Project Type R - Sti V4
#32
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No prob !
'quite enjoying the banter'
I cant wait for the weekend to get the rest of the engine into pieces and maybe get the g'box etc off
Took an intake manifold off a bug eye last night !!! that has to be classed as the worst job on a scoob ! I would rather do 2 clutches back to back than remove an intake - and once off you are only 50% of the way there !
Anyone else have a least favourite scoob job ?
'quite enjoying the banter'
I cant wait for the weekend to get the rest of the engine into pieces and maybe get the g'box etc off
Took an intake manifold off a bug eye last night !!! that has to be classed as the worst job on a scoob ! I would rather do 2 clutches back to back than remove an intake - and once off you are only 50% of the way there !
Anyone else have a least favourite scoob job ?
#33
Originally Posted by 911
It is more my inability to find the time and $$$ to follow in the shaddows of you heavyweights.
Must be you are all youngsters without all the mortgage type stuff.
Must be you are all youngsters without all the mortgage type stuff.
Have mortgage Graham, have done for 5 years...but no kids which helps, although I suspect my mortgage payments could be greater than yours as a) I live down south b) hard to buy a house with only a 10% deposit and c) cureently have no income although c) is about to change a and b are potentially going to affect me this year as I will be moving and need to increase my mortgage size to move up a scale (ie buy a place that has a garage, preferably a big garage...I have too many projects...)
#34
Originally Posted by 3barboost
Anyone else have a least favourite scoob job ?
#35
Worst job?
Getting the gearbox off for the FIRST time on your own.
or
Ditto and doing the rear diff too only to take the RA box/diff out again because it was **** on a hill climb a month later and put Sti box/diff back in.
or
Putting a 20g turbo back onto the up-pipe when the bloody water pipe would NOT, but would NOT locate back onto the metal pipes.
Inlet manifolds are in there too.
Porsche 911's are easy.
Graham.
Getting the gearbox off for the FIRST time on your own.
or
Ditto and doing the rear diff too only to take the RA box/diff out again because it was **** on a hill climb a month later and put Sti box/diff back in.
or
Putting a 20g turbo back onto the up-pipe when the bloody water pipe would NOT, but would NOT locate back onto the metal pipes.
Inlet manifolds are in there too.
Porsche 911's are easy.
Graham.
#36
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3Bar,
The block in the pic looks like an N/A 2.5 block rather than the EJ257 (2.5 STI block).
It's open deck not semi closed.
I expect that's why the previous owner fitted the spacer to the head gaskets. To lower the Comp ratio from the N/A block and pistons.
If you swap to sutable forged pistons you shouldn't need to space the gasket as the comp ratio will be right
Worst job has to be Gearbox or rear diff swap. But most frustrating (as Graham said) is getting the std position turbo back on
The block in the pic looks like an N/A 2.5 block rather than the EJ257 (2.5 STI block).
It's open deck not semi closed.
I expect that's why the previous owner fitted the spacer to the head gaskets. To lower the Comp ratio from the N/A block and pistons.
If you swap to sutable forged pistons you shouldn't need to space the gasket as the comp ratio will be right
Worst job has to be Gearbox or rear diff swap. But most frustrating (as Graham said) is getting the std position turbo back on