Maybe a very stupid question...
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Can i just ask, this may be very stupid, but i build the turbo and exhaust manifold and everything like the carb and stuff up on the engine while its OUT OF THE CAR dont i? Ive only just found out by looking at jimster's site of him putting the engine in! I always wondered how you bolt on the oil pipes and things while its in the car. Sorry if this is a really silly question i didnt realise before!!!

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

I always put all the turbo, carb ect on once the engine is in the car. It would be an arse to put on the driveshafts and line up the engine mounts with everything on.

Also if the engine falls over you are likely to break something like the carb if it's bolted on. Putting the turbo oil return pipe on isn't easy but it's by no means impossible.

I always put the engine in with the head off as it's lighter and eaiser to move around, vital when you're skinny like me and have to do it on your own

The hardest job is fitting the down pipe clamp and getting it to seal.

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

I've done both and theres not much in it...

like Will says theres risk of damage one way, but less room the other!

Alex

AlexF

If i have the choice, i always put the engine in with head, turbo and carb already on, but without the starter oil filter housing or dizzy (when i used to have one!)

If i can get my big monkey hands down the back of the block to pop the pot-joints into the diff, anyone can!

I can't get my diff pots out... so I have ended up seperating the joint itself each time so far

I've chipped the casing so its not for want of effort :p

Never found it a problem before, just on this engine!!!

aLex

AlexF

I always go with it fully built up, seems easier and since ive got an engine crane weight isnt a problem.

A pit is handy for putting pot joints in!!

i put the whole lot in one go and then out and then in and then out and then in again

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

Alex - have you not modified the circlips on the diff outputs then?
Easy mod and it makes them really easy to remove!

'I swear to use the Boost, The whole Boost'
'And nothing but the Boost..... So help me God'

Yeah what mods? Come on, what do you know we dont!

Although saying that they usually come in and out easy!?!

I have a picture - who wants to host it?

i can host if you want

NO LONGER A <3 lover of BOLT-ON plastic <3 .... (and DOUBLE proud of it)

email addy?

girlyhairedgimp@yahoo.com

NO LONGER A <3 lover of BOLT-ON plastic <3 .... (and DOUBLE proud of it)

have you sent them yet? if so they havent arrived ... my yahoo account is sometimes funny, you can try sending them to freddyflipflop@hotmail.com if u want

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sent both!

dave ill pm you with a place to host a few pics for the site use since you always seem to have a few useful ones! Its dead simple to use.

hasnt arrived at either account yet .... as soon as it arrives in either one i shall post :)

NO LONGER A <3 lover of BOLT-ON plastic <3 .... (and DOUBLE proud of it)

The 'rear' circlip is a standard one; the 'front one shows how the ends have been bent in slightly, and relieved slightly with a grinder to remove the sharp edges.

Hope this is obvious what i'm trying to say!

Edited by turbodave16v on 19th Apr, 2004.

looks like dave doesn't like my server anymore :(

Team Racing

thought i'd give you a break for once welsh boy

gawd damnit, i just uploaded it and everything and as i go to post it i find out its already here .... useless :p

NO LONGER A <3 lover of BOLT-ON plastic <3 .... (and DOUBLE proud of it)

my drive shafts usually come out of the diff pots on all engines, saves on the oil spillage anyway! i have to rebuild the hub's ball joints and things when i put them back on anyway, so far ive put new trackrod ends on, changed the knackered tie rod bushes, i cant work out how to fit the flat bump stops (the ones above the top arm bracket) and ill need to do the ball joints, so ill just worry about putting the driveshafts in after the engines in. Because it will be my first time building the engine back up, im going to do it all out of the car, i have all pulleys and things to lift it anyway so weight isnt a problem, and also the head and everything are already on. The thing im dreading again is the manifold bolts, i hate doing the metro ones that you need to use spanners on, i find them really hard to judge the tightness!

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

oooh very usefull, ocationaly have trouble removeing pot joints.

Cheers :)

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

faq? my first post in the faq?

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3