Reyland Zs Rebuild / Update

[adam]

Ugh, that's gutting! Hope you manage to get some compo from the insurance.

[sneekyparrot]

Originally Posted by adam

Ugh, that's gutting! Hope you manage to get some compo from the insurance.

Fingers crossed, just waiting to here.

Things were going so well, just spraying up the engine bay / interior / mounting dash and new rad.

Now I gotta clear whole garage to get the bloody muck out, maybe Sunday once I build up to it lol.

[sneekyparrot]

Well its been a while since i updated anything so here goes.

Things moving along nicely, not fast due to work and lack of funds as always

Old 180 Rad was beginning to fall apart so replaced with alloy Nissan unit but it needed a bit of work to fit.


Lighter FLCA. From a civic but needed machining to accept the tapered MG ball joints:



GearBox:
Has been rebuilt but ATB has been replaced with a Gripper Unit, plus a few tart up bits.


Front End starting to go back together:


Engine:
stripped and off to have the whole lot balanced to new pistons:


Basic tests to head showed something was indeed not good!


report from Head guy was bent inlets, worn guides on inlet and exhaust causing exhaust valves to not seat any more.
Head still being done at mo but this time its having:
Uprated supertech exhuast valves
new inlets
new guides
recut seat
ported and flowed.

Bottom end pretty much back together, just waiting for head then the whole lot can go back in once bay has brake lines etc fitted.



The Qpeng ECU has been dumped in favour of something more conventional.


More to Follow :-)

[stamford]

Good to see some progress, front end is looking very clean and crisp. I do miss having the luxury of a garage, mine is too small. Looking ahead I'll be wanting to extend it and get my zed inside so I can do some work on it now its not a daily runner. With these sort of projects it's never about getting it finished for a particular date, more to do with when it's ready and to the original wish list.

[petet16]

Good progress, was the rad a custom build, or is it one of nissens standard range of rads, as 180 rads are nla and likely to remain so that could be a viable alternative.

[sneekyparrot]

Originally Posted by petet16

Good progress, was the rad a custom build, or is it one of nissens standard range of rads, as 180 rads are nla and likely to remain so that could be a viable alternative.

Can't remember 100% if it was the 200 or 180sx alloy rad but I had to check out a few suppliers as they were all slightly different sizes. Unfortunately it's not a straight fit as the lower rail needs chopping about to get it.
Just rad cap and no fittings to tie in original expansion vessel but nothing to huge.
Just nowt out there that will slot in place, as I am finding with everything hence me having to make most bit up myself.

[petet16]

Cheers for the info re rad.