Rob now has the head off, 14 of the valves are noticeabley bent, and one of the pistons has visible damage to it.

Im just waiting for him to send me a picture of it so i can advise him on what to do.

 

 

He reckons that the mark on the piston is not much more than having "cleaned it" where the valve hit it, so fingers crossed it will last for sunday at least.

We have a spare head ready to go back on, so i guess its worth a try now anyway.

 

Good Luck...

 

shit news Chip!!

hope everything is done for sunday mate

 

 

He cant get a decent image of it on his camera, so we're just going to plough on regardless.

Have told him to make sure there are no sharp edges on the piston (det hot spots)

Hopefully will be running my mid afternoon if the parts arrive in time.

 

Tell him to press the macro button on the camera (looks like a flower)

 

Lol, cheers for the advice phil but he is just going to crack on with it now, all the parts are being delivered anyway so may as well go back together now and given a try.

 

you mean pre-igniton hot spots

 

Alex,

Det, Pinking, preigntion are all the same thing, havent you heard?

 

Only visible damage to 1 piston, how did the other valves get bent?

 

aRSe, they all hit the pistons obvously, but no marks that you can see.

 

PS, yes that is the ground you can see where the gearbox should be, Rob really has his work cut out today!

 

hope you get it soprted mate.

 

 

Sorry Chip, it's a little clearer now, i saw this post before the first one

Bummer, i think Rob must have used up the last of his luck at 'The Bull' on Wednesday, when it wouldn't start, popped the bonnet to find the coil lead had come off! Anyway hope he gets it patched up, and gets there

You have PM

 

chip

 

Rob has the block cleaned up ready now, he has taken the head off the 170K miler standard valver that we slapped the throttle bodies and nitrous on and did the qualifying for TOTB with and is cleaning that up ready to go on, that old girls doing plenty of work at the end of her life.

Gearbox is back on now as well more or less.

All looking like its going to be back together in time


Not going to be 100% running at its best of course, but looks like we are still going at least

 

Well Done Rob

 

shit man! hope all is ok on sunday

 

you can borrow my nova...thats sitting in my road open for parts if you like?!!?

 

Lol, thanks but no thanks keith mate

He's still cracking on with it as we speak, he has noticed some cracks in the valve retention caps (common problem on these engines) so is having to swap them from one head to the other before he can proceed.

Not hard, just another fiddly job he was hoping not to have to do.

If it wasnt for bad luck, he would have no luck at all!!!!

 

unlucky

 

I got spares if you need them Chip/Rob

Head (had a lot of skims so will need thick gasket) full of good valves
LET block

Might not be of use to you, but if you get desperate i might be able to source the parts you need

 

Its all more or less back together now mate, got all the bits.

Just need to pray that in the rush he hasnt missed anything thats fualty and he doesnt realised.

The last minute is no time to be building an engine from bits!

 

Most important thing, this IS racing, not TALK racing, shit happens, and it's being dealt with as best possible to a tight deadline. Come on guys, get it together, get some times in (in the 'A-Team' stylie )

 

Its all back together now, he just needs to do the cambelt and see if it fired up or not.

any minute now i should have news!

 

fingers crossed

 

Good luck m8

 

good luck but the suspense is killing me!!!!!!!!

 

Its just fired up, all seems fine

Fucking nice one Rob

 

 

Now go kick some japs eye!!!!!!!!1

 

Do you know what caused it to happen in the first place though?

Finger's crossed it holds together for the weekend!

 

Hope its ok

 

Almost certainly the last person to change the cambelt on this bottom end (it was a secondhand one that he only fitted this week and we havent really had a chance to do much to it) for some reason took the bottom pulley off to do so (you dont actually need to so its best left done up really!) and obviously didnt realise it needed doing up to 180lbft, so hadnt done it up tight enough, and it worked loose.

 

Looking forward to seeing the car in action, and Rob seems a nice person too, would be a shame not to get a chance at running the car after all the efforts he's put into it.

Shows real dedication this, all fingers crossed it will pay off

 

Well done! I noted you had a 6pm deadline, so you left it close!

Good luck for Sunday chaps...