All looks good, bet you cant wait to get it all fitted! do they only do the head work on an exchange basis?

I thought the gas flowed head was the main part of headwork?
Has a port and polish been carried out Matt mate? (or am I being daft and
thats the same as the gas flowed head)

nice progress m8! keep it posting

keep it going mate,

Port and polish, gas flowed, prety much the same thing Rush

Of which they said wouldnt really be worth me spending that kind of money unless i have throttle bodies.

As im not (at this moment in time) considering bodies my £300 would be better spent elsewhere ie. contributing to my forged pistons :)

And if i do ever decide to get throttle bodies then ill probably just get the bigger valved head and sell mine on anyway.

been hugely impressed with everything about QEP, theyve replied via email very quickly, handles the initial enquiry very well and offered clear honest advice. Always able to get through to them by phone and let me know exactly what was going on and when it would be delivered etc.

Couldnt ask for any more tbh

Head looks great mate!

sweet mate

coming along nice now

head looks sweet

0.010" (thousand of an inch) is 0.25mm 0.040" is 1mm ;)

Boz thats perfect. I wrote on the paper between 8 and 10 thou (i did wonder if id heard right or if it was some kind of technical term but at the time hadnt thought to clarify lol

that head is just a thing of beauty mmmmmmmmmmmm

Looking good that head!! Really does look spot on. Starting to piece this Vts engine together nicely now.

Ste

do they shot blast the head to clean it or has it just been painted?

head looks amazing mate:y: progress of the engine is coming on so well:)

Wow it looks great what a difference to what it looked like before.How much of a difference will the head make?

To be honest in terms of any gain or performance ive got no idea, been going a whole lot on peoples recommendations and just generally wanting everything to be cleaned up and put back to as near to new standard as possible.

It should run as sweet as a nut with the valves being done and iirc the skimming will help with the compression. then the Camshafts and followers should go a fair way for performance.


Just been to a place called Cylinder rebores today for a quote on labour for fitting all my new bottom end bits which include:

Big ends
little ends
crankshaft seals
half flanges
the other half bearings that fit somewhere on the crank shaft
Forged pistons
Piston rings

Im still undecided on whether to just change to a standard sized forged piston or whether to get a slightly bigger set 0.3mm or so just to allow the rebore place to clean the clylinders a little?

Thoughts on this (Josh; i didnt get chance to call John when i got back earlier to see what GMC's recommendation would be) will standard sized forged ones be fine?

Then theyre going to put the head back on with new head gasket kit and setup all my timing for me with the new cambelt kit and the vernier pulleys that ive got :)

Also got a new water pump to put on.

Theyre doing all that (as its just labour costs with me having all the parts) for £170! bonus.

So ill wait for the forged pistons to arrive and then the block will be together within a couple of weeks.

Still on target for having the Engine fully assembled by New year (all being well) Then ill have a few months to take old engine out, clean engine bay, drop new engine in and get it all wired and mapped.

See how we go :)

head looks great mate so shiny and new and clean.
cant wait to see it in the car and running.
and yes boz was right with the figures it does total out to 1mm i checked at work earlier.
i think your heading in the right direction for a good set up tbh aswell matt.
should be like a brand new engine once all sorted cause youve clearly replaced everything.

i can polish your rocker covers anytime aswell
just give me a shout i can come and meet you to collect them and get them done for you.
just drop me a pm anytime.

Cheers Lee thatll be a great help if you can do them :) busy couple of days ahead, but free on Sunday so i could contact you then and see if i can drop them to you.

Trip to Citroen tomorrow to order some bits and bobs

plans sound good mate :y:

mmm i like the look of these

do it matt! u know you want too while its apart