NA engine build...

[Dale_V]

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

well mate, it was 4 years ago now and my ban comes off my license in August this year!

I missed that one....!!!! lol what happened

[mk2too]

nice progress, my car is in bits atm im fitting the same manifold as you've got, don't know if its XS power but its looks identical notice much difference with it on; obviously more so on a such a well setup car as yourself i would imagine?

ps how much louder has it made it? i'm getting a bit worried that its going to make mine unbearable...ah well...we do these things!

[Dale_V]

nice progress, my car is in bits atm im fitting the same manifold as you've got, don't know if its XS power but its looks identical notice much difference with it on; obviously more so on a such a well setup car as yourself i would imagine?

ps how much louder has it made it? i'm getting a bit worried that its going to make mine unbearable...ah well...we do these things!

its hard to say how much louder it would make a particular exhaust, I wouldnt know either as i fitted a totally different exhaust than before, so cant really compare

[fizz]

i might join ya...

dunno about that fizz, you're a bad influence

yeah fizz, I was walking and busing it everywhere for three weeks after the only meet I ever went to with you

Now now.. we all know who was the main cause for that tom foolery!

It was either you or me that was gonna get pulled down to luck i suppose.. good on my part and bad on yours..

I felt like crap for ages for ya...

Anyhow.. off to check out a modded tubby on the weekend so might genuinly join ya...

[Dale_V]

Got it taxed for 6 months today, feel's soooo good being back in an MR2. The winter modifications are doing well and the exhaust is such an improvement, my ears are very thankfull! it sounds nice and purposefull, not overly loud but turns peoples heads still

Got some good news too, ill post pics next week

[J-1]

Just watched you on the news mate.

Nitrous FTW

[Dale_V]

Not updated this for a while...

After cracking the ringland in about 7 places on number 1 piston and melting the cylinder top , the engine was pulled out, stripped, the bores were re-honed, new pistons were put in there with fresh rings and a full toyota gasket set. Luckily there was no debris or bore damage, so I got away with it without too much of a pounding to my wallet

ready for some tlc


pic of the cylinder with the damaged piston still in there...


the piston out, some nice cracks there


a quarter of the ringland just fell out...



with it all re-assembled what better way to give the engine a run-in, than a trip to the lakes?!



Craig/Redmr2 had a run out too



The car behaved well and feels back to normal, there is about 500miles or so left of the run in procedure and then I can let it rev again

[craig]

Top job mate, good to see the car back to her former glory. The run to the lakes was awesome

Thanks for that comedy moment when you fell off the chair with a helping kick from Stacey

Any normal person would have got off the wet grass straight away, but Dale? Nah, he stays down and finishes his beer LMAO

Awesome pics too

[Lauren]

You were very lucky not to damage the bore Dale. Top marks for getting it back on the road so quickly.

I guess you have found what over did it last time?

[Dale_V]

Cheers Lauren, The detonation looks to have been caused by a duff HT lead on #1 cylinder, and that due to it misfiring under nitrous load it weakened the piston, then finally let go just in normal NA form. I have some new NGK leads on there now.

Another possibility that Peter @ s-bits said that may have contributed was the lack of a catch can on there. I had the stock breather pipe set up on there, and peter said its possible that due to the uprated power and therefore increased blowby gasses produced, there was more 'dirty' air being pushed back into the intake effectively lowering the octane of the fuel contributing to det So im getting a catch can put in there once its arrived from the USA

Thanks for that comedy moment when you fell off the chair with a helping kick from Stacey

Any normal person would have got off the wet grass straight away, but Dale? Nah, he stays down and finishes his beer LMAO

what can i say?! lol I had to save the beer!!!

[craig]

Classic!

[Dale_V]

pop pop pop pop bang!

launch control has now been activated It's taken me months of playing with the Greddy Emanage's settings to get it to work, but its done now and works a charm

[fizz]

good.. squires meet tonight then!

[Martin F]

glad its all fixed mate, hopefully this build lasts longer, cars looking good

just out of interest where did you get the engine hoist, i wouldn't mind buying one myself