My Engine Rebuild

[summeh]

I've finally got round to rebuilding my engine, here are some pics with comments of various stages.

This is still work in progress, so i'll keep adding to this as I progress, enjoy...



Parked up in the garage, probably the last time it'll be in one piece :oops:

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/parkedup.JPG



714 megane block, front of, cheers winston... I will get this cleaned up before it goes in :)

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/714front.JPG



rear of the new block, note that the 714 block doesn't have the chunky vertical strengthening viens that the willy block has, but it does have more viens between the bolt holes. Also the oil pump is driven off the crank on this, so the oil pump pulley is just now an idler pulley.

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/714rear.JPG



Engine bay stripped mostly...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/stripped1.JPG



now the looms off the engine is ready to be lifted...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/loomoff.JPG



engine crane in place... I had a very nasty accident with this crane later on involving my fingers being crushed !

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/crane.JPG



arj posing

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/lifting1.JPG



clear of the engine bay now

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/lifting2.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/lifting3.JPG



the new engine installed... lol

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/arjpowered.JPG


one very dirty gearbox off

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/dirtygb.JPG



on the bench

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/onbench.JPG



head off

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/headoff.JPG



got a bit carried away with the wire wheel on one of the pulleys

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/pulley1.JPG



and another

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/pulley2.JPG



clean up the engine bay a bit...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/cleaning.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/cleaning2.JPG



grinding some of the rust away

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rust1.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rust2.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rust3.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rust4.JPG

I've just spent this evening grinding all the rust in the engine bay away. Kurust has been applied now aswell. Went to halfrauds and got a can of 449, this will be applied tomorrow night if I get time.

I've also been cleaning up engine parts, but no pics yet sorry. Plan to get the engine back in at the weekend, will post more pics as I progress!

Its been off the road 5 months, so can't wait to get her back!

[summeh]

wasting some time on my spare fuel rail white arj was messing about on his car the other week...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/fuel1.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/fuel2.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/fuel3.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/fuel4.JPG

[Daz.]

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Wish I had the bollocks and know how to do that

[dannyt]

Looking spot on, keep up the good work!!!

[northy]

nice one mate - glad to see that progress is finally being made

[2 live]

fukkin slow down fella............itl b done b4 mine ffs ;)


glad to see it finally comin together..........just hope u have some joy with whoever left all the sand in the fanimold....shud be worth a nice pay out.

[Zollo]

Looking good mate. Will be great seeing it back up and running :D

Oh, garage looks lovely btw :wink:

[McPikie]

If I had my own garage, my valver would have been stripped last night :cry:

[summeh]

cheers guys, yeah the garage is fantastic, plenty of room at the front with a nice big workbench, makes all the difference. only problem at the moment is the floor needs redoing as at the moment its uneven, and shit loads of dust gets everywhere.

[arj256]

Coming along nicely, shouldnt be long till its all back together.
Lol the floor is great, what dust? :roll:
Decided what colour your going to do the Pulleys?

[summeh]

white - they look awesome :D would have taken some pics but batterys run dead in the camera :(

[summeh]

i was thinking about doing the block white aswell, hehe

[arj256]

Copy Cat :roll:

Lol

[summeh]

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[stew]

Looks great!

8)

[Justin..]

top job matey. good luck with it 8)

[Martin]

Top bombing! 8)

[Daz.]

Top bombing! 8)

God don't start that again! can't be doing with hearing that all the time when I pick our lass up =;

[1fast6]

wheres ya engine stand then :wink:

Not doing it all on the bench surely?

[summeh]

engine stand is tucked away in the corner at the moment, when i get round to building the engine up i'll do it on the stand :)

[summeh]

didnt do much tonight as i was pretty knackered when I got in from work.

I did manage to spray up the engine bay where i'd taken it back to bare metal and done the kurust treatment yesturday.

Must say im quite pleased with the outcome, the colour match isn't great but thats to be expected from a spray can, but better than rusty patches. I almost wanted to spray the entire engine bay, hehe.

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/sprayed1.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/sprayed2.JPG



This is behind the bumper, where water seems to sit, can be seen in other pictures. Anyway this is just the paint coat, because its hidden and normally sits in water im going to underseal this tomorrow.

I intend to get a plate welded in here in the future.

