Willsys VTS Engine conversion. Hydra now available to others, price included - Saxperience

willsy · 29th May 2007, 10:17

Right then Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls the Eagle has landed!

The tarted up milk float aka Flymo power! is about to be propelled to the 16v level (About time some might say)

it all started a month or so ago when i received a PM from Paulhev, he was breaking a Saxo a while back and although i couldnt then afford to buy an engine i asked him to look out for a minter for me and let me know. So after a few months i received the message saying he'd got one

At first i was a little uneasy as he got straight to the point saying that it had 98k on it

however, he then proceeded to tell me about the service history on it from the last 8k miles which was carried out by a Peugeot Specialist which he had receipts for.....

The receipts covered the following parts (Would save me a great deal when stripping and rebuilding the engine):

Cylinder compression test, cylinders and ancilleries fully restored and new gasket/belts fitted
Parts: Gasket manifold, Head gasket, cam seal, head bolts, cambelt (Totalled £525 inc labour charged)

New ignition coil pack (Totalled £289
inc fitting) Diagnostics check done to ensure engine running smoothly

New clutch £100, Engine mounts new £45

So with al diagnostic checks clear and some of the more expensive parts changed i went ahead and bought it, bearing in mind that itll be fully stripped and rebuilt to new anyway

Shibby

Came with all parts except Gearbox and Driveshafts (I want to use my existing 1.1 gearbox-this replaced my 1.0 one a while back) and if possible my existing driveshafts are only 6 months old. Radiator (Ive asked jpsaxo to order me a nice new aluminium one)

Anyway enough of the intro, here goes the progress..........

Stage 1 (The arrival)

Well the engine arrived a few weeks ago and this is how it looked when it came out of the lorry and was unwrapped:

Ive got a full day off work today so im off out to the garage to begin the dismantling process.

More pics and stage 2 to come this afternoon

jpsaxo · 29th May 2007, 10:22

Good luck with it all buddy,

Let me know how it goes,

P.S Do Not use the 1.1 box, it does not have the sport ratios matey.

willsy · 29th May 2007, 10:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpsaxo

P.S Do Not use the 1.1 box, it does not have the sport ratios matey.

Hoped it would do as a temporary measure whilst i save up for a special box

If it wont cut the mustard ill get hold of an S box, shouldnt be too much of a problem

Still im sure ull show me the way, i wont be happy with it until its close to how uve got yours anyway lol

Yates · 29th May 2007, 10:36

get quaife mate, me and u can both get one and ask for it cheaper

BENSAX3 · 29th May 2007, 10:40

oooooo another willsey progress thread will be another good read - excellent good luck with the rebuild

jpsaxo · 29th May 2007, 11:26

Just sent you the longest PM known to man, but hopefully its helped you decide what you want and what you dont mate

l1ukeRS · 29th May 2007, 11:26

good to see another 1 going in,

willsy - remember im breaking a vts if you need any parts ive got a fair few spares

Dan · 29th May 2007, 12:58

Looking good mate. The 1.1 box will be fine until you save for the one you want.

Mystic^p · 29th May 2007, 13:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt

get quaife mate, me and u can both get one and ask for it cheaper

and me and me!

Good work willsy, i cant wait till u sell this car and the prospective owners have to read through your receipts archive

Will follow this with great intrest as always!

jpsaxo · 29th May 2007, 15:22

The mainshaft on the 1.1 box is smaller than the vts iirc. Depends how long your planning to run the 1.1 box?

And what sort of power you will be running when you first start her up, got to be worth popping some cams in if your rebuilding the engine

Plus the VTS box is a good compromise of acceleration and top speed, IMO

MaRiO89 · 29th May 2007, 15:24

Good stuff bud!

Hope it goes well.

mallboy · 29th May 2007, 15:40

looking good, good luck with the conversion

willsy · 29th May 2007, 16:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt

get quaife mate, me and u can both get one and ask for it cheaper

I had a look at that earlier Matt, looks like a really good price already compared to LSD, If you can hold out a while ill definately join you and see about getting some Group buy discount

Quote:

Originally Posted by L1UKEVTR

willsy - remember im breaking a vts if you need any parts ive got a fair few spares

Awesome cheers Luke, i saw your reply to my wanted section last night, meant to reply today but u beat me to it. Chances are ill definately need some parts so thatll be ace

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mystic

i cant wait till u sell this car and the prospective owners have to read through your receipts archive

I literally have an A4 folder full and almost over flowing already

lol ill need to sort through that soon and get it in some kind of order i think, its mayhem

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpsaxo

got to be worth popping some cams in if your rebuilding the engine

Is it 708's which are the popular choice? Ive planned to get some, makes sense while the engines out, hopefully ull give me plenty of guidance along the way

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Well its been a busy afternoon already! Ive took 49 new pics of what ive done so far lol!

Give me half an hour and ill have the next big update for you all

riggsy · 29th May 2007, 16:42

Rebuild sounds great matey

BENSAX3 · 29th May 2007, 17:05

looking forward to it

R085_VTS · 29th May 2007, 17:28

Cant wait to see it bud, should look very good indeed and have the speed to go with it

willsy · 29th May 2007, 17:50

Stage 2 (The stripping down)

Busy day today, plenty done so far.

Spent a fair while going round the loom labelling all the attached plugs that i could and hoses and taking various pics to refer back to when fitting the engine into the car.

I wont bore you all with pics of the above so ill skip straight to taking apart the rest of the engine....

Off comes the loom

Heat shield off

Manifold off

Coil pack cover off

Rockers out the way too

Throttle Body off

Alternator off

Whatever that bracket bit is is off (My engine knowledge should be brushed up a little by the end of this project lol)

Looking bare now

This is how ive got it at the end of today