hi mate thanks think the bottom end went as there was a slight oil leak where my oil temp sensor was on cylinder 3 and thats where the big end had gone and all the rest were fine, as for any othere damage none and this 2.5 build is with almost everything new

 

forgot to add my six speed box that i bought has arrived with rear diff so all i need is a gear linkage and a propshaft and gearknob, the box has don around 20,000 so cant wait to get the extra parts i need to get the big boy fitted

 

1 job at a time young skywalker

 

great right up mate, just out of interest, How much did you get the box for in the end?

 

thanks dannyboy it was over £1200 and with the other bits i need it will start going into more money than i would like to say around £1900

did try to get down the garage today to gap my rings ect.. but had so much to do with the baby and christmas shoping all this week i havent had time to do anything
will try and have an hour on the car tomorrow and get some more progress and pics

 

right guys , managed to get down the garage for an hour tonight and gapped two sets of piston rings and install the two pistons and will hopfully get the other ones sorted tomorow
started by putting rings in the bore and used a piston to push rings in square then used feeler gauge to check specs and then adjust if needed and this will be done on every bore as you never know if one bore could be different

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put the circlip in one side of the piston first then i put the rings on to the pistons and moved the rings to the right ways on the pistons as shown in the scooby manual and then oiled the piston and rings before using the piston tool

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then it was too knock the piston down with along bit of wood and made sure the pistons were marked in the right direction

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once piston was in the bore i lined up the piston and pin then lubed with same lube i used on the bearings and knocked in with same size bar as the pin then placed the other circlip in

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both pistons in on oneside and only two to go

will get them in asap then start putting all the bolts ect.. from my 2.0 liter on to the 2.5

 

Looking good mate

 

thanks fella

 

had another hour down the garage tonight and managed to get the other pistons in

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then got to fit all the bolts ect.. from the 2.0 liter on to the 2.5

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plus i also fitted all the cover plates and olts ect..

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checked the rear oil seal was sitting right before fitting the flywheel

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then fitted my light weight exedy flywheel after a bit of a clean and thread locked and done bolts up to spec

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then after that it was to bolt the engine stand fixing on the back and then moved to the stand

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Fair play too you m8, im following this with interest cos its not one of them " i got a new project, so i gave 2k to some guy in a garage " ...lol... as you say you done it yourself.Respect to you.

 

thanks for the support fella and will be nice to see you sometime soon to have alook at my bonnet fella

 

Will come up tomorrow if you got time m8, when i get home from work.

 

A few big steps forward the last few days Lee.... well done matey

 

i know its getting there now si got a few more pics i will add soon as i got five mins

 

Your going well Lee, looking ahead of schedule.

 

Just had a good read of the thread, fantastic job there mate, looking forward to seeing the finished article

 

nice work Lee

 

thanks fellas been busy over christmas so can't wait to get back on the job at hand after new year

 

catalunya 172 - must take my hat of to you fella. One of the best threads I've come across on any forums to date. Very well written with great pics too. I stumbled across this thread only today and read all 4 pages - took me a few mins but worth every min of it. Keep it up m8.

PS: It's like a tv show....cannot wait to see the next write up!

 

Wont be long now Lee. Keep it going mate

 

Thats a great paper weight Lee

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thanks fella

 

you forgot to add expensive paper weight

 

up date on what i done so far first was to get my rcm modded oil pump and clean it then put sealant on it then bolt to the block and just loosly fit the modine oil cooler in to place

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then it was to fit my new hi flow thermostat to my rcm water pump then i cleaned up the housing as i had to use the one from the old pump

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was going to fit this but the pump came with a paper type gasket and the original was metal type so don't know if to fit it with the paper or an original from subaru or just use sealer

next is to get the heads sorted and get arp head studs and cometic gaskets not sure what size gaskets tho as it's a 2.5 with sti version 4 heads

here is a pics of the heads with type ra pulleys before they get sent to a local place to get them checked over the person i bought them off said they were re shimmed and all in spec and all fine but you never know and will be best for m to make sure then will be just doing a little head work myself but not to much tho as just want to clean the ports of casting marks and maybe knife edge and take the edge off the conbustion so it wont suffer from pre det so any help would be great

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Top marks Lee, you certainly seem to have got a grasp of this
It's starting to come together nicely.

Lee have you joined 22B Bulletin Board I think it may be a good time for you now

 

hi si just joined now and some top stuff on there too will have a good read on there asap

 

Coming along nice Lee, will be interested in seeing how it works out when finished, keep up the good work.

Regards, John

 

thanks john keeping an eye on you thread too , iv'e decided to keep my andy f 20 gram and send it back to him and get him to service and cleen it up on it even tho its done around 800 miles
will run it for a year on this then sell and buy a big one

 

bit more done today as i have used all subaru gaskets/seals ect.. i did not want to fit my wter pump with non subaru one so got hold of a new subaru one then fitted it to block

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then i stripped the heads down and noted where everything goes and put parts in bags so i know where they all came from
heads will under go some light work by myself which will involve removing cast marks slight knife edging and sanding edges of chainber to try and stop some pre det
will also check all shims ect.. and check everythink is with in spec plus new valve stem seals ans new cam seals will be used

pics of heads stripped down and showing what version 3/4 sti buckets and shims look like

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Wow, taking shape now