I decided to do my lifters and change the colour scheme of the engine bay as the gold was making my eyes water

One thing led to another and basically the engine is in bits I am hoping to get the car done for April

Here’s how she looked under the bonnet


Once i got the tanks off i could see that the bay was quite messy and covered in bits of oil and crud.





Sooooooooooo I thought I’ll just remove this and that and a few other bits to make it easier to clean



Then the inevitable happened





While the engine is out i am going to renew a few seals and hoses




Loom coming out for a tidy up


Few bits being cleaned up






Tanks all polished back to stainless ready to have some bits welded then powder coated


Brackets ready for painting


Other small bits Cleaned up






Thought I’d cheer myself up and get some bits for when she goes back together

Custom stainless PAS cooler (cheers Lee @Fusion ) got a stainless bottom water pipe as well and stainless boost pipe but forgot to take pics


Thanks again to Lee for starting the comp housing off


Decent boost hose clamps


RS500 front Splitter


Refurbed cam cover from Gaz at Northwest cam covers top job


Carbon Cam belt cover looks really good in the flesh




Had these Grills kicking about too so they will go on


My BBS rims that will be refurbed black with a polished lip and then diamond cut face so the will look the same as the standard rims but a bit more bling


Cheers for looking and I’ll keep you updated

 

Keep us posted as the project continues mate, will be good to see it finished!

Nick

 

 

Jeez, we talked about lifters and you said the other nite that you had gone a little further, but

I can just about imagine the, well, I got so far, so here are pictures of the gearbox being cleaned, and the subframe, etc...

Top job though

 

looking good mate

 

some nice bits there mate keep the pics coming

 

very nice lots of hard work going on

 

just needs one of my looms in there mate

keep up the good work

oh and stop copying me you coont

 

Top stuff, looks well that keep the pics coming

 

so when you polished the parts up did u use the wire wheel then the polishing mop

 

Nice dude!!

 

Going to look stunning when finished

 

Yeah see what i mean now!! figured seeing as i was doing a few bits to the engine i may as well do it all properly.

You dont know how close to the truth you are about the gear box pmsl

I have used the wire wheel to clean up the bits that needed polishing depending on how grubby they were then wet and dry then autosol and a polishing mop.

I used the wire wheel mostly to clean the brackets before i could paint them.



Cheers for the for the comments peeps

 

looking very good mate..... but I actually also liked the gold look you had going there.... I was very different

 

thank you for thr advise

 

good work m8 its gonna look when its all done

 

bloody hell andy got a fair bit of work going on here

liking the black/carbon look

 

very nice job there dude

 

Well i haven't done alot as i have been a little pre occupied with getting the pulsar sold now its gone i can get back to doing the cossie

Cleaned the block and head





Then a coat of paint or 2



dusted the head with some high temp silver but it looks a little white in the photos

Then attacked the manky engine bay with some degreaser and wax.......
















Quite chuffed with the engine bay no rust to speak of just a few bolts/washers to replace and a few spots under the brackets/bolts where the paint has gone down to the primer. I was going to paint the bay but it can stay as is unill i get the whole car painted at a later date.

 

looking good andy

 

Looking good

 

Coming on nicely

 

Looking really good Keep the pic's commin'

 

Nice one Andy! Really liking the painted engine so i think i'll have to follow suit! It'd be rude not too while it's out!

 

Started putting the engine back together last night

 

mini update need some new studs and nuts for the cam caps as the thread has gone on some of them and i cant torque them down properly

on the plus side i have some more goodies to go on the car....

Got my SPA gauges


and got my aeroquip and Oil cooler


Also sat there and polished my throttle housing while i was waiting on some bits then thought Hmm that was a bit gay as i am not really buftifying the car ahh well its done now









Just got to get the pulleys powder coated then i can finish on the block and get the engine back in

 

Thats looking really good m8..
although I didn't find it ugly before you started

 

Looks great mate, u nutter!! lol

 

lookin really good mate

 

Does look really good

 

Well i have not done much since last time as i am waiting for some bits to be powdercoated before i refit them to the engine. But i have started fitting the bits i could sump cams etc



Then i got round to sorting my manky loom out and attacking it with a soildering iron


didn't turn out too bad hope the bloody thing starts now though

and just a random pic to remind me what an engine looks like with a cam cover as its been so long since its been together




Not long now though

 

Well done mate

keep the updates coming

 

Well done m8! done a good job there

 

you really are crazy though

fooking class


the gold was a bit erm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, OTT

 

you really are crazy though

fooking class


the gold was a bit erm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, OTT

 

Thanks for the comments even..............Ginge

Picked up the manifold from the blasters last night and gave it a few coats of high temp paint







Bolted the turbo back on tonight along with the mani as well



The rad and cooler have been given a clean and mild polish up





Managed to get a carbon gauge holder from gazcos hes done a blinding job too



Hope to pick up the rest of the bits on sat and then bolt them all up over the bank holiday and hope to get the engine back in the car as well

 

jesus christ andy theres some work gone into this aint there

looking dam dam good cant wait to see the finished article

howz it going these days anyway?

 

Lovin the gauge pod holder

Keep up the good work mate

 

lHeres the bits i picked up from the powder coaters on friday


Lightly polished the inlet runners and got rid of the casting marks


Started bolting everything together


finished on saturday afternoon












Put the engine this morning and am still knackered lol










Back in the garage


Still have a fair bit to do but hope to fire her up next weekend

 

looking the nuts