Tuesday was a big day where I was up before the Sun and home after it had passed, but overall the day was a success with just minimal scares. The days job was to pull the stock head and camshafts off, clean the block and piston heads, attach the new manifold to the Polish and Ported Head, swap the Injectors over, install the Coolant Re Route, Install the head to the block, install the new HKS 256 Cam Shafts to the Head, New Hydraulic Lifters, ensure everything worked and finally time the engine. Whilst praying for it all to work so I could get it to Godzilla Motorsport to have it dyno tuned.
OK SO, pictures always make a nice story, so here we go...



Has NOTHING to do with what I just said but because I couldnt sleep the night before I decided to install the new clear side repeaters and the Project G indicator/parker lights,
i love them. Gives a cool amber glow throughout the whole unit, nice and retro-ish.
Also scored this cool Gauge Cluster set up which will go on when I get the car back from Godzilla Motorsport

Just the tapet cover off after dropping all the oil and coolant (everything looking nice and juicy)


Here comes the SH!T and Gross part of the day....




Don't know what kind of Carbon Build up or whatever that may be, but all four piston heads had that all over them (in a thick coat too), so we spent a while shaving all that off along with the old remains of the Head Gasket.
Here is the result


Much cleaner and shinier!

Old Head v New Polish and Ported Head
And lastly the new Intake Manifold and Head about to go in

Unfortunately we stopped taking pictures at this point as we started to lose daylight, but everything went on alright witch not too much fidling for space, and surprisingly the car kicked over and idled nicely first go, sounds much more lumpier due to the 256 Cams.
Drove home fine, but I was awakened by the smell of fuel all through the house as the Injector seal failed and leaked fuel from the fuel rail everywhere!
That being the only let down, it was a successful day, we had fun and learnt a lot. Massive thanks to Luke Wilcox for the amazing work!
Updates will be posted in a week or two when I get the car back! (sorry for the long post)
