out into the cold and start unwrapping the palette that came last week…

here’s one bit…

the 2.1 wasserboxer in the boot of the bus, looking a bit dusty, crusty stonecold fusty…

it turns over by hand and there seems to be a good amount of compression but it’s been sat a long time in a shed… here are the plugs that came out….

although they were rusted to scrap the tips didn’t indicate anything horrible inside the block….

also on the palette is the full loom and meters and brain for the digijet injection system

and this rather wierd hacked exhaust…

the block was missing a flywheel and seemed to have excessive endfloat but after fitting the flywheel off the 1.9 engine seems much happier..

unfortunately the studs on the waterpump are broken, one snapped in the pump body and the other snapped about half way. the pump on the other block is good but is such a hassle to get off swapping them over looks like it will be a major pain… I need to get a flywheel puller to get the pulley off to get to the mounting bolts to get it off. I guess i need to do it but the cold and rain is sapping motivation fast. doh !

ah well, i strip all teh injectio gear and manifolds and plenum chamber off the block (i’ll be using some of this later) and start looking it over, interestingly it turns out that the 2.1l heads are different to the 1.9l heads, not sure about the internals & specs but the inlet ports on the 2.1 are much larger than the 1.9.
when i lifted the 1.9s originally i was surprised by how bad they were, now all is a bit clearer…

1.9

2.1

so at the end of the day i’ve swapped over the fi gear for the old 1.9 carb and manifold, the flywheel and clutch. scraped 3 tonnes of crud off the blog, swapped in the old mechanical fuel pump from the 1.9 and drunk lots of tea.

next up, flywheel puller and swap the waterpumps over, replumb it all, drop it in and bolt it up (bolts right up mate !) service it and see if it fires up…

if it fires (*when) then i can get it motive and start onto the mocking up of the manifold for the turbo and the injection & fuel system…

plus, i’d like to get it onto a dyno and baseline it to get a before and after. I need to weigh it too before i take much more off and before i start chopping stuff out…