All rested now so can report back on yesterday.
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Got to the workshop bright and early ready to put the engine back in and found, Mel,
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,clayton, Nick and Ben huddled around a calor gas fire as it was fookin freezing, I had come prepared and was wearing 3 pairs of socks, 3 pairs of trousers, 3 tops, 2 pairs of gloves and bubble wrap in side my shoes
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(works a treat
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) Over the last few weeks I'd ordered in all the parts for Mel and had his Block rebored to 86.5mm,head and block skimmed and the crank polished
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(didn't need regrinding which was a bonus
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) all the
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parts were then taken to Nick and Ben at Toyota's where over the last few days they built up the engine
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(absolute stars those two
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) ready for the big re- install on sunday.
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It went pretty much to plan with only a few technical hitches and by 5pm we cranked her over to check all was good and unfortunetly we found a couple of fuel leaks
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An hour later and good old Nick had managed to tighten up the offending bolt on the fuel rail(one of those things that takes 10 seconds when the engines out but an hour with the engine in)
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Bolt all tightened we tried again only to find fuel leaking from injector no 4
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By now everyone was frozen solid and close to giving up but with Mel threatning to go chuck himself off a bridge if he had to suffer another day without his car with persevered
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We got the injector out and found the O ring had been pinched,so whacked another O ring on, cranked it over and NO LEAK
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No we could try to start her up
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Mel cranked her over and she fired up as if nothing had happened
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and I must say she sounded absolutely sweet as a nut, no knocks
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,taps,smoke nothing.
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While was was busy celebrating I noticed a huge puddle of liquid appearing under the car
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quickly switching off the engine we found the culprit to be a dodgy seal on the oil filter, so new oil filter on we started her up and no leaks this time
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The total time from removing the engine to refitting it had taken just over 3 weeks, and now after the those 3 agonising weeks for Mel he has an engine to be proud of and dare I say friends too
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Big thanks to GTS chris, Fennsport and JT rebores for their services.
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Now for the photo's
Cometic 1.4mm H/G
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, Walbro and Fidanza Flywheel
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Helix 6 paddle clutch
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JE 86.5mm Forgies
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Forgies going in
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ARP headstuds in
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Bit of Bling
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Ben getting the engine ready under Mel's beady eye
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Nice clean head
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Mel making sure we know what flywheel he's got
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Helix Clutch on
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Walbro being made ready by Nick
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Engine ready to go in
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One of the locals came to see what all the racket was
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Engine in
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All finished
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Nick fixing the fuel leak
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I'm desperately trying to blow mine up now as I'm all jealous of Mels new engine but I think I'll wait for a while to let Nick and Ben recover from this build, well till after christmas anyway
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