**The Neo Head Build: A Journey of Discovery and Perseverance**

I recall a particular challenge I faced while working on my neo head build. The system was designed to be intricate, with various components requiring precise alignment and tuning. One aspect that caught my attention was the dash in and wrench, which made it difficult to access certain areas of the engine. I decided to relocate myself to another space, allowing me to work from a more accessible angle and tighten the fittings with relative ease.

The rest of the fittings have now been installed, and we're preparing for the final stages of the build. Unfortunately, we won't be using this head, as there are concerns about potential interference issues. Specifically, I had expressed my worries about the valve release on the pistons, which could lead to a catastrophic failure if not addressed properly.

To mitigate these risks, I worked closely with JP to address the clearances and ensure that all components were properly aligned. We also made some significant changes to the camshaft, swapping it for Kelford 244b cams, which have a notable lift of 9.25mm and are designed to produce a powerful sound. However, this switch has added complexity to the build, as these cams require specific clearancing on the head.

JP's expertise was instrumental in overcoming these challenges. He carefully inspected the camshaft and identified areas where it could potentially contact the head, requiring precise grinding to avoid damage. His ability to see into tight spaces and make adjustments on the fly saved the day, allowing us to move forward with the build without compromising the integrity of the engine.

One of the decisions we're considering is building a spare short block with a 2.8 crankshaft and new internals. This would provide an aftermarket option for those looking to upgrade their neo engine, while also offering a more comfortable revving range than the stock setup. I'm particularly excited about the prospect of experimenting with oversized valves and high-performance turbochargers.

As I work on this project, I've been thinking about the footage I've promised to share with my audience. Unfortunately, it appears that the video has mysteriously disappeared from my inbox, leaving me wondering if I simply misplaced it or if there was some kind of technical glitch at play. Despite the setback, I remain committed to sharing my knowledge and experiences with you all.

