Lee's Garage

[William]

yes mr rutherford your no-show on Saturday certainly pissed off a few people

[lee303]

Ferrari sunglasses

lmao

[spanishfly]

lmao @ German Lees Ferrari glases!

[lee303]

*waves nonchalantly*

[jr@corsasport]

yes mr rutherford your no-show on Saturday certainly pissed off a few people

in what sense

q: Can you make saturday

a: no as im going to lee's to drop off some bits to Ian and do some engine work

how did that annoy people lmao

[Brian_S]

I fixed the lathe. Yay, can I call myself a CNC programmer now? lol

JR, I bunged your valves in the lathe and "wasted" them! lmao

[Brian_S]

oh, and anyone any good with an airbrush? i think this would look awesome!lmao

Make it so...

[William]

in what sense

q: Can you make saturday

a: no as im going to lee's to drop off some bits to Ian and do some engine work

how did that annoy people lmao

"ive got to go to lee's to do engine stuff and drop some bits of for Ian, but may pop in on the way back"

I dont see any No's in that reply?

[lee303]

ooof, getting tetchy in herelmao

Brian, the lathed up piece looks bloody awesome, nice work mate! looking forward to finding an excuse to make something now!!
see you up there tonight, when i shall take the bender poster so i can get a sticker made

[William]

dont stop with the poster, paint the nova silver and paint a big bender face on the bonnet with arms going down the sides and the front flap on the roof.

[lee303]

trouble is i cant just peel that off when i grow tired of it

[William]

get the sticker guy/girl to photoshop bender so he has Ferrari sunglasses on

[lee303]

lol, not sure even bender is cool enough for them tbh

[lee303]

so, an almost normal tuesday night update, must be getting back into the swing of things!
firstly i mot proofed( i hope) the nova, including fitting normal headlight bulbs again and trimming the sharp splitter edge with some rubber(temporary fix)

that done it was time to do JR's head, firstly i measured all the chambers and they are all 46cc, so thats a bonus
then i had to lap the valves in, pic whore for jr's sake...
take one unlapped valve

add some grinding paste

get your twizle stick out

add some garage sustenance

and you'll soon have a result like this on every valve, note the nice smooth continous grey line round the valve

and the seat

generally this means you;re done, but i like to check for a seal with some white spirit, and and they all sealed up lovely, so that part done, time for a good clean up of the head, lapping paste is not the best to leave in a fresh engine!! so marked the valves so i knew where to put them back...

also cleaned the inlet and exhaust faces, they seemed like they needed it


then its time for assembly, all these bits need to go in there somewhere, and dont forget to put the spring seats in before you fit the stem seals!!

and grease the valve tips to stop them shredding the new seals as you install, also helps hold the collets

some swearing, a greased screwdriver and a pair of needle nose pliers later, and we're done!

looks nice and at home here

now you have a bigger covered up lump in the garage jameslmao

oh, and also, i might have maybe stamped this into your head so in years to come when someone finds the head in a scrappie somewhere they can read that and think it must have been some uber special better than cosworth edition, or something...
also, in exciting news, the lathe is fully functional now, look it even does stuff by itself to a programme!

making some lovely bits now...

and they're all on file and repeatable!

[Kev_G]

love the work

but this is awesome lmao

[spanishfly]

Shonkyopels FTMFW!!!!! love it! Any Sunglasses pics?

[peester]

youll be getting the phone calls from total vauxhall at this rate.
nice machine

[William]

sunglasses pics needed.

at least you spelt shonky right this time!! great work lee

[jr@corsasport]

many thanks for your school night engine building, and proving with pics brian hasnt done something weird with my vavles etc

lathe and shonkyopels is awsome

[TiGrasshole]

teach me ! lol

[jr@corsasport]

btw i really want to have something made on the lathe, no idea what, but something lmao

[flatout]

i cant believe the valves werent powdercoated before fitment..........

[Giles]

I was gonna get Brian to make me up a new lower pole section for the washing line as the misses stuck all heavy towels on one side so it bent over in the wind.
However due to argos's lax attitude to returns she managed to swap it out yesterday.

Shame. I was looking forward to a blue anodized lower pole section.


Close to getting the engine in the car then JR?
I'll be at the ring next year with my pug (of not so much noise as the cav). You taking yours?

Lee - you will look super cool in your sunnies doing your present.

[spanishfly]

Giles hopefully i'll be making the noise

[Giles]

Shrieks of delight?