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I used oldskool graphogen on mine as have used it before with no issues. Most engine lube will do, pick your flavour, and use mineral oil on the other surfaces.

Engine build in full swing at the moment, currently lapping in a few valves as very minor leakage on exhaust due to carbon. Quick and dirty, as i have a full head job planned for next year if im happy with the setup on efi.
 
Long time no update. Head on and torqued up

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The parts quality is shocking for the C1j gtt engines now, had to die grind a channel in the waterpump casting so it would fit, shitty aftermarket parts. May ditch this for refurbed oem or new old stock if possible to find, will see how it goes.

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Fitted

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Cylinder head blank plate fitted, with coolant temp sensor for ecu

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Trial fitted stainless inlet manifold heatshield, not sure about this yet, will see when offering it up for the final time

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Spa Boost/Egt gauge turned up, so drilled exhaust manifold for the type k probe

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Stack dash mockup

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Made a plate out of leftover carbon fibre to house 2x 52mm gauges

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Started adding the necessary warning lights to the dash to keep it all road legal, small discreet led's. Excuse the old wiring behind, its all getting redone very soon to suit the stack dash.

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Engine bay cleaned up a little, the paint had come off the drivers side inner wing when some brake fluid weeped out of the res years ago. Quick rattle can job, as the full bodywork will receive some tlc in the near future.

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Painted a few bits for the engine bay. Used bed liner paint from Halfords, the finish is great and durable.
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Engine bay looking empty

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Dug out the flywheel and noticed the surface was a bit scored, which would have prob bedded in with the 4 paddle clutch, but then again might have caused issues.

Rang a couple of places local, and was quoted £60+ and over a week lead time. Found a family run machine shop down the road JJC Engineering, and they done it for me for a drink no bother. The owner is great, a fellow petrol head, highly recommended, and dont mind doing smaller jobs.

Done, clocked and turned on the lathe, decent flat surface for the paddle clutch to wreck.

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Give the driveshafts a clean and paint up too whilst in bits.

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Engine off stand

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60-2 flywheel and ap 4 paddle clutch fitted with valeo 480 turbo pressure plate, flywheel to crank bolts threadlocked and torqued to spec. Ring gear is a little bit worn, checked my old flywheel and it was even worse but worked ok, so just decided to send it

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Box and mounts on

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Back in the hole, went in smoothly with no damage.

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Started routing the wiring, fitted omex crank sensor bracket and ford tdc sensor, throttle and clutch cable back on, then called it a day.

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Its a good buzz finally seeing it back in the hole after a few years of nothing. Slow yet steady progress, and i hope i can get it fired up in 4-6 weeks, ready for the good weather.
 
Few more bits done yesterday, shafts refitted, pms shifter linkage fitted, alternator cleaned up and refitted. Seems to take an age to get the little bits cleaned up and done, but slow and steady wins the race i guess.

Mapping booked at Efi for late May so best crack on and get it done!!


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Thanks for reading!
 
Looks great Jon, looking forward to seeing the results. Be good to hear your thoughts on the quaife too as never got to use it in anger. You’ll love the shifter too, no doubt about that.
 
Cheers mate. Rocker cover is VHT wrinkle paint. I prefer the finish on the Halfords bed liner paint, seems to be more durable.
Interesting. Thats the stuff I did me Lotus plastics in.

Ill keep an eye out for the bed paint. I heard good things about that as well.
 
Looks great Jon, looking forward to seeing the results. Be good to hear your thoughts on the quaife too as never got to use it in anger. You’ll love the shifter too, no doubt about that.

Cheers Mark, im looking forward to seeing the difference with the quaife, shoud make quite a difference on acceleration coming out of corners. The shifter feels even better than my old pms on the kangoo, nice short positive feel.


Looks great @Brigsy 👍

What sort of money was the ceramic coating on the manifold?

Cheers Steve. Manifold coating was around £300 all in from Camcoat. I have just sent the downpipe away for similar coating too.
 
quite looking forward to this breaking out and hitting the tarmac. how ling do you think itll be?

Im hoping to have it roadworthy in the next 6-8weeks. Providing everything goes well, mapping booked for 30th May and get it to CSF. Not sure if its going on track yet, but never say never !
 
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