"Lightning friends drove my lightning today first time with JDM motor the power is there the cams sound awesome "I will probley wait till i get a few miles on it before i really step down on it: "Although i don;t want it to be sluggest some say drive it like you stoled it how many lightnings still running motorcraft 5-20 oil???

 

Tom,

I spoke with the guy installing it last night, I dont remember his name but super nice guy. I told him to tell you to put about 300-400 Miles of normal driving then you can have some fun with it. Wait till 1000 miles for the first oil change. Stay with 5w-20 Untill theres roughly 5000 miles on the engine. Then you can go with the Mobil 1 0w-20. Let me know if you want any changes in the tune, or if you get it on a dyno and it needs changes(wait till 1000 miles on the motor). Any questions feel free to let us know!

JimIII@JDM

 

Glad you are happy with your motor, I hope to purchase a JDM longblock shortly.

Jim sent you an email about my needs.

 

"You will not be disapointed in you JDM motor didn't get a chance to drive mine to far today mabey 15 miles she's sitting in my garage mabey i can put a few miles tomorrow on my lightning. Will have to run stock tune tomorrow weather will be about 35 to 40 degress. "I hope you like your JDM motor

 

So what was the total? They didn't really charge you hourly>

Congrats on the new engine.

It appears the big three are starting to turn out more and more built blocks.

 

Glad to hear you're happy with your new motor. The lopey idle is great, huh? On mine I used the Motorcraft 5w-20 for 7500 miles changing it after 1500 and then three 2000 mile changes before switching to Mobil 1. You are gonna have a blast this racing season.

 

$1200.00 labor but i had to by new oil pan and new oil cooler i had a lot of metal in oil pan a few gaskets here and there and several different items i put all new gaskets everwhere my total bill includeing all parts not counting engine was $1868.00 labor and parts. you got that right i need a blast IOIL PAN HAD BAD DENT WHERE ROD DENTED IT. I REPLACE OIL COOLER BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO USE IT COULD HAVE METAL SHAVINGS IN IT Iwould like to add i have never heard a better sounding idle the cams are awesome I did switch my tune switch over to the next tune at a half throttle it was burning rubber i then switch back to stock tune TOM/

LIGHTNING FAST

 

sounds like they did it right!

Now break it in and get it to the track!
(tracks are covered in snow up here)

 

Sounds good....Have fun..

 

Thanks i presume rings should already be seated???? i drove it about 100 miles today saturday as i said in previous post the sound is awesome i would recommend JDM engine to anyone.

 

what kind of setup are you running with your new motor?

 

WOO HOO, CONGRATS tlfwatch

Going to be an awesome race season NO DOUBT
Best of luck Bro

 

" SINGLE BLADE THROTTLE BODY JDM MOTOR
ported plenum s/c. spacer
# 6 lower and 2..80
modified air cold air k.n filter
fluidyne heat exc
factory tech valve body
extra transmission cooler gregg evans
bassani exhaust system
metco idler pulleys 90.mmm
3 tune superchip by JDM 93 -94- 100 octane
street grill scene
chrome 02 lightning wheels
lotec a pillow & gauges
leer tonneau cover and bed rug
tr6,s or denso it-22,s
gator back belts
red 2003 lightning born 12-18-02 406 of 4270

 

THANKS ROB:
LIGHTNING FAST POWERED BY JDM

 

You can't get a JDM motor! CT only needs one! I can refer you to a guy down in South Jersey that does great work though.
What do you plan on going with for a setup>??? You CANNOT go wrong with a JDM motor and their service.

TL, best of luck with the new setup! I am glad you have weather nice enough to enjoy yours! -Mat-