tom_beverley
29-04-06, 09:26 PM
It all started a few weeks back when after wrongly changing into 1st gear at 60 mph :cry: and dropping two valves (smashing a couple of rockers and valve stems? along the way). Luckily the valves had bent at right angles inside the head and had only just to say marked the top of the piston!
So, me and my dad set to work putting on all the kit I have been saving up over a period of time, Snowfaces B+ Blydenstein head starting the ball rolling I think more than a year ago lol! Since then my dad had sourced me a perfect pair of reconned Dellorto 40 carbs and I had reluctantly paid out for a brand new kent ast2 cam kit lol. After requiring a filter king I knew I was almost there!
Since there isn't enough hours in a day, the rebuild took the best part of a week! A lot of time was trying to get round problems using the parts we had available but I was stuck waiting for a throttle cable for a couple of days due to the SR one being too short! After a quick test and the car going slower than it did before, I realised something was wrong and the throttle linkage was fouling on the web of the carb and only half opening! Sorted that and after giving it a few revs and hearing those twin 40's growl I had a permanent smile across my face! Even more so when I took it for spin, with the roar from the engine and greatly improved acceleration I was over the moon!
The experience was short lived though, after a day full of using that new power ;) I felt the car misfiring and heard a nasty rattling from the engine, I thought not again! So off came everything to diagnose the problem. :cry: This time is was a shattered valve spring and upon inspection the spring had partly started to perish. I had kept the valve springs on that came with the B+ head and assumed they were already uprated so I'd kept the Kent ones as spares. So I decided whilst it hopefully wouldn't be apart again for a while to fit new hydraulic lifters aswell!
All back together again and up to now everythin is running very nicely. I'm not sure is anything needs running in so I aren't revving the nuts off it yet but I don't need to, its just keeps on pulling through all the gears!
In a year or so I'm thinking a 1.6 16v on twin carbs hummmm :)
So, me and my dad set to work putting on all the kit I have been saving up over a period of time, Snowfaces B+ Blydenstein head starting the ball rolling I think more than a year ago lol! Since then my dad had sourced me a perfect pair of reconned Dellorto 40 carbs and I had reluctantly paid out for a brand new kent ast2 cam kit lol. After requiring a filter king I knew I was almost there!
Since there isn't enough hours in a day, the rebuild took the best part of a week! A lot of time was trying to get round problems using the parts we had available but I was stuck waiting for a throttle cable for a couple of days due to the SR one being too short! After a quick test and the car going slower than it did before, I realised something was wrong and the throttle linkage was fouling on the web of the carb and only half opening! Sorted that and after giving it a few revs and hearing those twin 40's growl I had a permanent smile across my face! Even more so when I took it for spin, with the roar from the engine and greatly improved acceleration I was over the moon!
The experience was short lived though, after a day full of using that new power ;) I felt the car misfiring and heard a nasty rattling from the engine, I thought not again! So off came everything to diagnose the problem. :cry: This time is was a shattered valve spring and upon inspection the spring had partly started to perish. I had kept the valve springs on that came with the B+ head and assumed they were already uprated so I'd kept the Kent ones as spares. So I decided whilst it hopefully wouldn't be apart again for a while to fit new hydraulic lifters aswell!
All back together again and up to now everythin is running very nicely. I'm not sure is anything needs running in so I aren't revving the nuts off it yet but I don't need to, its just keeps on pulling through all the gears!
In a year or so I'm thinking a 1.6 16v on twin carbs hummmm :)