Typically, we're on a regular schedule, but due to unforeseen circumstances, our next video will be delayed until after Christmas Eve. However, I'm confident that the content we've been working on behind the scenes will make up for lost time. It's been a challenging period, with multiple projects juggling each other and filming schedules getting in the way. Nevertheless, I'm determined to deliver high-quality content that showcases our skills and expertise.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Mike, who has been instrumental in editing and producing our videos. His dedication and attention to detail are truly appreciated, and I'm grateful for his support throughout this project. With Freddy's help, we'll be pushing the limits of the neo engine and exploring new possibilities. Stay tuned for more updates from our shop, where innovation and creativity know no bounds!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right guys welcome to today's video uh freddy's here for a special project that i can't tell you guys about because it's top secret but he's here and i need filler for this video because i can't show you guys anything that's going on with a special project and he was arguably the least impressed with this car of all so we have to see if you are impressed now yeah it's still just not rowdy enough like it goes down it gets down way more than before though yeah the downpipe made a lot spicier like torque wise yeah it's not bad that's good we're going to the auto parts store to go get parts for a second project does that mean we're doing a sleek project can't talk about it so regarding the r32 skyline we have decided a very tough call and that is to for now run it with the existing head so essentially it will be the same setup as before but with a new plasma man intake manifold johan already has the intercooler piping modified on this side to suit it with the plasma clamp and now is redoing it on this side to suit the turbo the downpipe is good but the reason being we are concerned that because i don't have valve reliefs in the pistons on this engine that potentially with both the neo and the super high lift cams we could have interference and i don't want to pull this apart if i'm not sure so maybe we'll give it a shot down the road or maybe we'll build another engine on the side we'll see but for now he's finishing that up and then uh we just got a couple other minor things and then we should be able to start this thing and hear ourselves in new turbo he alone got her all welded up and then we will have uh v-ban or hd claim it should say up here this time instead of the couplers that like to melt in that area but i like the way that you did that it looks very clean and we'll have good clearance with a strut tower as opposed to if we used a bigger one that slipped over right and then that's just front like clearance on the truck tower so there's usually a knob here right all right so we're getting started on the pipe um we did we did the hot side um we're still waiting on material on the bottom end but the top end is done i got a well a iat sensor bun on this end and then over to this side we did the elbow on the compressor housing then from there we transition into a four two and a half inch uh hd clamp and then renew new piping to the inner cooler uh now i'm about to stand the section down there and then the hot side will be done and then as soon as the other components come in for the close eye i'll get that one done uh we'll debunk on it um and then just take everything out put the gaskets o-rings on it make sure the lines are still in good in good shape and pretty much starts assembling assembling back so so do um so the cool side is done um i opted to do a coupler there yeah versus having a complete lawn pipe just because if you remove the pipe it would be really hard to remove it as a complete unit with the radiator in place so just like the r34 um it's just it was best to just make it a two piece right so that side is done it has the new bang for the ait so this side is good to go sweet fresh new couplers and now um pretty much just i had the turbo mocked up already in location i just need to uh clock the center cartridge for the oil feed the return and the coolant lines okay um and then once those are set put a brand new gasket on it and slap it in what are you working on now um i'm making an adapter you're making an adapter why are you making an adapter because turbo too small turbo drain too small stand oil drain easy to work on ah yes i see i see one of the next purchases is going to be a lathe that's yeah late because then i don't have to do this and if i get good at it then i can make my own fitting but not because it's just easier to do this or combine the right fitting for the job that too all right so we're gonna put the the front half back in this is the thing that i modify maybe before this screen used to be in here and it was impossible to get in there with a uh dashed in and wrench so i just stand at another space in there so i could go from the back and tighten it um now the rest of the fittings are in and just gonna put it on big sad uh we aren't going to be using this head and i think i explained why my concern if you come over here mike you can see um possibly with vtc um and not having valve release to my pistons that we could have an interference issue and i don't want to hit the piston and ruin this good head but i thought i would still walk you guys through kind of all the work that jp did to this up in connecticut when i set it up to him so so you glass bead cleaned the entire thing and then on this side you can see it's surface for an mls gasket and then one thing that i ended up doing which i haven't done on any of my heads so far we did one mil oversized intake and exhaust um from ferreira and they look sick but again that adds to my concern of possibly having any sort of interference the only place i could find that makes cams for a neo head that were like notably big was kelford so these are kelford's 244b cams i believe it's like nine and a quarter mil lift they're 272s they have a really good sound and i think they're perfect for the powerband that i'm going after but not a lot of people make cams for the neo engine i wanted to switch the neo because of the solid lifter setup um so jp did re-shim it we had to get some shims from raw brokerage just to make sure all the clearances were right and then in addition to that these cams actually require a little bit of clearancing on the head it's really hard to see but if you look in there just in that little corner um there are a couple areas like that where the lobe could have had contact with the head um so he just turned it over and was able to see that and grinded it away but he got it turned around in a super super short period of time and i'm so excited to put it on but i don't want to put it on and potentially damage it so i'm contemplating with the idea of setting them up a 2 8 crankshaft and some new internals and then building a spare short block so i can leave that long block together maybe use it for another project and then have like a 2 8 neo head with oversized valves big cam big turbo high revving a little bit better power band and uh having a aftermarket crank versus stock crank i'd definitely feel way more comfortable revving upwards of 9000 rpm so not that the r324 really needs that but this is sick and i'm super excited about it and i just i don't want to ruin it kind of funny but not really funny i've been hyping up since i got this rb25 intake from plasma man that i was finally gonna have the footage to reveal the secrets of you guys so you can understand that this is not welded by a machine you can see how perfect it looks and actually welded by a human being but the footage has mysteriously disappeared from my inbox i don't want to say it's a conspiracy theory i would rather just say that i was dumb and didn't download it and footage expired on dropbox but um regardless we may not have a video typically we're on an every other day schedule we might skip one day but then after that there's gonna be about four consecutive videos that'll be back to back to back daily so hopefully you can uh understand that since there won't be an upload on christmas eve but you're going to want to tune in because a special project we've been having going on behind the scenes should make up for all the lack of other stuff that's going on around the shop because it's tough we're like bouncing between a bunch of things and still trying to film a video on the side and mike's editing like five videos i got two cameras in my hand at the same time running around two videos at the same time he literally forced me to buy him another camera because he's like i need to have the separation i need to have one camera