For crying out loud man we need pictures of this wee vessel!

haha, sorry its been in a state of disarray for the last little while it's slowly getting back there tho.

ok i have stripped a spare a15 bottom end down and honed the block, cleaned the bejeezus out of it (kero, degreaser, shotch brite the bores crc etc etc) and its half way assembled. I now remember the thing about rebuilding engines - its not particularly hard to do but boy is there a lot of cleaning and meticulous scrubbing involved!

The crank and cam have been installed but i came across a small hurdle when installing the pistons and rods... the rings don't fit! the top comp ring is too thick for the piston i have so its back to the shop tomorrow.

So far its just a standard rebuilt a15 honed cleaned with new rings bearings and a gasket kit. Its getting the wade 30/70 cam and the shaved standard h89 head (that has been checked over, hot tanked valves cleaned up and surface ground) it'll be interesting to see if the extra cubes make any noticable difference. the engine will be for sale as soon as i can get around to rebuilding the a14 that was in there with all the goodies i have aquired :)

pics of the mobile will come soon but here are some engine bits shots from my little garage :)

Unfortunately the new rings didn't come in today so i did some engine bay cleaning. I also decided to take a few camshafts down to clive cams - one to get ground to the 140 and the other (the 169) to be freshened up and ground to give higher lift, effectively making it a more aggressive but still streetable cam. They are also doing 2 sets of cam followers for me. So effectively the engine will now hopefully be running by next weekend with a now rebuilt a15 and a slightly bigger cam.

pics when there are some worth taking!

i want some pics of the wheels and the car, front 1/4 and rear 1/4 shots. Nice and arty please.

Well picked up the new rings and some other bits and pieces today. The crank and rods are now assembled and i bolted on the head but can't go much further until i get the cam back from being spruced up...

looks good. nice clean pistons too, should go nicely once run in.

i like the garage set up too.

Hey, give us some pics of the ports on the cylinder head.

Ports are just standard H89 oval ports. Its a little shed but works well :) i've managed to build plenty of things in there!

hey lee i need to get hold of nathan with the 1200sedan and 1600 he's a mate of yours and i lost his number when he changed it from his work number when he changed jobs.

i missed seeing this on the cruise and im not happy but im sure ill see it soon at the next one

this is lookin good :)

Well its nearly ready to start her up again, motor is sitting on engine mounts just need to hook it all back up again. running a fresh a15 now, new rings, bearings, VRS kit, head skimmed and pressure tested and everything painstakingly cleaned. It is also running a new cam profile which should liven it up a bit.












Also had a special hollinger engineering dizzy plug made up by don and laser engraved with some japlish haha. how awesome is it!