awsome bud!!! can't wait to get my beast on the way
So saturday me and dan started rebuilding my GT after waiting 6 months for the parts to arrive.
I havent bothered including the pics of taking the engine out as im sure you all know what that looks like.
Alot of brus were drunk, and alot of nails were broken It was freezing cold, and very windy, but we cracked on!
Inlet and pully off-Turbo just in shot
Cambox off
Old head ready to come off
Randomly placed studds
Some of which were only finger tight
Head off-What we are left with
Next gearbox came off, along with clutch and flywheel. Then hit the problem of the ring gear
Eventually it came off, and that along with the new flywheel had to be take to a garage to have the ring gear heated with an oxy acetylene torch, not knowing there was only 1 of these torches in the whole of Nottingham!, was abit or a treck trying to find a garage. Sorted it tho.
After abit of a bru break dan cracked on with putting the head on.
Torqued down
awsome bud!!! can't wait to get my beast on the way
Next we started the simple task of wrapping the manifold
Eventually it was done
Then we fit the injectors to the inlet-
Next dan attached the new Elbow to the downpipe, with a little gently persuasion from his small person hammer
New waterpump on
Cam box back on
Old clutch had seen better days!
Then we did a mock build with manifold and inlet
Last edited by GTBen; 11th March 2008 at 15:50.
Everything fits. Just got to order sum shims from fiat, and need to get a stud extracted from the turbo that decided to give up the goast, tried with stud extrators but didnt work
Build will recommense this weekend where it should be finished
Left like this
nice one ben, good to see dan in action too. its mad how quick he can strip and rebuild these engines.
what gains are you hoping to acheive from this then?
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he is a crazy beever.
Erm im hoping for around 230bhp if possible. But a nice safe 200hp on low boost would be nice.
looking good fella keep it up
your were busy bees! might have got more done if it wernt for those cowboy wheel bolts on that rear beam lol. got my dad scratching his noggin bout how to get it out now
Lol that bloody wheel bolt! Absolute knightmare!
if you posted up here mate about the gas, you could have popped round to mine