My 3B Coupe project - Total rebuild

[SteveH]

Sweet! I replaced my headlining recently and the replacement has already dropped at the back and is sagging like the old one. At least I have one off the car to work on now Great job you've done with yours

[Acidburn]

Well I think these have turned out great!



The top one has since had another coat and looks even better, cheers Pete

thats looking good mate, also is a good time to change the bulbs for led's inside the sunvisors

Sweet! I replaced my headlining recently and the replacement has already dropped at the back and is sagging like the old one. At least I have one off the car to work on now Great job you've done with yours

already?

do you want a big sheet of alacantra as I got it ages ago for one of my cars but never used it. give me a shout but i'm only around for another couple of days atm.

[AndyP]

OK, ignoring the fact that it looks like the engine has got to be stripped again I decided to do some work on the bodywork!

I've never liked the std headlight washers, so I've decided to remove them and replace with RS2 ones.
This is before


Looking a bit sad


Holes now filled and primed, as soon as the washer jets come from Audi I'll re-drill them and paint the whole bumper




I also fitted the Cupra R splitter that's been in the garage for about 2 years




I think it looks much better now.

[Error404]

Haha, funny I was considering this mod a couple of nights ago but using the motorised pop-up jets... yours seems more sensible
How much were the RS2 jets rougly Andy?

[AndyP]

About £25 a a pair. I ordered them a few weeks ago, they're not listed as NLA but they have to come direct from the supplier and I'm still waiting

[Error404]

That's not too bad, might get some on order.
Looking forward to seeing it in action

[AndyP]

Update time. Despite the fact that the car has run pretty much faultlessly for almost 12k miles now, it has always used a lot of oil and it seems to be getting worse. You can see it in the mirror at night ( not so much in the day ) and people who followed me have said it smokes a lot. I know JE pistons use a bit of oil but this is about double what other JE users are getting.
So, I’ve decied to pull the engine apart and see what’s up. This was the scene this morning







Just after lunch, the engine was out and back on the engine stand, I’m going to pull it apart and take it down to JNL racing and let JP have a look at it.

Whilst the engine is out and being fixed, the rolling shell is off to Brian Tonks and he is going to do the following work:-
-Fit ABY battery tray under rear seat
-Fit new braided fuel lines
-Fit vacuum assist to brakes
-Weld up hole in drivers side inner wing
-Relocate ABS unit to firewall
-Finally, once all that is done, Tom will re-paint the whole engine bay.

[Kieron20V]

Update time.

Whilst the engine is out and being fixed, the rolling shell is off to Brian Tonks and he and JP are going to do the following work:-

• Empty my bank account

Haha.

[Error404]

Interested to see the diagnosis with the engine. I bet your list of jobs to do triples during the next few weeks

[Jamo]

What clearance were your pistons? Aelred did mine to 0.0035 ( maybe a 0 in there too many )

[AndyP]

What clearance were your pistons? Aelred did mine to 0.0035 ( maybe a 0 in there too many )

From memory, it was the same, we went with whatever JE recommended. Didn't yours have CP pistons?

[Tonks4x4]

Haha.

Lol just seen this bit


Tonks4x4 - The Land Rover Specialist

[Jamo]

From memory, it was the same, we went with whatever JE recommended. Didn't yours have CP pistons?

I was 75% down the line with CP then went with JE in the end. The gapping was less than on the JE sheet as Aelred said the sheet was *expletive*

Isn't this wantThuppu had also, i've been out the loop a bit!

[AndyP]

Isn't this wantThuppu had also, i've been out the loop a bit!

Yes, but his was using even more oil than mine! I've already checked, and he had the same 'low tension' oil control rings as me and some manufacturers ( Total Seal ) don't recommend them for street use. If I have to re-ring it, I think I'll go for std, tension rings.

[AndyP]

Everybody ask me if it's the turbo leaking that's causing the high oil usage, but as it's only done around 10k miles since a full re-build I was hoping not.

Here's what I found today, the turbine is sooty, but dry



The comp side is virtually dry, there is a slight film of oil on some of the inlet hoses, but nothing extreme and the intercooler has about 1 teaspoon of oil it it.



There is also no sign of oil pooling on the back of the valves as I've seen before, changing the VSOS seems to have cured that.