Stage 1 V8

So Guess what.... THE ENGINE RUNS!!! I'm Very pleased at the moment! Before I got to the stage of running the engine, I fitted the Left Hand Guard on and started doing all the wiring. I needed to do the wiring to the Thermo switch which I fitted to the inlet manifold. Below is the guard on and my ol...

Hi, could you pout more photos to the coolant system please? Are you considering (water proofing your motor and the electricity system? perhaps second alternator ? Hi Landdani, which part of the coolant system are you after? The part between the engine and the LPG evaporator or between the engine a...

Well, more progress to report on from the last couple of weekends. It's getting close now :D The water pipes to the LPG evaporator were hooked up. I connected the incoming water feed to the tapping I created on the left hand cylinder head: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/stirlsilver/Stage%201%2...

I wasn't able to spend too long in the workshop today, but progress was made: Rear drive shaft fitted: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/stirlsilver/Stage%201%20Engine%20Rebuild/01082010175.jpg Front drive shaft fitted: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/stirlsilver/Stage%201%20Engine%20Rebuild...

I got a bit slack with updating. I actually installed the engine and gearbox into the car about 2 weeks ago. I was able to do the whole operation by myself in about 5 hours. A good portion of the time was trying to figure out the best way to sling the whole assembly. Turns out all you need is a simp...

Just a quick update: Put the majority of the clutch assembly and throw-out bearing together. http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/stirlsilver/Stage%201%20Engine%20Rebuild/27062010148.jpg I discovered that I'm probably going to need to buy the components to rebuild the clutch slave cylinder... there ...

Ok, more progress. The rear oil seal was installed on to the crank. I initially had some difficulty getting the seal in as I didn't have anything I could use to push it in square. In the end I discovered that the flywheel was perfect for the job. By having the oil seal just started and sitting squar...

A milestone! The car is back in the workshop! http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/stirlsilver/Stage%201%20Engine%20Rebuild/13062010121.jpg A number of hours were put into cleaning up the workshop and shuffling things around so that I could pull the car inside. And finally I got there! It's a little...

Ok, so the home stretch: The rocker pedestals needed shims made up to set the appropriate amount of preload on the hydraulic lifters. To do this, I mounted the rockers on with the lifters and pushrods and slowly wound in the rocker shaft bolts until I measured 0.6mm under the circlip in the hydrauli...

Bit of a delayed update, had a bit of a frustrating weekend dealing with the valves on the heads. I had gone to the trouble of fitting ALL the valves on the heads and then realised that I probably should have given them a light grind before putting them in to seat them... So, ended up getting pretty...

Well, I'm sure with enough effort you could get such a system to work, you would need to add some big fins to the evaporator and a fair bit of hot gas to get enough heat transfer. Pretty sure either way you look at it the coolant system is far more reliable method of keeping the device from freezing.

On the pipe reduction - that is more work. The pipe I show in the photo is the actual pipe used to plumb in the evaporator. Plus by having a restriction inside the pipe the installation will look neater. On the heater core circuit - When I orignally installed the LPG system on the car all those year...

I was back in the workshop this weekend, although for only a few hours so I wasn't able to get too much done... I was never happy with the old plumbing system of the coolant lines to the LPG evaporator. Because the old route of the water used to take water from one of the outlets on the back of the ...

Well, more progress today. But not as much as I had hoped. Cam was reinstalled along with the timing chain and gears, sorry about the blurry photo!: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/stirlsilver/Stage%201%20Engine%20Rebuild/02052010078.jpg Naturally, the timing chain cover and water pump followed...

Ok, so I got side tracked again... another trip to Thailand, camping trip over easter, road trip over to kangaroo Island and then another trip to QLD to see my grand mother... but I'm back and at this stage there isn't anything coming up so I should be able to get this engine done soon!! So the disa...