Lee's Garage

[The Simps]

Its coming along mate!

I know you've told me this before but why don't you bother running the overflow to the header? something to do with the electric pump?

[lee303]

yeah, basically if you have that open to the header, the pump just empties the end tank on the radiator then sucks in air from the top of the header, rather than drawing water through the rad, leading to mucho cavitation, would more than likely be fine if the rad over flow was on the other side of the radiator, but blocking it off isnt a big deal, no thermostat either as the controller deals with tthe temp by pulsing the pump when needed

[alistairolsen]

pump and controller sound cool, I assume if you fitted on to a road car tho, youd have no heater till everything was up to temp?

Yes, shonky fords suck, but the 3x2 foot rusty hole is now finished!

[LongLiveTheNova]

That exhaust manifold is seriously cool

[lee303]

pump and controller sound cool, I assume if you fitted on to a road car tho, youd have no heater till everything was up to temp?

Yes, shonky fords suck, but the 3x2 foot rusty hole is now finished!

yeah, you can run them with a stat though, and the heater would work like a normal car, but when i have no heater matrix or bypass circuit on this engine due to the tbs and the way i piped it, it needs to run sans stat
glad the ford is donelmao

That exhaust manifold is seriously cool

cheers, reccomend matt at simpsons alot tbh, his welds and collectors are awesome!

[lee303]

righty, well had a delivery or two today, which was nice...

parts include, new bearing for cambelt idlers, alternator top adjuster, crank sensor extension harness, some thermotech wrap and a freshly skimmed head with new guides fitted and seats recut!
so, first things first, take one freshly skimmed head

and cc the chamber to check my maths and the guys skimming its' measuring!

handily it all works out as i expected, 12.08 - 1 compression
had to cc it with the old valves though as the new ones dont fit, they are 0.1 mm bigger in diameter though so they wouldnt!
need to phone bowyer to check whether they are meant to be that diameter or not(4.95mm) before i do any guide reaming/brush honing though...

so, did th eother stuff i could get on with instead of the planned valve lapping in session,
firstly did the bearings in the idler, old one in the center, circlips not refitted yet

then chekced the alternator adjuster fitted(read played with it as it looks cool!)

also fitted a blank to the dipstick tube hole as i wont be needing that anymore...

and lastly, clamped the exhaust on its jig in a vice and, wearing my best GLC velour tracksuit and sovereigns, got to 'rappin yo'lmao

getting there slowly...

[Benn]

Going nicely dude, whys the manifold in the jig?

[lee303]

because it slips apart so easily that its just easier to have it clamped up in place, also makes it easier to wrap as you can pull the wrap tight against it

[Benn]

Ah are the ports not linked at the flange end then?

[Steve!]

doubt it

[Dec.]

mmm.... like the alternator adjuster

[lee303]

Ah are the ports not linked at the flange end then?

two of the primaries are, but not all together no, and the secondaires are slip joints too

mmm.... like the alternator adjuster

nice huh? SBD

[novashed]

some nice progress lee, alt adjuster very tasty, will be done on mine somepoint but not priority similar to SBD item?

[jonlem]

Looking good Lee. it can't be long now till its finally done ?

Novashed- good to meet you the other day

[lee303]

some nice progress lee, alt adjuster very tasty, will be done on mine somepoint but not priority similar to SBD item?

yeah, tis an SBD one, couldnt be arsed to source an adjuster and the joints when they have it on the shelf!

Looking good Lee. it can't be long now till its finally done ?

depends how long the headgasket takes to arrive i guess, and the current valve sizing problem, dry sump tank and bits will be here friday though apparently, so i have a bit to get on with...

[novashed]

Novashed- good to meet you the other day[/quote]

likewise mate, nice to put a face to a name, cheers for the advice BTW.

[lee303]

head is now gonna be sent off to bowyer to re-size the guides for me, not particulrly happy with ring engineering for deforming them when fitting though

[Brian_S]

head is now gonna be sent off to bowyer to re-size the guides for me, not particulrly happy with ring engineering for deforming them when fitting though

Bummer. Guess their special tool wasn't actually *that* special. Will be good to get Bowyer on the case though - should just be a quick ream.

[lee303]

unfortunately so apparently reaming isnt the way to go so they will be honed, headgasket has been sent to be laser scanned though

[stuartp]

ive just had to catch up and read the last 4 pages took me ages lol.
Looking very good lee,

tell me to shut the **** up but isint it better to soak exhaust wrapp in water before fitting it, ive been told it swells (lengthens) it and keeps the dust particals down. then when it drys it strinks back and tightens. of course this is pub talk lol.

keep up the good work mate.
stu

p.s. if i knew them spanners were from the usa i would have bought some back.

[lee303]

www.summitracing.com for spanners
as for the wrap, yeah, some people soak it before fitting, but this is just to keep the fibres down, cant see any advantage of it shrinking or whatever, but hey, horses for courses and all that

[Sonique]

maybe write the GM number ??

[lee303]

i will get the part number for you when i am next at the garage and post it up here

[lee303]

why cant companies just do what they say they are going to do? pace have apparently not sent my order yet, despite it being ready to go, meaning i wont get it till tuesday, FOR ****S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! totally fed up of companies not doing what they promise to do, currently waiting for the MD to ring me to discuss it as i want it put in a taxi to me now and the woman i spoke to couldnt authorise that

[Rick Draper]

Join the club, CP are still messing around with my piston rings which has stopped my whole build. It takes the piss that they have your money and do not send you the stuff.