Fly wont need telling. Shot blasters rule though, awesome paint prepping in seconds!Quote:
Originally Posted by MattBrown
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Fly wont need telling. Shot blasters rule though, awesome paint prepping in seconds!Quote:
Originally Posted by MattBrown
It was £20 for the gun and £10 for the grit from machine mart.
I soaked them and blew them out with the airline:):D
:thumb:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
Looking good fly, not checked in for a while but really good to see this one coming back, like a pheonix from the ashes so to speak lol
So not done in a blasting cabinet then?Quote:
Originally Posted by spanishfly
Same as ive got, no need for a cabinet, just a box :D
Think you can see his old kitchen bin with grit in the bottom in all the pics lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
edit: also have some shiny new studs sat on my desk atm, cheers for that :thumb:
NP MK999, glad I could help:)
Craig i'm gonna make a box, but that was long so just went outside in the great outdoors! Glad it rained today....
I was wrong then, thought the bin with grit in the bottom was acting as the shot blasting cabinet lolQuote:
Originally Posted by spanishfly
It was but in the great outdoors. plus it didn't catch much lolQuote:
Originally Posted by MK999
This is the latest, and has a cool guide on valves
Go to http://http://www.migweb.co.uk/forum...ml#post4214263 to see it. The pictures are too big and don't resize here:(
Fail
can i ge' a reeeesize
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Originally Posted by The Simps
So todays messing:
CC'd head using a burette and a cut down number plate plastic!
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Grease around the sides, making sure (unlike in this pic) that the grease is only sealing and not going into the chamber.
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Then went to play with the engine too, and cc it all together.
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Then I had a quick play with the rest of the engine.
When you fit zLET pumps you MUST use the cXE/LET oil seal.
Got a pic but not much to see really!
I then positioned the oil cooler, got to get a fan so I can see how much space I have.
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those pics are fooooooooking huge
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Originally Posted by burgo
good work there mr spanishfly keep it up,aint been near mine for a while,waiting for this baby to come out anytime now,how you been
Still not here yet? Bout time isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by tony k
I been good matey:) You?
yeah i know mate should be here,dont think the baby wants to come out lol,yeah am all good thanks:thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by spanishfly
Will try:)Quote:
Originally Posted by spp_dev
good woork mate
keep it up
So after a morning wasted with sorting a bench grinder (first one had bits missing) I had to get some valve stem seals for the exhaust. For some reason it has non standard bronze guides that are different than the inlet ones. Turns out they may be vw ones (don't ask me why they were used? For future reference for myself they are 9mm o/d)
So with these sourced I re-assembled the head, lovely job.
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So with this done it was time for the fun (read boring) job of shimming the lifters. With a quote of between £70-100 I thought rather than be lazy lets do it myself.
So out with the feeler gauges, micrometer, grinder and patience. The shims I got were 6.4mm big, after doing my first one I found I would need them to start at around 4.5mm and work down. So the inlet side down I only have the exhaust to go. Need to order a couple extra shims as I was a bit keen on one, and the other dropped into the black hole.
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Measuring and noting
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Due to the cold and snow I've not been able to do much today, however I didn't let that defeat me.
I went and played with the head, i've shimmed the exhaust side now too, well bar two valves as i'm waiting on some more shims. I took the ones from the inlet which were gapped excessively (0.4mm) and used them on the exhaust side. Going to have to hear how it sounds as some of the gaps are a tight 0.3. If it's too fiesta like and I like these cams, i'll just reshim.
Anyway with that done, I decided to get some Ring practice in on Forza 3, as I was playing it I felt I should really be cracking on.
So bones warmed up I went up to the garage armed with my sump, pick up pipe and baffle.
Took some measurements and proceeded to modify and fit the baffle.
Due to using a zLET pump and pick up I had to modify the baffle to accept the pick up. Out with the nibbler and 5 minutes later it was done. Not hard like some would lead you to believe.
Pick up and WINDAGE PLATE fitted in correct position.
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Marked out then duck taped in place
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Baffle measured modified and then lined up using the sump. Marked up and tack welded on in various places to stop it moving. (notice bare metal marks...)
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No pics of baffle as it breaches national security. ;)
Tomorrow I will get some sillicon and start fitting the sump. Hopefully my postman brings me some shims too which will mean engine assembly!!!!!
you going to just silicone the sump to the block?
Will put a fine bead just don't want it to leak.
Are you still pishing about with this? lol
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Unfortunetly. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
So todays update.
Still waiting on shims, I decided to go to the nova and bolt some bits on. Quite exciting really!
Bolted one of my wheels on, they are team Dynamics Pro Race 1's. My god they are light, I took them to get balenced and the guy even commented when he picked them up. I guess they must weigh around 6kg each with tyres. There wearing Yoko A048R's in a M compound.
They look great too!
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I also fitted the sump and baffle. I used the 8v windage tray and a bit of loctite high performace sillicon, I smeared the sillicon smooth and used m6x20mm allen cap bolts.
I painted it hammerite silver. For some reason it looks as though it has run...
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As you can see I've used the allen head bolts in most places. I'm hoping to be able to rebuild the engine one day using just an allen key set lmao
Water pump is on.
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I then fitted the cam belt backplate and crank pulley. I got a new bolt and washer for the crank pulley.. best part of £30 gone there!
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I'm now wanting to wash the coupe, it hasn't been done for like 5 months! Still looks shiny but it's filthy!
Wheels look good dude, can we pretend they are anything but Team dynamics?
No labels on them, sparco multispokes? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
These are the 'race series' wheels, so not as bad as getting some of the other stuff! We can pretend there sparco, Braid or something else cool if ya like! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
Oh and cheers lol
See sounds so cool!Quote:
Designed to be the lightest heat-treated cast alloy 7.0 x 15 wheel on the market today, this wheel is some 25% lighter than a comparative conventional cast alloy road wheel. This is achieved through developments in Computer Aided Design and Finite Element Analysis, complete with full impact and fatigue testing. All conducted in house.
The postman would have brought some shims, if I had remembered to post them. lol (oops)Quote:
Originally Posted by spanishfly
Steve
PS Hey that is a nice ZLET oil pick up pipe.;)
Are the baffle plate mods to stop the Arp's catching? or for something else?
It is a well constructed pick up mate, you know who supplies them;)Quote:
Originally Posted by steveboyslim
The only mod I had to do was bend the tag closest the oil pump. The brown thing is a windage tray. The other mods I did was tack weld my baffle to the windage tray. I haven't put pics up due to the sensitive nature of the finished article and the prospect of people copying it. I bought it from Hellier performance if anyone wants one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme Dixon
What the funk is a windage try?
sump baffle plate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
Oh, so its nothing special and new mod like...