Ke20 Rebuild

[ke20trav]

3K began to chew oil, valve seals gone, bottom end barings gone, few other tiddley bits going pear shaped. Decided to send it to engine hospital and have a makeover. I know, a 3K is not worth it but it is something to waste money on.

 

Step one. Took out the engine. Took half a day.

 

Step two. Pulled every thing apart. Send bits off.

Turned out two of the rear cylinders had absolutely NO water flow around them, totally cloged with crap. Good time to pull apart it would seem. The cam was absolutely hammered aswell. Lots of uneven ware.

 

Step three. Bit of a clean up and some maintinence.

Went to town on the engine bay, spent the best part of a whole day cleaning but the results were not believable unless you see it. Getting there with the rocker and cam cover.

 

Step four. Picked up lots of bits.

Lightened and faced flywheel. Cam grind. Block is bored 60thou, decked, honed and has had no expense spared. Everything that came off the block is being replaced. Alternator, fuel and oil pump, dizzy, starter bla bla bla. Recond and tweaked head. Still have yet to decide and get carby, any suggestions apreciated.

 

Step 5. Still to come, in holding pattern till the new year.

Edited December 26, 2008 by ke20trav

[hilux05]

sweet 20 man, engine bay looks minty fresh..

 

anymore pics of the car??

 

as for a carby, go side draughts, twin webbers or the like.. for a nice bit of induction..

 

richie..

[ke20trav]

Edited December 26, 2008 by ke20trav

[roladude]

What did you use to clean your engine bay with it came up shmick :)

What dd you spend on all your parts and getting the head and block cleaned and bored ;)

[ke20trav]

Used some special degreaser that was green and you spray it on. Leave a while and high pressure it off. Also had to get in alot of places with assorted sized scrubbing brushes. At my mechanics, I'll get the name of it.

 

-Hot tank block, crank, rods, head and all parts

-bore and hone

-face block

-grind crank

r and r pistons and align

-fit cam bridges

-pin bore short end bushes

-resize conrods

-reco head

-assemble short motor

-Engine rebuild kit (pistons, rings, rod and main barings, cam barings, rod bushes, all gaskets)

-timing kit with gears

-oil pump

-face lifters

-supply and fit sleeve

-springs

 

= a bit over 2k

[Doogs]

Nice work mate, it's looking good and you are doing a proper job of it :)

[smeetsy1]

Adelaide or Melbourne?

[benzo]

Adelaide from memory Will :)

 

Cheers, Ben.

[smeetsy1]

yeah, thats what i thought, hmm, i like it.

[Tally]

Hey man, looking sweet as, gonna be one tough street machine!!!

 

who'd you get to lighten your fly wheel? and how much did you get taken off?

[ke20trav]

Milton's at peyneham, Got it to 6.9kg I think. That was the absolute max he wanted to take off.

[ke rollin 20]

thats soooo waits beach carpark in that top pic isnt it??

 

sweet lookin 20, can't wait to get my hands on one again.

 

haydn.

[ke20trav]

Cheers Haydn, yeah its waits. As crappy as it looks, got a few barrels. The engine is in two fresh looking bits ready to be bolted together but the workshop don't open again till the 19th. I'm having mad withdrawls. ;) I miss my stereo too.

 

As for the carby option, I would love some advice/suggestions from people. Been thinking single sidedraft ? DCOE40 ? Is this a reasonable size.

I have been told a renault 1600 downdraft carb is the go? Heard so many different options I am very confused as to which would be best for me?

[roladude]

if you want reliability go for su carbie you pretty much set them up and not need to worry about them

with a weber you will find that you will need to tune them often.

[philbey]

You talk to a weber guy, and he'll tell you it's the SU's you always have to tune.

 

Trav once my wags is on the road (should be dropping the engine in today) we should catch up for a beer.

 

Done any more to the little rocket?