Mk3 VR6 - The d!ck bonnet vr - broke my sump virginity

[leigh_harty]

Inlet valves all cleaned up



Also attempted to skim the head myself - did a pretty good job if i say so myself, done 3000miles and all is good. There is some pitting inbetween the water veins but thats not to worry






Gave the thing a bath haha


And out with the old - in with the new

[Seanl]

Looks mint mate! Yeah mine was originally a Savage 25. Then went for the 4.1, then chucked in a 4.6 from the savage X. I stuck in a HS 3rd gear using the original GB, so retained the low down grunt for the wheelies, but gave it about a 15% increase top end compared to the standard 3 speeds which were only about 5% increase in the Savage XL. 

[leigh_harty]

Never thought about doing that, but to be honest i got bored of fixing it haha

We take ours to formby beach, southport. Has big dunes you can launch them off 

Sand probably killed my engine too... i now have the savage piston as a keyring 

[Seanl]

Little bit simpler to fix than a full size 6 pot though! 

I sold that second one about 18 months ago though, spent as much on it in the end as I did on the Golf!  :embarassed:

[DanChave]

Nice VR mate!

[leigh_harty]

Little bit simpler to fix than a full size 6 pot though!  

I sold that second one about 18 months ago though, spent as much on it in the end as I did on the Golf!  :embarassed:

Big hands prefer bigger engines  

Time to come to started re-assembling things:




Engine starting to come apart

[leigh_harty]

Old head removed




Hot exhaust valve 


Clogged plug from burning oil:

[leigh_harty]

clean up the rocker




cleaned the piston tops alittle

[leigh_harty]

Nice VR mate!

Thanks  its getting there

[leigh_harty]

So after all that effort did it pay off?

Well it ran... eventually. It revved up alot faster than before but still smoked abit, put this down to excess. Took it for a drive and it didnt feel right, maybe it was a tooth out? well it didnt matter, got home and as it was idling on the front.... tap tap tap tap, bang bang bang bang, thud thud thud thud... yes it had dropped a valve - thankfully just the 1



By this time i had been towed to a mates garage to be stripped again




robbed a valve out of my old head and put it all back together again... and it ran sweet... but forgot to put the chain guide in, so stripped the rocker cover and cam cover to fit the guide.. this was 1 hell of a saturday