randomfactor
23-07-2006, 21:38
Fellow Brutalers.
Started the engine at 1930 today. I am very thankful for all of the quality advice and info on this site, I wouldn't even have thought of swapping engine if I hadn't seen this before. Certainly, it would have been significantly more difficult without Paul's howto guides.
The engine itself runs nicely, no nasty knocks or tapping, in fact it runs like a little watch. I gave it a slight blip of the throttle, but not too much yet, it can wait for the airfilter and some water in the chargecooler.
There's no exhaust or air filter on it yet, and there's a whole list of other little jobs to do before I can take it for a spin. But it runs !rotflmao
I have tried uploading an avi, 8.5mb but nothing's happened. Too big? If so, I'll put the file on my server and add a link sometime this week
Basically, the car has a chargecooler on a rev1 engine, with rev3 parts to remove the airflow meter and an Apexi computer. I have a spreadsheet that shows the necessary re-pinning, we don't seem to have one on here and it might be of use to someone else. Obviously, there is no ecu pin for TVIS on the rev3 plugs, does anyone know if the system defaults to fully open or closed when disconnected?
There have been a couple of setbacks, a split fuel line and yesterday I worked out that the camshaft timing was miles out because I used the same alignment process as my Rover, before I got a workshop manual cd. That method gave me a 90 degree error and nothing at all happened when I tried to start it!!! I corrected it today and the engine started immediately. There is actually alot more space than I expected for cambelt work.
I might take a week of work to get it done before the end of the summer.
Cheers
Guy
Started the engine at 1930 today. I am very thankful for all of the quality advice and info on this site, I wouldn't even have thought of swapping engine if I hadn't seen this before. Certainly, it would have been significantly more difficult without Paul's howto guides.
The engine itself runs nicely, no nasty knocks or tapping, in fact it runs like a little watch. I gave it a slight blip of the throttle, but not too much yet, it can wait for the airfilter and some water in the chargecooler.
There's no exhaust or air filter on it yet, and there's a whole list of other little jobs to do before I can take it for a spin. But it runs !rotflmao
I have tried uploading an avi, 8.5mb but nothing's happened. Too big? If so, I'll put the file on my server and add a link sometime this week
Basically, the car has a chargecooler on a rev1 engine, with rev3 parts to remove the airflow meter and an Apexi computer. I have a spreadsheet that shows the necessary re-pinning, we don't seem to have one on here and it might be of use to someone else. Obviously, there is no ecu pin for TVIS on the rev3 plugs, does anyone know if the system defaults to fully open or closed when disconnected?
There have been a couple of setbacks, a split fuel line and yesterday I worked out that the camshaft timing was miles out because I used the same alignment process as my Rover, before I got a workshop manual cd. That method gave me a 90 degree error and nothing at all happened when I tried to start it!!! I corrected it today and the engine started immediately. There is actually alot more space than I expected for cambelt work.
I might take a week of work to get it done before the end of the summer.
Cheers
Guy