Bit Of A Cleanup For New Engine

[scoobywho]

Gave the engine bay a good scrubbing for the new engine going in hopefully not too long away

[g1983]

Looking clean but something missing :-)

[Vimmy]

Yeah agreed, perhaps you've used too much elbow grease on one part

[scoobywho]

All being well i should be picking a set of heads up on monday to be fettled with, bit of porting and painting

[Vimmy]

Oh cool, any chance of some pics to show the end result?

[scoobywho]

Yeah i will be taking a fair few, its been blown up twice this year so went for a 2005 sti shortblock. Going to start building it up the next few weeks. looking for 350bhp from the standard 100k mile engine was not good lol

[Vimmy]

Cool I'll be following this one, I'm looking at a rebuild with a possible stroker kit for my aging MY98 turbo wagon - but thats when and if it finally blows up. Do you know what the cause of the failures was?

Cheers,

Col

[scoobywho]

Yeah the turbo pressurised the crankcase and basically blew it wide apart streching all the bolts and destoying the crank a set of forged pistons. Its an my01 classic wagon ive had it for years and never had any trouble with it until this, was rebuilt at 66k after big end failure and 123k decided to go again.

[Vimmy]

Bloody hell that is a bit of bad luck, so far mine is on the same block with a rather good bit of mileage, I must be one of the fortunate few.

[scoobywho]

I like the go pedal to much as my dad says, ive never had any problems with it till now never cost a bean exept for belts and oils and always passed its mot with an advisory for the rear silencer rubber perished last 3 years lol

[Vimmy]

Wow that sounds like the dream car, feed with oil and water and have fun with it

Mine has been kind of similar, I've done a wee article due to go in to True Grip with a history of broken parts, I think by now now mine has almost been replaced with new parts, some with a bit of help along the way

Edited July 26, 2012 by vimmy

[g1983]

Wow that sounds like the dream car, feed with oil and water and have fun with it

Mine has been kind of similar, I've done a wee article due to go in to True Grip with a history of broken parts, I think by now now mine has almost Ben replaced with new parts, some with a bit of help along the way

Is it like Triggers brush from Only Fools? Still the same brush he is using from the day he started road sweeping 20 years ago. All its had is 7 new handles and 12 new heads :-)

[scoobywho]

Its been great, really easy going until this year its been a gearbox and now engine 2 lol

[Vimmy]

Is it like Triggers brush from Only Fools? Still the same brush he is using from the day he started road sweeping 20 years ago. All its had is 7 new handles and 12 new heads :-)

Lol yeah pretty much, it's a blue classic wagon on the outside bit a lot of the inside bits are replaced/fixed/upgraded but it's still a blue wagon tho

[Vimmy]

Its been great, really easy going until this year its been a gearbox and now engine 2 lol

Well if the engine and gearbox have now been done, then the rest must be sure to follow

I started on the odd one or two mods and now it's a frankenwagon