Around 2000 miles after that build, we thought, she's run in, lets stuff her on the dyno. First run, she dropped a cylinder.
This somehow stayed around, after intake and IC being washed etc
Causing this
2000 mile old turbo and piston shot to bits
I acquired a used piston from JP that was 8.5-1 instead of 9.5-1 as these were, but thought, it would be a good time to machine a bit off to match the new piston CR and also remove the marks from them.
This ran for a year like this, only consuming 2 experimental turbos due to heat shield issues
She was a bit rattly in the mornings, maybe it was the oversize done by the engine company as they changed hands and the work wasn't found to be as good by the new owner, or my honing to remove as many marks i felt was safe/
I thought i'd acquire another block and start again before it casued any harm
Another rebuild, this time it was to rid myself of the over bored (45thou) block before i exploded it again to find i was lucky it survived this long.
OUT you come
That got hot, has the injector failed or the machining left it too thin??
Im sure the gaps were better than this when they went in.
So now she has another set of 8.5-1 JE pistons "donated" by Bill in there with new rings and the bores machined to 30thou over the size of each piston to ensure the bores match the pistons
A replacement turbo with a proper heat shield in place
Ported to match the gaskets, the adapter and the ports
Also a tweak to the output side of the comp cover
Some added gayness to keep my chav hand in.
I chose to put the supertech inlet valves back in too, so bought the 3 missing ones destroyed last time, to find i had 2 bent exhaust valves too, so have also replaced those. I assume the bend was heat over FOD as there was no witness marks at all. Oddly the car still ran on 4 and pulled fine. just proves you have no idea whats occuring till you look.
Hoping to find time to get her in and running this week, time will tell
