ludicrouswill's 4G

Rudelude · Post by **Rudelude** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:49 pm

Good vid, if a bit long... Ludes sure do sound good... I miss mine now.... But at least I know it's stored safely till I get back to UK.

Post by **Drax** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:13 am

valve stem seal removal plyers were useless

so I burned them off

worked a treat, thanks for the tip @4thgenphil

Post by **Drax** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:31 pm

i had his head sent to the machine shop for a skim, nice job done too

lapped the valves ready to go back in

intake stem seals went in ok

but after double checking...

ive found the exhaust stem seals in the replacement kit are too big compared to the origonals (which 16x were all brown btw) compared to the 8x blue and 8x brown in the new kit.

Post by **Drax** » Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:52 pm

after some OEM stem seals came in, they fitted a treat

so put the valve seats back in, along with the valves, valve springs and retainers.

after checking that the tighter end of the valve springs go at the bottom, I also found that the intake and exhaust springs were different heights, so after checking I found the exhaust springs are the slightly taller ones than the intake.

all back and fitted along with the LMA's

just the old intake gasket to remove now, being a stubborn b*tch - even gasket remover has little effect on it

Post by **Drax** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:45 am

stuff off

and more

head off

really choked up pistons so need to clean them off

the loom connector to the vac canister underneath the inlet mani snapped off so I repaired that last night with a spare I have on an old loom, crank pully came off eventually after a metricfucktonne of force was applied and belt covers are removed so need to swap water pump and belts next, then head back on hopefully tonight and 2moz eve

alinton · Post by **alinton** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:32 pm

Yikes!

Nice work!

Post by **Drax** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:00 pm

eventual (SLOW) progress with this.

new headgasket went on, along with refurbed head.
replacement exhaust manifold and downpipe (DC Sports) was welded up as it came with a replacement flexi, then installed with a new lambda sensor and modified o2 sensor for the decat installed.

autotensioner went on then broke, so we had to use my h23 manual tensioner instead. then the main nut hole in the block for holding the tensioner on had rounded the first few threads

so we had to buy a odd sized thread cutter with a tap & die kit. #ballache.

but it worked

Thom put on the cambelt and balance shaft belt then i went to check it one night and the timing was off on both

so re-did all that last night, corrected the cambelt, balance shaft belt and also spaced out the manual tensioner pulley a bit more as the cambelt was catching.
(mid process)

covers back on. engine mount back on.
(looking much smarter, just before engine mount went back on)

Post by **Vtecmec** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:17 pm

Post by **Drax** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:35 am

and (via jobby works phone camera) its done and running sweet-as

Post by **Vtecmec** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:49 am