Wil's Reshell/Rebuild
Now i'm not Wil, but the boys and I from the QLD club decided that after an unfortunate accident on a club run, we would give Wil a hand with his reshell. With the car a stat write off, our options were limited.
Myself, Ben (BEN77), Danny (DVS_MR2), Nate (Nate_P) and Rob originally wanted to do it in secret, but things were too difficult, so we just asked Wil :P
It was a close call, he nearly decided to buy a volvo instead (sorry tree) but our efforts seemed to sway him back to MR2's
Rob loaded her up on the trailer and bought her back from Wil's. Ben was kind enough to let us use his garage
We stripped a lot of the essentials off the car and things like C pilar trims(which always break), then the motor was dropped. Wil also bought us an entire case of corona's, so obviously that had to be consumed whilst working
Nate and Ben's motivation faces
And before you know it, motor was out!
Replaced with a Nate
The next day, Wil arrived, we were all a little hungover and the teardown really kicked into gear. Our plan was to strip the car to a bare shell, and pull the motor down to be rebuilt. The engine was rebuilt about 15,000kms ago by a workshop in brisbane, but had started blowing smoke.
Whilst Danny, Wil, Ben and myself were stripping the car. Nate pulled down the engine.
Things that were wrong with it included: A piston looked to have been dropped on the ground, dented, and reused. Bores did not appear to have been honed. The end of the crank had been marked with vice grips or a similar tool. bearing surfaces were ruined. it looked like the rings had been put in upside down and the compression had then blown out the side of the piston, but this is to be confirmed by the engine builder
Long story short, the engine was completely dismantled and has been taken an engine builder we know, who is currently doing some further investigation into what happened, how it was built and then helping us rebuild the motor
So as it sits now, the nearly bare shell. This weekend we will finish off the rest of it. Then it is simply a matter of finding a new shell and rebuilding the motor :)
Thanks to all the people who have helped out, and offered to help. I'm really enjoying this project. It's great to just muck arround with cars with your mates, whilst drinking beer someone bought for you.
post edited by Eric - 2015/05/06 08:19:45