See, twisting the truth again. I said that my CAR was 15kg heavier after I installed a K20a.
Anyway in the time you have been ranting on here I have converted 10 Elises to Honda power, most of them race cars. They have all been out enjoying their cars and winning. Actions speak louder than words.
so post up the evidence.
why on earth would a person post up childish lies but then expect anything else to be believed.
I have said it before - happy to examine the evidence but I will do so with a camera and notebook and will expect to see real evidence not your half baled lies.
get on and make some engines and race them F how did you 2 lt get on with beating all comers in the lot series this yearE
King_K,
Despite your insistance on how clear everything is, you’re still the only person who can see it. Is it more likely that your explanations have been poor, or that everybody involved in this thread is stupid?
Have you ever considered putting down your keyboard and building an engine to back up all your claims?
This is rapidly going nowhere. Why not spend your time building your reputation rather than trying to destroy somebody elses in order to gain the business?
lol - so finally he starts to admint the truth.
one of those engine blocks in that picture he “suspects” to have been built by DVA.
So what is your evidence that evo2 block has anything to do with DVA as none of the others, by your own admission, have anything to do with DVA.
You know you really are better keeping to snide phone conversations as every toime you try and post up lies and disinformation on the web it comes back to bite you on the ass - no matter how much you try and obscure with long ranting posts.
You seem to mistake ranting for evidence - your credibility is now so shot nobody in theirright mind is going to believe a word you say without hard evidence to back it up and as usual you have no evidence you are prepared to show.
I think I need to respond to these points since they are simply ridiculous and malicious rubbish and more lies.
The chief difference between scholar and dva building a bottom end is that scholar always use the FAI bolt done up to 60lbft, as they do when they machine and hone the blocks with torque plates at their factory, Whereas dva will always use OE type grade 8 bolts done to the factory setting - ie 20NM +180+180 which equals 40NM , approximately 30lbft - HALF THE TORQUE SETTING WITH WHICH THE BLOCKS WERE TORQUE PLATE HONED!!!
MINDBOGGLINGLY STUPID IN MY UNCLE’S WORDS.
You have never seen me assemble an engine so you cannot possibly know what methodology I use to fix the head bolts, nor are you privy to my conversations with Scholar so it is all just malicious conjecture that suits your purpose of trying to discredit.Just as all the previous posts have benn proven to be.
Firstly that is not the method that I use to tighten the head bolts on Scholar blocks, and secondly when checked after tightening the equivalent torque setting is 58-60lb/ft, which is pretty close to that used by Scholar. I have just checked each bolt on two engines I have just built with a Snap-on torque wrench and it too gives readings of 58-60lb/ft. Why I bother wasting my time on things I know to be garbage I don’t know.
Valve seats…, every valve I put into a head is individually cut with Neway cutters and lapped to give a perfect circumferential seat. Each individual valve is subjected to a drop test, a spin test and a light test to ensure a perfect seal, engines with leaky valves do not make 180lb/ft of torque.
I am absolutely fanatical about proper lapping of each valve as anyone who has been to my workshop will testify. Some have lapped their own valves and will know how hard a task master I am in ensuring that each seat is perfect.
Seats that are badly cut will never lap and it is in my own interest to ensure that the seats are accurate because it makes the lapping much easier.
Valve stem seals are fitted with a specially designed tool that guarantees that they are palced centrally, there is litt oppoortunity to get it wrong since they are a simple push fit onto the end of the guide. I’ve fitted thousands of them and they are dead easy. I cant really see how it is possible to fit one wrong.
If the heads are so badly prepared, please explain how it is that my engines hold the power records at every capacity from 1600 to 1900 at Emerald.
When I assemble engines it is done with the full knowledge of and in 90% of cases under the eyes of the owner who can see for himself the care and attention that goes into a build, having seen the photos and results of one of your builds I am surprised you feel able to comment.
At least my engines do not have the crank and rods hitting other parts of the engine (at hand cranking speed) nor are they full of swarf , nor do any of the compoents show eveidence of being hit with a hammer to provide clearance.
If the valves are bent I�m willing to bet that they have kissed the pistons, probably because the pockets on the pistons are not properly sized or the cam timing is wrong. Since none of those engines were built by me you cant really hold me responsible for valve piston contact.
