Intro -

After more than 15 years of ownership, many great meets, road trips, and track days, my Fairlady is going through a full top to bottom rebuild. During many of the meets I discussed building the ultimate NA with Slick Pete as we shared the love of high revving NA motors. Almost everyone recommends going TT conversion or LS swap as the easy way to high power but I wanted something unique. So after securing some workspace with NickZ32 the tear down began. Its been slow going but continues to move forward. 

Will provide updates as I pull together photos and details 

 

Edited July 5, 20241 yr by madmarco
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Getting ready to tear one of my projects back down and it reminded me of your project. Did you receive word back on the failure?

On 21/11/2025 at 18:07, protoj said:

Getting ready to tear one of my projects back down and it reminded me of your project. Did you receive word back on the failure?

Yes, main bearing was fouled by some contamination. Current theory is that some loose metal was in my remote oil filter tree/cooler set up and that I didn’t adequately flush it out after it sat in the lock up for over a year. The debri from the damaged bearing spread throughout the motor damaging all crank and cam journals. Engine has been fully stripped and now going through a fresh rebuild at TDI. This was a very costly mistake and to say I’m gutted is an understatement!

23 hours ago, madmarco said:

Yes, main bearing was fouled by some contamination. Current theory is that some loose metal was in my remote oil filter tree/cooler set up and that I didn’t adequately flush it out after it sat in the lock up for over a year. The debri from the damaged bearing spread throughout the motor damaging all crank and cam journals. Engine has been fully stripped and now going through a fresh rebuild at TDI. This was a very costly mistake and to say I’m gutted is an understatement!

Ah, no that's rough! Sorry to hear that. Something preventable always feels the worst. I am sure extra care will be taken on the rebuild to avoid this type of thing happening. An expensive mistake for sure, but don't be down on yourself too much about it. Stuff happens. Now you / they know for next time and can build it better! Any changes while it's apart or sticking with same setup?