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Not sure if im totaly happy with the colours, but its all very clean.

Cyinder head gasket replaced, few more parts sprayed, i think im officialy rebuilding.

Cheers, im begining to get a bit of momentum now, not alot more to do before i start having a play with the mounts, actualy cant wait, just wish my bank balance would keep up with me

Also fabricated a key to hold the cams at cyl#1 at TDC

Also dressed ot up a bit, want to get a bit better idea of what direction to go with colours, red is first choice but thinking about white?

A bit more progress to report... got my head back at the weekend and got the full lot rebuilt, took alot longer then i imagined but got there in the end. made a bit of a dent in my wallet but it looks to be a good job.

Garage shelved a bit, and all my acumulated crap carfully filed away in alfabetical order of course. i could swing a cat in there now

also gave into the magpie atrction to shiny things and had a little go myself, by far not the best iv seen but like i say, its no show car and it looks 100% better then before more (almost) shiney bits iv got a few other bits done, but thats all iv got pics of for now. i know my works not worldclass and i always admit, im only an ameature, this is my first project. the main thing for me is im realy enjoying doing it

well cheers for the advice, i dropped my head off today and made out like i knew what i was on about. the guy seemed prety clued up and they are suposed to be the dogs dangly bits as far as cylinder heads go. i didnt understand the majority of what he said but the jist of it was he dosent have the computer guided stuff to suit the head, he will preasure test, (providing its sound) weld and skimm the head, re grind valves in, de-cork and clean up and port and polish to the bare minimum as there is no way of knowing how far he can open it up without breaching a water port. that aside heres a li

Sweet thanks for the advice, iv got on to a local engineering firm that deal mostly with heads and blocks and they are confident they can rectify this. So im going to way it up against a replacement head and block, like you say with the risk of buying another block n head thats just as bad, pluss all the extra time spent stripping further and rebuilding, it may prove prudent to go with the refub option. they also said they can gasflow the head, but not sure for the extra expense if it is worth it? In for a penny in for a pound i gues. also the r32 project is right up my street as im planning

ok so after getting my head around timing i was hapy out to take off the cylinder head. which came off well. only snag is this i figure this is were the gasket has failed and water has corroded the head? and obviosly this corrosion is mirrored on the block im wondering how bad this is? are there tolerances to how far the head can be skimmed? or is it simply done for?. the head would not be to difficult to replace but replacing the block would be a bit of a pain. any help or advise would be realy helpfull

all going to plan so far, i think i got a bit confused with the threads on here and ended up with two? iv done an update on my thread in members rides if you want to take a look

a couple of pics of the engine and how far iv got with striping it. heres with the induction manifold and most of the hosses and wiring taken off, if taken care to label everthing up including bolts and there locations as i have a memory like a goldfish. so far iv not found anything catastrofic and im confident by the general condition of the engine i wont be in for to many nasty suprises, but any heads up for things to look out for would be apreciated. at this stage i did find the thermostat housing was brocken, also the solid plastic hose that runs from the thermostat into the block needs

and a couple of pics after i got my alloy wheels and coilovers fitted so heres were im up to now, near enough all the bodywork done. just the task of under the bonnet to deal with!!