my first rebuild
 

Im in the engine rebuilding section of my automotive program. Had the worste time pullin the most over complicated head ever and then look to see a blown blown headgasket. We knew it was gone cause the oil was a vanilla milkshake. Cylinder 2 and 3 are shitty. The coolant had worn the walls down and cylinder 2 was wearing away on the edge. Figured id share cause im stoked to be completely rebuilding an engine for the first time.
you can see the wear on the cylinder wall.
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
unfortunately you gotta drop these engine out the bottom and alldata has us pullin all kinds of ---- off this thing.
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
head was a painn in the ass. Uses a vtec like system thats way to complicated. Hondas got it locked down. You can see all the tapits fallin out.I think its a resin style intake,not sure if its resin or just plastic.
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After just pullin the head and other random ---- i gotta say whoever says a honda is hard to work on is full of ----. Ive worked on several hondas and this ford is way way way more complicated than any other 4banger honda ive worked on to date.

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haha, have fun dude. I wouldn't want to have to do that crap, not on a Ford anyways. But good learning experience for ya ;)

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When I first read the topic I thought it said "my first rebound" and then I thought there was going to be pictures of a naked chick inside, now you owe some pictures of your girlfriends best friend in your bed naked.

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sorry i dont allow my girlfriend to have friends in between ------ me.sorry

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that piston in the middle in the pic looks fuct on the corners... i bet its out of spec. Fords are some of the shittiest things to work on, hondas generally arent bad at all O0

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looks like a fun project to learn on Matt.

have fun!

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agreed, my probe was a bitch to work on. my crx is so much easier, and its funny bc you here all these old guys talking about how hard hondas are to work on LOL

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Yea fords are a bitch to work on im doin a tranny replacement on a 93 Taurus right now ill take some pics tomorrow afternoon in the light.

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fords are notoriously hard to work on. but almost all NEWER cars are.

hondas are soooo easy to work on its really nice.

at least the d series/b series i4 cars are. im sure the v6 cars are gay and the new i4s are prob gay too :0

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got the motor out today andstarted breakin her down. had some down time so i decide to fix my hf mani. painted it and polished it up a little bit
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had some down time so i decide to fix my hf mani. painted it and polished it up a little bit
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

i couldnt help bu notcie the way the ford exhaust mani would be easy to use like an hf for turboing.
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Zetec is nothing like Vtec at all, Zetec has no varible valve timing or variable anything. Zetec was basically just the name they decided to call that engine meaning "DOHC/Multiple valves per cylinder, nothing special about. Those things falling out are basically hydraulic tappets with I assume shims on the top of them. Be carful when taking these out, keep every shim with every tappit together and note where they go in the head. Otherwise you will have to adjust the valves (huge pain in the ass on those engines) It's actually a pretty comon valve system, lots of nissans and kia's are like that.


Jeff

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i thought the zetec engines were variable cam timing? i guess not

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thats ------ great. my teammate put the head on the work table and let everyone of the bitchs fall out. i didnt see it but i heard it across the sop and ----. oh well. Ok so its nothing like vtec. WHat does the spring loaded gear on the end of the fron cam control? Ifigured that was fords ripped off version of vtec? Just from what i could see i thought it was a gear kind setup where the spring is compressed making the gear come together and change timing. JUst a theory but i guess im off on this one.

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gay ass 5SFE toyotas are teh same way with the shims and ----. ;D

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The only zetec that uses varible cam timing is the SVT and It's primary function is emissions related ;)

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ah

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Got some spare time in class today and figured id fix up a spare a6 head i have.Still got some more polishing to do and tommorow im outting new valves in it and gotta take it to the machine shop.
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DId some more polishin and etc today.also a 57 bel air a friend in class is workin on. thing is freakin sweet and runs strong. just sucks its a two speed.
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...mQzMXk1NDE%3D.
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http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...mQzMXk1NDE%3D.

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Thats cool that in your down time you can work on your own stuff.

So what about Ecotec!? I just assumed that was a variable valve thing too?

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well finally puttin the ---- backtogether and were a piston and 3 valve keys short of ---- gettin together. ---- just keeps goin wrong and we got till friday to have it together.wtf. i really wish i couldve had the money to put together an a6 for class.
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