Well it's been a while, but it's time for an update. I've had this car for just over a year now and once again, it's weeks to the RRG weekender and i'm struggling to get it ready 
To bring us up to date from the last time, the engine mods were all done and it was ready to head up the hill at the gathering, but then as i was leaving work to head down to shelsley, it started making this nice tapping noise...
Obviously i did the right thing, and just carried on heading down to worcestershire. Needless to say, it didn't get any better on the journey and was definitely running on 7 cylinders by the time we got there. When i got it home i pulled the plugs and figured out #6 was the cylinder that was down on a guy.
So really the only thing to do was what i probably should have done in the first place and just rebuild the engine. I scabbed a bit of help form a freind and we got the engine out in a morning:
I then set about stripping it down and finding out what went wrong!
This was the mess in the bottom of the sump
Well thats not a good sign...
It looks like Ebays finest camshaft/lifter combo has thrown in the towel. Also all of the plain bearings are looking very tired, i expect all of the lifter material in the oil for 200 miles hasn't helped.
The rest of the engine seems okay really, no major scoring on the crank and nothing too scary on the cylinder walls. So really just a new camshaft and the consumables: rings, bearings, gaskets etc.
To bring us up to date from the last time, the engine mods were all done and it was ready to head up the hill at the gathering, but then as i was leaving work to head down to shelsley, it started making this nice tapping noise...
Obviously i did the right thing, and just carried on heading down to worcestershire. Needless to say, it didn't get any better on the journey and was definitely running on 7 cylinders by the time we got there. When i got it home i pulled the plugs and figured out #6 was the cylinder that was down on a guy.
So really the only thing to do was what i probably should have done in the first place and just rebuild the engine. I scabbed a bit of help form a freind and we got the engine out in a morning:
I then set about stripping it down and finding out what went wrong!
This was the mess in the bottom of the sump
Well thats not a good sign...
It looks like Ebays finest camshaft/lifter combo has thrown in the towel. Also all of the plain bearings are looking very tired, i expect all of the lifter material in the oil for 200 miles hasn't helped.
The rest of the engine seems okay really, no major scoring on the crank and nothing too scary on the cylinder walls. So really just a new camshaft and the consumables: rings, bearings, gaskets etc.
