Hi Everyone!

Basicly i brough this car halfway through last year and i had to wait 3 months for my years no claims so i could get insured on it! Finally the time came to insure it and i had it on the road a week and a horrible rattling noise was coming from the engine! After having a few people looking at it, it was 2 things; 1st being the hydraulic lifters were buggered and so was the cam and 2nd that the big ends had gone!! I was gutted!! But anyway to start off with i brought a kent cam kit and vernier pully and fitted that. Then after beein gutted for a few days thought i better get the engine out! After doing this i striped all the interior out as it was a good time to get all the welding done, being the battery tray and the drivers and passengers footwells.

My car (red) before the nightmare!! lol



Engine out!



Rotten buy the servo brackets!



Battery tray has been done before but to a very poor standard!



Passenger footwell! ROTTEN!



Few pics after welding!













After having this done im now just in the process of having the engine bay painted! So its all nice and shiney!

Next thing was i sent the head off to Cylinder Head Development to have a Stage 2 Big Valve Head. Got it back last week, pics speak for themselves...Andy Weston - Ledge!!









Also decided to fit the rear disc convertion;





Next thing to do is order all the bits for the bottom end rebuild. A quick list of what the spec is going to be;

Accralite + 1.0 forged pistons
Farndon steel h section rods
Standard size crank
Heavy duty bearings
ARP bolts all round
New water pump oil pump etc.
All new gaskets
Cometic multi layered head gasket
And all other little bits and bobs!

More updates to come when i can be arsed to order everything and get building!!

CheeRS!

 

looks nice mate!

 

Nice one mate it doesnt seem as badly rotton than some S2s ive seen.

 

 

top class mate keep it up

 

Well as some of you are aware my big ends went...so rebuilding my engine, but its never just doin one thing on an rs is it. so i got my engine bay sprayed, and brought a cage some pics for you lot to have a butchers at! enjoy!!!!









Re-taped loom!

















You can just see the cage behind all the s***!
My block and crank is being machined at the mo so shouldnt be long till i can start building my engine!

 

Brian

 

looking good mate

 

Thats looking very nice mate!

 

 

Looks like your doing a top job

 

where did you get the fabric loom tape mate? cheers

 

looking good mate!

 

I actually got it from work mate, its made by 3M but dunno where sells it

 

Top work Matt

Battery tray looks 110% better

Are you fitting a new front panel also ???

 

whats that stuff you have covered the wires in?

Would love some of that.

 

Looking tidy, keep it up