Valves do not bend when they have poorly fitting seats, they �flex� and eventually fatigue causes the head to detach, mostly they hammer into the seats. If the seats were so bad that the valves bent when they hit them they simply would not seal and the engine would have little compression.
I have cut seats now on more than 800 cylinder heads , even the most incompetent person would have got the hang of it by now.
However 8 of these 9 heads are shot and some have failed in very short order - ie 500 miles, which is too short a period for the softening to occur in the understood manner - ie the heads were supplied soft by dva
No, if they are VHPD heads they are customer supplied, it�s that simple. I have been hardness testing heads since 1998 either at a local facility that specialises in hardening or at my own workshop.
I mark the engines I build with a number and indeed the heads, so it shouldnt be difficult for you to give us those numbers and the customers names so everybody will know what is what.
I’m glad we have now cleared up that none of the engines in that photo were built by me. And as far as I can see it you claim to have two engines that were and 9 heads. So lets have the details and the customer names.
Dave
lol - so finally he starts to admint the truth.
one of those engine blocks in that picture he “suspects” to have been built by DVA.
So what is your evidence that evo2 block has anything to do with DVA as none of the others, by your own admission, have anything to do with DVA.
You know you really are better keeping to snide phone conversations as every toime you try and post up lies and disinformation on the web it comes back to bite you on the ass - no matter how much you try and obscure with long ranting posts.
You seem to mistake ranting for evidence - your credibility is now so shot nobody in theirright mind is going to believe a word you say without hard evidence to back it up and as usual you have no evidence you are prepared to show.
As ever you cannot even manage to read the posts
bye the bye the hard phisical evidence is plentiful and many have seen it with their own eyes
but never mind that if dva/scholar want to contest the technical issues, lets go to court and have it out, I have plenty of proffessionals who have seen these failed engines ready and willing to testify
“plenty of people” - OK were are their posts? were are the photographs.
Sadly people who lie as often and badly as yourself have to produce evidence. Top tip - just claiming their is evidence is not the same thing - you have to present it.
As DVA has just pointed out - most of the rubbish you type is just laughable.
Post up the evidence - if you really have it then it will be the work of moments, your contiued posting of total rubbish everytime you are backed in to a corner rather than the actual evidence just makes you even more of a laughing stock.
Look, Simon, can you please stop slagging everybody in the world off !!
I’ve said this before, why don’t you publish some figures for your engines. How come I’ve has ever seen one at a trackday ? I go to quite a few and I make a point of looking out for any quick K series. Not seen one of yours yet, in fact nobody I’ve spoken to has seen one either. How can this be if you’ve got 20 + engines out there ? Tell you what, next time one of your customers is at a trackday let me know and I’ll pop along.
All this taking the piss at you would stop if you could just point us at one good engine out there that people could see.
Bernard
Wrong the setting of 20NM +180+180 is equivalent to the factory setting of 40nm, on a machine which bolts up all ten bolts simultaneously and records the torque setting achieved on a screen. Generally those figures are recorded on the screen at 39/40nm.
clearly your knowledge is superficial and flawed
Are you stupid? what a complete tw*t.
Firstly that is not the method that I use to tighten the head bolts on Scholar blocks, and secondly when checked after tightening the equivalent torque setting is 58-60lb/ft, which is pretty close to that used by Scholar.
Did you not read that section of my post where I said that I do not use that methodology? How many posts does it take for you to understand something that simple. Or is it just taht you cannot stand not having the last word.
I have just gone out and tested the torque of the bolts on two engines, they are 58-60lb/ft and that is a substantiable fact. It can be verified very easily.
I will do similar test on a set of bolts done up using the factory recommended method and torque test them, I’d put �100 on them being more than 30lb/ft.
Now why not do something producive like track down the people who did build those engines and see how long they put up with your barrage of bullsh*t.
Or maybe you would like to offer up conjecture blaming me for global warming, 9/11 and the breakdown of world peace.
Or maybe pass off some more secondhand parts as new.
Dave
So Mark Anderson look at the post - where did I write DVA built engines - I didn’t.
I wrote dva/scholar - no built in the sentance at all
It is you and dva’s cronies bent on derailing a clear useful technical discussion that post the bullshit. If you are any sort of engineer you will understand the technical discourse, so why not start reading carefully and stop being led by the nose.
