Well my Saff had been making some nasty rattling noises from cold as of late last year, and with 95k on the clock, I think it's time for a rebuild.

My first thoughts were to have the car off the road for 3-6 weeks to have the rebuild done by myself, but then I had second thoughts as I didn't want to be rushed.

Therefore I bought a fully rebuilt engine from Lee R who uses this forum!

Here are pics from when I changed my engine for Lee's old one:









Old engine coming out:



New engine going in:





I started this on a Saturday morning, and had it up and running by the next day, so by Sunday lunchtime.

A friend of mine text me about 1 or 2ish and said 'hi hows it going? got it up and running yet? lol'

After that sarky text I had the pleasure of texting him back with 'yes mate just been running for the last 5 mins!'


So this weekend I've been stripping down the old engine:





We had to lift it onto the engine stand, which was a lot harder than it looks in the pictures!!

Finally we managed it:





We then started stripping it down:

Got the head off!







As we'd been told, the top end had all been fully rebuilt!


Then the block:





Started taking bits off and stripping it, and before you know you've turned it upside down and the sump is off!





Undone all of the big ends:



Got the pistons out:



Then the crank:



And once we'd finished:





After inspection as we went along we found that oil had been burning past the pistons, and the #4 big end shell was down to the bronze!

The crank is being sent off wednesday for a regrind/polish!


There will no more updates for a few weeks as the block is being sent off early next week for a rebore!


Thanks for reading it, I will update when I get more info/pics, I am also working long shifts in the next few weeks too, but I will try!


Cheers,

Charlie

 

nice work charlie - get james to clean everything with a toofbrush

 

Nice

 

Lookin' good

 

Nice to see somebody doing a YB rebuild, I never took pics when I did mine, should have done really. I will have to borrow a fork truck next time I rebuild mine ha ha

 

Nice one Charlie, interesting read mate

Lovely car aswell, saw it at Paul's before you was the lucky buyer

 

Nice work m8

 

Cheers for the replys


Should hear today whether the crank needed a re-grind or just a polish

 

top work Charlie

 

nice mate

 

That one way of getting the engine in and out!!!

Looks in a lot better nick than mine which i started stripping down last weekend.

 

Sheldy i think got to mine just time !!!!

 

Daveyboy
hope all is going well with yours

 

getting there mate. you know how it is though, you start on one thing and it just snowballs lol! what started off as just replacing a bonnet and a wing has resulted in the engine now in bits and the car probably off the road for longer than it should have been lol

will get there though

 

or until the kitchen is full

 

sshhhhhh doubt Cola will be impressed if anymore stuff comes through the door

 

Hi guys, we all know I finished this build quite a while ago now. Had it live mapped by Karl@NMS ect ect

But just found the few pics I took when I built it back up.

Didn't take many though as I just wanted to get on with it




















Spot the wire ringing

Best thing I done to the engine IMO


Also just mashed my 2nd gearbox, luckily I've got my full bernie rebuild one back, also waiting on an Alcon 6 Paddle Clutch from Mike Rainbird, then hope to change the box again this weekend with James helping me.


Opinions please guys?

Also got a tad more bling since the last set of pics:




Karl reckons it's a good 350bhp and 350 ft/lb torque, give or take 5 each way.

Boosts upto 1.9BAR (27.55psi) upto 5000 rpm, then drops to 23-24psi for 6000rpm, and then tails to (22psi) for the limiter to 7250rpm.

He was also very pleased, and seemed almost shocked at how good the engine was. Also pleasantly suprised that I had the block wire rung I think.


Regards,

Charlie.

 

must be awesome to have it running again

 

 

Nice one Charlie...Looked really nice at National Day

 

 

Cheers Paul, yours looked good too, and it was good to meet you mate


Thanks Twins


I've now fitted my Bernie box and Alcon 6 Paddle Clutch, so big thankyou to Bernie and Mike Rainbird


Hopefully it won't cost me any more money for a while now


But then it is a Cosworth

 

Think ya need to sweep ya garage floor tho.... looks like a tree is dying in there

 

Cheers Adam, gutted for you having to break the S2, looked great at National Day

It was at my Mum's garage I done all the engine work!

I leave all of that sort of thing to my brother, as he lives there, just he rarely does do it

 

Looking really good

Love the colour of your rockercover and other parts

 

Awesome, nice work fella