1fast6
21-05-2006, 13:42
As promised here are the pics i took while changing the head on the 1.4 S to Chris's mildly worked one example. I was planning to do something about the cambelt anyway as it looked old when i had to do the water pump before. Also the timing marks looked strange on the old belt so it was definately in need of sorting. Also decided to buy Chris's head and do the laguna throttle body upgrade to see what all the fuss was about.
The plan is to change the heads with fresh new oil, filter and coolant. At the same time, all the belts will be done and some new plugs will go in. Also bought some magnecores to give a bit of colour to the engine bay. Finally, another inlet manifold was bought and bored out to the correct size for a laguna 1.8 spi throttle body to be used on the car.
So, here is Chris's head cleaned up and sat in my living room. This was done one night while watching the facalty on channel 4 iirc. Note inlet manifold already attached as the work has already been done on that.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/newhead.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/newhead2.jpg
And a box full containing some of the bits that i'll be using in this job. The exhaust manifold gasket design is of the older type for this engine as they all are in head sets from gsf/euro but they do the job fine none the less.
img]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/newbits.jpg[/img]
Little shot of where i was working in the garage. Not a bad space but could be better. Better at least than doing it outside like the last time.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/workingarea.jpg
Right so first the engine was drained of its oil and coolant. Next, it was supported and the top mount came off. Also removed coolant hoses, leads etc.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/mountsoff.jpg
Whipped the rocker cover off, yes it is a plastic item found on the phase 3 energy engines with its own built-in rubber gasket instead of the metal item normally found. For this reason, i didn't have to use the rocker gasket included in the headset. Gave it a clean-up also after taking this pic.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/rocker.jpg
Right then, with the rocker cover off, i removed the throttle body from the inlet manifold and also removed the exhaust manifold from the head and moved it down at bit so it was resting on the oil filter, no bother though as this will be changed.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/rockeroff.jpg
Next, the head was wipped off. Face of the bm didn't look too bad and there was no surface damage either so i got to work cleaning it up.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/headoff.jpg
Half way through a clean. Didn't take one was it was finished though :oops:
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/bmclean.jpg
Piccy of the old head with its inlet still attached, at this point i still needed to get a few bits of it to attach to the new one.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/oldhead.jpg
The plan is to change the heads with fresh new oil, filter and coolant. At the same time, all the belts will be done and some new plugs will go in. Also bought some magnecores to give a bit of colour to the engine bay. Finally, another inlet manifold was bought and bored out to the correct size for a laguna 1.8 spi throttle body to be used on the car.
So, here is Chris's head cleaned up and sat in my living room. This was done one night while watching the facalty on channel 4 iirc. Note inlet manifold already attached as the work has already been done on that.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/newhead.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/newhead2.jpg
And a box full containing some of the bits that i'll be using in this job. The exhaust manifold gasket design is of the older type for this engine as they all are in head sets from gsf/euro but they do the job fine none the less.
img]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/newbits.jpg[/img]
Little shot of where i was working in the garage. Not a bad space but could be better. Better at least than doing it outside like the last time.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/workingarea.jpg
Right so first the engine was drained of its oil and coolant. Next, it was supported and the top mount came off. Also removed coolant hoses, leads etc.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/mountsoff.jpg
Whipped the rocker cover off, yes it is a plastic item found on the phase 3 energy engines with its own built-in rubber gasket instead of the metal item normally found. For this reason, i didn't have to use the rocker gasket included in the headset. Gave it a clean-up also after taking this pic.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/rocker.jpg
Right then, with the rocker cover off, i removed the throttle body from the inlet manifold and also removed the exhaust manifold from the head and moved it down at bit so it was resting on the oil filter, no bother though as this will be changed.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/rockeroff.jpg
Next, the head was wipped off. Face of the bm didn't look too bad and there was no surface damage either so i got to work cleaning it up.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/headoff.jpg
Half way through a clean. Didn't take one was it was finished though :oops:
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/bmclean.jpg
Piccy of the old head with its inlet still attached, at this point i still needed to get a few bits of it to attach to the new one.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/1fast6/oldhead.jpg