Okay Simon here is your post quoted exactly. (apart from sorting out the layout).
and here ae a few scholars/dva’s that have come my way in the last 2 years
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- just to remind you dva
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I’m sure almost everyone on here will agree that this says ‘HERE’ (as in the picture) are a few Scholar/DVA’s. Now the use of the / to me means and/or. Sorry if you didn’t want an English lesson but your statement in plain simple english is that the engines in the picture are built by either DVA or Scholar or both. Oh, and none of the engines have heads on them so we can only read it as engines. You were asked to clarify which you never did, until now in a roundabout way.
As for being bent on derailing a technical discussion, I posted on page 1 and then again last night, by the time my 2nd post went up, to try and help to clear things up so everyone understands the truth the main technical discussion was already destroyed. In fact if we go back to page 1 I was the 1st response, then evosal on liner costs, then yourself with your opinion, fair enough, then DVA with his, again fair enough, then you make the post I’ve quoted above, Why? It is you who keeps attacking and slagging people off, which ultimately derails the thread. Try looking back over some threads here and SELOC and see that when you put over a balanced response with real data the thread works and people will listen to your views, go on the offensive and people aren’t prepared to listen to you.
And just for the record, to set things straight in your mind, I have met Dave twice and spoken to him probably once or twice more. The 1st time was when he fitted the verniers on my S160, which after Dave set them up I was then able to retime simply to allow me to run the then unreleased Lotus ‘driveability’ tune for that engine. The second time I met him was when I dropped off my old VHPD head which someone had bought from me for Dave to check out and do some work on. The additional conversations were when my VHPD died and I discussed with Dave about a 1.9k-series before I decided to go down the Honda route for not much more money.
So I wouldn’t say I have any allegence to DVA so please don’t try and make out I am sideing with him, as that isn’t the case. I’m not sideing with anyone I just want to see civility and the truth on here.
For sure I know one thing this thread is doing…
It’s making me more and more certain that I will have a Honda in my Exige over the winter.
More abuse eh
so you are obviously not sutre about the torque setting because you are running around trying to measure it now.
Clearly you do not know
Definatively the scholar built engines use FAI grade 10.9 bolts, definatively they machine the blocks using those bolts
your engines use oe bolts which will be put into yield at 60lbft, but even if they didn’t heavy, 10.9 bolts will behave and cause the block to distort in a different way to grade 8 oe bolts
Oh I’m very sure of the torque settings, having used torque wrenches since I was 15, but it doesn’t hurt to double check these things and I am a careful sort of person. Verifying in real time removes any doubt and shows your original premise to be absolute and utter RUBBISH as usual. The FAI bolts are the same pattern as OE and 58-60 is a comfortable torque for them.
If there is anyone I know who deserves abuse it is you because you are a scurrilous liar who denigrates but doesnt have the balls to come out and admit it when you get caught out.
Clearly you are malicious little toady who likes to stir the sh*t in the hope that some will stick, we’ve seen it all before and you inevitably end up backtracking and running away.
It is far and away short of the abuse you have hurled at others, ‘Fcking Cnt’ was one, ‘F*cking primadonna’ was another and both those to respected indviduals who you though had done you some imagined disservice. And you didnt have the balls to admit it.
Dave
So what has that block got to do with DVA - is it provably one of his?
Oh I’m very sure of the torque settings, having used torque wrenches since I was 15, but it doesn’t hurt to double check these things and I am a careful sort of person. Verifying in real time removes any doubt and shows your original premise to be absolute and utter RUBBISH as usual. The FAI bolts are the same pattern as OE and 58-60 is a comfortable torque for them.
If there is anyone I know who deserves abuse it is you because you are a scurrilous liar who denigrates but doesnt have the balls to come out and admit it when you get caught out.
Clearly you are malicious little toady who likes to stir the sh*t in the hope that some will stick, we’ve seen it all before and you inevitably end up backtracking and running away.
It is far and away short of the abuse you have hurled at others, ‘Fcking Cnt’ was one, ‘F*cking primadonna’ was another and both those to respected indviduals who you though had done you some imagined disservice. And you didnt have the balls to admit it.
Dave
more personal abuse, and hypocrasy - the norm from dva
The internet has a long memory - we all know abou you personal abuse, tantrums and downright lies. They are preserved for ever - do a search on “simon erland”, the world knows exactly what sort of person you are.
