Was very busy yesterday. I travelled 400 miles to sort out things for the car before i go away on Friday for 6 months. I was fooking knackerred last night as the bloody transit van that I got would only do 80 mph with the windows & air vents shut and that was going down hill


I was about to say "when I took the car apart", but everyone who knows me knows I'm not that mechanically minded

So I'll say "When Gadget with me being his bitch took the car apart" we left the kit on . This weekend the bodyshop took the kit off on Saturday but as i was at Castle Coombe I decided to leave my visit till Monday.

Well here's the results or should I say the damage




The not so good bit, however not that bad


It looks really weird without the spoiler

A nice bit of rust there

Looking sorry for it's self


Here's the bit I like
I had planned to stay with the 1900 cvh lump that I have but having thought there was a chunk missing off the top of the block it was actually just the head gasket
But the oil seals etc need replacing and the pistons and rods were still standard.
I only paid £800 for it with an AP Racing clutch so over 2 years later it's had a good innings.
Time to move on now and I did think about going Zvh but decided if I'm going to do a job it may aswell be done properly
First of all the head.


16 valves , just what the doctor ordered. These will be change though as I have all the bits for antilag and don't want to put it in and destroy the engine just to have to do it again.

Oh and it's not a standard head either
Check out the port sizes on this baby


This has a butterfly affect on this as it was for normally aspirated. Half stay shut when poodling around and the they all open up on full chat. This affect may be getting binned as it's for a turbo conversion and is already force fed.


F55 SOY (James Bentley's) Old exhaust manifold & exhaust so that the turbo now sits just above the gearbox



My bling fuel rail ready to take grey injectors


The inlet manifold, something a bit different. All machined for cossie management


AP Racing 4 Paddle clutch, we all know what these look like. Whether I stick with this is another matter as I'm not sure it'll be up to the job


The rocker covers, not sure whether to have one chromed and another sprayed.
What colours though. Any suggestions

The cams, these are the equivalent of cossie BD10 cams.

Zetec fly wheel with the pick ups you can just make out. The block has been machined with this in mind.

Now for the bottom end. The engine is brand new and never been used. However it has been stored in someones garage for a while. It is a 2 litre bored to a 2.1.






Now for the rods and pistons
Farndon steel rods with Accralite pistons with a 7.8 compression ratio for loads of boost




The whole engine was specced by Noble Motorsport who build the engines for the famous Nobles. The engine was specced with 400 bhp in mind running a T38 but I am going to stick with my T34 for the moment as it will be my track weapon and don't want it too laggy. Everything has been machined with cossie management in mind and it even has a sensor on the rocker cover incase I want to run coil packs. I will most likely go this route.

The whole engine has been balanced including the clutch and there has been work to the crank too.

That's a big enough update for now. Had to upgrade my photobucket account too