Starting my strip down
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Took a week off work to start looking at the inside of the turbo motor as it smokes a bit........well quite alot
So get the head off it and see if i need new pistons:(
I will get hold of some straight cut drop gears... i love the noise
sounds like batmans bike
Keep you posted on how it goes

well got the head off and the only thing it needs is a hone and a set of rings.
the flywheel came of with a few taps first time ever for a verto they are a bas****d as a rule.
trying to get a few photos up. the push rods are no good so the followers must be as well.

Vegard has a good point

if they are standard pistons theres no ring available ......... anywhere ! ..?
my advice is a rebore new pistons and all

Holy crap no new rings!!!!!! anywere.
what pistons do you lot use as there seems to be alot of differance of opinion on which one to use?
The push rods have got a large almost a point on the follower end, they should be smooth.
Cast ? Forged ? or a very good omega?
dished of course.

A coule of photos

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that push rod wear is no biggie, just file that point down and reuse:)

Hell is this ok on a turbo motor?
Ben ross could you add any thoughts?

Doh i meant Tom !!!!!
im not getting the 10'000 post

a turbo motor is kind on the valve train though... low revs and relatively mild cams, thus relatively weak valve spring needs. I have filed down that point and used 998 push rods in a 1071 engine that has seen 8500-9300 rpm quite frequently... no problem.

Thanks for that,

got the rest in bits today.
All good no marks on the crank. Ring a f****ed though so i will have to get a larger set of pistons? but what to get forged? cast? omega?
Any help with this one

did sprock track down a supplier of turbo rings?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

whats so F**ked about the old rings?

Have you had a bore mic in to measure the block?

Edited by Paul S on 13th Jan, 2009.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

i remember now, i think he got them from 'total seal'

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Thanks for the info