I am having a engine rebuild and have taken loads of pics.

 

I thought I would start a thread and share my pics and progress through this.

 

All the work is getting done at Custom exotics, but though It would start stripping what I could off the engine at home in the garage.

I have never done this before so It felt a bit daunting, but after a while I was enjoying It and was pleased I started stripping it myself ( felt I was learning more about my engine by doing this)

 

I have managed to remove the drive belts, radiator, AC radiator, PS pump, AC compressor, alternator. All the intercooler pipes removed along with the inlet pipes to the turbos, some were a right pain. All the electrical connections on the top removed and the ones round the side I could see as well. I found the heater matrix pipes were bloody hard to disconnect. I disconnected some boost hoses, but reckon there are a few more I have forgotten lol. I have been using the guides for engine removal from here and found them very helpful.

 

Looking at the amount of wires and hoses there are in the engine bay is scary, but I hope to simplify the bay a lot and make it look a lot less cluttered along with a bit of bling. If you ever seen DUBSPEC engine bay from the aussie forum then you know what I mean. I am aiming for something like that.

 

More stripping later this week, glad I'm labeling and taken loads of pics.

 

Here are a couple of pics of the car as it looks now down at Custom Exotics.

 

Thanks,

 

Ant

 

 

This is was a week ago when it arrived at Custom Exotics

 

 

Pics from today

 

 

Looking great Ant cant wait to see it all finished bet you cant either

 

You know it. With a few minor tweaks here and there it should look good.

 

i wish i had to do my one again now as i rather enjoyed doing it. you say you had to wait for the bearings? what bearings where they as i got all my parts next day????? oh and looking great mate.

 

They are ACL bearings mate

ACL race bearings.

Edited July 16, 200916 yr by Ant_300zx

Sorry got that wrong :rolleyes:. There not race bearings just the the normal ACL bearings. Set me back 100 notes.

hi just bought acl race bearings from the states they were about 100 $

just looked through invoice and they were only $65 i got those full engine gasket set piston rings for £130

wow thats good. what sort of head gaskets where they?

they look like cometic to me ..

Hi guys, sorry i know this is a bit off topic, but im trying to get hold of johnyboy and haven't figured out how to pm on here. I was wondering if you could give me advice on a zed for sale on ebay please, its based up in abertillery, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320405696118&_trksid=p2759.l1259 . Could you please give it a look and tell me what you think, i have also messaged the seller asking if i can go and view it during the week and wondered if you'd be able to come and help me kick the tyres so to speak. Please e-mail me at crazydownhilla@hotmail.com . Thanks mate

It has been a long time since i put some pictures up. The engine has come along a bit further since the last pictures.

I've got both the heads on had a few bits sent away to be polished and chromed and have since received them back.

Custom exotics and myself decided on a second colour to go on the engine ( you will see in the pics below what colour we went with )

The stronger timing belt i went with only seemed to be in blue, but the top of it will be covered so you wont see too much of it.

Turbos are on didn't realise how much bigger they are than the OEM ones.

 

Hope you enjoy the pictures :D

 

 

 

Wanting to replace the bolts on the exhaust cam gears with new ones but I cant find anyone that does the size bolt i need.

 

I nearly forgot about the engine bay pictures.

Im not jelous :(

the pics, the car and the progress is shite, i will give ya £100 quid to take the whole load of crap off ya hands, fingers crossed you fall for my plan and i get one of the best cars on the forum for £100 LOL

 

top work mate, lookin forward to the end result

WOW that is looking feckin great mate!!!!! :bow: :bow:

:shock: you must have some pretty deep pockets! Gonna look awesome

wow looks great, im going to be so pissed off when i look at my engine tomorrow lol

Thanks for the comments, just can't wait to get it finished now, didn't think it would take this long. I'm still enjoying doing the rebuild tho.

 

:shock: you must have some pretty deep pockets! Gonna look awesome

 

And a very understanding girlfriend :D

Yay nice - those exhaust Cam bolts are very strange size - I am stuffed trying to find replacements for those - if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear from them ;-))

what size are they?

 

its going to be a metric fine thread or poss a very fine thread

 

m8 x 1.0 or 0.75?

The guys at custom exotics measured it and its M7 x 1.

I wanted to get allen key head ones and with the size i need i think i'm going to have to go to a specialist to find this odd size.

They are not M8 or M6 - my whole engine had been re-done with SS Marine grade hex head bolts - but I think those baby's are M7!!!!!

 

Have yet to find an M7 bolt to try it - but I know they are used on racing/mountain bikes so will keep looking ;-))

Sorry man - you beat me to it ha ha

Good to get confirmation of the size though - well done.

I tried Pro-bolt and when they finished laughing - they said NO!

I am willing....

Im even more willing :rofl:

OK -

 

Good news - Found Some!

 

Bad News - There in Toronto - http://www.torontocycles.com/Selling/Titanium_Bolts.html

 

 

 

I guess these may be also on ebay.COM (USA) - have not cheked that yet....

 

I will probably get 10 from theses guys if I can;t find something real soon..

Here you guys - who da man?

 

http://www.a2stainless.co.uk/M7-x-30-Socket-Capscrew-DIN-912-A2_ADTT.aspx

 

£10.22 for x8 inc vat - my order is in ;-))

Andy, I had just ctrl+c'd that web address from the url bar. You beat me to it!