EK9 Racecar


I'll advertise the power steering pump and pipes etc soon if anyone's interested.

 
Before I painted the front on the engine bay / front clip I cleaned the bulkhead as best as I could.
It's never going to be a show car but might as well get it as clean as I can :nice: I'm going for built for purpose not beauty lol.





Cut off the original rad mounts so I can re attach them to fit the dc2 rad, will borrow the mig one evening after work.





Got to love my Wife :)) brought me out some cheese on toast for lunch.


Some sanding



I did a lot of scraping lol lots of hammerite has been put on and had to come off before I painted.







I'll have to do a second coat of primer, but looks good so far, really pleased considering I hate painting!







 
Cheers Jamie :nice:
Your bay will look great when done.
I'm keeping a close eye on your thread!
 
Car is coming on well sam , top work mate !
Can't wait to see the end result.
 
Lets get started!
The front room is now an engine building workstation.
 
Small update, got some switches for my boost control.
Engine building wise the Pistons have been measured, bores have been measured and piston's have been matched to the bores.
Next I'll be calculating my piston ring gaps, then gapping the rings.
 
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I've also weighed the Pistons and Rods, I don't know if it's necessary but I think I read somewhere it's a good idea to try and balance the weight of the components evenly.
Luck has it I have 2 rods 1gram heavier and 2 Pistons 1 gram heavier.
So I can match up the heavier Pistons with the lighter rods.

 
You might find there's like 0.5grams between them. My Manley rods came pre weighed and it was points of a gram in it between all four.
I had my rotating assembly balanced, including the weights of the pistons and rods.
 
Ah cool how do you go about getting the rotating assembly balanced?
I'm guessing it's done when the engine is built up with the flywheel and crank pulley on?
Or am I completely wrong?
 
Ah think I've found how it's done, machine shop job that's done on a balancing machine. Almost like a tyre balancer lol, they add weights to the crank.
I'll see if my machine shop can do it.
 
I had to send it all off to the machine shop.
 
Contacted my machine shop today and they gave me a number for a company that they use for balancing.
So I'm taking the clutch, crank, rods, Pistons and crank pulley and all associated bolts to Bassett down balancing on Saturday morning to get the lot balanced.
Seems sensible to do it, thanks to @jesse888 and @robthedoc for the advice :nice:

In the mean time, I've got plenty of engine bay prep to be getting on with while the internals are away.
 
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