welcome to my basket case.

[aussieGT]

Should change your name to MR2Jesus - bringing things back from the dead.

Is it uncool to quote yourself?

[flex]

Nice V6. Whereabouts in Cornwall are you? It would be nice to see a v6 conversion in the flesh someday.

[qwakers]

st austell, youre weldome to drop by.

[qwakers]

https://youtu.be/KDBGBIc_x3Y

refurbed injectors and fresh fuel and wouldnt you know it.

[qwakers]

and the ticking, by the way is a exhaust leak, ill get round to it

[Madabout]

Nice work. My red MK2 has had similar work on the driver side rear arch. Fair play on putting the effort in saving the car.

[qwakers]

i am still on rust removal. rear x member and all suspension componants being removed as we speak to get at all the surface rust, plus it has a siezed alternator, so ill be putting the one off the 3sge on it when ive got that far...

[qwakers]

after spending a couple of hours putting the inlet of the engine back together i though id get back to the rust...


because it was so bad i spent most of the day just taking the rear crossmember and rear suspension off then i found a few more mot failures....


that sorted its painted with kurst and will be stonechipped tomorrow ready to go back on once its all sorted...


and yes that is a whole bottle of Kurst... well actually i buy a own brand version from.... wait for it.. ASDA! much cheaper and does the job...

[qwakers]

over the last 3 days ive done a lot of wirebrushing, a lot of kurst applying and a lot of undersealing and stone chipping...


suspension and crossmber sorted ( suspension just stonechipped crossmember stonechipped and waxoyled.



arches undersealed...




brake pipes sorted



and alternator replaced. i dont think this one is salvageable, so i nicked the one off my old engine.


thatll do

[Draven]

the v6 certainly sounds better starting up now.

[qwakers]

yeah it runs quite nicely now

[SeanSw20]

Seems like we are both doing the same work just now lol. Don't suppose u know what length the belt should be ?

[qwakers]

i just used the belt off of the 3s ge engine i nicked the alternator from. and changing the alternator, by the way, is p1$$ easy with the crossmember and rhs suspension removed, which was nice

[qwakers]

it SHOULD be this one
http://www.mister-auto.co.uk/en/drive-b ... PK825.html

[qwakers]

after working 3 16 hour shifts on the trot this week i had a early day today, so being too tired to be ar$ed to crawl around under the rusty one i decided to do the resistor mod to make my v6 ecu a manual one. this will stop it stalling when approaching the lights.

that went well, methinks

[qwakers]

well that went well. was on my way to padstow (25mins away) and i happened to look in rear view to see lots of blue smoke. mostly on the overrun. o goody, the rings have gone. joy. no biggy, theres plenty of oil in it and im only 2 mins away, ill carry on. 30secs later. knocknocknock. big end has gone. no oil pressure. that went well. now im waiting for dad to turn up in my 4x 4 and trailer so we can tow it home... guess the red one is going to have to take a back seat.... fxxx.

[flex]

Boo. i saw this in the TDMC hill climb academy post. I was thinking about doing the academy this year, but probably will just stick to the autosolos.

[Draven]

Oh mate, that is bad news. guess you'll have to strip it down again.

[qwakers]

ive been investigating and it might not be as bad as i thought. watch this space...

[qwakers]

umm. bu88er. she dead.


2 snapped conrods, gouges in the crank, god knows what damage it did to the bores on the way out.





on the conrods that DIDNT snap i found a lot of longitudinal scraping to the bearing shells, indicating that i should have done the shells when i built it. the engine HAD done 180000 miles but because i saw no appreciable wear to the top end i was sure it was unnecessary, so i didnt check.

short answer. its scrap, anyone got a 3vz bottom end?