21 Turbo E921 BUR

[DaveL485]

Don't use that exhaust gasket, wont last five mins. You need the metal backed one. I cant find a pic at the min, ill see if I have one in the garage to snap.

This is vapour blast finish, they look sand blasted mate?

 

[NathanH21]

@DaveL485 Yeah I agree but they insisted they were vapour blasted as I queried the finish. I was shown the cabinet and a part that was being done, maybe just their technique. Cost me £225 for blasting and powder coat.
Link to said gasket?

 

[Red21]

 

[DaveL485]

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Top man!

 

[NathanH21]

PFA



Stainless inlet and exhaust studs

 

[NathanH21]

Finished repairing the pump outlet. Looks like new now.

 

[Brigsy]

Done a good job repairing that, should be fine with the resin

 

[DaveL485]

What resin did you use mate?

 

[NathanH21]

Gorilla glue. Gave it a coat of silver because I'm a tart.

 

[DaveL485]

Gorilla glue. Gave it a coat of silver because I'm a tart.

I repaired a cracked plastic duct with Gorilla Epoxy, it really is fab isnt it.

 

[NathanH21]

So satisfying to get this lot assembled. All fasteners are stainless now. Took the time to give the injectors, ISCV, throttle and other little bits a coat of paint.

 

[Brigsy]

Might be worth sticking the injectors in for a clean whilst out if not already done.

 

[NathanH21]

@Brigsy I should have done but there's no one local and I couldn't be bothered to post them.

Well happy with how the inlet has turned out. It's a ll about the details. I even stripped the throttle, cleaned the tiny needle bearings out and regreased them. Masked it up and gave it a quick coat of silver. Masked again and painted the linkage black.

 

[andybond]

Get those injectors out and get them cleaned mate. You will shoot yourself if the engine goes pop due to being lean from an injector.

 

[ren5gord]

I cleaned / flow tested the injectors at work and fitted new filters and o-rings just before i sold you the car but that was a while ago now.

Looking good though should last another 30yrs!!

 

[DaveL485]

Nice bit of attention to detail there mate, just got to do the same for the rest of the car now lol

 

[NathanH21]

Water pipe fixed. Coat of black when it's fully cured.

 

[NathanH21]

Went to pick up the head from skimming today. I wasn't happy with it, the finish was fine but it looks as though he's done a pass across half of the head and then another across the other half with a slight overlap in the middle. You can feel the overlap with your finder and it runs the length of the head across all the combustion chambers. Never known a head to be skimmed like that. Disappointed as I wanted to get the valves lapped in today. Away on holiday for 4 days now.

 

[DaveL485]

Went to pick up the head from skimming today. I wasn't happy with it, the finish was fine but it looks as though he's done a pass across half of the head and then another across the other half with a slight overlap in the middle. You can feel the overlap with your finder and it runs the length of the head across all the combustion chambers. Never known a head to be skimmed like that. Disappointed as I wanted to get the valves lapped in today. Away on holiday for 4 days now.

Thats very poor, I wouldnt have accepted that either!

 

[NathanH21]

Picked the cylinder head up this morning

Needless to say I refused to pay for the work. I was told it had been redone... I don't class rubbing the join with emery and 'polishing' the face so it's less noticeable. You can still make out the join just about but you can also still feel it.