Some recent faffing

[Superman]

May have seen some pics before but i wrot ethie for another forum, but thought id share it with all


Well the other week id had enough of the engine soundign like this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3inErWvdqoI

Was almost sure it was a crack in the exhaust manifold, so id had enough of this after a few weeks, and began ripping it to bits.

How it was when i started


you can see it been abit black where the fumes have been coming up and out


black....




after removing the heat shield and inlet manifold i could see what the problem was.... a new 41pence nut had come off and as it wasnt tight on its blown the gasket out








where the fumes had been passing up and out


So i slapped a new gasket on, with plenty of hylomor, just teghtening it down and *disaster*


The only thread on the cylinder head not to have been previously helicoiled comes loose so basically, the heads gotta come off again to be helicoiled, had looked at time-serts but i thought this was a helicoil thats come out but it has never been done. so anyway.... This was at the ned of Jan, i decided to not renew the tax on the 1sxt of feb and take it to bits, renew some parts and wait for the tubular manifold that was due to be done (this week but isnt)


So i cleaned some bits up

the inlet...


Rocker cover


£30odd quids of head bolts and stud-nuts


New timing belt tensioner


random under car shot....

[Superman]

Some front end bits





Finally found some suitable M12 bolts to properly fit the cooler with.




oil, i made a right mess.



make-shift shelter


half a downpipe


A few pipes removed and the cover off


This cam is looking abit worn all of a sudden, but gotta leave it in for now as im not clued up on how to correctly shim if i put the other shaft in... yet, anyway.


Turbo and manifold...


Internal wastegate looking in fooooking good nick still


valve springs


Deck and pistons


cylinder head


New turbo oil feed


What a mess....






Spent all yesturday running all of nottinghamshire, taking bits to two seperate engineers, having the head tested and then skimmed (no pics yet) and fetching gaskets and stuff... so hoping to have it all back in tomorrow.

Update when ive got more done

[COOG]

lol pathetic attempt at cleaning the inlet ,coming on .

[gt matt]

Cool man!!
Thought you were an expert on shimming from your other post!!!!!
Anyway if you need feelers, advice or help im here for you!
Also got a few "brand new" shims of various sizes in shed so we can do swaps to get it spot on. Let me know

[COOG]

i wonderd if dan would notice if the turbo went missing??????????????????????????????????????????

[TigiGt2]

Jeez alot of work you got done there mate, id love to have a place like that at home where i could work on my car. going to repaint your rocker cover? your engine bay has always looked so clean, must of been livid when you took boost pipes and the inlet off! just a quick of the topic question, is there a way of mounting the fse gauge facing upwards?

[GTste]

why?

thought you were just changing the inlet/exhaust gasket? lol.

[Superman]

just a quick of the topic question, is there a way of mounting the fse gauge facing upwards?

Well you can mount it anywhere basically, its juse there as it was there near enough when i bought it, you dont really use the gauge to be honest, only just to make sure thigns arnt right off... Ideally it should be blanked off. Ill try some other positions tomorrow if i get that far.

why?

thought you were just changing the inlet/exhaust gasket? lol.

No the last thread came out the cylinder head, so it needed to come off to be helicoiled. Hopefully thats the last time!!! till the next time.

[GTste]

ah right yes i remember now!

[Superman]

Cool man!!
Thought you were an expert on shimming from your other post!!!!!
Anyway if you need feelers, advice or help im here for you!
Also got a few "brand new" shims of various sizes in shed so we can do swaps to get it spot on. Let me know

No my friend im not, i have fellers and the current ones are just about right but the Cams looking abit worn, have a lovely mint condition GT3 one though which ill put on when some other plans come into fruitation.


And my engineer even said, that gasket wont make a difference if its simply replaced