New Turbo II hitting the forum

Casey · February 06, 2014, 08:44:05 PM

Watching...........

Arnie_O · February 07, 2014, 09:26:46 AM

Foiled from sorting the brakes last night by a leaky corroded brake hard line.
Another section the had corroded where one of the clips hold it to the chassis.

I really hate repairing these things, I replaced the entire section under the car in the end.

Arnie_O · February 08, 2014, 11:12:22 AM

Well last night marked a landmark in the Gen 2\'s life... She moved under her own power for the first time about 6 months last night.
It was a great feeling.
I seem to have sorted the oil leak and it seems to have been down to the blocked breather.
She is however smelling very rich and is still pouring white smoke out the exhause... Have checked and there is no sign or a water seal breach.

Could this be down to the AFR being way too rich. It seems like the old fuel pump was only delivering about 20psi however with the new Aeromotive 340 it\'s easily capable of 38psi upwards.

Braked are now also fixed, the only thing missing is some sealing around the intercooler a catch can and the wiper motor (then I can reinstall the wipers)

Arnie_O · February 08, 2014, 04:24:31 PM

Thought I would drop this one in for you that have been following it.

It\'s a vid of a later start up with her sounding much healthier.

Casey · February 08, 2014, 07:54:01 PM

Stop posting porn or you\'ll get banned :Giggle

Seriously looking and sounding :mmmm:mmmm:mmmm

exiled-viking · February 08, 2014, 08:10:55 PM

ho boy just magic video well done

Arnie_O · February 13, 2014, 09:01:54 PM

So here she is pretty much finished, she just needs mapping with a good base map then running in.

I also managed to pick up a brand new Racing Beat Front ARB off EBay for Â£95.00 so that\'s on the list of things to fit soon.

She still stinks of Petrol from the exhause with some white smoke... We are not burning coolant or oil so it\'s got to be running mega rich with the new fuel system. Gone from 1000 to 1680 injectors on the secondary rail.

Casey · February 13, 2014, 10:29:24 PM

Simply stunning, looks awesome :Thumbs-up

re japi · February 14, 2014, 03:56:03 AM

Ya, she is shiny

Looking good

clive · February 14, 2014, 07:37:36 AM

Sure was worth all the effort under that hood , real real nice job.

C J R · February 14, 2014, 07:56:15 AM

At Last Aston, you were really challenged by lots of fiddly problems at the end.
Well done for staying focused and not getting too down.

Now you can map it and tell yourself it was all worth it after the first drive. :burnout

Chris:Thumbs-up

Arnie_O · May 23, 2014, 10:27:23 PM

Well after a lot of problems and smoke, JayDee took a look at the Map but it appears there is still something wrong. So tonight we started stripping her again to pull and out the beautiful engine to strip her and inspect. It appears we have a real oil control ring issue as there is obviously heaps of oil coming from the rear exhaust port. Hopefully I have found the problem and tomorrow we will have her out and begin the steps to get her going properly.

Arnie_O · May 26, 2014, 01:38:08 PM

So we pulled the motor and stripped her Saturday morning under the watchful eye of Clive (many thanks for your time sir)

The oil was really quite nasty. It stank(is that a word?) of petrol and looked very graphite in colour.
Clive suspected there was definatly something amiss.

When we dismantles the motor we found several things.

All the irons had been munched by the seals... I need to inspect the side seals, corner seals and oil control rings for wear still.

Clive suspected this was an injector problem that was causing over fuelling and has washed out all the oil from the rotors.

The housings look ok along with the apex seals but the irons are sadly now scrap. I doubt lapping them would make them usable again. Still I have another set of ported irons that just need cleaning and painting.
My water seal kit is here and the new oil control rings should he arriving Tuesday.

Fingers crossed everything else is ok and we can look at assembling the block again this week.

C J R · May 26, 2014, 05:18:05 PM

Sad news Aston. Good luck rebuilding.

Chris

Arnie_O · May 27, 2014, 12:31:42 AM

So i Stripped the rotors today.

Seems I am in need of some new oil seals as well as oil control rings. The faces on the oil seals have been worn flat.

I have looked and I think a set of RX8 oil seals will fit. If this works it\'s going to save a wait for these too.

Also found a nicked Oil Control ring on the front rotor.

Also got all the irons cleaned up and the ports tidied up polished.