My Shiney Engine is Back together

[deanflowers]

Its taken me a year and a half but my RX7 could be back on the road in the next month or so. Just need to get hold of a couple of small gaskets and a water hose.  Looking quite good now though i think, all bolt on parts are mirror polished





Cost has been a major issue with this project and ive had to buy and sell 7 different vehicles to finance this.

[arrouk]

looking goo there mate.

matt

[20B_boy]

Keep at it Dean, nearly there

[BlitzBoy]

mmmmmmm shiney

[ds2000]

Looking good, what the spec for the cost to be huge?

[Kash_]

bling bling

[Ada7]

Looks great Dean. they realy did a good job at the polishers
Like the power steering cap :p

Adam

[peterwolds]

bloody gorgeous,congratulations massive task

[probedb]

Definitely looks good! Be good to finally see it on the road

[deanflowers]

The cost just crept up and up, it was a very poor rebuild by hurleys, showing 4.5 compression both front and back on average.

It needed a new end plate, new rotor, new housings - there seemed to be evidence of a failure occurring with one housing yet all the tips etc i removed were intact!

many of the gaskets were missing, sealer was used everywhere without hesitation by the seems of it.

fuel pipes were perished

there was no thermostat fitted and both water sensors were broken on the back of the water pump.

Power steering pump was chipped but smashed during removal taking the casting with it, so had to replace that which was my fault.

All silicon pipe work was solid, brittle or split.

Turbo pack was wasnt good, second turbo was down on power and the manifold badly cracked. A replacement was sourced but again manifold was badly cracked and needed replacment. Hope its okay after taking 4 hours to line it all up properly.

The engine is standard as i could not afford to get it ported at the time or afford the extras required to get it running such as an apexi etc etc. I do aim to get one but cant afford it yet.


I need to buy one water hose, a sensor, throttle body gasket, oil and coolant in order to get it running


only big problem i have now is i need four 19" tyres so that i can drop it back on the tarmac and fit my cwest front which is already sprayed.

ive proberly spent a good £3500 doing this myself to a more or less standard spec, i was hoping it would be more like £2000 tops

[Jit]

3500!!! Blimey! That is a lot! The polishing looks excellent! Itll be one hell of a task keeping it that shiney though! especially with the standard engine bay!!!

I guess that screwing you got from import duty didnt help

[nikp]

Yeah, that is a lot - that\'s unfortunate. Mine cost £2900 including going single too (Although the single turbo was cheap)

[Jonathan_F]

Mine cost £2500 but I was lucky and bought a mint 3k engine+new plates for £1k. All I needed then was to buy new housings and a few gaskets.

I ported it myself so I\'ll be interested to see it on the strip.

Mine was a Hurley engine too. Similar problems. Just scrapped it all off as plates/rotors/housings were worthless.

Looks good mate. Autosol shares purchased!!

[Grizzly]

If you don\'t mind me asking what do you use to stop it Tarnishing? I had a few bits polished up a few years ago and if i left it too long it would go dull? Is there anything that i could use to keep the alloy all shiny?

BTW you must have spent some Quality time getting your Motor looking like that :yes

[oldone]

Its taken me a year and a half but my RX7 could be back on the road in the next month or so. Just need to get hold of a couple of small gaskets and a water hose.  Looking quite good now though i think, all bolt on parts are mirror polished





Cost has been a major issue with this project and ive had to buy and sell 7 different vehicles to finance this.

Dedication !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT BRO