Right so ive been doing a few bits here and there with Potter over the last week inbetween fixing other peoples cars.
Engine wise.The block is completely stripped and ready for rebuild and then paint.I have everything for the bottom end bar the conrod bushes and crank thrust washers.GSF should have had these in for me last tuesday however a phonecall today revealed they are still in Belgium but will be here friday.
Anyway rather than fit the R32 alloy sump and shorter oil pump i decided to plate the standard VR6 pressed metal affair.
I basically made a cardboard template then copied this over onto a 3mm MANGANESE plate bashed it about aand formed it round the sump and then welded it up.To protect the sump plug which is the lowest area I cut a 1/2bsp shed 10 pipe down the centre and welded this to the plate.
Should do the job.
Just got to fettle it up and then black enamel the bad boy and its ready to go on.
I also got this from Matt in the states who came over to Edition38 show with a few parts and Bucksfizzturbo was kind enough to pick it up from the show and post it over to me when he got home.(Thanks again Nath)
As it happens it was just the glass and no back plate so i had to remove the origina backing plate off a spare i had and then use some pink grip to restick it to the back.
Heres how it looks and im well chuffed.
Also got my front crossmember ground down and fettled ready for paint.Also whipped the cv joints off the driveshafts and cleaned this down.Made a start on the gearbox too but no pics of that as it isnt finished.
They are all in the garage with the 1st coat of paint on them.
Today ive spent a good few hours stripping the rings off the forged pistons and set about polishing the crowns for reduced carbon build up and just plain prettyness.
Oh i stripped all the valves out of the cylinder head im using the other day and sent it to be skimmed.They have taken 0.20 thou off it.
Then instead of taking it somewhere to get a mediocre port and polish i decided to do it myself.
So i have bought this.
Should do the job nicely
Ive also received the rest of the bottom end gasket kit and all the coreplugs so its just a case of waiting for the bits from GSF and i can build the bottom end up and paint it
Im also waiting for a NewSouth performance inlet manifold gasket.Should help to keep inlet temps down.Bloody expensive though!
http://www.newsouthperformance.com/gasket.htmOh and i had my 13 Row Mocal oil cooler arrive last week too!
In other news i took Potter on it's 1st longish trip(100mile) to a car meet in Hull for sh!ts and giggles.
Crappy pic off my phone but you get the idea.
Thats it for now
