L322 Well well well, look what the cat dragged in..

Flattery, and this early in the morning, start as you mean to go on

holidaychicken said:

Flattery, and this early in the morning, start as you mean to go on

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You deserve it mate. will you be pulling the head /s off today

i'm not sure yet, i need to make some adjustments to my work shop as my girlfriend needs to use the kitchen table and sink for some other bull**** jobs apparently

holidaychicken said:

i'm not sure yet, i need to make some adjustments to my work shop as my girlfriend needs to use the kitchen table and sink for some other bull**** jobs apparently

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You accuse me of being slow,I'll put it down to the early hourleave the kitchen and just pull the head off.

holidaychicken said:

i'm not sure yet, i need to make some adjustments to my work shop as my girlfriend needs to use the kitchen table and sink for some other bull**** jobs apparently

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Tell her to buy a couple of jet boils. Cooking, coffee , in one and no dishes to wash

Good idea, I’m ok For a bit now, at least until she works out how to breath under water.

Well I have broken ground on my new project, one spark plug was already out, cylinder 3 so I guess that’s the baddy but spark plug 4 looks very oily.
The inside of the cam covers leads me to think it still has the original oil in it that it left the factory with...


That’s all I got for now ...

Fookin foul.

I hate to know what the bottom end and oil galleries look like!

I was thinking the same although i have seen a lot worse. Needless to say i will be pulling this apart down to it's last woodscrew and piece of gorilla tape

holidaychicken said:

I was thinking the same although i have seen a lot worse. Needless to say i will be pulling this apart down to it's last woodscrew and piece of gorilla tape

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Had it been run for a long time without at thermostat? My mates CX looked the same,when the thermostat was replaced and ran at normal temp.all that crap ended up in the sump and kept blocking the oil pick up strainer.it took quite a few oil changes to sort it. At least the CX had a plate on the sump to give you access to the strainer.

Well I whipped the heads off today and it could be worse , only 7 out of the 8 bores look like “ please insert own inuendo relating to ragged bores here please”
I’m not sure if the aluminium liners are suitable for repairing all the bores so it could be iron liners or scrap as I’d like to keep the standard pistons if possible.

Thats not pretty Andy....

It is almost as bad as it can be but I suppose that is sort of the idea, there are some interesting developments with coating technology but whether that is feasible for reconditioning is the first question and the second is if it means different pistons and rings are required to run in that material then you might as well use iron or steel liners. My issue at the moment is getting the Jesus bolt out without the engine being bolted to 2.5 tonnes of car. I need to borrow the 5 ft breaker bar again and I can use the holding tool against the floor, I may just have to get Alan to sit on the block in his favourite reverse cow girl position while I work the 5 ft pole and hope nothing breaks ..

Cannot believe the closeness of the bores on that engine. Surprised it doesn't melt instantly.

If looked after the engines run for over 200K miles or more, But the close cylinders are a challenge when looking at reconditioning, I haven’t measured but the wall thickness is 6 mm approx and the minimum wall thickness of the Alusil liners is 1.5 mm so that only leaves 3 mm maximum of original material.
I am looking at other options regarding ‘special’ liners.

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holidaychicken said:

It is almost as bad as it can be but I suppose that is sort of the idea, there are some interesting developments with coating technology but whether that is feasible for reconditioning is the first question and the second is if it means different pistons and rings are required to run in that material then you might as well use iron or steel liners. My issue at the moment is getting the Jesus bolt out without the engine being bolted to 2.5 tonnes of car. I need to borrow the 5 ft breaker bar again and I can use the holding tool against the floor, I may just have to get Alan to sit on the block in his favourite reverse cow girl position while I work the 5 ft pole and hope nothing breaks ..

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I'm on my way with my cow girl outfit, I cannot resist you pole dancing.

i am picking up a 6 foot breaker bar / scaffold tube this week

As much as I love my little 1/4” ratchet, stepping it up to a 3/4 drive to undo my crank bolt just wasn’t working..
It was time for a bit of red neck engineering.
I tried a 6 foot breaker bar but the engine kept lifting so I strapped it down to a large plank of wood, parked my RR on the plank and bob’s your mothers brother
Options for this engine.
Sleeve down to 4.0, sleeve to 4.4 but leaves cylinders perilously close together, bore out to 4.6 and rehone but damage is deep and pistons are expensive or rare, steel or iron liners and new pistons, bore out damage, hone and make myself some custom pistons and whatever happens it is destined for a supercharger and or the bin

That’s not a breaker bar , this is a breaker bar.
This one is small , that one is far away ...

Plasma spray bore

holidaychicken said:

As much as I love my little 1/4” ratchet, stepping it up to a 3/4 drive to undo my crank bolt just wasn’t working..
It was time for a bit of red neck engineering.
I tried a 6 foot breaker bar but the engine kept lifting so I strapped it down to a large plank of wood, parked my RR on the plank and bob’s your mothers brother
Options for this engine.
Sleeve down to 4.0, sleeve to 4.4 but leaves cylinders perilously close together, bore out to 4.6 and rehone but damage is deep and pistons are expensive or rare, steel or iron liners and new pistons, bore out damage, hone and make myself some custom pistons and whatever happens it is destined for a supercharger and or the bin
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That’s not a breaker bar , this is a breaker bar.
This one is small , that one is far away ...
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Got to love that 1/4 drive ratchet pic!