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[mini_mad69]

As I stormed out of the garage, I saw oil pooring from the block...

If the engine fell over, then oil is probably coming through the pushrod holes?



Good shout, but was actualy out of breather, great, no cracks.

...a squashed exhaust...

Dirt cheap, or even bendable.

Will get the blow torch out tomorrow and bash it back somewhere near close.

...smashed brand new lambda probe...

Bummer, but not the end of the world.

Only done 3 miles

...and a nice big dent in the front of the car...

Admittedly, that sucks. I appreciate the fact you're skint, but going without a car every now and then is just part of being a student, owning a mini.

Oh and going without a car every now and again would be great, but this thing has seen the road for around 4 days in the past 2 months. Mainly money slowing me down, but this knocking problem has put it off the road for over a week, but i've been on a very poor holiday.



Tomorrow, engine will be inspected further, all seems well for now, will need a new fuel pump(have spare), bell housing and drop gears/bearings (have spares)

Easy.


Tomorrow engine will have the 286 removed and a standard cam fitted.
Not bothered about exhaust now, as it's getting a whole new custom made system I will bash the current one into shape and make do for now.

Technical minded among you will work this one out.




I shall be borrowing a decent torque wrench and fitting a central oil pickup into a gearbox and fit that.


This is to get the car on the road, so I can work, make a bit of money and soon have a rather nippy little car.



Still not sure what the banging was that spured the engine removal.
But there sure are some bad scoreing from the drop gears.
Looks like too much side loading to me, all bearings are still like new.
Straight cuts would be nice.




You can't see it well, but there is quite a deep score mark from the middle drop gear.



Same here.

No play in anything though, which is weird.

ANy ideas on what was causing the noise? only made it with clutch engaged?

Will inspect engine tomorrow.

Oh and the more money spent HERE!!!!!!!!!!! the quicker my car will be repaired!




Ben

[MiniLandy]

So you're going for boost then??

Quality, although i'd put an mg metro/266 cam in there if you can get one, aaanything's better than standard...

Good stuff!

[mini_mad69]

So you're going for boost then??

Quality, although i'd put an mg metro/266 cam in there if you can get one, aaanything's better than standard...

Good stuff!

Cannot afford at the moment. And cannot afford the uprated gearbox to go along with it. So will only run a little boost to save the transmission.

Speaking of which.

Today I have spent a few hours trying to get my head around the gearbox, and managed to fit a central oil pickup to a gearbox I had knocking around here.

This is the one where the diff let go a bit more than a year ago. Today was the first time I've looked at it.








Here you can see where part of one of the planet gears came out. Amazingly the pin itself seems ok.



Here is my central oil pickup.



Next is fit my turbo diff, change cam, put it back together and back in the car.



Ben

[mentalmini89]

hiya mate great work as allways couple of questions how many fingers can you get between the wheel and the arch on the rear and does it scrub at all and are your tie bars set to standard length
cheers
dean maitland

[HARBER07]

Glad to see your sticking with it again Ben!!. Also glad to see your going for boosting an A series rather than speaking of VTEC's!!

[mini_mad69]

hiya mate great work as allways couple of questions how many fingers can you get between the wheel and the arch on the rear and does it scrub at all and are your tie bars set to standard length
cheers
dean maitland

I can currently get around 3 at the back as the bottom of the arch is flush with the bodywork of the rear arch. Usualy 2. Doesn't scrub but I have little weight in the back. Im also using GAZ adjustable shocks to stiffen it up if it starts to scrub. Not sure about the front as im using group 4 arches which means it's hard to get fingers in there as they curve around the wheel.


It's heavy duty adjustable tie bars on the front.


Cheers Tom, I'd love a vtec but can't afford to do all that work. Idealy I'd like a b16a2 boosted engine, but I doubt that will happen... ever.



I have now commited to the turbo conversion. Today I removed the 286 and fitted a standard cam.



I have built up my gearbox



I have built my engine.



I bought some minispares uprated caphead bolts for the timing cover, but one of them they sent was longer and had a smaller head, so had to space it out with washers.........Annoying.



