Skip to Page 31 for latest rethink of the whole project....
SKIP TO PAGE 8 FOR THE BEGINING OF THE COMPOUND PROJECT.
PAGE 27 for start up
PAGE 29 for swapping from compound turbo to Twincharger setup
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Yeah here we go again. After a short break with nothing to do with cars for a while I have felt a bit lost. Even with a little Kawasaki track bike project on the go at the same time. I keep looking at the couple of 1.8t engines I have laying about in bits and thinking I really need to do something with them. Call it mechanical OCD or what ever I keep comming back to them.
So I have decided to start up another project and do something with at least one of them.
I wanted to really plan this one out so I don't go off track with crazy ideas and don't properly finish it like previously.
However I haven't really done much planning, just a rough idea of doing something simple and not extreme. So far I'm thinking of a little internally gated gtx2867r on a 1.8t, or a bbt k360. Then slinging it in a cheap Mk4 based beetle or something.
All I really know is it'll be over a long period and I'll start with the engine.
So a little recap on what I have previously done to the head.
I got this engine that had come out of a AWD skoda that had only done about 50k miles, pulled it all apart and cleaned up the head. Then ported it a little.
So on to what I have done today.
I pulled the head out from under the bench and spent a fair while cleaning it up again. It was full of dust drill swarf and what not. Once the head was cleaned, I gathered up my valve lapping stuff and made a start on lapping in the cleaned up standard valves.
After a bit of caveman fire starting technique, I had a nice dull grey band around the whole valve seat and valve head
That's one done, just another 19 to go hahaha
Then after a fair while a few more were done
That'll be it for today I think
SKIP TO PAGE 8 FOR THE BEGINING OF THE COMPOUND PROJECT.
PAGE 27 for start up
PAGE 29 for swapping from compound turbo to Twincharger setup
..................................
Yeah here we go again. After a short break with nothing to do with cars for a while I have felt a bit lost. Even with a little Kawasaki track bike project on the go at the same time. I keep looking at the couple of 1.8t engines I have laying about in bits and thinking I really need to do something with them. Call it mechanical OCD or what ever I keep comming back to them.
So I have decided to start up another project and do something with at least one of them.
I wanted to really plan this one out so I don't go off track with crazy ideas and don't properly finish it like previously.
However I haven't really done much planning, just a rough idea of doing something simple and not extreme. So far I'm thinking of a little internally gated gtx2867r on a 1.8t, or a bbt k360. Then slinging it in a cheap Mk4 based beetle or something.
All I really know is it'll be over a long period and I'll start with the engine.
So a little recap on what I have previously done to the head.
I got this engine that had come out of a AWD skoda that had only done about 50k miles, pulled it all apart and cleaned up the head. Then ported it a little.
So on to what I have done today.
I pulled the head out from under the bench and spent a fair while cleaning it up again. It was full of dust drill swarf and what not. Once the head was cleaned, I gathered up my valve lapping stuff and made a start on lapping in the cleaned up standard valves.
After a bit of caveman fire starting technique, I had a nice dull grey band around the whole valve seat and valve head
That's one done, just another 19 to go hahaha
Then after a fair while a few more were done
That'll be it for today I think