Doc's KE20: - really coming together now

[The Doctor]

Today i finally started on the block

Bought myself an enginestand, so there where no excuses NOT to start on it

Crank, pistons and camshaft in:




I eventually went for the TwinRow timing chain, because i heard they are more reliable then the SingleRow one.
Better a bit more weight then a breaking chain i think



Final of today:



I've put new rings on the pistons and new big end bearings so it won't break down soon (i hope ).
Of course all the gaskets and seals are replaced with new ones too.

Hopefully tomorrow i can go on with it

[robokill]

n1 going get a new water pump as well if you ask me

[The Doctor]

yeah, that's on the list too, but for now i bolted this one on it, so i don't lose the bolts

[banpei]

Nice going!

BTW: How did the MOT go on your other rolla?

[The Doctor]

i never went to it, i'm gonna take it apart and scrap it

[The Doctor]

Today i finally finished the engine (well, almost finished )

Need to get some things and the DCOE intake manifold needs some fiddling, because it hits the exhaustmanifold, sadly

the pics:

Head fitted:


Rockers, push rods fitted and valve's adjusted:


Ignition, oilfilter bracket etc. etc. fitted:


Endresult of today!

[KrizKH]

Very nice car!!

A frind of mine is working on a K4 engine so I'm curious what size venturi you use in the carburators and that cam do you use?

[Mux213]

Whow, loads of progress!!!

Why didn't you paint some of the engine parts now that it was all appart anyways? You'll have a fully rebuild engine now that still looks like its been in the car for ages...

[The Doctor]

KrizKH Wrote:Very nice car!!

A frind of mine is working on a K4 engine so I'm curious what size venturi you use in the carburators and that cam do you use?

Dunno what cam it is, it's a custom cam, and sadly, i don't have any cam specs.

The carbs aren't tuned yet, but i'll let you know when it's done.

Mux213 Wrote:Why didn't you paint some of the engine parts now that it was all appart anyways? You'll have a fully rebuild engine now that still looks like its been in the car for ages...

well... i cleaned them!

[The Doctor]

The clutch was worn (a bit )



So i swapped it over saturday, and i have the flywheel and stuff lying from my 4K project, so i thought it would be rude NOT to bolt that flywheel to my original engine

The original flywheel weighs about 10kgs, the lighter one around 4kgs, so that's quite a bit of difference
Everything is fine, i don't feel any negative side effects of it (even idle is not that bad), but i revs quite nice now

And i also worked on the suspension, because something was rattling (i thought the pads in the calliper were loose, because i didn't use all the retainers).
Seemed to be a number of problems, so i had to take the shocks from the car, and then it was easy to install my cusco camberplates i had on the shelf for some time





The adjusting was wrong, so i just put them on max negative for now, i'm going to get alignment job done on monday