Joey the VNT boosted 205!

[darrenjlobb]

Small update,

Had some spare hours this afternoon, sadly managed to misplace the dowell for head / block location, and after scrapping all my french xud crap, I cant locate another, its possible it was never fitted as it seems to have just vanished, but for now ill blame myself for loosing it :p Anyway, without this im unable to assemble much more of the new motor, so decided id hoink the old one out instead. At least find out what went wrong / strip it down as I need just about everything off the old one to build up the new one.

So disconnect everything / drop the shafts:



Make a slightly worrying discovery after removing the battery! It seems the gearbox mount holder has never had the lower bolts (most important ones) fitted.. Tom didnt even know they were meant to be there so obviously always been missing, which has resulted in 180hp of XUD trying to rotate on two 2cm pieces of tin, which as you can see didnt go well, infact, it was cm's away from breaking off and dropping the trans on the floor for lols during a rag, anyway, thats another job to weld up heh:



And a close up of where the missing bolts should be (similar design to a 306):



Hoink Hoink:



Engine bay was absulute state covered in oil / veg / dirt and grime, nothing worse than fitting a nice new engine to a oilheap, so double degreased and pressure washed the bay to tidy things up, (feel free to pop over with some white paint tom and do the job proper heh), Forgot to take photo before but after a cleanup:



Wanted to find out what was kicking off with the old motor while it was out, so after stripping it to a bare block i gased the sump off to see what was going on (half the bolts are rounded out ) :



It would appear she spun a bearing heh,Not entirely sure on cause, other bearings all seem fine, so dont think oil pressure was at fault, possibly an assembly fault, who knows, but its wrecked it either way! No wonder piston was slapping the head!

Thats about it for now.

CHeers n gone