Coming on well bud, Love the clock. Keep it up.
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Coming on well bud, Love the clock. Keep it up.
thanks simps and alex.
update
last week saw more engine work take place. wire wheeled the inlet manifold ready for paint, wasnt to badly corroded.
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after a prime and paint...
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also painted the fuel rail and accelerator cable bracket black. im awaiting injectors so couldnt fit that down. got the inlet on tho.
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the steel oil pump gears arrived from phillip off here, got them fitted in the pump with a new front seal.
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dizzy cap painted black and attached with stainless cap head bolts.
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i have also painted the sump but i forgot to take pics of the progress, but with that painted i could move on with fitting it.
so, i bent back the appropriate tag on the 8valve baffle/sump gasket.
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fitted the sump and cambelt back plate on, still awaiting on my cambelt kit to come from LUK. bought all the stainless sump bolts for a quid from a company we deal with at work.
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received this from tony k, big thanks to him
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a 2.5 inch system made by powerflow, going to need to be modified to attach my 3 inch tx downpipe. be best to modify the downpipe as that needs sorting to fit a nova anywho.
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on saturday i went up to oswestry to pick up dan16v old f28 with ATB diff and old header tank from kev turbo off here. nica chap and got a good deal.
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both need a good clean and painting. having the rest of the cage powder coated this week along with my cam cover and cambelt cover. they'll end up some sort of grey, either anthracite or graphite.
updates to come shortly.
thanks for looking
bruce
Coming on well bud.
Given me the idea of using hex bolts on the water pump rather than the pain allens, Might not round off so easy then lol
Very nice dude, liking it a lot. Where did you get the baffle plate from? I'm after an 8v one myself, think I saw one in TV magazine.
You gotta love VHT silver paint on the inlet, works a treat ;)
the only reason i used hex head was that i had them easy available at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexW
but yeh your right, i remember i rounded one off on my old e16se. pain in the neck to get it out.
i got all my rebuild parts from autovaux mr tek.:thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nova_Tek
Glad your happy with the exhaust mate,engine is looking good,some good work going on there,how much was the steel gears off Phillip ppme if
You want
Cheers
Tony
pm sent.
update
this week ive been receiving numerous parcels and sourcing parts from motor factors.
my friend down at LUK rang me to say my clutch and cambelt kit had arrived, so i trotted off down there to pick them up.
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once getting home i opened up the cambelt kit to realise it was the later type, not the early like i asked for. knowing it would be way too much hassle to try get it changed (as i had to wait 2 weeks for this one to arrive) and it being friday i got one ordered from autovaux which should be here monday.
my order from jbi motorsport eventually turned up, thank god. got 2 vernier pulleys, bottom pulley and a heat shield. all very nice and shiney. also got the throttle body and top hat gaskets from vauxhall
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the roose hoses i ordered also came, i ordered the turbo coolant, breather and ancillary kit.
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spoke to a local motor factors and got my self a set of ht leads, plugs and a magic marley mahle oil filter. my injectors arrived also that i won on ebay. need to get them cleaned and checked for operation.
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today i went and picked up the front section of the roll cage from the powder coaters.
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fitted it all in, trimmed the carpet to suit and then secured the sill trims in place
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update cont'd
made a second trip down to the powder coaters to pick up cam cover, belt cover, rear gearbox mount and fuel pump mount.
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during the week i went down to fastening suppliers and picked up all the bolts for cam cover and belt cover. the bolts are A4 stainless but only charged me A2 stainless price. also got over sized washers for the belt cover but are too big. whats the correct size for them? these are 25mm wide.
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got the majority of everything bolted on and it turned out like this..
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the plug covers the wrong shade of blue, the cap on the can was darker than what came out. will re-do it when i get a chance
ill hopefully get the cambelt on monday eve and take my injectors to be cleaned. going to have to sort the gearbox out ready to be painted.
surely missed something out, but thanks for looking
bruce
That engine's looking sweet now, rocker and belt cover looks awesome
Looking sweet mate, it's like I'm watching my build a few similar parts and colour schemes :d Now I know what my engine will look like with these colour lol
Is that a clutch kit for a F28? I need friction material for an F20 but need the pressure plate from a F28. Any chance your mate can find out if you can buy them seperately?