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Gert-Jan Westerveld
Posted on: October 5th, 2007, 20:59:33 Quote Report to Moderator
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this is my spare engine
it is a inno engine  







I found it in a scrap yard, end I started it on the floor

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
Posted on: November 24th, 2007, 15:23:25 Quote Report to Moderator
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Hello

I planed to fit a spare engine bud sadly it isn't possible to make it a quick fit, so I've  put the engine in a corner fore another project.

Now I am going to rebuild my engine, to day I took of the gear linkage and a lot of the other stuff that needs to come of before we take the engine out.





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just a little fine tuning left to do.


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Good luck with the build, I hope your garage has a good heater.

 
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Gert-Jan Westerveld
Posted on: December 24th, 2007, 20:21:57 Quote Report to Moderator
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Hello, after a little time of work on another car. (bought myself a mini   for daily transport) end very busy with my new job. ( starting Feb 2008 )
I had to do some things on the Marcos, first is taking the engine out. We did some research of  this. We, is may dad and I.
The research said take the engine out trough the top, so we rented a hoist.
And started it, half way trough it be came clear it was a very tithe fit. We found it to tithe.
So the idea was, to put the engine back on its place, and take the sub frame and engine out from under the car. Because it is a holiday there was no time to get spec tools. So we did it with raw power. My brother and I , we picked the front of the car and lifted it over the engine and sub frame.
This went very well, although you need to coordinate the several steps.
As we are really good team players it worked really great.

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The approved method is to lift the body off the subframe. I can take the engine out single-handed, using a couple of jacks to raise the body and axle stands to support it. It's easier if you take the head off first and remove the head studs, so you don't need to raise the front so high.
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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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With the engine is on a work-bench, it is time to strip it. First of will be the clutch and flywheel, with the wright tools and a good medium hammer it sprung loose. (watch your feet)


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Neil KilBane
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just a little fine tuning left to do.


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Perhaps it's just me, but I can see the pics from your last 2 posts Gert-Jan

 
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Drive it as much as possible!


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I cant see them too!
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There are seven broken URLs which just return an empty page. That site just returns nothing unless you give it a valid argument. Try an alternative site like photobucket, or just upload the pics one at a time.

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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I don't get it.
I see them.  

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The site you've chosen uses Windows Live ID which guarantees it won't be compatible with a lot of browsers and platforms. Also it's possible that the site limits hot-linking to five images. As you have an account  that probably won't apply to you so you can see all of your own photos.

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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I still don't get it I always did it like this.

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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Today I removed the cylinder head, here I found an oil track.

I think de head gasket wasn't the right one. So now I am thinking of placing a copper gasket.

I also examined the studs and bolts, how often can we use these nuts and studs?

Some of these studs I measured and found out that the length has become longer then the spec's.



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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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I hope that you can see the photos.  

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John Dickens
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Mini Spares in London do higher quality cylinder head studs and nuts. In fact they do 2 types, their own and some incredibly priced versions. If you do fit a copper head gasket make sure it's a genuine one as there are some poor quality replacements out there.

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My preference is to use the black sticky gaskets for the Metro Turbo. They're made by Payen and I've never had any problems with them. The usual problem on 1275s (particularly if rebored) is that the thin bit between cylinders 2 and 3 blows out. In your case it looks like it was blowing between three of the cylinders and the push rod tubes. Perhaps the rear studs weren't properly torqued up?

The pic was OK!
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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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After measuring and a discussion with a engine builder  what is the best to do, the result is that there will be new pistons placed
(+ 0.40) and the rest will be checked so I have strip my engine.




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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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Today I collected the first parts fore the engine  






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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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This is one of the pistons I took out today,  one of  the piston rings came in 2 separate parts.


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My Omega forged dish 060 pistons will be here in the last week of january.
Now I have a 1293cc it will be 1330 after engine overhaul. Head is 31-37 very highly modified with bronze valve guides and racing rockers. Maybe I put a new racing head or fit the current one. Will post pics within a couple of weeks.
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Why are you going straight from +.020 to +.060?
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is was not a 1293 after all (I learned this week) it already had oversized pistons 040. Now it will be a 1330.

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Here they are. Recieved them yesterday.
Omega forged dish +060 6222.0.1


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next photo (I can only upload one at the time?)

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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Hello,
Wednesday is my engine  returning from the engine builder.
Sadly I am not able to see what the finished product will look like, as I am starting a new career. I hope to start the rebuild in a weekend in the near future.


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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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Hello I am back  
today started with building up  the engine

We first placed the camshaft and then placed the crankshaft and torqued it down and fitted the pistons.












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Several parts sand blasted,
some god a clear coat and some a spray of gold paint .








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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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Last parts sand blasted.


New tool a engine hoist.  


This is the old bearing of the primary gear we machined  it of and made the new one fit on a lathe.



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Very pleased with the end result, Its starting to look like a engine.











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Today fitted the cylinderhead and started with cleaning the sub-frame.




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At last, the engine is back in the sub-frame.
Lovely jobble. ???  


how the *$#@!?!!*** are we going to get the engine back in!!.

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How did you get it out??
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The normal way I suppose

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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the big moment is approaching engine is ready to be fitted.
It is not going in the way we  took it out.





We made us a things to do list, it is working, one day ahead.

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One word of warning - lagging the manifold is all very well, but the exhaust pipe will be very much hotter further down, where it  gets very close to the fibreglass. You might need to put some heat protection along the edge of the tunnel.

You'll probably want to remove the oil separator on the transfer gear casing in order to attach the engine stabiliser and bolt on the clutch slave cylinder.

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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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thanks fore the warning, the oil separator is mounted fore safety.

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Look how strong I am, I can lift the whole car my self.  




Look at my video
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the engine bay is finished.  

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Excellent work.
It has been nice to see all the photos of your hard work.
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I like your Hymo scissor lift!   That would make it so much easier.
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I have one problem may engine is leaking oil   I hope to repair this before the IMM   >

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Come on Gert-Jan, you can do it....
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Gert-Jan Westerveld
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I spend the hole Sunday (in the sun) repairing the oil-separator/distribution-cover.
it was leaking oil tomorrow is d-day. Than I will take look if its steel leaking.

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problem fixed.
To morrow on my birthday   I will put it together.  


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Happy Birthday Gert-Jan
Hope you've had a good day - Looking forward to seeing you again at Lelystad - And the car of course, parked next to mine...
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well done on the IMM win mate! it was nice to meet you too, i talked to you very briefly as you went off to see your friend do the sprint!

one of our lot won the modified bini class
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