jamesvalver
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im currently rebuilding another c20xe for my car which has only 79k miles on it.
i have been slowly taking the engine apart while i save up for the rebuild parts.
i will be using my cylinder head off my current engine because it is a coscast head so will rebuild this head.
i am currently cleaning up the engine block and removing the old manky paint before i repaint it. atm im not too sure what color im going to paint it altho i have been thinking about white lol
new engine will be rebuilt with fast road cams, arp rod bolts, balanced bottom end, lightened flywheel, honda fireblade carbs and uprated clutch
will update this as and wen i get bits done
cheers for reading
james 
[Edited on 23-11-2006 by jamesvalver]
[Edited on 01-02-2007 by jamesvalver]
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Dave A
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are you doing a proper rubuil or just a clean-up?
keep the updates coming
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jamesvalver
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im doing a complete rebuild. big end and main journel shells, piston rings,arp rod bolts, sump gasket, oil pump, water pump, headgasket, valve stem seals, rocker gasket, inlet and exhaust gaskets etc etc. you get the idea
having a custom inlet manifold made up for the carbs and also a custom sealed airbox made from alu that goes to both cold airfeeds in headlights (one each side of engine) and battery is being moved to the boot
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Gregor
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Looks like fun, how much have you budgeted ?
Im tempted to do it all again 
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Robin
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Paint the block and head silver, the cam cover white, and get some carbon plug/cambelt covers.
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jamesvalver
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i havent really bugeted nething to be honest. i have the carbs already, a friend is making the inlet and airbox, its £300 for all the rebuild parts excluding the oil
pump, £50 for arp rod bolts, local race engineers are reprofiling my spare cams for £65 per cam, and they are also lightening my flywheel and balancing the bottom end. i was thinking about getting some head work carried out but im not too sure atm.
suppose all in im looking at about £1000 finished.
tonights progress is that ive been giving the block a really good clean and removing whats left of all the old gaskets. i will finish this off tomorrow night and mayb speed to jez at carrera bodyworks about getting the block sprayed and laqured.
the cambelt cover and rocker cover will be the ones that are on the car atm unless i change my plans and im looking into getting a chrome oilcap to go with my spark plug cover that is getting polished atm
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John G
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looks good james keep us up to date in detail buddy
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jamesvalver
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tonights update. managed to get further tonight than i expected! i found a pot of blue paint left from my bothers engine when we rebuilt that so decided to use that rather than buying another tin.
firstly i got out the drill and a wire brush attachment for it and got cleaning off all the dirt and flacky paint. i then used paint thinners to degrease and clean the block.
next stage was to get the paint on - this is the 1st coat and i will give it another coat tomorrow nite.
the paint isn't quite that bright lol 
[Edited on 23-11-2006 by jamesvalver]
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gianluigi
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love it
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jamesvalver
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jamesvalver
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i gave the engine another coat of paint tonight. probly not touching it tomorrow eve unless i clean up the paint from the cyl head face and sump face
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Robin
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looks ace in blue. 
bodies look farily good condition too.
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gianluigi
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jamesvalver
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started to clean up the faces tonight ready to be put back to gether. this is the worst part now as it all stops untill i have the parts to put it back together with. the carbs are as they came off the bike. i will give them a good clean-up when i get the cleaning tank at work sorted out
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corsatpot
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love your car m8
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Nic Barnes
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blue block is just wrong
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jamesvalver
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finally i get get back on with the rebuild. i now have all the bottom end parts so its ready do go back together and be sent off to be balanced. might give it another coat of paint 1st tho just to tidy it up abit more!
hopefully i'll get my digital camera sorted out so that i can get some updated pictures sorted out!!!
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Wonderboy
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quote:
Originally posted by jamesvalver
hopefully i'll get my digital camera sorted out so that i can get some updated pictures sorted out!!!
Yea i hope so too, sounds like a fun project. Good work so far
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a_j_mair
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whit block would have been uber
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jamesvalver
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taking camera back to the show as its still not working so will get them to sort it out!
i nearly painted the block white but would of been an arsehole to keep clean!! will have blue block, white cambelt cover and rocker cover (unless i keep my orange ones) and some samcos but not sure what colour hoses yet
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jamesvalver
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pics taken on my mobile but heres some progress altho its not much lol
cleaned pisons up at work and fitted my new piston rings
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jamesvalver
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a better photo of all the pistons now that ive got my camera sorted out!
hoping to get the crank and the pistons fitted tomorrow evening so will get progress pics up!
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Wonderboy
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Good progress, interesting reading this.
If you could do one thing. When you post an update can you explain what your doing please. I've bene reading up on engines etc... so i'm wanting to learn more 
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jamesvalver
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no worries mate. will get pics of each stage if need be
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jamesvalver
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tonights progress 01.02.2006
as it looked at the start -
new main journal shells fitted -
crank waiting to be fitted -
crank fitted -
pistons in and ARP bolts fitted -
and thats it for tonight and this weekend. next up is to clean and overhaul the oil pump and fit the new water pump once ive cleaned the block up some more
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