No messing, well done iain.
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No messing, well done iain.
Excellent! I bet driving it again boosted your enthusiasm back up :)
how ow do the cams feel on standard marks? As that's how mine are going in at the weekend for the time being too.
Crikey that all happened quickly. Good on you, It beats my 13-month and counting engine build hands down.
I ran the verniers on standard marks all the time I was injection and the engine felt nice and strong, so I wasn't overly fussed on binning the verniers in favour of standard pulleys. Will be out in it at the weekend for some more testing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scottcooper85
Cheers Craig, yours is in a different league to bolting together some standard parts though!
Hang on. You can down my way and didn't stop in and see me?
Loving the work, you've cracked on well! Why didn't you get the block honed? Rust doesn't look that bad.
Sorry sir, was genuinely supposed to be a holiday with the missus and her parents and not car related at all!
A hone would probably want new rings and I didn't want the hassle of running it in basically, especially with it not having an MOT anymore. Also I've tried honing an old block with a lip at the top before and it didn't work too well. The rust looks OK but even after a wet+dry, scrub etc it was still pitted and I'd feel like a numpty if I built it all up and it smoked when I knew there was a potential problem at the beginning.
Ah thats fair enough and ah. I thought you could get anyway reusing rings if it wasnt that bad. But pictures tell lies so its worse than it looks.
Well good and bad times, compression test came back good but the engine seems quite flat and unresponsive so going to go back to get it set up again...
A bit of tinkering today saw me get a longer fifth gear which should make the drive to PV a little more tolerable...
It's a 0.744 from an F18 on a 1.7 diesel Astra mk3 to replace the 0.886 from the F20. Should drop RPM from about 4000rpm at 70mph to about 3250 or there abouts.
Plenty of room for access thanks to my tickled chassis leg for this very task:
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End cover off:
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Gears and selector off:
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Old one on right, new ones on the left:
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Difference in gear sizes (new one left):
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Oh and I got my nice new rubber fitted too!
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Although it's causing some arch scrubbage issues so looking at ways of widening the front arches more...
On one of those hotrod shows on cable tv, I saw a pretty neat trick. They stuck a baseball bat in the arch and pressed it to the wheel. Tgen someone drove it forward slowly, bending the arch out. God knows if it would work on a nova though.
Seen similar in jap drifters but with scaff pole. Tbh my front arches are already flared out!
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