Joey the VNT boosted 205!

[darrenjlobb]

Just as a little bit of an update to Toms thread, have been manically busy with a local panto / work just recently so sadly not been able to devote much time to this, but anyway, a few photos / updates to fill the thread up a bit, and hopefully make tom smile a bit heh.

So went over to toms to pickup his new bottom end as he is without a car largely at the moment:



Totally stock nearly bare block.



Tearing it down:







Rods and pistons out:



Pre deck clean and bare block:



OEM rods next to replacement rods:





And on the pistons:



New set of "used" bearings from a breakers yard, the ones with the rods were very worn, its very much a budget build, so rather than using new went for a "good" set of used, at the end of the day if theres meat on the bearings its not going to make a lot of difference in the grand sceme of things, but i told Tom to get something as wasnt happy with the old ones.



Re assembly after chemical cleaning the block:



Back together and a lick of paint:




Sump cleanout:



The ARP studs from my mtdi, i forced Tom to buy these from me as i have turbo plans for this engine and its just not worth the farce of lifting heads all the time for a set of studs, so they got banged in along with new MLS gasket.





Thats about as far as i got chance to get due to other commitments. hoping to tear old engine out / replace bent valves / get rest of motor built up asap, make adaptors etc for new blower, and get the thing back in the car / fix all the broken / dodgy wiring and exhaus and get it up and running.