good grief!
Weird place!!
Please keep it coming along while we wreck your thread mid week...
Sorry!
Graham

 

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 ?

 

Oi, just because you're 20kg or so lighter than me!

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...)

 

Several, but now I know them better I'm more prepared and less likely to have a problem...changing the plugs when the car was standard wasn't fun...battery, airbox, washer bottle all had to come out...joy...mind you that pails into insignificance next to changing the headlamp bulbs on my Ford Focus grrrr...accessible from the engine bay my ar$e...you will note that in the picture gallery I posted a link to there were shots of the Focus headlamps out...just to change a frigging bulb! Bloody brilliant design that was...yeah, really easy to jack the car up, remove the torx head bolts securing the undertray, just to access a single bolt under the front wing to get the headlamp out at the side of the road

 

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.

 

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