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  • 4 weeks later...

I ran last weekend at the Symmons Plains 60th annaverary meet. Unfortunately after a good run the engine decided to throw a rod.  I've got the engine out but havn't pulled the sump off yet, I suspect a rod bolt has failed as it had oil pressure when it failed.

Time to build the 2.2

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Yeah it was pretty uneventful from the inside.  I assumed i'd melted a piston, but my mates informed me when I got towed back in that there was a loud bang and there was bits all over the track.

The bottom end is stock crank and rods, arp rod bolts and ross pistons.  I've been using those rods since 2011, so they have done alot of work and I think i put the rod bolts in around 2012.

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I finally got round the pulling the engine down.  The head had barely been marked, so that's a win.

 

The bottom end is quire the mess though.  Pretty sure I found that the broken rod bolt, looks like a clean brake compared to the rest of the mangled mess

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17 hours ago, Roy said:

YIKES. So where to from here? There was an RB20 NEO on Marketplace just before XMAS. I had to resist being me :)

I was going to go down that path, even have a inlet gasket to make a manifold adaptor.  But Targa rules changed again, so 26 crank and rods and a slight bore to bring to to just under 2.2l.  Swap the RB20 highflow for a Neo highflow

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On 1/8/2021 at 11:44 PM, MoMnDadGTR said:

can you have the head machined(skimmed) with the valves still in the motor? 

The head has to be off the engine and cams removed, but yes i've had head skimmed with the valves still in it.

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1 hour ago, sav man said:

The head has to be off the engine and cams removed, but yes i've had head skimmed with the valves still in it.

Would be pretty amazing to do it with the head on the engine 👍

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2 hours ago, Ben C34 said:

Would be pretty amazing to do it with the head on the engine 👍

lol would have better luck fitting a golf ball through a garden hose, ended up striping the whole head and porting it anyway so she will be bare at the machine shop. good to know for future tho so dont have to remove the head components everytime. thanks mates 

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  • 4 months later...

So first steps have been taken for Targa next year.  I now have a 1989 shell ready for classic.

Just need to cage it and touch the paint up haha

 

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