Bianca phase 1 Dturbo

[Curt]

With the car now sitting nice and level:



I set about doing the head gasket.



First problem straight away is the EGR won't come off to get the manifolds off. So I decided to just take the whole lot off.

Lovely fuel filter housing:





Head off:







This is the replacement head:



...and this is the one that came off:



Lovely!

Head stripped to change stem seals:







Made an EGR blank as that bastard wasn't going back on:





When it was running I noticed there was a grumbling which was getting worse, so I needed a replacement aux tensioner:



That's where the photos stop really. After putting it all back together, went for the first start and it started straight away. Result, I thought, just needs some tweaking. After a frustrating day, it was discovered that the pump wasn't very well. So I had to source another pump, which is all I needed. Once that finally arrived, as there was a fair amount of confusion with the courier, I stuck it on and it was pretty sweet from the start. Although I still need to fine tune the fueling, as it smokes like a bitch. There's definitely too much fuel still, and I want to keep things sensible and reliable. So that's what I need to do next really, along with fitting a boost gauge to see what it's running. Then I need to sort the mess of an engine bay out, a phase 1 rad as at the moment I have an expansion tank with nowhere to mount it. Oh and I need a rear light, as I got annoyed... Thanks to Matt for helping me finish putting it back together and Samass for helping diagnose the pump.