More progress today
Engine Bay Primered
More progress today
Engine Bay Primered
Have Primered the rest of the front panel and cross member, pic was taken halfway through.
Pulled the valves out at work this week and needed new valve stem oils seals. They turned up today with a new dti gauge. Cam should be in this weekend and head back together...Finally
Looking good mateI do like this one, gona be great when it's back together
Thanks for the support mate. Got plenty more planned for it next month
Popped into work with my head today, fitted new valve stem oil seals and uprated piper valve springs. Picked up a courtesy car for a course I'm going on next week so wont be making any progress on the 5, but got a nice Golf TSi for a week
Got the new cam and vernier pulley in aswell, roughly timed up but will be adjusting the pulley when the heads back on. New chain and tensioner on aswell.
Head should be going back on tomorrow
Quick update
Heads back on, torqued up nicely
Valve clearances done,
Dizzy back on,
Timing sorted out,
Heatwrapped manifold and downpipe, evil stuff.
Just gotta finish painting the engine bay (Colour suggestions would be nice, cars going to be sprayed black in the summer) and lacquer the gearbox and its ready to go back in, probably next weekend!
Bit more progress on the 5 last weekend.
Engine bay is now gloss black and engine is ready to go back in after I swap the old gearbox mount over. Might be going back in this weekend depending on weather. Got some new 1/2 leather seats for the 205gti and went out for a blast in the sun but can't wait to get the R5 out this summer!
Drivers side has had the jacking point removed and a plate welded into the footwell as it was rotten, new sills are on the cards soon
Will get some pics up soon.
Few Pics
Few Pics of welding, on top and from underneath.
Ditched the jacking point, might leave them for now and get some when ive got the spare cash, never jacked on them anyways!
Also got new 205gti seats in
Few more pics of bay and jacking point cut out.
Someones been naughty and tried to weld up the rust before, lots of old welding wire needles left rusted to some of the metal. Who tries to weld over rust?!
Looking good buddy, keep up the good work
Fairplay i enjoyed reading this your doing a cracking job of yours
Thanks for the support guys
New GTT grille turned up today, can finally ditch the campus one!
As today was a washout thought I'd stop being lazy and get the engine ready.
Painted box bolted on, slotted on a treat.
Turbo quickly wire brushed and back on.
Carb back on with new gaskets.
Thought about putting it back in tomorrow but then noticed when swapping the old gearbox mount over it was hanging off, rubber is knackered so need a new one, maybe next weekend
will be welding plates into the footwells over next couple of weeks and doing sills next month, dont fancy "Flintstoning" around when its back on the road.
Engine nearly ready to go back in, new mounts arrived today so should be dropping it back in this weekend.
Got final coats of lacquer on the engine bay today, nice enough day for it.
New engine mounts fitted, rocker and chain cover back on with new gaskets.
All ready to drop back in tomorrow, if I'm not too hungover
Wats it turned out like mate you hot any pictures
Will get some pics up later mate.
Dropped the engine back in today, few things plumbed in, rad in, intercooler on, oil cooler on, alternator on, etc
Been abit distracted from the 5 for a few weeks now since I bought a redtop nova
Solid white shell thats been strengthened for the redtop and a sound engine, decided not to keep it but it will be living with a close friend so will still see lots of it as it progresses from sleeper to track weapon, already been challenged to a race when the 5s back on the road.
Decided to pull my finger out this weekend and get it running, only got to fit hoses, replace fluids and cross my fingers when i turn the key.
Few pic updates.
Didnt get it running because Ive lost the square adapter for the sump plug
So ive ordered a new one, in the meantime got all the hoses back on, gearbox oil in, driveshafts on, all ready to go after the oil change.
Think the red and chrome go really well with the black bay.
looking very nice bud
I had the same issue with the sump plug, so I modded an old socket extension with an angle grinder - worked a treat
Haha I was thinking the same thing, but ended up buying a bit for it, hopefully won't loose this one!
Got it running and got a few teething problems,
1. Vernier pulley was knocking on chain cover, even with a thick cork gasket. Easily fixed with a hammer!
2. Dodgy no4 spark plug hole is blowing, low compression in cylinder 4, needs heli coiling ideally.
3. Abit of sh*t coming outa the exhaust, (hopefully cause by no4 cylinder) will double check new valve stem oil seals are ok just incase.
Pics up soon
Wonder if it still has the same head as I had with it, had to have that heli coiledOriginally Posted by Phil r turbo
Might well be, I know heli coils aren't invincible, don't understand why so many people have a problem fitting that plug at no.4, I've fitted plugs to worse places thanthat and not done the thread in.
Ah well gotta push on with it, cracking out the timing gun this weekend, hopefully the rain will stop!
Quick update, ordered 2 new sills that should be going on this next month. £40 per side, can't wait to get them on so it's solid.
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