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Offline Stew-R

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SE2 - Rebuild time!
« on: September 08, 2010, 12:37:08 PM »
Well, as Im sure some of you read, my cylinder head spat its spark plug out a few weeks ago on the dreaded A14. After some digging around, the head was found to have cracks around the spark plug hole. Local garage reckoned they could fix it for 350 quid. It has been fixed, but the engineer wasnt confident about the lifespan of the head (quite annoying really, seeing as its a coscast!). Anyway, I have bought a winter workhorse (non vaux!) so the calibra can come in my garage.

Seeing as the head may not last that long, I intend to build up another good quality head (as the bottom end is pretty much mint!) - so if anyone has a low mileage coscast, give me a yell, get a couple of rust spots sorted on the bodywork, remove the back seats and replace with some audio gear (will be leather covered, so should look nice - not like ive driven through halfrauds and thown everything audio related into the back of the car!), new suspension all round (lowered 30mm), some nice new discs and pads all round, some original cav slabs with new rubber, and just a general good clean up .

I may well have the head ported/polished, get an enlarged throttle body, possibly a decent manifold (already have a custom cat back exhaust), bin the cat - or stick on a high flow cat.

If anyone has any ideas / experiences etc in any of the above, feel free comment as I can probably use all the help I can get :P

Think that should pretty much cover it! keep watching in the coming months. I'll take pics of it all over the weekend as it currently is, and will picture and document all work done.
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2010, 12:40:52 PM »
Looking forward to updates mate :)
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2010, 12:41:53 PM »
Sound like a good project bud.

Make sure to keep us updated with pics
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2010, 11:37:55 AM »
having spoken to a couple of places around me (northampton area), and looking at courtney etc, Im getting prices of ~1000 quid for a port/polish on a head. Is that about right?? thought it was a couple of hundred quid or so :(

Also, I can get hold of a GM head for <100 quid - as opposed to ~300 for a coscast, and in my experience, there doesnt seem to be much improvement with a coscast (in view of the fact the coscast on my SE2 now has cracked! - and my cav GSi GM head ran to 196,000 miles!) especially if I get the GM head sleeved? Read somewhere that people can do that for ~100 quid. Can anyone point me in the right directions for this. :)

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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2010, 11:41:37 AM »
It might be worth giving Northampton Motorsport and Jamsport (both in Northampton) a ring and pick their brains about who to use for head machining

http://www.northamptonmotorsport.com/

http://www.mk2focusrs.co.uk/contact-us.html
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2010, 11:44:41 AM »
it was northampton motorsport that quoted me 950 for a port & polish on an exchange basis.
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2010, 12:03:02 PM »
Here you go, port and polish for a C20XE head £275 + VAT

http://www.knightengineservices.co.uk/
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2010, 12:07:04 PM »
lol, they did the helicoil on my coscast!  Don't know why I didnt think of them :\

Thanks Trigger!

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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2010, 13:05:49 PM »
£1000 for a 4 cylinde head! That's ludicrous! You can get both V6 ones done for £7-£800.
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2010, 13:58:23 PM »
Could you not get the head welded to fill the area, then drilled and tapped, any engineers should be able to do this

1000 to port the head,  you can get a c20let for less than that, just fit a c20let
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Re: SE2 - Rebuild time!
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2010, 21:13:08 PM »
exactly!

I'll follow up on triggers advice, and see what I can come out with there. Thanks for the response people. Im looking forward to winter :)
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