At Long Last.... Pistols 1.5 swap

[pistol pete]

Well huge thanks to Peter Gidden for helping me out on the phone

today got the head off the engine..

found out it already had a metal head gasket on it.. but never mind at least i will know its all been done
anyways here is the pictures..





Pics i got from in the bores 1 and 4






Thanks

[pistol pete]

oh and my engine mounts are made

[Ryan S]

good job man, following with interest, i forgot it's st.andrews day today mate so will get your studs sent first thing monday

[pistol pete]

good job man, following with interest, i forgot it's st.andrews day today mate so will get your studs sent first thing monday

cool thanks stopping at toyota today to order nut and gaskets etc

[craig]

Great updates mate, coming along nicely!

[pistol pete]

yep was expecting progress to be a lot slower but the nice tax man just gave me a nice rebate to pay for my holiday and get the engine finished.. hence why i just spend 280 smackers at toyota,
he was very helpfull and gave me a huge discount on condition i took the car up there to show the fitters etc when its finished as he had told them about it

got the crank pulley off now too next off is the sump. then its cleaning/ painting everything before it goes back together..


undecided whether just have a nice clean engine bay silver and black.. which i think would look superb

or to do the block red or green and the gearbox ...
hmmmm

[pistol pete]

also found when getting the crank wheel off the cam belt cover had no bolts holding it at all

[pistol pete]

little update for ya

daisy-may is now back at school so i can crack on with the build
engine block has gone red (you may be able to tell daisy helped with this and she is very proud, i like her helping

got some red vac hoses.. only them the block and the joint for the IC with be red, only a small amount to do it tastfully


cleaned up the cam cover thats going silver 2morrow

stripped off the cams and followers



dropped it of for surface grind for the metal head gasket and a good clean
hopefully pick up tomorrow or friday

pick up all the gaskets water pump etc on friday to the start assembly on sat morning

checked the big ends

don't think they are too bad.

cleaned up and painted my sump

and as you can see my IC arrived today

[Magic Beans]

Looking good sir. The beauty of a nice warm Man Shed to retreat to on these cold dark nights

[craig]

Nice work Mr Pete

[pistol pete]

just painted the rocker cover.. thats looking pretty good..
silver..
hmm what colour to do the toyota#
leave it or do it black or red.. hmmm

[Magic Beans]

Red

[pistol pete]

A Huge thanks today to Mr Gidden for being on hand everytime i phoned to help me through the first time of doing this

i now have a metal headgasket and ARP studs.. woohoo..
now just awaiting my engine gasket kit from Mr T to finish off..

This is how it looks today (the cam cover not fitted yet , just in place

ARP Studs


metal Gasket


Head on


New belt on and timed up


Bit different to how it started a few weeks ago




again huge thanks to Peter

[ashley]

[stephano]

[craig]

Looks brilliant mate

Yeah I was at sbits when phone was going off every 5 minutes, lol

[pistol pete]

Looks brilliant mate

Yeah I was at sbits when phone was going off every 5 minutes, lol

yep..
he has been ahuge help really appreciate it tpp as i can confidently get it back together and mow know a lot more about my engine

[Magic Beans]

Looks great Pete, great work

[donna]

Good work Pete, dibs for first place in queue when you advertise it for sale

[dawesy]

looking good buddy, keep up the good work