The resurrection of the racing......

[Tommy D]

Picked up a racing with a blown engine at a bargain price.

[Tommy D]

First job was to give the car a good clean and remove all of the aftermarket decals.

[Tommy D]

Tucked up in the corner of the garage.

[Chris_Blue]

good luck

[Funky]

It looks a belter. The very best of luck getting it back up and running!!

[Ohmygoditsme]

Looks great! Good luck getting it back up and running, look forward to seeing the progress

[Tommy D]

After inspecting the engine supplied with the car I found that one of the pistons had broken up in two places.

[Tommy D]

https://www.flickr.com/gp/141249507@N05/B4rR35

[Tommy D]

[Tommy D]

794D4451-3B80-400C-8B22-3EC9CC82436F by Tom Mann, on Flickr


As you can see the bore has two 'nicks' in it.
The maximum permissible bore size is 77.50mm, the standard is 77.00mm.
In this case the cylinder cannot be re-bored to account for the damage.

[Tommy D]

Some more pictures of the pistons (now I have worked out how to sort the links out).

E2D08291-583C-4F81-83C9-8F74ABD35EA1 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

2213FA29-92B2-4DEB-84AE-28AAAD18D8F5 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

[Tommy D]

After a week of searching for engines, this came up on e-bay.
I won the auction and got it at the bargain price of only £240.

New engine by Tom Mann, on Flickr

[Tommy D]

Stripping the cylinder head.

IMG_0070 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

IMG_0073 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

[Tommy D]

As most of you already know, fouling of the intake valves is very common on these engines.
This one has suffered from the same concern.

IMG_0078 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

IMG_0079 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

[Tommy D]

It wasn't to bad of a job to clean the valves up.

I scraped most of it off using a plastic tool.
The valves were put in a drill and spun up, I held a scourer sponge (soaked in WD40) over the carbon deposits.
The result was some nice clean valves.


IMG_0082 by Tom Mann, on Flickr

IMG_0083 by Tom Mann, on Flickr