I like the look of caphead bolts, they just look a bit more profesional. I am also using a non breathing timing cover as my last one was a little bent and leaked. I hope it doesn't suffer from too much crank case preasure. I might build something into the gearbox as a vent or something to make up for it.

And the only visable damage from the dropping of the engine was the bell housing, but should still be usable, fuel pump but I had a spare, and the water pump pulley flange had been pushed down onto the body, so I used a bearing puller and got it back into the right place.


Tomorrow I will fit the engine to gearbox. New head gasket as I had to release the rockers to let the pushrods go up to change the cam.

And bash the exhaust back together.


The south wales mini show on the weekend.

[AndrewJ530]

Good to hear you're sticking with the turbo and there was nothing damaged that badly. Do you have everything to turbo now or are you still collecting?

[mini_mad69]

Good to hear you're sticking with the turbo and there was nothing damaged that badly. Do you have everything to turbo now or are you still collecting?

I need looooooooooads:


Bulkhead box (will probably make one)
Fuel preasure reg
fuel pump
Mega jolt or turbo dizzy
Low comp head (going to get turbo phil to do one)
Hoses for intercooler
fuel lines

Anyone wants to donate feel free

[mentalmini89]

cheers ben i have adjustable heavy dut tie bars aswell are yours set to standard length or not
dean

[mini_mad69]

cheers ben i have adjustable heavy dut tie bars aswell are yours set to standard length or not
dean

A bit longer as I have adjustable bottom arms aswell, and with the negative camber im running I had to extend them to bring the wheels back into the right position.

[mentalmini89]

cheers ben thats what i have had to do with my tie bars and my offset botton arm bushes and had the tracking down 2day and had two new valves in both rear wheels jus got my car from a local mini place and there where meant to be tuning it with a metro cam stage 1 kit single box exhaust k&n / breather filter leccy ignition etc (there where doin the mixture and moving the dizzy slightly and clean the electrics ) but this morning its running like a bag a *melon* lol any ideas of what i could do would be appreciated

*where did u get your foam air filter from are they any better then the k&n / better for performance
sorry for the long description lol

dean maitland

[mini_mad69]

cheers ben thats what i have had to do with my tie bars and my offset botton arm bushes and had the tracking down 2day and had two new valves in both rear wheels jus got my car from a local mini place and there where meant to be tuning it with a metro cam stage 1 kit single box exhaust k&n / breather filter leccy ignition etc (there where doin the mixture and moving the dizzy slightly and clean the electrics ) but this morning its running like a bag a *melon* lol any ideas of what i could do would be appreciated

*where did u get your foam air filter from are they any better then the k&n / better for performance
sorry for the long description lol

dean maitland

I got my air filter off a mate. It's a ram-air foam filter. Also is the best filter I've seen as it only clips on and off, so comes off in around 2 seconds.
There available online if you do a search.


I've researched a lot and the best thing for performance bar a filter change is a ram stack.
Get one of THESE! inside a K&N or similar filter. Vizard explains that it's one of the best mods you can do to the inlet.

[mini_mad69]

Today had been a bit of a nightmare. I found the cause of the banging/rattling.




My phone is rubbish for pitures but here, is a completly knackered bearing surface, it has actualy cracked and started peeling it's so thin, there was also around 1-2mm of play. Which is huge on such a high stress component.

I had 5 of these primary gears all different I.D and amount of teeth and varying condition. It took me hours to dig out one that was usable.







Im also spending hours preparing the mating surfaces, in an effort to get rid of those annoying leaks.

Im scraping the surfaces, filing down any high spots where a screwdriver has been used to prise apart pieces.

Then rubbing down with 400 grit then 1200 grit.

Hopefully this will eradicate leaks and I can get this thing on a track.



Engine in.



Hopefully get it running tomorrow and finish collecting turbo parts.



Ben

[HARBER07]

Nice work man

[MiniLandy]

Sweet, some serious work to get done in a couple of days...

Wish i had a big parts bin to raid, my gearbox is knaaaaackered.

Good show