Engine Part 2 strip down and prep

Seems such a shame to gut the engine of its dignity especially since it has not turned a wheel in anger... But this needs to be done, so out with the socket set and spanners!

first off was the inlet manifold and injectors.

The manifold needs to be "customised" in order to accept the GBS throttle bodies. Now on paper this is a simple task of sawing off the moulded pipework from the manifold thus leaving the inlet manifold face to be refitted back to the engine. However not wishing to mess this up GBS will do this for you so I need to strip the manifold of all its bits and return to GBS for them do the modification.


therefore I also removed from the inlet manifold the IACV  and the IAC valve. If this has been done correctly you will be left with the injector rail, an IACV and IAC valve



Next attention turns to the exhaust manifold off with that!



Not sure there is any use for this in the build so looks surplus to requirements... maybe a future ebay disposal

Finally removed the burn chamber which is covered with a breather blanking plate supplied by GBS

In all cases, exposed holes were covered with masking tape, any debris, screws accidentally dropped through the holes will spell the end

Engine Part 1

Well, I finally bit the bullet and ordered myself a brand new Ford Zetec engine from Kitspares, after much deliberation and shopping around plus hearing rumours that supplies of Zetec were drying up I placed my order and a shinny new engine was duly delivered on a pallet.

To make life a little easier I built a simple dolly on castors to move the engine around the garage floor, this was more useful for gaining some space back as the pallet took up alot of room preventing the wife's mini being parked in the garage!

A few pictures:

Before it can be installed some prep work needs to be carried out namely:

remove the inlet manifold / injectors

remove the exhaust manifold 

remove the fire trap

Fit spigot bearing

Replace filter with short filter

In addition to the above removal / replacement the following will also need fitting:

Alternator kit

Water rail kit

Throttle body (Single body plenum)

Gearbox!

Replacement inlet manifold to accept the GBS throttle body