mate i hope your cars ready for nationals

He's sat in the garage working away on it now, we've got 7 weeks, he's going to do some other bits whilst its out, so we can open the bonnet more, so fingers crossed time.

like what if you dont mind me asking ? and you should be sound for that those engines arent that hard to do fingers crossed for you both anyways

it WILL be ready for nationals...we need it

Bling or Carbon bits (we can't make our minds up), a few more things painted and colour coded and now it's not a daily runner its going to have a good clean.

He's just asked for the camera, so for a guess there will be up to date shots to look forward to.

Update...

I've started on the new engine.

When I got it looked like this :



So set about removing the gearbox, startermotor, exhaust, alternator, manifold, and down pipe.

removed the old loom that had been chopped and some of the heater matrix pipes.





It will soon be readu for it's trip to Nez ready for the complete strip down.

Things to be done during the rebuild

Hiflow 1.4mm steel headgasket
Uprated headbolts
Exhaust gasket
Sump Gasket
Waterpump
Hiflow Competiton Cambelt and tensioner kit
Techniclutch Organic Fast road Clutch
Lightened Flywheel.
New plugs and fluids.
Paint the engine block.

I'll post more wip pics as soon as I have done some more....

well your garage floor WAS nice and new and clean

looking good mate, i bet your loving it aint you

it certainly makes the difference being able to work on my car in the warm

you seem to be doing everything in the warm just lately

nice one mate and ideas how much money your old block would want throwing at it if it could be repaired like?

dude get some 208 cat cams whilst your at it.

I've already suggested we put cams in it whilst it's all apart.

The powers that be have vito'd it for the time being

The problem i had with the old block is that it could just be the piston rings.

But there is a chance it will require a rebore and then probably oversize pistons. Which then start to be come expensive.

I've opted for the replacement engine and stripdown to replace all gaskets, seals and water pump etc. Basically the usual shit that can go wrong and cause big headaches.

Plus I reckon I'll be breaking the engine to sell as it will offset the cost of the rebuild.

Update...

Had some goodies arrive for the engine today.

The engine is now on an engine stand, I thought I'd post about it.



But... how cool is it to be able to do this and not have to mess about with hoists and cranes to do it



The lightened flywheel has come back, We've managed to shave about 1.5lbs from a 12lb flywheel. Which isn't bad. You can go further and reduce upto 30% of the weight but..I happy with 15%



We've basically machined the inside of the wheel as you can see in the picture along with drilling 5mm hole around the outside of the wheel



Same with the underside of the wheel.

Also thanks to Adz with the mini cooper s for supplying me with some Denso Iridium spark plugs at the right price :

Densos FTW

Photo of them on wooden worktop FTW

Looking good mate engine stand looks mega!