January 8, 20179 yr Well slowly gathering bits for my build, so far built 2.5 cdb short engine head gaskets water pump hawkeye sti engine rebuilt at 57k with failed headgasket at 106k to rob for parts, heads mainly, but also sump, baffle plate, etc etc to get engine mostly built up so car not off road for too long Used Full 3" turbo back system from a classic, bought and polished up
January 8, 20179 yr Author got a newage sti undertray to go with the sti cooler I bought off kershaw, it doesn't fit under the hawk scoop as the scoop is too low, there isn't a bigger scoop for the hawk, so am gonna fabricate an ally mad max one for it lol
January 12, 20179 yr Author On 8 January 2017 at 6:43 PM, savage bulldogs said: Me too ,best of luck with it piggy Cheers fellas
January 12, 20179 yr Author Have got a killer b oil pickup ordered, there is a company called funky power uk selling them on eBay, I emailed killer b Motorsport USA to ask if the funky power were genuine, they said they didn't have dealings with funky power so couldn't guarantee that they were, but killer b gave me a link to their French based supplier, so have one on order from them 👍
January 14, 20179 yr Author On 12 January 2017 at 11:37 PM, Scooby1972 said: Nice work so far keep up the good work😁as you no no pain no gain 😥😥 Long as the pain don't outweigh the gain lol 😆
January 18, 20179 yr Author Pick up arrived today, so that can go on with sump, then can get on with heads and porting headers, and get them fitted
January 19, 20179 yr Welcome to hall fame mate.got to make it good now [emoji6] Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk
January 19, 20179 yr Author Looks like headgasket has failed/is failing on my scoob, gonna try and nurse it along with kseal etc as not really at a point to get this done but if it goes good style then this may have to be brought forward (credit card taking a few broadsides) (accompanied by some very sideways looks from the wife)
January 19, 20179 yr Sorry to hear the original lump is spitting it's dummy out , what have you got left to get for the new lump ?
January 19, 20179 yr Wow... you really have had no luck with your current engine! Very fortunate you bought the new lump :D
January 19, 20179 yr Author 19 minutes ago, savage bulldogs said: Sorry to hear the original lump is spitting it's dummy out , what have you got left to get for the new lump ? Oil pump, cambelt kit, clutch, turbo, uppipe, flywheel (probs use one from my engine and get it skimmed, I think that's mostly it, gotta lap valves, fit new stem seals maybe get heads refaced/skimmed and get head stud holes drilled out to 14.2mm, I'm sure there's more tho lol oh, gonna do tumble valve delete too will order oil pump this week, was told to fit rcm 11mm by builder, so that what it'll have gotta find out about cambelt as want to be up near 380-400bhp and have read that probs need uprated belt ?
January 19, 20179 yr Author Oh, and I need two new ceramic ? Cambelt pulleys as I broke both getting them off, whoever had fitted the retaining bolts had used locktite on all 4 pulley bolts, I had to weld 19mm nuts to the Allen bolts as they would not come undone with an Allen set and beaker bar, just destroyed the bolt head, not a lot of fun that day lol
January 19, 20179 yr Someone like matty b @ mbdevelopments or Scott at pole position might have the cam pulleys in stock . I don't know if there's a particular limit to get a uprated belt but I went for the gates kevlar belt (half the price of the cossie one ) with New idler's and tensioner .
January 20, 20179 yr Author 10 hours ago, Sandals said: Wow... you really have had no luck with your current engine! Very fortunate you bought the new lump :D It's got 106k on it now, I've done one headgasket, I presume it's the other, is there a set time for a scoob hg to last, they seem to suffer from what I read, just can't see the point in spending any money or time on this lump, if I have to pull it it may as well stay out till other one is done 😕
January 20, 20179 yr 35 minutes ago, Piggysniffer said: It's got 106k on it now, I've done one headgasket, I presume it's the other, is there a set time for a scoob hg to last, they seem to suffer from what I read, just can't see the point in spending any money or time on this lump, if I have to pull it it may as well stay out till other one is done 😕 Yeh the 2.5's have a higher failure rate on the head gaskets and ringlands. Seen some go at around 50k... some don't go at all... just your luck it seems
January 20, 20179 yr Dunno anything thing about the compatibility or the seller but I spotted these Any good ?
January 20, 20179 yr Author 4 hours ago, savage bulldogs said: Dunno anything thing about the compatibility or the seller but I spotted these Any good ? Cheers mate, I got those ones, it's the exhaust ones I need, the ones without the avcs, I think I'm gonna take them off my engine when I pull it
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