Oh and just realised I never posted any pics of the damage...

OMG !   You did cook them !  

Them head studs loook like they might be  ARPs ? ? ?

Hope it's soon back on the road.

Cheers Banjo

 

They are indeed. Been using them for probably over 10 years. 

Looks a bit more like a motor again!

Tried to bolt the manifold on this afternoon and managed to pull a stud out of the head 🤬 will have to wait until Monday now to get a helicoil for it. Once I've done that, it's manifolds on, flywheel, clutch and gearbox and back in the car! Oh and have to change the pilot bearing as it's a bit tight and crunchy.

Looking good mate!! Bring it north for a test and tune at heathcote park. 

Maybe I should since we only have 1/8 mile here now 🤔

Back to 6 stud's again... Now to pick up were I left off 2 days ago!

56 minutes ago, Taz_Rx said:

Back to 6 stud's again... Now to pick up were I left off 2 days ago!

Winning..

Looking good man! Bet you can't wait to have it back on the road, will have to catch up soon

For sure mate. I'll have some tuning to do, then run in and more tuning but hopefully going strong by Feb... Probably dreaming lol

Tonight's progress: Removing spiggot bearings suck... So make a child do it! Lol

Also a pic of new clutch plate. With any luck this one won't slip.

Got a bit more shed space than before from the look of it?

Car is still at my parents so that's unfortunately not my shed. Dad's Ural in the background.

All new rubbers etc and into their new home.

Luckily enough the RX7 550s use the same plug as the 7mge 315s, so I don't even have to change the wiring! Winning! Which isn't much of a suprise really considering both injectors use the exactly the same injector repair kit.

And with injectors/rail in, and top half of manifold on it's ready to drop in the car. Whoa!

... Until I realised I didn't actually put the throw out bearing and carrier in! Lol that could have been an epic failure, but luckily I realised now. Easy fix at this point.