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Love it, dont get much better sights than that !!! Even with the engine in bits you still manage to make it look neat an tidy..like your car !! Top work ! great thread ! will keep watching 
Thanks mate.
All the lads in the garage keep laughing at me because I keep cleaning my tools and putting them away as they leave theres lying everywhere
All the lads in the garage keep laughing at me because I keep cleaning my tools and putting them away as they leave theres lying everywhere
best way to be !! rather that than them going rusty and loosing everything !! would love to see this beast in the flesh...maybe when its back on the road ill see it at a show sometime !!!
Coming along nicely now was the rods hard to take out and have you.marked the timing or just stripped it down
Not at all, everything is covered in the Haynes.
Timing is marked on the crank sprocket but you can't really go wrong because you can easily tell when it's at TDC, the head is marked with the cam cover.
Timing is marked on the crank sprocket but you can't really go wrong because you can easily tell when it's at TDC, the head is marked with the cam cover.
Love your updates, car off road.... next thing engine stripped. Brilliant so abrupt. Reminds me of mine, I want to do it again now.
Its actually been slow going Joe, would say I have only spent about 8-10 hours on it so far.
Timescale wise James, this garage is being emptied in March so I guess I have till then, which is usually when I retax the car anyway after the winter months.
Timescale wise James, this garage is being emptied in March so I guess I have till then, which is usually when I retax the car anyway after the winter months.
Yup, looks that way, going to do it right, 20mm rods, 83mm Mahle pistons and stronger end caps, want to do the bottom end for a bit more power if I want to go down that route again in the future.
I am going to do the exhaust valves too but its alot easier to take the head off to do the inlets in the future, than it is to strip the bottom end down.
Wings have been removed for some custom engine bay work, going to do some smoothing, weight saving and wheel clearance work,
I am going to do the exhaust valves too but its alot easier to take the head off to do the inlets in the future, than it is to strip the bottom end down.
Wings have been removed for some custom engine bay work, going to do some smoothing, weight saving and wheel clearance work,
Sounds like your going to be a busy guy.. This is going to be an animal.. Good luck with it all bud
Started on the engine bay today, see who can spot what's been removed or smoothed.
Also put the front end back on to line things up incase there's any welding to be done.
Got a price on a rebore, £120 which seems reasonable. They need the pistons to finish the bore off so that will have to wait, I want to get Christmas out the way and start my new job before I commit to over £1000 of engine parts.
Also put the front end back on to line things up incase there's any welding to be done.
Got a price on a rebore, £120 which seems reasonable. They need the pistons to finish the bore off so that will have to wait, I want to get Christmas out the way and start my new job before I commit to over £1000 of engine parts.
i see you have removed the battery bracket and other bits in there wish i had done mine while i was at it but ill do it again next year been without it for so long it just needs to be on the road ill get management and my cage in before i carry on with fully flushing the bay.
keep up the good work mate
keep up the good work mate
Pretty much, smoothed a few holes where grommits were aswell, also cut the whole sides out where the chassis legs join onto wing area, but these are getting totally filled in and welded so they will be stronger than before.
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Big up for all the effort you're putting into your car mate! One of the best looking Ibizas I've seen.
The thing I really wondered your front bumper. I mean the hole for the FMIC. Any pictures of how has it been done? You know when you cut out the middle "line" (non native english, sorry) which would be covering the FMIC, how are the sides adjusted then to make it look so "oem"? Looks really great!
The thing I really wondered your front bumper. I mean the hole for the FMIC. Any pictures of how has it been done? You know when you cut out the middle "line" (non native english, sorry
) which would be covering the FMIC, how are the sides adjusted then to make it look so "oem"? Looks really great!Similar threads
