Hey Mark,
No good news unfortunately, its actually a bit embarrassing! But the bottom end is toast. After my last post I decided to open up the bottom end for an inspection before chucking it back in the chassis, it was obvious what the problem was. The bearings where completely hammered! The ****** oil pump was loose! I guess this is what happens when your phone never stops ringing and your forever stopping what your doing. Needless to say the crank was gouged really heavily so there was no rescuing that, the bearings were also knackered, even rods in cyl 1&2 have been so hot they must have been glowing in the sump! God knows how they didn't snap, there a nice colour now though lol, but useless and all finished off in only 2 miles.
So yes I'am an idiot and yes I have already paid the price, namely £500 worth of fresh sheets to rebuild it. On the brightside though, the block survived as did the pistons. I've also learned some valuable lessons.....
1. Turn your phone off and lock yourself in a room when building engines, distractions cause the mother of all balls ups!
2. I've Stopped hand tightening bolts in, I leave them sticking out until there torqued down now.
3. Tighten your f@cking oil pump down!
4. Get an oil pressure gauge.
So at the moment the motor is back in a million pieces, Ive spent a week cleaning out the mess and luckily none of it got into the head or turbo, just scattered itself around the bottom end. I have a new crank on the way (well actually a complete motor) This time I will hang on to the 2.0 litre block as its essentially the same as an 058 block just has a taller deck height, just in case. I've also ordered a new set, yes all 4 Integrated Engineering rods, I would have happily run the cylinder 3&4 rods again except Integrated Engineering don't have any in stock with comparable weights so some serious balancing would have been required. There also sending out some new bearings to get this thing back together. So all in all I dropped a big one, I guess im lucky to get another shot at building this motor. Should be back together & rolling in another week.