Right it has been a while since i have updated this.
Well since the last post i have moved house and been busy really and then about 3 weeks ago i got a stage 3 ppp subframe fitted to replace my pps one. So after having that installed i took it for a drive and the handling was improved again. Big smiles for me. So left yoof's unit and then i was about 40 miles from and there was a supra and it had race him all over. So i did and then regret it as i melted a piston.
Ooppss!! So as i was searching for one, as i wanted the car running for bvf this year, yoof had one that had been fully rebuilt. So went and picked it up from him a few days later.
During the evenings and weekends i spent most of the time getting it ready to go in. But without an engine crane it was a little harder than usual but i coped.
Gave the block a paint and swapped over everything from my old block to the new block then i put it in with my mate.
Then we started putting all the ancillaries back on and the really awkward timing cover.
Then the head was put on and torqued down,
Everything else was reconnected and fitted and was looking really good and clean, except tb as i was waiting for a 51mm.
So me and my mate worked from 11 till 9 on a saturday and it was all done. Forgot to take a final picture though. We also made a modification on the jabba heat shield. We drilled into the filter and used a bolt and two nuts to lock it and secure it in place and then we made a little bracket up to fit the oil catch tank. All worked well and apart from being bright shiny red it looked good.
Unfortunately the next day after towing the g40 up to andy for a remap we struck a problem and took the plugs out to see if there was any oil on them, as we thought it might of been a piston problem. It was very hard to undo and instantly thought this isn't right. So it came put after a lot of hard work and looked like this
Something definitely not right there. Lots of swarf and metal shards everywhere and i thought i hope this isn't a bad as last time. Well that was a misjudgement lol.
Day after this happened i just wanted to take the head off to see what was the damage. After about an hour and half the head was off and looking like this
I turned round to look at the block and saw this
Pretty sure that piston shouldn't look like that.
So after a long two weeks of really putting a new engine back in i left in the same situation as i was in when the piston got melted.
I was thinking of selling up but the amount of power i was making felt a lot more during the remap with 3 of us in the car compared to when it was just me in the car before the bvh went on.
Only option it leaves me with is to get one of my bottom ends re-bored and fit forged pistons and then send my head off to be a bvh. Cant get rid of this car. Love it to much.