As i have so many things to do before may the 9th (next hill climb) i have mounted the coilovers with the standard top mounts for now so i don't have to worry about setting the adjustable ones up!
The car is now solid! it is gonna be so light on the back end
Spring weights are 500 on the front and 250 on the rear.
The next job was my cam, i knew it was tired because the engine was really tappety, but i didn't know it was completely screwed!
I had a new cat cam to fit so it was ok!
I took the head apart to find the rockers had completely worn out and have worn down about 1mm off standard
Also the cam was worn down so much in places that it had actually started breaking up on one of the lobes
thank god i decided to do the cam now otherwise the next event would have seen the end of my head
This is everything after the mission that was getting it all out, it took hours! i had to move the engine as far forward as i could so i could get to the back to lever the rockershafts! they were stuck from 18 years of burned on oil!
After that i inspected the rockers and cam to find this!
As you can see the wear is pretty extreme, a few where even worse but my hands were too oily to touch my camera
The camshaft was just as bad but i knew i had to replace this,
No wonder the car would not idle properly and was only responsive at full revs!
In this one you can see that one bit has even broken off! luckily i had a route around the head and found the bit that had come off!
After being a bit upset i ordered a full set of new rockers and shafts and got on with fitting my new cam!
This is a cat cam 272 272 (i think thats what it was!
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And new rockers with the old excentrics all oiled up and ready to go!
After about an hour i got the first side in, it was a lot of fiddeling but i got there eventually!
Tonight i have to fit the intake side and then adjust the tappets.
My sunroof is buggered so I'm going to see if I can tidy it up after the hill climb.
i meant camber!
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