1984 Granada BOA; small progress & Civic 25/10/24

There aren't really any part numbers on them, just casting numbers - and they're the same for both the BOA and BOB cams. Helpful that. It's just the grind that's different.
One way to tell is to measure the cam's lift - the BOB has 0.5mm higher lift than the BOA from memory. The other way to tell is to look for the cam sensor lobes - BOB cams 3 and 4 (cylinders 4,5,6) have the extra lobes just behind front cam bearing before first cam lobe, cams 1 and 2 don't have any sensor lobes. BOA cams have no lobes at all.
Hope that helps

Edit* just read the above, it din't show up when I wrote this in the first place for some reason. I'd swear these engines are wilfully obtuse sometimes! I thought the cam sensor lobes were a good check, just as I thought that all BOBs had the stronger rods, but once again, I stand corrected!

So have you raised the red line then? Does the noise just keep getting better?!

Of course, you've still got the auto box. Mine's got the back axle from a 1.6 capri, so it tops out at about 120ish, but gets there really rather rapidly. Second's not much good for much more than half of what yours is, so I see (and more importantly hear) the red line fairly often
I read through this again this morning, but I didn't notice the map from when you'd had Emerald installed, although that my be due to how fuzzy my head feels this morning... I'll be interested to compare the difference that the inlet fanimold makes to the top end, as a lot of the power graphs I've seen on Fordpower etc seem to have a fairly straight power graph.

Did you see/feel much difference when you put the tubular manifolds on? I've got a pair of lovely stage one stainless ones (That I managed to get for £100!) that I'd like to fit, but they look like they'll be a massive PITA to shoehorn in with the steering linkage etc. The Capri's got a bit less room than the granny by the looks of things!

Those baffles on the girdle are a good idea, I'll have to have a look at doing something similar on mine.

just for reference and the fact its now posted twice in this thread, the dyno printout from the mapping session at Track n Road





And also one of the original pistons versus a +1mm wossner piston




Those were purchased as 2 sets of 4, as that was the cheaper option instead of just 6

Also have a set of Farndon H section rods in there as well, but didn't get any pictures of those it would appear
Although you can see the bottoms of them attached to the crankshaft in the pics of the girdle.


The engine itself has done almost 80k miles since it was rebuilt and installed in the Granny, so it will be due to strip down and check over some point soon I guess

Still can't believe how you washed the carpet out from the oil gauge mishap

Currently en route home with the wagon on the back of a recovery wagon, so I can spend some of my time between now and when it gets painted reassembling or sorting out odds and ends

So, upon returning back home we thought it may have been fun and games unloading and getting the car on the drive facing out, turned out alright with unloading and pushing it up the pathway and rolling back into the space







And with some high tech posts to keep the cats out



And to also support the covers from folding in and filling up with water it was wrapped up for the night til i next worked on it

Nice! Won't be long now, and I don't envy you working outside in this weather.

I can remember me and a mate changing the engine in a Corsa in the snow once, everything took three times as long as it should as we couldn't feel our fingers.