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so floor welded in, and i used soem red lead paint on it as the weld threw i could see some rust commign threw as it had been sitting a week until i got back to it. took the sill off too

 

 

 

 

 

 

some panels to make here. nothing too hard

 

 

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started to rain today just after i started to trial fit sill parts, so i went into the garage and looked at the engine

 

 

the one in the car is 1500 , it has a cam adjustable pulley, light flywheel, janspeed exhaust, twin 40 webbers. it does 85 bhp. the 1700 engine i have is a stroked version with a bigger bore, it as standard has 85 bhp. I like the noise of carbs, but really, fuel injection is much nicer, i can do speeduino, with a nice inlet for it, i think that is the way.  

 

 

When i stripped the engine , it had water in the bores, it had water in the coolant jackets so its a bit corroded, bit of a sorry state really

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so. bores are a bit shot, oversize pistons arnt dear at all, liek £100 delivered from estonia, ford pinto valves will go in but are 1mm shorter, need seats, valves, springs etc. going to take it to lane ends engeneering in prescot who did my volvo engine for my bmw, they did a good job and see what they say i need to buy.

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it was raining today, so i pu the tarp up with some wood and cracked on. did some of the welding to the back of the sill and back seat area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i went inside for dinner, and cut my hand quite badly on a tin can, so i packed up and went into the garage for an hour.

 

 

I have decided, the Lada 1700 engine is good, original type, but its going to cost me around £1200 to rebuild and get to say 110 bhp, and the more i thought about it, it just seems a better idea for what i want with the car to fit a bmw engine. The m44 is the obvious choice, its 136 bhp, and while thats ok, it looks nothing like a Lada engine. The m43 engine is a single cam 8v engine, i bought one for £100 with 140k on it, that is 106 bhp, more than enough. 

 

 

 

Ive stripped it down to the bare engine, ill take the head off and do a head gasket change now rather than maybe later. I may take it to lane ends too and get them to check it over. With this engine, i can use the bmw 5 speed from the e36, i dont know what diff ratio is in it now but i can get a 3.7:1 from ladapower for not a lot, and ill probably buy a LSD for it too. Now with this set up it should sit on the motorway happily, and if i want to go away on the car, i can.