Well a few weeks ago the car started to smoke after a few seconds after being on idle, so the obvious valve stem oil seals where shot.
So i went about to change them but after removing the air box i found this under it hiding away

so me being me i could not hack that and decided it needed to be gone, so i thought about it and decided to remove the engine and box and do it propley
so i removed (cut out) the corroded metal and welded in my own plates and finished them off so they should not rot again and deiced to paint the bay and redo the subframe

removed

this is after a jet was to remove as much of the grime as poss
tooked the head off as thought i would re lap in the valves as well

after removing the valve 4 of the valve steam seals fell off would out me touching them so they were foooked

i was thinking well while it out i might as well check all the bearings and im glad i did coz i found this

and this on top of the pistons, i found toy bits of metal stuck in the head so turbo must have gone bang at on point

so after much thinking (all of about 10 seconds) i decided to do a complete rebuild of forged components

so some nice new rods which can handle 700bhp

some lovely wossner pistons which can handle 1500bhp lol
head back from the skimmers ready to be assembled

pistons built up ready theses are over sized by 0.5mm

then i got my new athena head gasket drag racing spec 1.9mm when compressed

the rods and pistons assembled

pistons fitted with head gasket on and ARP head stud conversion for some serious pressure

showing the gasket thickness

anther angle of parts in

crank in ready to go
this is as far as i have got just waiting for a few bits from courtneys then it will be back in and running