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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | yet more welding done. this time its the footwells where the stupid sound insulation mats as always makes water stay under the carpet. out with them, weld the hole, clean the rusty patches and paint it with anti-corrosion paint.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | finished painting and sound insulating the front floor. I have also waxoiled it underneath-   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So the car is doing great. The other day I took the cylinder head off its old engine to find out whether or not it needed to be bored to an oversize or if new piston rings could fix it and it needs to be bored an oversize or two, so slowly renovating a new engine for this car which it needs. other than that it rained a lot and was very windy the other day and that showed me that the new door lets water in which I have so far addressed by making room for the car in the carport   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | took the high-compression 998 apart that used to be in this car. it is now ready to be bored to an oversize and have new pistons fitted.  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | the block, conrods and crank has now been dropped of for boring and checking and they will call me later to tell me what size pistons and bearings to order it will be exciting to get it all back and start assembling | ||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947  Location: Bromley, Kent | Nice work! Turbo?   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | 111Sli - 4/12/2015 4:06 PM Nice work! Turbo? no not yet. but one day I will do it. I promiss the spec of this engine is going to be: 1014cc (+20 oversize pistons) 1275 cylinderhead (bigger valves than a 998 head) I will grind away valve guidecasting but not much else pocketed block flat top pistons approx 10.5:1 in compression cam will be a 264 degree inlet 268 degree exhaust standard electronic dizzy, flywheel etc. still considering fitting a freeflow manifold and aftermarked inlet manifold, but haven't decided yet. I'm aiming for around 60 bhp | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I received a lot of parts for the engine today, infact everything apart from the camshaft but that is ok, I don't need that yet. here is a picture of the nice pistons. I will deliver the pistons at the boring place tomorrow so they can start the work.  Edited by DotMatrix 13/12/2015 10:42 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | picked this up to day. freshly reground crank, fresly bored and planed block and pistons fitted to the rods. it will be very interesting to have it assembled and get it running  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a bit of work on the engine but unfortunately couldn't do much as the big end bearings was the wrong size.   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a bit of light porting on the 1275 cylinder head that is going on this engine. nothing major, just removed some material around the valve guide area. next thing for this is to have guides pressed in, get new valve seats inserted (lead-free) and then measure the combustion-chamber volume.   Edited by DotMatrix 1/1/2016 10:36 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | changed a ball-join that was worn out and re-greased and changed the rubber gaiter on the other ball-join.     | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The car has its MOT coming up in a month or so, so decided to fix it today.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | the other day I got the cylinderhead back from the machineshop with 5 new seats and freshly cut valves and seats. there were quite and edge round the valves so decided to grind some of it off.   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | today I cleaned the gearbox and fitted it with new gaskets, I also fitted pistons and crank and placed it on the gearbox. Measured the timing on the cam to see what offset key I need in order to time in the cam.    Edited by DotMatrix 9/11/2016 10:26 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | While fixing the exhaust which was rusted over near the rear silencer and had holes where it joins the middle pipe I found a hole in the rear footwell, right in the corner, and today I started cutting the rot out to weld new metal in. the hole proved larger than it would first appear    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | no more hole in the floor tomorrow I will be wrapping it all up in sticky stuff  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The metro had its MOT and all that he didn't like were two brake pipes going to one of the front wheels so I changed those and went again and it passed with no trouble. Then last weekend I changed a wheel bearing in the same corner because it was rough when turning the wheel and had play in it. I guess the MOT guy didn't want to give me a fail on that as he looked at me when he checked it as to say that it wasn't good. But that's fine with me. Also last weekend I assembled the new engine to the point where I am ready to put it in the car. I am very much looking forward to that   Edited by DotMatrix 8/3/2016 10:02 PM | ||
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Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | Now that new engine looks good  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So this weekend I removed the old engine and moved the necessary things like clutch and flywheel from the old to the new engine and put the new engine in the car. It works nicely but needs to be run in and rolling road adjusted.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | wheels painted and back! tomorrow you can see a pic of them fitted to the car I like the color!  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so a picture of the new wheels on. red and gold is not to everyones taste but I think its ok. especially if the paint on the car was nicer. other than that I have fitted a brand new brake servo (the old one was leaking air) and I have fitted a second rear fog-light now that summer is comming the last picture is a picture of the optimal and very uncomfortable position needed when removing the brake servo     Edited by DotMatrix 2/5/2016 9:29 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | a corner on the right door had rusted away so I made a new corner, welded it on and painted it. I think it turned out ok.      | ||
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