.From this:-



To this:-



To finally this:-



Nothing major - replaced every oil/water gasket on the bottom end (front crank shaft, rear crank shaft, aux pulley, sump gasket, distributor o ring seal, water pump gasket) - guys that built the engine hadn't used quality gaskets (instant gasket in some cases - eurgh!) so I thought I'd do it properly myself using Cometic AFM gaskets where I could (if it's good enough for a Focus WRC, it's good enough for me!).

Well chuffed with the results - donw around 200 miles in it so far and it hasn't dropped a single drop of oil or coolant.

Whilst the engine was out, I finished up some interior bits as well:-



Namely fitting the air/fuel ratio meter in the dash and the corrsponding Lambda sensor in the exhaust manifold. I think the AFR compliments the ignition barrel relocation and the push button starter nicely. Gauges at the top (left to right) are water temp, oil pressure and voltmeter. A boost gauge (an expensive vacumn gauge atm is sat in a Nomad A pillar pod. Remaining space is being saved for a nitrous pressure gauge

Now all I've got to do is get the courage up to spray the dash matt black!

 

 

Very nice mate

 

well done

 

looks smart,makes a change from seeing a cossie engine in there

 

 

looks well cool mate

top job

 

lookin good

 

nice job bro, is that a 2 litre pinto ? what sapphire is it ? 2.0glsi ?

 

Yep - bored out to 2.1, high torque cam + flowed head, MSD chip, Burtons lightweight steel flywheel etc - 150bhp.

Car is based on a D reg 2.0i Ghia Sapphire - few pics of what it looks like now:-

 

Looks very nice!