Finally back home and the work continues, sorry for the hugly long post...
Started with the heads, had to mock up stuff so I used a bunch of dinky little springs and spent a day trying to setup proper rocker-arm/valve geometry, it has to swipe in the middle of the valve cap
Also switched out a bunch of stuff out for titanium and aluminum to save tons of weight on the valve train, I might be able to get 7000rpm before float now
Setup a spring compressor, it might even work for subie heads so figured it was worth the investment, so much easier than that hand clamp thing
Finished heads
Threw on a 2.0L sump and updated the pickup, the OEM one in this case was kind of cheap
Stock (left), updated long pickup (right)
Ditched the mesh, with a proper flow through filter it was pointless
Added, distributor, alternator stand, and fuel pump
Next up sleeved the cylinders
I don't think you can see them but there's little arrows on each piston that need to point towards the flywheel. "BACK TOWARDS FLYWHEEL", I must have said it like 900 times to myself, I really didn't want to do this twice
Double checked 0.06" deck height
Head bolt 3-step torque down procedure was VERY similar to Subaru's, except you only go to 18ft-lb's
Almost forgot to put the air deflector/flashy thingy at the bottom of the cylinders. If you forget this you overheat
Assembled long block, finally starting to look like something
Next up WEBERS!!