(T) Fixing My 1.4 Bravo Engine Misfire

Best quote ive got locally is £200 for a complete engine, I havnt tried haggling with him yet.

On the web ive got
£126.50, £150.00 and £149.50 delivered for complete bottom end one says reconditioned so ill ring them tomorrow and find out what state they are actually in.

Ordered a bottom end £80. should be here tomorrow.
Ive been assured its in good condition, with no bad damage on the bores.

I hope it is a good un

Fingers crossed they've sent you a good one. My experience is i never get what i was hoping for, theres always something wrong, regardless of asking them all the questions.

Hope its back and running again soon. Im suprised your confident to tackle such a job on the street, hats off to you.

Cheers Joske. Ive always wanted to do some serious engine work. Its a shame my car has forced me into it especially as its the worst financial position of my life.

Im sure this new block will be a heap of crap, usually when I take a punt like this it blows up in my face.

Ill be replacing piston rings and shells if its worthy, If its crap I wont let the driver take it off his truck.

Im going to rebuild the engine then get a local garage to just put it in. then bring it back to my house and ill put the rest back together.

why get a garage to fit, chances are thats going to bump the price up. an engine hoist is normally only around £20 to hire, and if you get one for the weekend (in particular this weekend) you'll have loads of free time to mess about with it.. and it'll stil only cost £20.

i'd advise a new clutch whilst you're having the engine out

Ive cleaned up quite a few brackets and things, this is the latest almost ready to paint. Can you guess what it is?

New block should be here monday. I hope its good.
Cheers for the advice arc, ill be getting a new valeo clutch aswell

While im waiting for the block got more bits and bobs done.
Water Rail;

Top secret bracket; (amazingly bad photo )


Ive got lots of other bits in the small shed, repainted and ready to go back on.

Well
new block has arrived I can finaly get on with it.

Replacement;


My original;


Any advice appreciated, Im planning to replace the piston rings and big end shells. Paint it bright red for an extra 10bhp.

if you do the rings, remember the block will need honing else they'll never bed in properly.

To show my very poor knowledge of these things... the replacement looks worse than the original ?

the cross-hatched marks you can see on the bore are honing marks, they are meant to be there, and the fact you can still see them shows the engine is not badly worn. conversly on his original block the honing marks are all but gone and there are deep vertical scratches in the bore. this is bad.

Yeah as arc says my original has no honing marks whatsoever, Infact they are uttlerly smooth. Well apart from the very wrong vertical scratches.

Cheers arc I was going to hone it and do the rings (I didnt know honing was necessary, ta for that info ) Now my dads saying dont bother with new piston rings, so im in two minds

if it were, me, i wouldn't bother mate. It's not like the engine is going to be pushed hard - it's not got a tuned head on it, nor is it revving to silly rpm.

my view is same as above, you can see that bottom end is in pretty good nic, the honing marks are still clear as day so i wouldnt bother replacing the rings and honing (would would probabl need oversized pistons if you did)

stick in some new shells and it'll be good