Project De ja Vu

blacky · Post by **blacky** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:34 pm

The engine is out!! After 4 months of it being sat in the garage and me not even looking at it. Myself and my Dad had the engine out in under 4.5 hours including building the engine stand and Engine hoist from their boxes. It was like an F1 operation

Now all thats needed is for me to strip the manifolds and turbo etc off the block and get it over to Zen for the rebuild and put it back in again :roll:

One good thing is it so much easier taking an engine out knowing exactly what needs to be done....although I would have rather not bothered :!:

Right, Sunday night wine beckons. chow bellas.

Tk · Post by Tk » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:56 pm

soon have a for sale sign in the window then mate

sounds like you know what your doing though :thumb:

blacky · Post by **blacky** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:05 pm

Yup, think so, although pushing it out into the open did get my heartstrings going. It's a better looking car than the Evo IMO.

Tk · Post by Tk » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:29 pm

cant beat a nice old impreza, such a shame you been so unlucky with this one :?

blacky · Post by **blacky** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:32 pm

who hasn't had an engine rebuild tho :?: Seems par for the course with an Impreza.

Tk · Post by Tk » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:39 pm

mostly seems to be sti's aswell which is strange as they have a [stronger] engine apparently

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:46 pm

Par for the course with most regularly used performance cars guys. Sooner or later, they all tend to go pop.

Nice to see that the engine removal went smoothly. Lets hope that the rest of the work goes just as well, then you can have a choice of which World beating WRC offspring you take on the B3 competitors with........how cool is that

Tk · Post by Tk » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:05 pm

i would be thinking life is good if i had an evo6 and sti ra in the garage to play with at the weekends definatly 2 of my faves an integrale evo2 in there and life would be complete :lol: :lol:

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:35 pm

blacky wrote:who hasn't had an engine rebuild tho :?: Seems par for the course with an Impreza.

More of a definite with an RX7 !!!!!

James Breadvan · Post by **James Breadvan** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:08 pm

I had a similar time today, had to split the gearbox today to find out why the clutch wouldn't disengage. Found the clutch plate had snapped outwards from one of the springs. Luckily the standard ones are cheapish :roll:

Second time around everything seems so much easier.