[engine_work] Mi16 Engine Bay Tidy & New Head Fit !

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Been wanting to sort my engine bay out for years but never had the time/tools/ courage to start taking thigs apart !

 

Last year i did my first mi conversion on another car so now its my blue pugs turn !

I didnt fit this engine it was done for me by a local garage about 5 years ago, the throttle bodies were also fitted for me and the current big valve head again fitted by a certain company whom i wont mention but am not very happy with, as it has never give the power it was supposed to .....but never mind cos i have a new standard head with cat cam on the way from QEP

 

made a start last sunday and here's the progress so far :

 

 

Bonnet off and on axle stands

 

 

starting to strip throttle bodies out, lots of parts to keep together !!

 

 

All the wiring

Edited April 12, 2007 by chris 417 mi

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Bodies out with henry looking smug

 

 

All that free space!!

 

 

And again

 

 

draining oil to remove shafts, Pain to remove drain nut when your gear box was powder coated , nice and easy to clean though

 

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Getting driveshaft ready to come out

 

 

And the other one, sooo easy with an impact gun, best thing i ever bought

 

 

These shouldered bolts on the longer drivers side shaft hold the middle bearing in, i tightened them 'open' so they dont get lost and are well out of the way whilst removing the shaft

 

 

Now for the radiator, i took all the higer pipes off first then carefully drained the water out of each pipe working highest to lowest at the front of the engine (still got water everywhere though ) best leave the rear colant union at the back of the block till all fron pipes are off and theres less chance of gettin soaked where you cant get out quick

 

 

All pipes now out ! gotta start on the gear linkages and finally the dreaded exaust manifold

 

 

Oh and does anyone have any ideas how i should lift this out ...bearing in mind someone has kindly decided to remove all the lifting eyes from the block

[kyepan 291]

are those nissan calipers?

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

nope bremsport mate, got em off a lad who had them on a 205 rallying / track car

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Ok the engine & exhaust manifold are now out ! didnt manage to get any pics of it during removal but heres what i did get

 

 

Engine on stand and the small mountain of parts ive removed so far

 

 

Gearbox needs a good clean !

 

 

Engine needs a good clean, would of liked to get it powder coated but would mean a total strip down , painting will do for now

 

 

and again

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Lots of rust to see now, gonna have the full bay painted and rust treated

 

 

and again on closeup

 

 

Looks like waters got in here too

 

 

Part of the alarm wiring looks like it was joined by ...err.....twisting together and a bit of luck

 

 

One of the inlet ports, apparently 'ported' but isnt this supposed to be very smooth ?? looks like it was done with a rough flapper wheel

Edited April 15, 2007 by chris 417 mi

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

just about done for the night, all wiring out of the way ready for painting. Got a few more pipes to move though

 

 

And final shot for the night, sorry for the blurryness

 

[Edp 67 3 Cars]

Looking good. A nice late car you have there.

 

Keep the pictures coming. By the way where on earth are going to fit a henry hoover in the small 205 engine bay?

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Looking good. A nice late car you have there.

 

Keep the pictures coming. By the way where on earth are going to fit a henry hoover in the small 205 engine bay?

 

havent you heard ?? he got voted best co pilot ever

[Richie-Van-GTi 71 2 Cars]

wahey, about time chris. Think mine will be done before yours. By end of this week I will have everything required to finish mine

[Mikey G 3]

One of the inlet ports, apparently 'ported' but isnt this supposed to be very smooth ?? looks like it was done with a rough flapper wheel

 

Thats normal, rough surface adds to the mixing of the fuel/air.

 

Keep it up

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Thats normal, rough surface adds to the mixing of the fuel/air.

 

Keep it up

 

 

Ah right, i always thought it would be polished to a fairly smooth finish

 

Cheers

[5150maxie 0]

the number plate says it all

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

the number plate says it all

 

strangely enough a few rac people have asked to buy it off me

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Did a bit more last night ready for the weekend

 

 

Engine bay is now totally stripped and ready for painting !

 

 

side view (gotta get a better camera phone )

 

 

View of the cams, funny thing is the timing marks are way off ! inlet cam is almost exactly on the white timing mark someone has put on ...but the exhaust cam is almost a quarter of a full revolution out anyone shed any light on this cos ill be taking the head off very soon !

Edited April 19, 2007 by chris 417 mi

[petert 586]

The cams were probably timed using the lift at TDC method. Timing marks can become irrelevent when aftermarket cams and pulleys are used.

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

right ok , err guess id better get someone who knows how to retime the engine when its going back together then

[welshpug 1,657]

just set it to TDC with the crank pulley locked and put some timing marks on the cam pulleys and you should be able to get it pretty close.

[petert 586]

just set it to TDC with the crank pulley locked and put some timing marks on the cam pulleys and you should be able to get it pretty close.

 

Locking the crank pulley is 90 deg. BTDC, pistons half way up and half way down.

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

All i was gonna do was just remove the belt as it is now clean and pain the engine then take it somewhere to get timed, unless anyone can show me the extact points etc cos i really dont want to bugger a new head !

[Gavtrials 0]

So jelous of the double garage!

Wish i had that and not just a drive to work on!

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

So jelous of the double garage!

Wish i had that and not just a drive to work on!

 

 

[Richie-Van-GTi 71 2 Cars]

chris I'll come down one night during the week and show you how to time it with the new head, well enough to get it running. Timing wont be bang on as your having new cams with different durations and lifts.

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Cheers mate thanks for the help on sun morning too !

 

Some more pics

 

 

Off to the spray shop on sun morning (once again cheers to richie for the tow )

 

 

And again

 

 

Engine block starting to get a good jet wash down

 

 

Rear now as clean as i could get it with the time i had