how much needs to be removed
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here it is already machined down
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here is the now double sprung valves
notice the inner spring
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here is the finished head
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just beautiful work....

[Bert]

I'll be very curious what sort of numbers and increased revs you ultimately get out of all this. Many of us are too cheap, or too lazy, to invest in B3 upgrades and rather look to bigger engines for boost in power.

[drumnerd33]

well i can tell you right now that matt did this too his except he did not do the roller rockers (which is only minimal help but every bit counts on these little motors) and he had a lower end with 175000 miles. his dyno number was 112 hp @ the wheels. then he ran 8psi of boost on mild tune with pump gas and ran 266 @ the wheels....

[drumnerd33]

So i will be somewhere around the 110 mark is my guess... matt said at my altitude i will be over 100 hp easy but dont know exactly cuz im going .40 over and fresh bottom end

[drumnerd33]

Cost is really not that bad considering im going to have a full custom built basically race motor.... so matt is giving really good prices, i am more then happy with the money i spent with him plus you are giving money to another member and helping him progress the buildability of the b3 and getting amazing work.