WIP 1.6srT40 *Pics* Updated Sun 10th April.

[Snowface]

Well....

After getting a quote for a 1mm overbore + New pistons & rings etc for around ?210 i got to it with stripping down engine some more.

here's how its going:

First off here's a pic of all the stuff, including the EFI Junk, that i took off at the weekend...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0006.jpg

Must have saved me a few kilo's in weight already!

here's the block minus the head...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0005.jpg

Gearbox also...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0007.jpg

And Cylinder Head... (Soon to be a Blydenstein Monster)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0008.jpg

Time to drain oil, so in with the crane...

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And out with the plug...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0014.jpg

(note when doing plug up again, remove tray first so spanner doesn't drop in oil lol)

Now starter motor off and upside down we go...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0015.jpg

Sump off...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0017.jpg

And finally oil pickup pipe & housing off...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0018.jpg


All i did after that was draw a picture of the conrod bolts and big bearing bolts with the numbers and positions of them on the caps.

Ran out of light so will start on undoing them tomo, then get the crank out ready for re-bore.

update tomo hopefully...

[Nick]

Looking good

?210 seems a good price, is that with it all fitted back together ?

I'm going to be doing the bottom end soon, so i'l find this rather useful, thanks !

[Mitchybee]

Cant see the pictures! is that just me?

[raza]

Shame pics are nearly all dark ;\

[nathan.]

pics don't work for me. sounds good though.

[benji]

??? what about the 1300? will this be in for donington?

p.s. can't see the pic's

[scott.parker]

Sound nice mate though also carnt see your pics.

scott

[Adam]

I can't see the pics either :?
Tho the progress sounds decent :wink:

[Snowface]

should work now. used photobucket. its a dark shed so i edited the pics a bit now.

[raza]

nope can see some of the pics its just some of them are really dark cant tell what where looking at

[Snowface]

i'll be running the trusty 1.3 at donnington.

1.6 won't be in till end march/april cause gotta change final drive and get my head off to bill and put it all back together. and book a friday/monday off work.

+Mot is in a week or 2 but fingers X won't cost a limb.

Then get insurance and DVLA sorted etc.

[Riggy]

looking really good mate

hope it all goes well for you :D

[benji]

so you have a b+ 1300 head for sale??

[Jules]

Looks like you'll be having fun cleaning it all up (Looks quite oily).

If you're gonna chuck the MPi bits n pieces in the nearest skip you could always take the TPS off and pop it in the post for me as I *think* mine's knackered but not really sure......
:wink:

[Snowface]

TPS?
And yeah i will have a 1200 B+ for sale some point in the near future, along with manifold and bottom end.

Plus GTE bits i won't need will go on ebay or here.

i took me a while to think about it but eventually i decided to go for a 1.6.

I got 50% of the performance parts on my 1.3 already and will only cost around ?800-900 with the head an bottom end built up to a good spec.

plus its a dead easy swap.

Didn't want an XE
a) cause it would cost a bit more (a lot more to get the same handling).
b)easyness of conversion
C) small block's rule. :twisted:

[burgo]

dont be throwing that efi stuff away now will you :wink:

[Jules]

TPS?

Throttle Postition Switch - little black box on the back of the throttle housing which slides on the end of the throttle spindle - held on by two small cross-head screws and has part of the wiring loom plugged into the bottom of it.

[benji]

can i have first refusal on the head? i might not want it but can you let me know before you sell it?

cheers

[Snowface]

....here we go then...

Didn't have any time to work on it yesterday, so started again at around 3pm Today...

First thing i did was to take off conrod caps and shells 1 at a time and centre punch them so i know which goes where...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0019.jpg

Here they are off...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0020.jpg

Next i started on the clutch, first the outer housing....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0021.jpg

Then the driven plate came off easily with a wedge from a screwdriver....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0022.jpg

Next up was to attack the flywheel after marking its postition relative to crank with a bit of paint.

The bolts were awkward to undo with a rubber hammer and bar because the flywheel would turn a bit at the same time.

This called for decisive action!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0026.jpg

Tempting, but Too Big :o

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better.

Although i needed to refill the compressor 3-times cause they were putting up a hell of a fight (threads had locking compound stuff on)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0024.jpg

On with the show and off came the flywheel....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0025.jpg

Felt fairly heavy, but it will be going back on as it is, no lightening.

The oil pump had to come off next...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0027.jpg

And the big bearing caps/shells (quite tight)....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0028.jpg


This is what it looks like so far...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0029.jpg

Just the cap that covers the rear crank seal to come off, this was giving me some jip as it has to have sealer injected into the bolt holes to seal around so was a job to pull out.

