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Right people after my Dilemma thread I decided to repair the engine, im not going for more power as I was happy with what she had, but I have added a bd14 inlet cam just for good measure !!, here's some pics of before and how it is now, hope you like,
Bro painting my bits
Going black inlet this tiem just to be different, think it will look good against the yellow,
Done some more today and layed a few bits on to get an idea of what its gonna look like, rocker cover has come up really well i think, should all look good once under the bonnet, wrapped the turbo and exhaust manifold also today which took ages to do and get right,
as beef said, check the clearence, do a dummy build up with plasticine to make sure it clears
also, i assume you've got a breather pot cos i can see a hole in the cam cover - if you have you dont need to use the kidney box, get rid of it completely and just use an adapter from the block to the pipe of the breather pot ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RS-Cosworth-Pi...1%7C240%3A1318 )
as beef said, check the clearence, do a dummy build up with plasticine to make sure it clears
also, i assume you've got a breather pot cos i can see a hole in the cam cover - if you have you dont need to use the kidney box, get rid of it completely and just use an adapter from the block to the pipe of the breather pot ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RS-Cosworth-Pi...1%7C240%3A1318 )
Matt
Ok mate i did use it before but ill look into removing it all together this time.
I would remove the heat protective covering from the turbo as you need as much heat away from it as posible, if you leave it on the exhaust housing will crack!
the manifold will be fine just the turbo needs sorting.
I would remove the heat protective covering from the turbo as you need as much heat away from it as posible, if you leave it on the exhaust housing will crack!
the manifold will be fine just the turbo needs sorting.
steve
Oh great now you tell me, ive seen loads of cossies with wrapped exhausts so not syaing you dont know what your on about but its done now and taking it all off would heart !!
Little update, i recieved my new donar pistons today which im gonna use the gudgeon pins out of, there 1.6 pinto ones, i fitted one of the pins in my cossie rod and it fits perfect no play at all. They are ever so slighlty to big to fit in the piston so a tiny bit of honing to do then they should be a perfect fit aswell, crank, flywheel and pistons are going off tomorrow to be machined, so all i have to do at the minute is make some templates on the outside of the sump so i can have my ally welder friend turn it into a big winged sump, whilst i make the inetrnal gated baffles for it, should eliminate any further oil starvation and this happening again, wish me luck.
Is the block and cam cover 2 different shades mate? When I did the cover in G454 I took a samco and got it colour matched. Looked pretty much bang on in the flesh.
Ay up my old car lol, , No mate they are all painted with the same yellow out the same tin, samcos matched pretty well last time around with the cam cover when they were all cleaned up, so that will be another job on the list, was thinking of welding all the holes up under the bonnet and smoothing it all what you reckon ?
Im waiting for the pistons to come back then yeah i will build it up with 1 piston in and the old gasket and check for clearance, Ian what dont you like mate i thought you was a fan of the yellow