Chronicles of a 13BT swap......

[captainbizzaro]

Yeah TII box sorted just gotta pick it up-I\'ve got bits currently waiting all over the south of england-just gotta pull my finger out and pick it all up!

Have you had any luck with a propshaft - best quote Ive had so far to mate an S2 to a TII prop is £300 plus vat!

[RamoNZ]

What? I believe Bish got one from Turbo-prop(?) in Surrey for £180, and I got quoted £90+posting  from a company up north which I forget now but might have to try and find out again!
 
Its really not a hard job - no idea why people want so much cash to do it... I\'m not going to say "If I was in New Zealand...." but I certainly am thinking it...

[captainbizzaro]

Haha-I nearly said to the bloke on the phone "WTF all you gotta do is take the two props I give you and make one then make sure it doesn\'t rattle my car to death!" but he was a right misery so I just laughed and said my goodbyes.

Anyways-good to hear it isn\'t going to cost quite that much.

[captainbizzaro]

Afternoon off today which saw me making a beeline for the shed and the wife left wondering where I vanished too...

So first job was a right ballache had to scrape the remaining gasket left after the 13B front cover was removed. After that it was good times and luckily the 12AT gasket I chose off of a fuzzy microfiche was correct-so on went the front cover....



Then more scraping of gunk ready for sump and Keith\'s kind donation being put in it\'s new home...



Then that magic gasket stuff came out to play and on went the sump...



Also in todays episode I picked up an EFI counterweight and oil cooler from rxmotors...




So plenty to get on with-once I\'ve picked the gearbox and clutch/flywheel assembly up in theory it is ready to go in although there is a whole load more emissions guff to get off of the engine and the relevant blank plates fitted thereafter.

[Steve-A]

Looking good Tim. Thats pretty good progress for one afternoon!

It\'s such a mental milestone when you see the engine sat in the bay for the first time:)

[captainbizzaro]

I\'m looking forward to that milestone!

[captainbizzaro]

Veeeery small update but something I was missing but picked up earlier....

NUT!

[David Nock (RIP)]

You gotta love them Macbooks eh Tim?

You just put the part on the computer sidepad, say to it \'Take a picture and upload to MRC\' and it just does it for you.  Marvellous machines.

[captainbizzaro]

You gotta love them Macbooks eh Tim?

You just put the part on the computer sidepad, say to it \'Take a picture and upload to MRC\' and it just does it for you.  Marvellous machines.

I adore my Mac, it\'s like a friend of the family lol.:chat

[captainbizzaro]

Braved the baltic conditions this morning and got a bit done. Wanted to get the inlet manifold off to make the engine less of a handful to manouvre, plus I need to get to the OMP lines to blank them off as going premix and get shot of all the VAC lines that aren\'t needed as I\'m going for as simple setup as possible.

So went from clutter...



To tidy...



Loads more manageable!

Spoke to Ramon this evening too and he\'s kindly offered me his S5 inlet manifold which flow better (apparently!), so happy days.

Just need to give the block a bit more of a clean up and we\'re one step closer.

[syebba]

Ramon comes to the rescue again!
Tim,ur bloody brave working on ur car in these temperatures!
Maybe u have antifreeze for blood.
Keep up the good work.
ta stu..

[Steve-A]

S5 inlets are better They also respond well to port matching apparently....

Good progress Tim Braver than I today to be out there with numb fingers!

[Ian65]

that\'s looking more like it Tim, can\'t beat the minimal look!
I\'ve been outside working on mine today as well..... on the drive!   Brrrrrrrr!!!!

[CHC (RIP)]

Good work Tim but looks as if you\'ve lost some of the engine having removed those bits.  Does look better now.
Watch those pinkies don\'t turn into blueies in these conditions, both you and Ian deserve mmmmmmmedals working outside today - even I resorted to working in the kitchen cleaning down parts for JAZ rather than being outside.

[captainbizzaro]

Cheers chaps-you don\'t realise how close I was to bringing the inlet manifold inside and sitting at the dining room table with it!

Cliff, it\'s mad the amount of junk that is on these engines to try and make it perform to it\'s optimum ability in every climate situation possible and then there\'s stuff like the gadget that increases revs when you load the engine with AC and PAS to prevent it stalling etc etc. Basically Ramon came and visited and it was bin that, bin that, bin that and that.......and that aswell- and so on. I had no idea, but am enjoying this rather steep learning curve.

I\'ve just got to bung up all these VAC nipples now so if anyones got an idea of the best course of action please chip in. I\'ve posted a thread on the 2nd section but to no avail so far.