{"id":168,"date":"2004-03-01T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-01-05T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:47:51","slug":"the-blue-twincam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Twincam…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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CAR 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I won this one on ebay, after getting rid of my Black 2.9 4×4 (CAR 7) I had a couple of months off car ownership.. Then this cuaght my eye in Lancashire. 1990 2.0DOHC Xr4x4, Spax Suspension, rear RS valance etc… Looked nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a3400 and a trip with my M8 ( listening to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy on tape… ) to Lancashire saw it purchased.. It looked good, it seemed to drive ok. It had a years MOT! So things looked promising. 180K+ on the clock did not overley worry me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Troubles were on the horizon though…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First thing I noticed was a bit of smoke on start up, and then the water was dropping in the headder tank. Things were looking bleak for the head\/head gasket. Then I noticed a large hole in the drivers side sill, and one behind the front wheel on the inner wing. How did it pass an MOT? A question I asked the vendor, and one that he was a little off hand about! And he denied knowing any problems with water loss and the acution not mentioning it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got nowhere trying to chase the vendor, so welded up the holes and started to draw up plans. New head gasket? or new engine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, there was a chirping tapping comming from the front end.. Similar to on (Car 7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chirping was from the front propshaft, confirmed when the engine was pulled out. After many conversations and the mention of cracked heads, timing chains, ya ya ya ya ya… I decided the best course of action was to put in the 2.9V6 from ( CAR 6 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a bit of fetteling and a clean up the lump was ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see there is a fair amount of space without a twincam engine in there. Plenty for the V6!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Physicaly the engine went in without a major hitch, I did shatter the transmission cross-shaft retaining ring, which would later come back to haunt me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But everything else went to plan, the Ashley exhaust was crap fitting, and the prop was a nightmare but otherwise! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next installment!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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