Well here we go, A new thread for a new start..

On his way home

A friendly welcome



Oh Dear, a little sorry for himself

This is clearly an old lightening job circa 2002

Oily bits to go off to be balanced, knife edged and lightened some more

Hone, strip and repaint

Wrong Cam... Bizarre. Easily sorted, thanks DragonMan

Wrong cam??? Are you maaad?? Richard just had cams reground to his spec... so someones either sold the cam at some point or youve just removed a regrind to replace with a lesser item...

Im liking the freshening up... youre approach to refreshing things is similar to mine.... getbit home and tear it apart

I may even subscribe to this one

Hello Mate.
Firstly good luck with rebuilding ?
Secondly picture of U're two Cinq's reminded me my 2 Sei's squished round the back of me house.
Funny look in my mind........

I did think that, and i am having it checked, just thought it best to cover my bases with the 866, just incase the machine shop says it's standard.
This rework is not being rushed and I just want to enjoy the process. It's months till we're considering even putting the oily bits back together.

I am trying to find out the cam specs, I.e duration lift and overlap however it is proving to be a minefield. Ahhhh. Does anyone have a comprehensive listing of these, I would be extremely grateful for any input?

Thanks

Three coats of Glyptal to reduce oil cling, yellow engine paint will be cut back prior to gasket install.

Five coats of engine paint, my engine guy's traditional yellow!

A piece of jewellery. Balanced, Lightened, knife edged, and polished......

Inlet manifold all done and ready to go to be ceramic coated like the exhaust manifold

The Engine bits are now all finished and the fun process of putting all the bling together starts....

subscribed.. good to see this found a loving home

I was gutted when my mate was out bid on this but kind of pleased its gone to such a good loving home.

Glad this thing has finally gone to a home that's good and is getting some treatment that is needed

Gear box rebuilt and cleaned up

Bottom end all built up, loving the sexy crank

Even the oil pump got a Glyptal coating to prevent oil cling


Block waiting for the head


Engine about to 'drop in'


Engine all in and fired up first time


Sneaky peek with rocker cover off to check clearances.

So far the first part of the run in has been done and I am down to the semi synthetic oil stage so still only revving and pushing about 80%

First thoughts are the huge amounts of torque, it'll pull from 15mph in fifth and once the car is rolling you only really need fourth. It feels like we've dropped in a 1.6 litre normally aspirated engine. As the engine frees up the top end is coming.

The noise is just bonkers, not too loud, but it revs and 'blips' on the throttle like a motorbike.

I'm so pleased so far and once the run in is complete, a custom mid pipe and back box is on the cards. Then for mapping.....

very very nice, looks so clean!! :yum:

You not gonna stick a timing belt cover on? Looks so much tidier with one on in my opinion.

yellowoscar said:

View attachment 156877Three coats of Glyptal to reduce oil cling, yellow engine paint will be cut back prior to gasket install.

View attachment 156878Five coats of engine paint, my engine guy's traditional yellow!

View attachment 156879A piece of jewellery. Balanced, Lightened, knife edged, and polished......

View attachment 156880Inlet manifold all done and ready to go to be ceramic coated like the exhaust manifold

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Nice job on the crank, who did that?

Chris at performance tuning services in Littlehampton.

Nope. Really have a problem with them. Always fall off and rattle.
So I machined the rocker cover flange off to make it all look clean.