Project bogey man. It's legal :-)

you dont have a centre speaker unit do you? raj said he might have one, dont really want to chop my new cards up.

No never had one of those, they are gay as fish

Gay as fish! Lol you not like fish?

Fitted

Handles done!



Also stripped the engine down today, not sure if i have been mugged on it? thick grey sludge in sump, timing was 180 deg out, it was meant to have been a runner!!!!

Oh and thats a finger mark from my sweaty hands not a defect in the paint! lol

Got calipers on yesterday


All running gear is now done.

Brought a engine from a member here, 1.8 lump with kent cam, vernier pulley etc, started stripping it down today and found this.

thick grey paste


Also cam pully was 3 teeth out, timing was 180 deg out, 3 threads stripped on the vernier pulley, did a compression test to check valves were ok, down on number 3.
Removed cam to find its picked up :-(











Thankfully james is sound and has agreed to refund. so 2 steps forward and 3 back, 20 days to go and its going to be really tight!

Hope you get it done matey. It is looking cool as.

that look like a classic case of grit blasted rocker cover, grit gets in the oil beather

then gets mixed with oil and goes through the whole engine

fun i have 1.8 block and head if you wanna swop the bits over

Thanks Matt but I have 2 engines already, just the fact this had the kent cam etc made it appeal.

Going to fit a mk2 engine now, strip clean and paint tomorrow, rather than fitting like I should of been doing :-(

The cam cover could be the cause as it was painted, when i had my covers were done they masked the breather mesh off to avoid this!!

New engine is back together, nice and fresh internally and now in paint

matt black VHT, + a load of powder coated parts. new seals, sump, belt, tensioner, waterpump, gaskets (ignore the dizzy its blanking a hole)

Engine and block is going full matt black, even the carbs to tie in the green/black theme.

17 days to agm and im doubting its going to be there  :cry:

Everything is ready to fit monday! fingers crossed by next weekend it will be mot time.

Resealed the box, and fitted the 90mm cups.


old and new


New sachs clutch kit


Engine all fitted un minus carbs




Box took some cleaning, 1 day infact!!
How it sits now

It's in. Wiring tomorrow

Looking spot on mark
Will she be ready for next week?
Very jealous  :mrgreen:

I doubt i lol

Made some progress today, all wires are run round the engine, also alternator/starter etc are now fitted.

Got held up due to the metal coolant pipe being a bit crusty, lucky i found a local motor factor with one in stock so thats going to be painted and fitted tomorrow.

Rads mounted, new hoses and pull fan



Collecting bumpers tomorrow night so should be running and ready for mot by end of the week :dontknow:  i doubt it tho

Fingers crossed for you mate  :wink:

Cheers Sean.

How's the rot box going?

Not too bad welded in 6 plates now,doin it myself,so I'm learning as I go,not going to win any prizes but it will do for me as it's going to be stripped out and lightened etc
Could do with a spit/jig soon if you hear of one going
 

Talk to jellybelly (Matt) he might lend you his

Ok sound,I'll send him a pm soon,,cheers mark  :wink: