Project Overtime

Hey Spidey, been a while. Still plugging away at the front spoiler, I get a bit done here and there (again, refer the several other things that I also own that need fixing). Believe me, you'll be getting the first prototype since your car is actually on the road and all and thus you're in a much better position for testing it's durability than my garage queen is.

haha I was hoping no-one would point out that I was also in fact keeping the motor outdoors (I only have a single-car garage, and no shed. Spare space = zero). At least i've got it undercover though, and once I've stripped it and bolted it to the stand I'll wrap it in plastic until it's time to get the machine work done. All the bits will live in plastic lidded tubs so they'll be out of the elements too.

New rings bearings and seals are a matter of course for a rebuild, this thing will also cop some shiny forged go-fast bits as well though. Should go hard

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SYDNEY - WINDY WITH CLEARING SHOWER

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Teardown continues. Still haven't got to the intake manifold or cylinder head, spent a couple of hours today labelling vacuum hoses, taking photo's of their location, then removing and bagging. Then labelling electrical plugs, taking photo's and disconnecting. Tedious stuff, but will make life so much easier when it comes to re-assembly time.

Got the throttle body off though. Eeeeeewwwww:



Also pulled the plug tubes. Check out cylinder #2, it was full of water and some sort of gross goo:



Definitely don't think this thing would have run well (or at all) if it had just been thrown into the car.

More tomorrow.

 

Yeah I'll get the bootlid off one day soon and rustproof it, the car lives in the garage now so it won't get any worse in a hurry. I should have the intake And head off the motor tomorrow to see what it's like inside. Since the plan all along was to replace pretty much everything inside it I'm not too concerned, as long as the crank and the head are OK. And it wasn't just bolts that were the problem with that crane, I had to drill a bunch of new holes in it because half of the parts didn't line up where they should have. Good old Chinese build quality. Lucky it was cheap.

 

Not much to update, I thought I'd have the head off by now, but once again I spent the afternoon labelling, taking pics, remove, clean, bag, label, repeat. Not real exciting. I did get the engine onto the stand though, which is making the whole task much easier, though getting it up there is a prick of a job by yourself. Also the flywheel wasn't playing along, it really REALLY didn't want to come off. Half a can of stuff called "Liquid Spanner" (which penetrates the threads and dissolves whatever is holding it tight. Apparently.) and several hits with the rattle gun finally convinced the bolts to back out. Anyone want a free Gen3 flywheel? Otherwise it's going in the bin.

Is degreaser bad for alternators? This one was absolutely jam-packed with black crud so I dumped half a can of degreaser into it before I considered whether it would still work afterwards. Then I kind of decided meh, it probably didn't work so well anyway, lol... I'll take the case off and give it a proper clean, let it dry out then find out whether I've killed it.

That's all for now, probably won't get another chance to play with it until the weekend.

 

hahaha you poor bastard... how'd you get it IN there??

I don't mind working alone too much, at least when you stuff up there's no-one around to see but yeah only having the regular-issue two hands blows sometimes.

Wood? pfft, rattle gun ftw! lol... I need a better compressor though, mine will only go up to about 110psi and the tank isn't that big, so I'd have to wait for it to fully charge before I could give a bolt a hit, then discharge air until it started compressing again, wait for it to fully charge again to move on to the next one, etc.

Cheers for sending that stuff off. Do you still have those ST165 two-spot brakes?

 

That's exactly how I marked the holes for the spoiler, I just put a dab of paint on each screw and lowered it into position then drilled at the paint marks.

 

Ah, you spotted the mighty Black Ridge in one of the other pics eh. The gun actually came with the compressor, so it's probably a cheap bit it's plenty heavy and does everything else I need it to.

 

More work on the stripdown today. Got the wiring harness, fuel rail, intake manifold, valve cover and upper timing cover off. Wanted to keep going and lift the head, but discovered that the head bolts require a Torx bit, which I do not possess. A mate of mine has a set though so I'll borrow them for next time.

Picture time!

Head looks pretty clean inside, no sludging. Cam lobes still look brand new










Inside of valve cover not too bad, bit of crap on the intake side (I forgot to take a pic but inside the intake manifold runners was a fair bit of black crud)




Valve cover after a good degrease and a blast with the pressure cleaner. I think I'll paint it gold as a sort of homage to the Gen1 cover.



Working tomorrow so probably won't get at it again until next weekend.

 

meh, don't care if the valve seals are gone, replacing them anyway. You're right, Torx bolts are evil and will be flung in nearest skip once removed. Head will eventually be retained by ARP studs; overkill, but fits my "do it, but only do it once" attitude to this thing. I'll have a look at the numbers on the cams tomorrow and post then.

 

Stig, sorry I forgot to post those cam numbers the other day - 88460 on the intake, 88362 on the exhaust.

The stripdown continues. Today I got the sump and windage tray off and cleaned them up, and also cleaned the intake manifold up a bit.

The 3rd-gen 3S-GE has a two piece sump, the lower part is a regular pressed steel pan, the upper section is a cast alloy piece. It also has a windage tray incorporated to stop oil flying about everywhere.

Here I've taken the lower section of the pan off and exposed the oil strainer and part of the windage tray including a massive baffle to keep the majority of the oil in the lower section:



With the upper section of the sump removed you can see the whole windage tray:



The insides of the two parts of the sump. Pretty clean, no chunky bits or other nasty's:



The underside of the windage tray. As you can see, it's just windage, there are no crank scrapers.



Sump removed, the heart of the beast:



Cleaned the sumps up and then decided to have a look at the intake manifold. I took the lid off the ACIS system, hoping not to find a box of smoke and springs and magic all making a mad attempt at escape, and was pleasantly surprised to find that there's actually not much too it, though it was covered in oil snot:





After a good cleanup:





I'll remove the ACIS plenum and clean out the intake runners next time, ran out of daylight today.

Here's one for the anoraks, I found this logo on the underside of the ACIS cover, anyone know what Ushima (or is it Tushima?) is/does?

 

Don't know about the oil pump, haven't got to that bit yet. I'll be replacing it with the GTE/5S pump regardless.

Thought this might interest you Stig, one of the guys on Toymods had his Gen3 cams measured by a cam manufacturer (Ivan Tighe), here are the results;

Intake:


Exhaust:

Lucky girl :lachtot

 

Finished the teardown on the Gen3 today. Pics!

Stig, re. the oil pump, I still have no idea which one it is, but this is what it looks like:



Water pump inlet. More grossness:


Plugs. Run too hot me thinks?


Cams out. They don't seem to run any bearings around the cam journals? Still, pretty clean, only one decent looking scratch on the #3 intake housing:


Head off. Bit of carbon buildup but no other nasties:


Cylinder bores look great, no gouging, pitting, scratches or corrosion. You can still clearly see hone marks. Looks like it was a fairly low KM motor?


Rod bearings look good


Main bearing caps


Crank journals


Pistons have a lot of carbon builldup, but otherwise look ok?

 

I linked the pics of the cam spec sheets straight from Toymods, maybe if you're not a member or signed in they don't work? Try these ones, I've copied them and hosted them on my photobucket account:

lol, fail: