Evening everyone, this is where I step into this project with the task of building an engine for Stu. Massive thanks to him for letting me loose on this as it meant him having to ship 2 engines on pallets up to me in the Scottish Borders and I appreciate that he chose me to carry out the work.

Having discussed a few options with Stu he sent up an RS2000 Engine and a Galaxy 2.3 engine as promised, I love it when I have an engine delivered and it's the start of another build! From the 2 Engines supplied we will be building one Turbo Engine using the 2.3 Block as a basis.



My Old Man getting busy with the Forklift -




Can you guess which engine this one is?




It's a 2.3! -













Firstly I needed to get it stripped down to a bare engine ready to put on the engine stand, starting off by removing the Alternator and Auxiliary drive belt -




Then the Inlet Manifold, etc was removed -




Coil Pack Cover off -




Coil Pack, Leads and Thermostat Housing off -




Don't think this flywheel will be much use to us!




Quite a pile of parts gathering already -




Moving round to the front of the engine now -







Auxiliary Drive Mounting Bracket, Idler, Tensioner, Power Steering Pump, Air Con Pump and Water Pump all removed -




Exhaust Manifold removed -




Starting to look a lot barer now -







And the pile of parts is getting bigger -




Engine Stand bracket bolted on -




Engine hoisted up -




And onto the stand ready for stripdown -










I'll leave the engine stripdown photos until another night but hopefully this is of interest for starters.....Cheers!