martin-vx89
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Registered: 25th Sep 08
Location: Crewe, Cheshire
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Hi, i have had my car for over 2 years now and i fort it was about time i did summet with it. to start off this is the car...
it's done a fair few miles now and the engine has an unlimited amount ov thigs wrong with it lol. here it is...
so as you do i decided to get hold of a x16xe and drop it in. heres the one i got...
iv decided to give it a basic rebuild e.g. strip down and clean everything up, head gasket, valve stem seals, cambelt, head skim etc..
Head removed...
[Edited on 31-07-2009 by martin-vx89]
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steddy-eddie
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looks good so far, any plans for the exterior, when you hoping to have the x16xe in
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martin-vx89
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cheers, exterier plans are...
Gsi kit
depos
lowerd 60mm
low profile tyres
genral touch up on the body work
but trying to sort the performance out first. i have actualy done alot more to the engine now and its built up and nearly ready to go in but havnt managed to update all the pics yet 
will try upload a few pics in a bit.
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martin-vx89
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valves etc. out of head ready to get skimmed...
managed to get hold of an engine stand and gave the block a quick spray in matt black...
also sprayd my 4-2-1 and rocker cover i high temp paint...
head skimmed and cleand up nice n spanky!  ...
Grinding the valves in, what a boooorrriiinnng job that was
Block face and pistons all cleand up 
Thats it for now, Will upload more soon
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martin-vx89
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ok ppl the engine is all ready to goin now and i have everythng i need to put it in exept for my de-cat as mine is fubar'd but that shud arrive wednesday with a it of luck! then i can put the engine in his weekend whooo!
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gaskellcorsa
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looking good pal
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martin-vx89
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hay havent posted for ages the reason for this is that i havent had time lately. its bin all bad news as for the engine chenge, i got the engine in couple days after my last post.
up and running sweet and everything, but it had a noise coming from the bottom pully for the aux belt so like a d**k head a took the pully off and started the engine up.....
BANG!!!! off comes the cambelt and bends 12 of the 16 valves!!!.
put new valves in, put it all back together started it up running fine again exept it was smoking its bo**ox off turns out iv cracked the head and valve guids! lol
any ways im just saving some money atm as iv got another head but im also gona replace rings, big ends and main bearings while the thing is striped down once again so i dont have any probs in the future and have to strip the bugger down again coz tbh im sick of doin it lol
we learn from our mistakes eh!
thats it for now, will post wen iv got some money together and start working on it again, thanks
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martin-vx89
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i have got everything i need now and have the engine stripped down, but just waiting on the big end bearings to arrive. had the head skimmed and de-coked im just about to go out and fit all the valve's ect. back in and re-hone the bores.
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steddy-eddie
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not good about the cambelt mate, learn from mistakes though, should be a good runner once all rebuilt back up.
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martin-vx89
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yeah i know, it's mostly built back up now im just waiting on the rod bolts to arrive tomoz hopfully then i can finish it off and get it running again. i just hope i have no further problems.
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