was about £130 with passionford discount (discount code PFDiscount)

 

loom / ECU / new chip etc... is now all back together

Popping down to get my cylinder head off my brother shortly and got a 4 day weekend comming up so should have her back together and running before next week!

 

Got me head rebuilt up the shed lastnight and diddnt get in the house till gone 11.00
Today ive been busy outside and pretty much got the car back together...
Just got a few odd bits to do tomorrow to finish her off














































Quite a bit done but hopefully the pictures will do the talking, im 99% sure she'll be runing tomorrow

 

Great effort there mate, looks great, might want to tighten that cambelt first though lol

 

hehe! stuck it up like that so it was out of the way and diddnt catch on anything,
Anyone who knows me wouldnt be surprised if i try to start the car like that lol...
ive had to write a 'to do' list as ill spend ages on tidying things up and miss something really important and obveous

 

Good call mate, don't rush it, will be well worth it in the end.

Where abouts in Cambs are you ? never seen the car around but I suspect you know a few of the locals.

 

she doesnt come out very often to be honest, hoped to have her back on the road today but somewhere along the line ive lost the cambelt tensioner...

Should be ready tomorrow hopefully

my brother knows a guy who we call 'jonny bravo' who drives a V6 powered cosworth replica, when i first saw your name i thought you were him until i saw your location

 

got a question which is open to all

The inlet side of the block theres an oil seperator which then originally goes back to the airbox and another smaller pipe connects to the inlet plenum,
since removing the airbox ive done away with the pipe that goes to the airbox but what im wanting to acheive is to get rid of the whole lot and simply have one pipe going from the oil seperator to the oil catch tank and to blank off the connector on the inlet plenum (i think its a one way valve anyway)

is this possible and will i encounter any problems?

 

Mines just blocked off and havent had any issues. Think the bailey breather kit came with a blanking plug if i remember correctly.

 

cheers dude, thought that would be ok.

Should help eliminate the build up of black oil in the plenum too

 

Got her running thismorning but cant quite seem to get the timing right

The whole car shakes and its very lumpy

ive tried time and time again but im getting nowhere so may have to get someone else to take a look

 

There is 2 marks on the bottom pulley are you using the wrong one ?

 

...ok before i begin i accept any piss taking that i rightly deserve, i had 2 T leads the wrong way around lol

Im just very relieved that it was a minor error on my part and not something major with any of the internals

She has a few issues which she suffered previously like occasional funny idling and slight revving now and again on its own accord (mainly when im comming to a stop but very occasional)

She goes extremely well and im very happy, just need to wait for my next bit of time off work so we can go on a long run to bed her in before the thrashing begins

 

 

Nice one mate enjoy

 

been on 30 mile round trip and she hasnt missed a beat

only problem is whenever i come to a stop she revs up to 2k and drops back off, does this about 5 times then levels out and idles properly

Only other thing is that after the trip i checked the oil and it was on minimum (dont fear as i was watching the oil pressure gauge like a hawk on rat)
Its not leaking anywhere so my guess is that after priming the engine i lost a fair bit filling the oil galleries, hydraulic lifters, oil filter etc... to be honest i should have checked this before setting off

But in general a very smooth run

 

Good news!

Made for an interesting read, thanks for sharing the work.

 

Most people round here know me as Jonboy, I just chose Jonnybravo for PF as Jonboy was already taken !

As for the idling fault could possibly be crap in the iscv, not sure about YB ones but the Vauxhall ones are very common for that fault, best bet it to remove it and clean it up with some brake cleaner.

 

will do, a very easy job on the YB

 

Did you reset the base idle and co% etc. As said its like the Idle valve is sticking a little but best to get all the base settings done first. Mine was doin similar lately, but my thermostat is knackered and sticks open on a run making the engine cool too much and then it starts fast idleing until it heats up again.

cossies

 

You've completely lost me there mate lol

 

Well with you rebuilding the engine and cleaning the internals etc, the mixture and base idles settings will likely have changed. Your MSD chip will have said what the idle co% adjustment should be set to (likely around 2.5-3%). Before any of this, you need to run it up to full operating temp, disconnect the idle valve and set the idle screw under the throttle body so that it idles at around 900rpm with the valve disconnected. This will set the base idle and you can then plug the idle valve back in.

Mixture can then be adjusted to suit the chip you have. Best to start at the beginning after a fresh build IMO, if you close to MSD, well worth popping it in for a full setup.

 

brilliant work, just read from start to finish. Saved it to my favourites so I'll have it for motivation to do my own!

Super work dude

 

Great news

Job well done mate

 

Really good write-up.
I'm considering new rings for my 2wd hence I found this article on a search.
Do you have to go under the car to take the engine out?
I'm trying to gauge where I can physically do the job on my car as space in the garage is an issue.
It would help if I didn't have to crawl under the car to remove the block.
Thanks