Little Green Giant Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 (edited) So, we at Dirty Stancing and Garage Midnight acquired a block, in quite a sorry state, and I have taken it upon myself to make it not a sorry state.This little block has quite the lovely story behind it. Starting life in a very good friend of ours' Lupo, a Mr Robin Marriott. After serving its time in his little show stunner it had taken to having a bit of a smoke, so he stripped it out and was planning on re building it. In the mean time fitting a new, non smoky engine to his Lupo.This meant that this poor block sat on an engine stand never to be touched again... until Levi bought it, and put it in his garage... where it also didn't get much attention... and then we got our FILTHY hands on it. it a bit of a state I must admit...once we had had a good long think about what to do with it, still undecided, we stuffed it on the engine stand and started to deconstruct. things dont happen all that fast here... easily distracted, and like i said, we weren't sure where we were going with this so it was really for me to learn what can be done. Having never worked on an engine before, its all new to me, so its a learning curve. Got most of the front end off and started to clean this DUTeeeyyyy thing up. and the sump off and demucked! couple of bits bought whilst i had the cash moneys sitting thereso its pretty much ready for the next few bits.Next on the agenda is get these valves out and have a go at porting and polishing this head. got loads of room to play with with these new gaskets and then we are going to fab a manifold to fit that so we can go wild! Then all there is to think about is cams, lightened flywheel and carbs, which is the decision we have come to for this build.The point/plan of this build is for me to learn, so there will be no sending it off for others to do. EVERYthing is going to (hopefully) be done inside the confines of Culo Diablo/Dirty Stancing/Garage Midnight. (which you can follow as individual hashtags on instagram)hoping to get around 160bhp from it, but to be honest like ive said, its just to have a go really. i'll update when anything new happens Safe x Edited January 17, 2013 by Little Green Giant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty_82 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Why the hell not.Whats the rims in the background 3 piece HTNs or a similar design? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 always about these ****ing wheels! hahahahahayeah they are 3 piece HTNs lovely things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty_82 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Thought they were, they need some love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 that lathe... thats for giving them some love Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James827 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 so your rebuilding an engine to learn, yes, but what's it going in?or is it not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 no idea yet just doing it for fun... but... Lathams mk1golf is a 2L 16v on carbs, and Ryans mk5 golf is a gti running 450 bhp... so theres not many cars left to fit it too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 #ryanfamous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Just got a valve spring compressor from Ryan of Garage Midnight so let the porting commence this weekend!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 tools are all out and ready Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 been slightly less productive as planned today. After figuring out how to work this thing I got all the valves out and into numbered bags, nothing like a bit of order... ready for porting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewsterpros Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Good to see you doing it yourself dude when I was 19 I rebuilt a 2 litre turbo rover engine and learnt a lot, it's the best way I think,I'm going to be building up a 1.6 gti with a ko3 turbo to go in my loop soon, so will be nice to see power comparisons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koop Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 Nice work. I'm itching to rebuild my sport engine myself but my lack of garage screws me somewhat. Interested to see how this goes/what it ends up in. How about my sport? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piers Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 mmm interesting! very interesting... Love iti keep saying im going to rebuild the 20v before it goes in the golf but sod it... im going to use it until i find a cheap BAM to rebuild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted January 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2013 Good to see you doing it yourself dude when I was 19 I rebuilt a 2 litre turbo rover engine and learnt a lot, it's the best way I think,I'm going to be building up a 1.6 gti with a ko3 turbo to go in my loop soon, so will be nice to see power comparisons.Anyone that knows me knows that i aint about to give anything to someone for them to do it for me! I'm planning on building something that is ALL done in house. Whats the point in doing something if i get nothing out of it! its not about showing how much money i have, its about showing what i/we can do!Nice work. I'm itching to rebuild my sport engine myself but my lack of garage screws me somewhat. Interested to see how this goes/what it ends up in. How about my sport? For a tasty sum i could build you one... maybe mmm interesting! very interesting... Love iti keep saying im going to rebuild the 20v before it goes in the golf but sod it... im going to use it until i find a cheap BAM to rebuild!thanks brrrrruv! im sticking simple for now. dont want turbo yet, i need to work up the power ranges haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Green Giant Posted February 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 you all know what this is destined for now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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