{"id":1590,"date":"2011-12-15T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2011-12-15T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:30:54","slug":"clearly-it-wasnt-the-skoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Clearly it wasn’t the Skoda…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… that was cursed. \u00a0By now, I should<\/em>\u00a0have a running Ibiza, and have it ready for the MOT. \u00a0And therefore for Longmoor Loco. \u00a0But as you may have surmised, I don’t. \u00a0I’ve had a long delay with the ported cylinder head – the company doing it said they’d done one and then found a crack on final testing, so another one was needed. \u00a0During the long wait, I had bought a standard head on eBay (just in case), and then the guy who was sending it forgot to mention it would be another week before he could send it. \u00a0Great.<\/p>\n

Anyway, on Monday the ported head arrived – unfortunately I was out at the time (helping a friend of my Mum with a problem with her car that turned out to be a blown head gasket), so didn’t get it until gone 5pm. \u00a0I got it all unpacked and ready to fit, and then on Wednesday started looking at fitting it. \u00a0I’ve never timed up an engine with two cams on it before, so a bit of research was done before I got started, but it all seemed simple enough, and having a spare head with no valved fitted made it easy to check out what was going on. \u00a0Next up, time to get the cambelt off and everything ready to fit, which sounded simple enough, but took an hour or so to get it all done and the timing marks checked properly. \u00a0And time to bolt the head on, which was easy enough – the engine has an ARP stud set fitted so it was nice and easy to put on, and it all torqued up easily enough.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately I then had to ‘pop out’ for 3 hours or so to check out a replacement car for my Mum’s friend, so that was half the day taken up, and then time to put the exhaust on, which was easy enough too. \u00a0And next up, the camshafts. \u00a0The studs for all the cam caps had been removed for machining, so it’s a laborious job to put them on, so while I procrastinated for a bit, I decided to check out the camshaft caps. \u00a0And found a problem. \u00a0A big one. \u00a0One of the caps is from another head. \u00a0They are all numbered, and when they are made, they are bolted in place and then bored; it’s not possible to get a spare one as they are machined as a set (head and caps are matched). \u00a0The ‘replacement’ one was from another engine, and nowhere near right – it’s about half a mm out of line at the parting line.<\/p>\n

So far I’ve heard nothing in response from the company that did the porting, via email or phone. \u00a0Great.<\/p>\n

However, today the ‘standard’ head has arrived. \u00a0So it looks like Saturday’s work will be to remove the head, get the standard one fitted and see if I can get the car running. \u00a0I’ve also been to the machinists today to chase up the brakes which I’m having reground because they had some water damage (these were brand new AP discs), they should be ready on Monday. \u00a0I have most of next week off (well, 3 of the 5 days), so hopefully it’ll be up and running soon enough, but getting it MOTed in time looks like \u00a0a real stretch. \u00a0We’ll see…<\/p>\n

On the upside, I have tarmac tyres fitted to enough Skoda rims to do the event anyway, so plan A is all looking fine anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… that was cursed. \u00a0By now, I should\u00a0have a running Ibiza, and have it ready for the MOT. \u00a0And therefore for Longmoor Loco. \u00a0But as you may have surmised, I don’t. \u00a0I’ve had a long delay with the ported cylinder head – the company doing it said they’d done one and then found a crack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}