Right, some more pictures from today, that are hopefully better quality.

This is how the underneath stands at the moment. Just received my new outer sills today, so can get moving with the welding shortly.



Starting to gather a large amount of dust. New engine waiting on stand.


I made a start on tidying up the engine. My top end gasket set, timing belt, fan belt and sump gasket are here. Still waiting on core plugs and a tensioner from Burtons. Few other gaskets should be here from Ford on Friday if not Monday.




This is the block after two coats of Nitromores and a good scrub with petrol. Took a good 2 hours to remove two different colours of paint. Was once a light blue then black.


A closer look at the internals and I'm not sure that the previous owner of the xr2 Turbo was telling the whole truth in his description. Meant to have a steel crank, steel rods and forged pistons. Pistons are Acralites by the looks of it, but everything else looks standard to me. Although the rods have had the cast marks ground off them? I know that's meant to help stop cracks forming. The crown of the pistons also have marks cut out so the valves don't collide, but it looks like a home job





Cleaned a lot of parts up too like the inlet, exhaust manifold, turbo and crossover pipe.






Just got skim the faces to get them smooth and free of paint.

Thats about it for now! Unbelievable how manky some of the stuff was and the length of time to clean them.

Ryan