Engine update 1

Started cleaning up the head. All the inlet valves were stiff to come out and number 6 is still stuck in for now.....

Striptease

Today I began stripping the new engine down, a 2.5L lump out of a late saloon. Should be quite quick in the GT6! :-)

Everything went fairly well considering the engine doesn't look like it has run in years. I did find that one of the pushrods was bent, bit of a worry :-s

So far the bores look ok and there are no massive scored marks on any of the bearings. Next step, flywheel, crank and front pulley are off to get balanced.

Nuts

Whilst putting the wheels back on after the speedo fitting I managed to shear the wheel stud! I guess these have been in service for the last 30 years but I didn't think I could shear them with a standard length socket set.

Anyway I decided to replace the offending items with new 12mm versions and this is the finished product.

Wired for speed

Got round to mounting the sensor for the speedo today. Nothing fancy, just a bit of galv bolted to the body behind the drivers seat and epoxied the magnets to the prop shaft. Tried to use as little epoxy as possible so as not to put the prop shaft too much out of balance. Haven't tidied it all up yet but it seems to work so far.