Hello everyone,
Even though I have just registered to this forums, I have been around sucking up information and sourcing my inspiration for at least a few years. The reason I registered was to start my own thread in order to exchange knowledge.
After seeing and hearing all the hype about the mighty F22 I decided to dig into it the way I do – since I am a mechanical engineer and have access to a lot of useful machines, I like to go all the way and build an engine by carefully planning every detail.
Previously I have built only motorbike engines for MX and SuperMoto, but since I drive an Accord myself, I figured why not build one hell of a daily driver. Since I am not in a hurry with this thing and my income has not reached the level that will allow me to speed this up, I will be taking my time and slowly posting the progress here.
So I went on an picked this up at a local scrap yard
The engine was actually an F20Z1, it is the european variant of F series, but it features the same, legendary, PT3 head casting, the camshaft has OE reference # identical to USDM F22A6, so do the valve springs, and practically the rest of the valvetrain.
Cleaned it up a bit with a diesel bath and my soda gun
And brought it to a laser scanner office
The advertised single point accuracy of this machine is 0.028 mm (one thousandth of an inch), but with the method of generating a whole point cloud, I am able to split this number in at least two
I am also scanning the camshaft and rocker arms to be able to work out the valvetrain specifics to extreme level of detail.
I was able to recreate these with just the use of a MituToyo digital caliper
More to follow...
Even though I have just registered to this forums, I have been around sucking up information and sourcing my inspiration for at least a few years. The reason I registered was to start my own thread in order to exchange knowledge.
After seeing and hearing all the hype about the mighty F22 I decided to dig into it the way I do – since I am a mechanical engineer and have access to a lot of useful machines, I like to go all the way and build an engine by carefully planning every detail.
Previously I have built only motorbike engines for MX and SuperMoto, but since I drive an Accord myself, I figured why not build one hell of a daily driver. Since I am not in a hurry with this thing and my income has not reached the level that will allow me to speed this up, I will be taking my time and slowly posting the progress here.
So I went on an picked this up at a local scrap yard
The engine was actually an F20Z1, it is the european variant of F series, but it features the same, legendary, PT3 head casting, the camshaft has OE reference # identical to USDM F22A6, so do the valve springs, and practically the rest of the valvetrain.
Cleaned it up a bit with a diesel bath and my soda gun
And brought it to a laser scanner office
The advertised single point accuracy of this machine is 0.028 mm (one thousandth of an inch), but with the method of generating a whole point cloud, I am able to split this number in at least two
I am also scanning the camshaft and rocker arms to be able to work out the valvetrain specifics to extreme level of detail.
I was able to recreate these with just the use of a MituToyo digital caliper
More to follow...
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