Did that white Celica clean up the cones - the one with his rear bumper hanging off? Cos after he pulled in they yelled angrily, had a big team meeting and then removed the chicanes?

From a spectators POV Simon, the car looks fast.

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Not sure if they removed the cones because of the Celica. If the lighting had been a little better, the chicanes may have worked. Realistically, its a track, people want to go fast. I did not hear one person winge about having the cones removed

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Dead waterpump means it would get stupidly hot real quick. I just did one in Feb/March.

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So as mentioned a couple of days ago I have been experiencing cooling system issues for the last few months, in that some cooling water gets pushed out of the overflow bottle when going pretty hard in the car. It has gradually got worse over the last 4 months or so, to the point at the Antilag Barbagello night last Tuesday, I was putting around 1.5 litres of water in after every 5 lap run. Not good.

To be honest, I was obviously hoping it was something simple like a radiator cap that was opening under its rated pressure, or a thermostat issue. Being a head gasket was the probable cause, but I was like, nah.... We found out today that both head gaskets have failed on all four cylinders. Not good I suppose, but it was nice to find the issue that had been causing the cooling water to overflow. Basically under boost pressure, I was blowing air / fuel / exhaust gasses into the cooling water system. Then over-pressurised the system & pushed cooling water out of the overflow bottle.

On a good note, the engine looks really clean & healthy. A set of metal gaskets have now gone in, with a couple of new pulley bearings to get rid of a knocking sound.

A few photos of what we achieved today. Huge thanks to Paul, Geoff & Matt for all your help.

Early start to finish it off tomorrow & it should be dropping skids by lunch time

I forgot to take photos initially, so I started after the radiator, alternator, inlet manifold etc was already out.



Pretty clean



Cams coming out



Heads getting a quick gasket matched port on the exhaust, just to open them up a little.





Turbo coming off.



Ze problem





STI gaskets going on



Hone markings still present in the bores.



This is where we finished today. Really, a heap of work got done, which I am really happy about. I was quite aware of the head gaskets being the weak spot on this motor & I was glad to change them out for the stronger ones. We also put a set of equal length headers on the motor, whilst we had the opportunity.



Lots more to do tomorrow & I will update with more pics when finished

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Simon in the painting booth

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I gave the inlet manifold a quick coat of crinkle coat last night, but it was still a little wet this morning.



Inlet manifold going on.



Alternator & power steering pump in.



Intercooler piping going on & some wiring being cleaned up.



Happy times, filling it up with water and a cooling system flush agent.



& done



We managed to finish at around 12 pm, which I think is awesome for the amount of work we completed. All up around 12 hours of actual work time. The car now has the equal length header sound & has also lost the knocking sound, which must have been a timing belt pulley after all.

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Nice work Simon. obviously, a re-tune is in order now for the ELH's?

I have not had a really good look Kym yet at the tune. The air fuel ratios were still ok cruising and when I gave it a little boot full. It will need a clean up though to get the most out of them & the slightly ported exhaust side of the heads.

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special inlet cams there

Congratulations sir - 10 points to you Feeling any better champ?

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