Danny W
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Bloody hell not good news  know exactly how you feel as the same happened to my let .. Twice :/ although I know it was just a standard spec engine. Good to see your on to a quick rebuild, it took me a while to get back into rebuilding mine.
Edit: good figures though bud, was you using the SBD nylon relief valve?
[Edited on 06-01-2012 by Danny W]
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Jed D
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even though we've had our differences in the past im quite guttered for you bigron
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Kieran
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Glad it's being sorted very quickly!
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vauxhead
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No way Ben, Gutted for you mate, cant believe thats happened to it
Hope you get it sorted soon.
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bigron1988
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dont worry guys will be back together in no time,
yes danny its a gen vaux pump with steel gear and nylon valve , just spoke to steveboyslim and he said when they first start to give mider its a waiting game till it goes
took the cams out today and luckly there is no damage in the head thank god
all the bolts from the engine
not clean enough for me so new bolts again lol
also while head is of im going to put a water outlet on the inlet so fitting, drill and tap bought
nitromorse on the block
and attacked with a wire wheel
still a bit more to do on it
pistons taken of rods and cleaned them up
crank got sent of for 0.25 regrind and will have it back on tuesday , orded new piston rings this morning from omega so they will be here tuesday and greg and graeme dixon are of down south tomorow so there stopping of at steveboyslims to pick me the rest of my parts i need , then its just a waiting game for the machine work
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Jon_C
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No hangin about here. Glad to see you have got straight back on it. Good luck with the rebuild.
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FlaFFy_91
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Good to see theres no headwork damage ben
what sort of compression ratio were you running btw?
And what bar of boost were you looking to be running at if you were just testing at 1?
Good luck with the rebuild though mate. Youve done everything else on the car so far so building the engine is the only thing left for you to do by yourself
Hope it goes well buddy
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Graeme Dixon
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You don't hang about do you Ben?
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vx-scottw
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true dedication i hope it gets up n running agen
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bigron1988
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no mate no point in waiting , dont know what boost yet but could be anything from 1.7 bar even up to 2 bar will just see what happends , compression ratio was at 8.5:1
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are the rods that colour due to heat from friction on the shells? are they going to be re used or are you getting new rods? only asking as if they are heat distorted the slightest bit of warping could cause more problems,
i know it sounds silly but when the rods wer fitted were the caps off each rod the same ones that came with each one in the box,
only say this because we had a rebuild in work and the rods got mixed up with the caps on the work bench and resulted in similar shell scoring and swarf like that!!
even though they look identical and are machined the slightest bit of un even ness on the face can cause a right mess.
cant believe how fast your cracking on with it mate true dedication, the cars a credit to you 
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bigron1988
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thanks mate , rods were the ones that came with the engine from suttons corsa, dont know if they were keeped with the right caps as phil did the build, yep rods have gone blue from heat , yep new rods have been orded and should be here tomorow , should have all the parts to build bottom end back up on tues then i can get box and bottom end fitted, just have to wait for the head to be re shimmed then , also going to re paint gear box as have scratched it in a few places and it would annoy the hell out of me if i didnt
[Edited on 06-01-2012 by bigron1988]
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--ToM--
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cool mate if its haveing new rods wont matter now anyway just seeing them piks gave me flash backs lol,
its great how anal you are about the fine detials, gotta be the best corsa built to date for attention to detail and cleaness, hope its not dirty at pvs this year itll have a bout 6 months dirt on it then :O
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bigron1988
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got to be anal about it mate wont be doing another car like this for a while so i want this to be 100% right , should be clean at pv , will spend all night cleaning it if i have to lol
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Nic Barnes
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sort of know how you feel, perhaps on a lesser scale though. similar outcome is the one I'm fearing hence abandoning mine in the garage until i get the courage back.
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Generation
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Just shows how quick things can be done, when motivated.
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bigron1988
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
sort of know how you feel, perhaps on a lesser scale though. similar outcome is the one I'm fearing hence abandoning mine in the garage until i get the courage back.
whats happend to yours nic?
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TimC909
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Ben make sure you get as much brake cleaner as you can down the oil galleries and blast it all out with the air line. Just keep doing it until there is nothing at all left to come out. If you wasnt in such a rush to get it done I would so go one better and get the block ultrasonically bathed. Its what im doing with mine before its final build.
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bigron1988
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Don't worry Tim I'm going to attack it with a power washer first then the brake cleaner and a air line lol
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SteveoBC
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mega ouch
had similar but on a much lesser scale, no oil pressure that ruined the bottom end, but i was much lazier and just swapped engines lol
good to see and hear its on the mend with just new everything lol
really wanna see this at PV, running and up close on the stand
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Nic Barnes
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quote:
Originally posted by bigron1988
quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
sort of know how you feel, perhaps on a lesser scale though. similar outcome is the one I'm fearing hence abandoning mine in the garage until i get the courage back.
whats happend to yours nic?
was smacking it off the limiter messing about in a tunnel making noise, oil pressure light came on. knocked it off. its been sat since. don't really want to look at it yet. previously I've had the light come on when at the top of 4th gear flat out. knocked it off right away. oil pump gears had smashed to bits. put a new pump on it and the engine itself ran for another 3 years. i just can't afford to fix it anymore. I've spent all my savings the last 4 years and I'm pretty much skint now. so it will have to wait.
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3i_gaz
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Good lad ben!
Sorry to hear about yours barnes! Yours gets used PROPERLY though not a show queen.
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FAZ
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what do you do for a living m8?
seem to have a lot of free time
good speedy work though
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3i_gaz
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The joys of having your own unit, can go there after work hours and crack on
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philip2
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rod caps were from each rod and not mixed tom, plastiguaged when built with between 2 and 2.5thou clearances too. same happened with my 1600 when relief had jammed, blued 3 rods, spun bearings and knackered crank.
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