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rottern.JPG



These are the bonnet brackets sprayed up...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/brackets.JPG



Some pulleys... They look awesome I think, hehe, I got carried away at this point :D

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/pulleys449.JPG




This is the old water pump, in pretty bad condition after 80k!

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/oldwaterpump.JPG



Some new stuff...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/newstuff.JPG

hg
head bolts
timing belt
pulley set
additional idler pulley for the 714 block
water pipe inset
alt belt
oil filter
fuel filter
water pump


can't wait to get it all fiited :D

[summeh]

progress has been slow with this as i've been busy with work and the house etc...

started to build up the new engine last night, only to be put back by 2 water pump bolts that decided to sheer! torque wrench was only set to 20nm aswell :? so spent a while drilling those out.

will get some pics up tonight, new engine is looking good. should have it ready to drop in by end of tonight.

[Purple]

Northy,

You must come up with a new set of speedlines on our avatars. For people who have done this level of surgery to a clio mk1 and successfully put it back together.

Sort of like a hero badge of honour. There must be at least 10 over guys who deserve the honour. :)

Come on. Do it, man!

[Smokey McPot]

arent the halford oil filters a bit iffy? or was that GSF?

[northy]

heeehee currently doing it myself at the min

[stew]

arent the halford oil filters a bit iffy? or was that GSF?It was the gsf ones that are a bit weird.

I have a halfords one at the moment and its fine!

Best to go fram imo tho!

8)

[summeh]

i have a reno one to put on it now instaed

[Coops]

Northy,

You must come up with a new set of speedlines on our avatars. For people who have done this level of surgery to a clio mk1 and successfully put it back together.

Sort of like a hero badge of honour. There must be at least 10 over guys who deserve the honour. :)

Come on. Do it, man!

sorry for being dim and maybe a little blonde, but what do the current little speedlines mean?

[Justin..]

1 speedline = paid member

2 speedlines = area rep

3 speedlines = a moderator

4 speedlines = ??? i dont know

5 speedlines = site owner/creator/Admin


IIRC :D

[Gav]

looks the balls dude, good luck with the rest ofit

[Coops]

summeh, u are like a bible to me!!lol, you did H/G before me n i used ur pics etc.

i got meggie b/end planned for summer/autumn time and low n behold ur doing it!hehe!! 8)

[Smokey McPot]

arent the halford oil filters a bit iffy? or was that GSF?It was the gsf ones that are a bit weird.

I have a halfords one at the moment and its fine!

Best to go fram imo tho!

8)

Cool cool.

[1fast6]

summeh, u are like a bible to me!!lol, you did H/G before me n i used ur pics etc.



Which thread has those pics in then?

[Coops]

it was ages ago mate!! in the technical section iirc! did my rebuild/head gasket late last year n all so well before that!

[arj256]

Here it is:
http://www.williamsclio.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7445&highlight=

[Coops]

thats the badger!! 8)

[summeh]

right well the cars actually been on the road a couple of weeks now, but i did want to post the rest of the pictures, so may aswell go ahead now.




here's the engine bay/subframe etc all cleaned up and resprayed where necessary.

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/cleanedup.JPG

[summeh]

this is what happens when sand gets in your engine and plays with the bores...

this is the old engine, u can clearly see the shit loads of vertical scratches caused by the sand grit.

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/****edbore.JPG

[summeh]

some engine rebuild progress pics...

here we see the bottom end being built up, ancilleries are all on.

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rebuild1.JPG



this is me being really anal about anything getting in to the new bores... yes thats clingfilm, lol.


http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rebuild2.JPG



head with manifold on....


http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rebuild3.JPG



head on....

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rebuild4.JPG



note the 4 nitrous injectors for the direct port kit 8)


http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/rebuild5.JPG

[summeh]

going back in....

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/goinback.JPG




back in finally... took some doing, what a twat it was :|

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/backin.JPG






some pics of the nitrous set up...

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/nos1.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/nos2.JPG

http://www.reacthosting.com/summeh/willy/rebuild/nos3.JPG

[BenR]

thats alot of pipes lol.

It was fun wrapping it as it was like a spider trying to excape.

[2 live]

lookin good mate.......u actually tried the nos out yet?? hehe

[summeh]

nah not yet was going to have a play this weekend actually but weather has been shitty.

[mon]

looking good that mate