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For you mate i'll offer and extension to my normal minute or a mile warranty and give you the wrecker rumley 2 minutes or 2 miles warranty 
Ben you have got to take me out for a spin in your car next time im up with jo. looks fantastic grate mods done 
Dont bother with a slow run in. You need to load it up properly early one to get the rings to seal.
Mineral oil first and drop it within a few miles. Then change to synthetic and change up ay 500 and 1000 miles.
http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
Thats the way.
Mineral oil first and drop it within a few miles. Then change to synthetic and change up ay 500 and 1000 miles.
http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
Thats the way.
Ben you have got to take me out for a spin in your car next time im up with jo. looks fantastic grate mods done
It's never at work though, always in bits or locked in my garage, i'm sure well sort something out sometime though
You love it really mate
Dont bother with a slow run in. You need to load it up properly early one to get the rings to seal.
Mineral oil first and drop it within a few miles. Then change to synthetic and change up ay 500 and 1000 miles.
http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
Thats the way.
Cheers Phil, i'll have a read through that when i get a sec, so many mixed opinions about running in and building them
yeah me too,, some say dont let it drop below 2500 rpm for half hour whe starting up but surely the first time of running it up your gona be checking everything is ok...all i know is that it aint good to just let it idle....i done mine the reasonably old fashioned way and gently opened it up bit more at a time..i done so much research on what was best to do....came to a 50 / 50
No wonder your back hurts doing all that engine work! I sorted one of my problems on the list. Rolling Road on Friday at Rapid Chariots ill let you know how it does
Tell me about it, one day i'll just leave the car alone and enjoy driving it
Let me know how you get on, i'm working on the other thing we were talking about
Let me know how you get on, i'm working on the other thing we were talking about
Finally i feel like i'm getting somewhere with the car, after having a couple of weeks away from it due to a dodgy back i set about building it back up over this week/weekend, big thanks go to Jay @ work for his help lapping the valves in (what a boring job) and Martin for his help today.
As it stands now, rods and pistons are in, head has been stripped and cleaned, new valves are in and i've started to bolt parts back to the block.
Hopefully during the week, cams etc will go back in, sump will be fitted and i'll refit manifolds, turbo etc ready to drop it off the stand and hopefully start refitting to the car next weeked
Pics of the last weeks progress
As it stands now, rods and pistons are in, head has been stripped and cleaned, new valves are in and i've started to bolt parts back to the block.
Hopefully during the week, cams etc will go back in, sump will be fitted and i'll refit manifolds, turbo etc ready to drop it off the stand and hopefully start refitting to the car next weeked
Pics of the last weeks progress
Will do mate, i may just spend every night up there working on it, looks like it could be kfc for dinner every night this week
Thanks
Probably not, there willl always be something i want to change
Heads staying standard just uprated the valves to supertech ones, pistons are now 82.5mm so will make it 1847cc i think it is
Cheers Phil
I only done valves as they were cheap so seemed the sensible idea what with rods and pistons going in aswell.
It's looking more like an engine now, will try and get some pics up tomorrow once i've bolted a few more bits on
I only done valves as they were cheap so seemed the sensible idea what with rods and pistons going in aswell.
It's looking more like an engine now, will try and get some pics up tomorrow once i've bolted a few more bits on
Few more pics of tonights progress
Looks like an engine now, manifolds, turbo, sump, cams are all back on along with new water pump, belt and tensioners.
Tomorrow i'll be dropping it off the stand cleaning and bolting the gearbox back on, then get the car to work for friday night so i can start working out how i'm going to get the new downpipe on and maybe even start bolting it all back in
Looks like an engine now, manifolds, turbo, sump, cams are all back on along with new water pump, belt and tensioners.
Tomorrow i'll be dropping it off the stand cleaning and bolting the gearbox back on, then get the car to work for friday night so i can start working out how i'm going to get the new downpipe on and maybe even start bolting it all back in
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