Busy times after blowing another engine

Busy times after blowing another engine was created by rough luck

Posted 13 years 7 months ago #23309
The monday before Pride of Longbridge I had a re-build, a chunk out of a piston and another head

On the way home from POL I blew it again, this time dropped a valve, the valve snapped shear across the stem then punched a hole right through to a water channel trashing the new head, the piston stayed in one bit but had a fracture across it and another with collet damage

anyway today was a busy, re-vamp an old head, valves swopped around to give me the best ones I had, new stem seals, took all the lifters apart an got them all working as they should, changed to my quietest VVC units .....put all back to together ready to be fitted

Stripped another block of pistons also ready to be fitted

Already did this ready for the rebuild too







Have to say it really felt like a good old british garden shed day.....but I'm knacked

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Posted 13 years 7 months ago #23311
wow!!! That looks NICE!!
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Posted 13 years 7 months ago #23314
Cheers

It would go nice with this



But I did this for someone else

Going to mock up the head in the kitchen tomorrow just to take pics with both of them on

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Posted 13 years 7 months ago #23315
Mmmmm. Shiny.

I think you have found a part time job. :)
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Posted 13 years 7 months ago #23316
Thats was part of the plan to add to the stuff I can polish an sell

But to be honest no one would pay the amount I would have to charge to make £3 an hour

the cam cover took way over 4 very long days in total doing it on an off

the intake took just a little less but not much

Both have problems, the cam cover because of the channels in it, which you can't polish properly

and the intake because its ruff cast which has to be flatted of on all the down pipes as well as channels

AND ITS TOTALLY KNACKERING

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Posted 13 years 7 months ago #23317
Kept you off the streets though. ;)
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Posted 13 years 6 months ago #23324
You're well named 'Rough Luck' mate. Any idea why the valve decided to split in two?

Incidentally, when I changed our plastic inlet to an alloy one, I fancied the nice shiny effect too, ...so I sprayed it with silver paint:rofl:

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Posted 13 years 6 months ago #23331
I mocked this up this morning


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Website: http://www.roughluckracing.com/ MG Rover Mobile Repairs Nationwide and Western Europe

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Posted 13 years 6 months ago #23335
Now that is nice.:thumbsup:

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Posted 13 years 6 months ago #23366
I like a bit of OCD.

Why not strip that nasty red paint off your car and polish back to metal too. ;)
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Posted 13 years 6 months ago #23368
Thats not fare ...lol I've already tried to get a guy on org to vynal chrome wrap it today for free..... :)

I guess its never gonna get out of my head now

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Posted 13 years 6 months ago #23369

rough luck wrote: Thats not fare ...lol I've already tried to get a guy on org to vynal chrome wrap it today for free..... :)

I guess its never gonna get out of my head now


Matt Black for me. :)
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