for this build one camera no incorrect did you but it's very helpful okay thank you i appreciate it yep all right so anyway thank you guys i know uh this video is a little slow on but hopefully i don't know maybe we'll have another one actually because we can probably get this thing running freddy's dying to tune it so um pretty say i if you're dying to tune it we can't show him because he's with the secret project right now so all right stay tuned i'll see you guysall right guys welcome to today's video uh freddy's here for a special project that i can't tell you guys about because it's top secret but he's here and i need filler for this video because i can't show you guys anything that's going on with a special project and he was arguably the least impressed with this car of all so we have to see if you are impressed now yeah it's still just not rowdy enough like it goes down it gets down way more than before though yeah the downpipe made a lot spicier like torque wise yeah it's not bad that's good we're going to the auto parts store to go get parts for a second project does that mean we're doing a sleek project can't talk about it so regarding the r32 skyline we have decided a very tough call and that is to for now run it with the existing head so essentially it will be the same setup as before but with a new plasma man intake manifold johan already has the intercooler piping modified on this side to suit it with the plasma clamp and now is redoing it on this side to suit the turbo the downpipe is good but the reason being we are concerned that because i don't have valve reliefs in the pistons on this engine that potentially with both the neo and the super high lift cams we could have interference and i don't want to pull this apart if i'm not sure so maybe we'll give it a shot down the road or maybe we'll build another engine on the side we'll see but for now he's finishing that up and then uh we just got a couple other minor things and then we should be able to start this thing and hear ourselves in new turbo he alone got her all welded up and then we will have uh v-ban or hd claim it should say up here this time instead of the couplers that like to melt in that area but i like the way that you did that it looks very clean and we'll have good clearance with a strut tower as opposed to if we used a bigger one that slipped over right and then that's just front like clearance on the truck tower so there's usually a knob here right all right so we're getting started on the pipe um we did we did the hot side um we're still waiting on material on the bottom end but the top end is done i got a well a iat sensor bun on this end and then over to this side we did the elbow on the compressor housing then from there we transition into a four two and a half inch uh hd clamp and then renew new piping to the inner cooler uh now i'm about to stand the section down there and then the hot side will be done and then as soon as the other components come in for the close eye i'll get that one done uh we'll debunk on it um and then just take everything out put the gaskets o-rings on it make sure the lines are still in good in good shape and pretty much starts assembling assembling back so so do um so the cool side is done um i opted to do a coupler there yeah versus having a complete lawn pipe just because if you remove the pipe it would be really hard to remove it as a complete unit with the radiator in place so just like the r34 um it's just it was best to just make it a two piece right so that side is done it has the new bang for the ait so this side is good to go sweet fresh new couplers and now um pretty much just i had the turbo mocked up already in location i just need to uh clock the center cartridge for the oil feed the return and the coolant lines okay um and then once those are set put a brand new gasket on it and slap it in what are you working on now um i'm making an adapter you're making an adapter why are you making an adapter because turbo too small turbo drain too small stand oil drain easy to work on ah yes i see i see one of the next purchases is going to be a lathe that's yeah late because then i don't have to do this and if i get good at it then i can make my own fitting but not because it's just easier to do this or combine the right fitting for the job that too all right so we're gonna put the the front half back in this is the thing that i modify maybe before this screen used to be in here and it was impossible to get in there with a uh dashed in and wrench so i just stand at another space in there so i could go from the back and tighten it um now the rest of the fittings are in and just gonna put it on big sad uh we aren't going to be using this head and i think i explained why my concern if you come over here mike you can see um possibly with vtc um and not having valve release to my pistons that we could have an interference issue and i don't want to hit the piston and ruin this good head but i thought i would still walk you guys through kind of all the work that jp did to this up in connecticut when i set it up to him so so you glass bead cleaned the entire thing and then on this side you can see it's surface for an mls gasket and then one thing that i ended up doing which i haven't done on any of my heads so far we did one mil oversized intake and exhaust um from ferreira and they look sick but again that adds to my concern of possibly having any sort of interference the only place i could find that makes cams for a neo head that were like notably big was kelford so these are kelford's 244b cams i believe it's like nine and a quarter mil lift they're 272s they have a really good sound and i think they're perfect for the powerband that i'm going after but not a lot of people make cams for the neo engine i wanted to switch the neo because of the solid lifter setup um so jp did re-shim it we had to get some shims from raw brokerage just to make sure all the clearances were right and then in addition to that these cams actually require a little bit of clearancing on the head it's really hard to see but if you look in there just in that little corner um there are a couple areas like that where the lobe could have had contact with the head um so he just turned it over and was able to see that and grinded it away but he got it turned around in a super super short period of time and i'm so excited to put it on but i don't want to put it on and potentially damage it so i'm contemplating with the idea of setting them up a 2 8 crankshaft and some new internals and then building a spare short block so i can leave that long block together maybe use it for another project and then have like a 2 8 neo head with oversized valves big cam big turbo high revving a little bit better power band and uh having a aftermarket crank versus stock crank i'd definitely feel way more comfortable revving upwards of 9000 rpm so not that the r324 really needs that but this is sick and i'm super excited about it and i just i don't want to ruin it kind of funny but not really funny i've been hyping up since i got this rb25 intake from plasma man that i was finally gonna have the footage to reveal the secrets of you guys so you can understand that this is not welded by a machine you can see how perfect it looks and actually welded by a human being but the footage has mysteriously disappeared from my inbox i don't want to say it's a conspiracy theory i would rather just say that i was dumb and didn't download it and footage expired on dropbox but um regardless we may not have a video typically we're on an every other day schedule we might skip one day but then after that there's gonna be about four consecutive videos that'll be back to back to back daily so hopefully you can uh understand that since there won't be an upload on christmas eve but you're going to want to tune in because a special project we've been having going on behind the scenes should make up for all the lack of other stuff that's going on around the shop because it's tough we're like bouncing between a bunch of things and still trying to film a video on the side and mike's editing like five videos i got two cameras in my hand at the same time running around two videos at the same time he literally forced me to buy him another camera because he's like i need to have the separation i need to have one camera for this build one camera no incorrect did you but it's very helpful okay thank you i appreciate it yep all right so anyway thank you guys i know uh this video is a little slow on but hopefully i don't know maybe we'll have another one actually because we can probably get this thing running freddy's dying to tune it so um pretty say i if you're dying to tune it we can't show him because he's with the secret project right now so all right stay tuned i'll see you guys\n"