WallaceGlanza

Looks good... except the pads aren't fully on the disc?... best solution, bigger discs!

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As per title I'm after a pair of EP91 bonnet hinges due to a major retard moment.... sorry shorty.

You can't say for sure, depends what the ecu was mapped for, it's an unknown so should always be checked on a rolling road....

End of a ring spanner I think!

Mine needed a slight bend put in the lambda to clear the ewg pipe....

Have you checked the timing?

Cheers guys, I do love the wheels too! The cables are the ignition and injector harnesses which you do want to have more options for mapping, the one on the left is for hooking up the E-01 to the emanage so not needed. It was the mot today.... and it was a fail, on 7 things! The one show stopper is needing new brake pipes front to rear.

Yellow is oil pressure switch, the other two are the cat sensors (lambda and temperature).

Well it's time for another long over due and lengthy update! We left off above with a dead engine and at the time I was waiting to move house so didn't want to start stripping down the car and engine. Roll onto January this year and I finally got into a house with garage where the Glanza could be worked on, once settled my attention turned back to the car. My plan was to rebuild the original engine which I blew up back in 2008, I suspected it was just the head gasket back then but didn't have the time or patience to repair it so pulled it out and left the engine sitting on the garage floor until a few months ago: So my plan was to just change the head gasket and put it back in the car leaving the other engine to have a full rebuild when I had the money.... The plan started well, upon pulling the head off it was pretty clear the head gasket had indeed blown: However that wasn't the only problem, with the engine having sat for so long the bores had corroded: Meaning they would require honing as a minimum.... which means new rings as well and then whilst the whole thing is in bits new bearing shells... and so the list starts growing! ... and growing when the ring lands fell off piston no.4 as I was taking the rings off: I decided to try honing the block to see if it could be salvaged but the corrosion was too deep to come out with a simple hone: Onto plan B! Time to take the 2nd engine out... Deja vu??? On stripping this engine down everything was looking good... a bit too good, it wasn't obvious where the problem was: Clean bores! Until the tiny tell tale signs were spotted on one of the pistons (again no. 4): Sure enough when the rings were taken off the ring lands came with them: Snap! But with the other pistons all being ok and this block being good I now had plenty of parts to make one good engine.... or a V6???? So the rebuild began again! New piston rings: Cleaned and honed block (no skimming required): New main and rod bearings (I used "King" bearings): Then onto the head. This was stripped, valves cleaned (exhaust valves are a pain in the arse to clean!!!) and then re-lapped, new uprated stem seals and just a good clean of the head, again this didn't need skimmed either (the first would've needed it but not the 2nd head): Job done. Simples. Whilst the engine was out I gave the bay a basic clean, got some new roose silicone hoses and also decided to ditch the ABS. The whole lot was ripped out and some new pipes made up: The engine was then chucked back in and to be my delight fired on the first crank! Unfortunately it was leaking coolant so the inlet manifold had to come back off and a hose tightened... then this happened again... then I found the clutch wasn't disengaging as I'd managed to put the friction plate on the wrong way round! So the gearbox had to come out again..... However yesterday it was fired up and driven out the garage for the start of the run in period. I completed 27 miles without any issues and have done the first oil change. There is a small oil leak from the crank seal on the gearbox side (even though a new seal was fitted) but other than that it seems to be running well. The brakes also feel a lot better with the ABS removed as I'd hoped. The mot is tomorrow and then the running in will continue up to that magic 1000mile mark where I can hopefully enjoy the car for a while! New 3" OMP harnesses: All this is well and good but I'm not expecting this engine to last forever.... it's going to get abused on track once run in and re-dyno'd:) So I guess I'll have to look into boring out the other engine and finding some nice forged pistons to fill the holes.... then I'll maybe start racing it.

Yeah I think shit loads sums it up best!!!

10 points to Daniel! I R Rtard.

A little is normal, depends how much play you have.

The bottom output from the charcoal canister should just be a breather so sounds like its being pressurised, which means you probably do have some pipes the wrong way on the tank.

I was actually a bit sad in that I also read the instructions for them and was happy to see you put them the right way round..... I also notice when they aren't! Have you seen the GT4 BMW Z4 it has three of them on the bonnet in both directions, messes with my ocd too. http://www.speedhunters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/SH01-AlgarveDT01.jpg

Tbh if the speedvision was reliable it would be the better turbo imo.

Mine are on the right way but I think the person that put them on just got lucky!

Nope, not had time to get the box off yet, will make a start tomorrow night and hopefully have it off at the weekend.

They should be E-marked for road use, a lot of harnesses aren't they're just for track or off road use. But depends how hot the SVA place is on the harnesses I would guess.

Well hopefully it's just me being a retard that's caused this problem then! Will get the box off and check which way round the plate is.

When I first fitted the clutch it was really bad to drive but after adjusting the pedal it was fine, so I think it was working ok, disengaging fully. However I actually just remembered that I'm not sure what bearing it is I'm running! (I'm getting old!) I did fit the one I got with the clutch but it was second hand and I didn't really pay attention to it at the time, when I had it out last time to change the friction plate I did check it though: The one on the right is currently fitted - not sure if it is an ORC one though!? I'm also starting to wonder if I did put the friction plate on the wrong way round, but I thought it was the same either side?

Surely if it was the gearbox selectors you wouldn't be able to select gears with the engine off (or can you?), as mentioned I can get the gears without the clutch and the engine off. @ dj-rix, I've been using the stock release bearing since I got the clutch (2009 maybe?) without any problems previously.

I was thinking of trying something like that too as it does feel like the fork just isn't being pushed far enough but the travel looks ok, I don't want to be taking the box off just to have nothing obviously wrong but I really can't see what it can be! I have a spare fork so if it's that it's a simple fix. I'm pretty sure I've got the friction plate on the right way too!

Get tracking and full alignment done.

I'm trying to get my glanza back on the after rebuilding the engine but it's fighting me! The current problem is the clutch isn't doing anything. When depressing the clutch it doesn't seem to disengage at all, the slave cylinder and fork seem to be moving fine (and I've thoroughly bled the master cylinder and slave cylinder): I can get gears with the car off but when running it just grinds and the clutch doesn't seem to do anything - it also doesn't rattle (Blitz/ORC rattly clutch) when the pedal is pressed. Before the engine came out the clutch was right on the limit of disengaging when the pedal was fully down and I also had the pedal adjusted as much as possible but it still worked. I didn't touch the gearbox/release bearing at all when the gearbox was off. So anything obvious I can check before the box comes off - really don't want to be doing that again! I can't think of what it will be other than something stupid like the fork isn't on the release bearing properly.....