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[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

Nice

[apbellamy]

Last week we've fitted a central oil pickup



An Oil Temp sender



Straight Cut Drops



And bolted it all together



Then we've been round to Benross' and brought it home to bolt on a few more bits and pieces



Looking good

[apbellamy]

Wifey was out shopping so we took advantage and did some work in the warm. Man food and a carb rebuild.



Took ages, but it shouldn't leak now. Who ever had been at the carb before us had forced the bottom plate on the wrong way and bent it. > No wonder it leaked.

Some motivating pics of the turbo and carb popped on the engine.





Getting there. Hopefully we'll have the engine fitted at the weekend.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

purdy

[apbellamy]

The engine is just about ready to go in





It just needs the valve clearances setting, actuator adjusting, a turbo heat shield fabricating and filling with oil.

I ended up fitting the water heated/cooled oil filter housing as the starter and dizzy had clearance issues with the normal one.

[project mini chris]

Nice progress man! Engine looks sooo tidy, well done

[apbellamy]

Ta. All being well it will be back where it belongs tomorrow

[apbellamy]

I got the exhaust hung this morning. When John eventually showed the real work started.

We filled the engine up with oil, back filled the oil pump and turned it over on the starter. The dodgy oil preasure gauge pipe was blocked, so we're not sure how much preasure we got but it was enough to switch the oil preasure light signal. I made a pikey head shield.



Then we dropped the engine in



And made a start on plumbing it in.





It's going to be a little crowded under there when the intercooler is piped in and the oil catch tank is mounted.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

asbolutely AWESOME nice work mate love it now fit massive wheels and slam it and you'll have one bad ass metty

[John H]

Massive wheels & "slamming" it would make it inpractical for what we want it for. It would also look like a chav mobile which we most certainly are not.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

come on fat low cars look mean no matter what anyone thinks

[John H]

Fat low metro's, corsa's, fiesta's, saxo's etc tend to look like shoite in my opinion.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

lol far enough im a bit chavy when it comes to cars lefts face it ive got blue oval at my heart

[panelbeaterpeter]

I'm liking this. Alot

[GreaseMonkey]

The engine looks so lonesome in the metro bay with nothing connected up

Great work guys

Edited by GreaseMonkey, 22 November 2009 - 09:37 PM.