Eventually it came away... (bottom one)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0032.jpg

And left me ready for the final manouver...

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So out came the crank...

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The pistons fell out the top pretty much volantarily when i lifted the block away...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0037.jpg

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Now thats done its ready for its rebore/new pistons. Before i packed the pistons up i centre punched the conrods also to identify them.

1 of the long inlet manifold bolts in the cylinder head sheared off after half a turn trying to undo it so i'm getting Dave to drill it out for me at the same time, another one is also too tight to undo so i left that to him also.

Stripped cylinder head of Lifers/folowers and thrust pads...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0038.jpg

and finally ready for the short journey tomo after work...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/imag0039.jpg

[scott.parker]

You have been buys mate..


scott

[raza]

wish i could strip cars and shit :( Sat will be the first time for me stripping a car;D im getting given a l reg nissan sunny 1.4 LX what i am going to stick in my car port and strip the engine bare then try and stck it all back togeather just to get a idea for when i take my nova engine out

[burgo]

lol how old is that compressor lol

when i undo a flywheel i just wedge a wooden handle down between the crank and block to stop it turning then get the bar on it, it works a treat

[Snowface]

Finally got time to put action to my plan.

i'll let the pics speak for themselves.

Before and after pics


Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dayt1.jpg

After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day3.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dayt3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day4.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day7.jpg


EGR hole welded up
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dayt.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day6.jpg

Inlet and exhaust valves on 1.6 head (39/32mm).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day10.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day11.jpg

Interestingly a New 1.6 Exhaust (32mm) on the Left and a spare SRi exhaust (31mm) on the right.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day12.jpg


More pics of engine swapping a bit later.

[Nick]

looks good, doubt mine will be quite as nice looking as that !

who's done that for you ? i heard BB retired and is not doing heads for bussiness anymore ?

[Aragorn]

i thaught bill had retired?

[burgo]

hmmm ive always been told not to polish up the chamber and inlet port like that but there you go im sure bill knows what hes doing

[Riggy]

looks nice and shiney lol

a bit of internal bling bling :lol: :lol:

[Snowface]

Won't stay shiny for long :) .

Andrew at Cylinder Head Developments did the head work. He reckoned it should add 25bhp, but we'll see.

Got more pics i'll put up in a min of the swapover.

[Snowface]

Engine Out
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day13b.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day14.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day15.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/day16.jpg


Old

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dat2.jpg

New
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dat1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dat.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dat3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dat5.jpg


Different Cam Followers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/Snowface-85/dat4.jpg

Kent at top
1.6 GTE in middle
1.2 at bottom.

must have updated the design, or the injection ones are slightly different.

I used the Kent ones.

[Jules]

TPS?

Throttle Postition Switch - little black box on the back of the throttle housing which slides on the end of the throttle spindle - held on by two small cross-head screws and has part of the wiring loom plugged into the bottom of it.

Bloody still waiting for this to arrive through the door - I bet my skanky postman has stolen it............
:wink:

[Jim]

It all looks very good, but could you post up links to the pictures next time, theres that many of them it takes ages to load, even on adsl. Maybe put one or two pics up, but no need for all of them, it's like a flicker book, lol.

Jim

[Snowface]

TPS?

Throttle Postition Switch - little black box on the back of the throttle housing which slides on the end of the throttle spindle - held on by two small cross-head screws and has part of the wiring loom plugged into the bottom of it.

Bloody still waiting for this to arrive through the door - I bet my skanky postman has stolen it............
:wink:

Not from me your not?

I did think there were a fair few pics, got a bit carried away. :roll:

[Jules]

Looks like you'll be having fun cleaning it all up (Looks quite oily).

If you're gonna chuck the MPi bits n pieces in the nearest skip you could always take the TPS off and pop it in the post for me as I *think* mine's knackered but not really sure......
:wink:

I mentioned it back on page 1 if the MPi stuff was going to be junked but you never said anything about it.
:(

[scott.parker]

Won't stay shiny for long :) .

Andrew at Cylinder Head Developmentshe head work. He reckoned it should add 25bhp, but we'll see.

Got more pics i'll put up in a min of the swapover.

Is this the place in bromsgrove?? if so he is just down the road from me(well few miles,12or so..)

Scott

[Snowface]

yeah, thats right scott. looked Him up in an old copy of TV.

i got my Kent cam kit from him 2yrs ago ish. Was cheapest i could find at the time.

[ward]

have u taken any pics of the engine in the car?

soundin good tho mate well done.