With engine and gearbox ready to go, its time to put the two together… dun, dun, duhhhhhh!!!Īnd so begins the “out with the old, in with the new” special thanks to Will and Kate for getting married giving me a long weekend to do the swap over (I later find out that the bonnet won’t close like this lol) anyways… Took another delivery of intake pipe work and silicone hoses the same bore as the intake and MAF, measured up the spacing and made up my pipe, wasn’t keen on the banana pipe Once that was all done I got trigger happy with the rattle cans and painted it… Again, a second hand part from a salvage yard, so was cleaned and cleaned again, old oil drained and flushed through with evaporating cleaner and again flushed with clean oil. Now that the engine is pretty much finished to the point that I can’t do anymore till it’s in the car, I turned my attention to the gearbox. Right side up again, the rocker cover sitting up like that as there is a timing bar across the cams holding it timed up for the cam beltĪll covered up, anyone know where I can get a clear cam cover?įitted the exhaust manifold and HO after again cleaning and painting, the exhaust manifold is temporary as I want to get a better tubular one. Had a massive delivery of new parts, gasket sets, new cam followers, plugs and leads, cam belt kit, aux belt, top section of cam belt cover as was missing when bought engine, fiesta zetec rear mount (lucky for me my car already had the mount holes already present), GTI IB5 gearbox, maf and banana pipe, air filter and HO inlet New water pump fitted, awaiting gen ford oil pump gasketįitted the alternator which came with the engine, I stripped it out and refurbished it with new bearings and new internals. The gold thing is holding the flywheel locked at TDC, I also have the timing pin in the front of the block I have fitted a CVH alternator bracket to this as I am not using the aircon and power steering so that mounting bracket went bye, bye, and I save a lot of weight using this mount. So here is a long list of pics after clean up and painting and the beginning of rebuild. I haven’t got any tear down pics, but I guess all of you know what a dirty oily engine looks like… reason for tear down was, I didn’t know engines history and I wanted to clean it up and paint it. So I got it home and left it in the car for the weekend, where on the following week I took it to my work and began to remove everything on it. I removed my passenger seat and went to pick up this new engine, once I got there it was showing promise as it had all the extra bits that I wasn’t expecting to find, inlet, exhaust, pas pump, air con pump, only downer was the wiring loom was cut off and not unclipped. So I carried on with the gutless run around until it decided to start playing up again, destroyed a cat every year for MOT and was throwing oil everywhere… one look on eBay found me a Escort GTI Zetec engine for £60, bargin!!! I drove this then for 5 years as it was, putting up with the constant 1.1i engine issues that everyone seems to be having these days, constant cutting out etc… after a while of watching my Speedo drop from 80 on motorways to 50 whilst going up hill I was getting a bit fed up with it and thought of dropping in a 1.6 cvh, which a mate had, but he blew that up shortly after lol.
MIGHTY CAR MODS HOW TO INSTALL OIL CATCH CAN MOD
In that time, I had done, alloys, spoiler, gave it a 2 tone paint job, KnN filter with 360 degree air flow mod to air box (kinda like American muscle cars have),a real cheap excuse as a oil catch can which I forgot to empty, mostly it filled up with condensation from the short runs to work I drove, M3 mirrors and Lexus lights (I know most people hate em, but then if that’s the case no one else will have them on their cars ha-ha) and fitted a 3” rolled exhaust… This right here is a Fiesta Sapphire 1.1i MK3.5 and according to we buy any car, it’s a special edition… I.e., came with heated front screen, electric windows, central locking and dual airbags So here we go into what has so far been a very long journey for this car… here she is as of 2 weeks of buying it… Please note, this is a project log of work already done with the pics I had taken sorry if there are parts missing that make no sense, I am trying to put them into order so that its pretty much all there…
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