Project Polly - 850 AWD

**Wobbly Dave** · Tuesday 28th April 2015, 00:38

Did you balance the rods, crank and other internals?

**Dangerous Dave** · Tuesday 28th April 2015, 23:16

Originally Posted by Biff

Project rally eh? I'm a big rally fan & ex codriver/passenger.
Any plans for uprated awd? Looks like the engine is going to be a good spec.
Good to see you back mate.

No plans to do anything with the AWD as yet, will be a daily driver. Can't wait to get back to some better grip.

Originally Posted by MoleT-5R

wow nice build mate and that sump looks way better than the last time I saw it, bet you cleaned a good pile of cr#p out of it, plus I did spot the 'A' series head in blue and a turbo casting as they would say in those sort of circles if I am not mistaken.

It wasn't too bad to be honest, the broken one I've got has a shed load of crap in it, thank god I didn't have to clean that out

I can't remember what A series head it is, it's been sat there that long....

Originally Posted by Wobbly Dave

Did you balance the rods, crank and other internals?

I'm afraid I didn't get that done, it did cross my mind when you mentioned it at the Two Henry's last year, but I decided against it in the end.

Head came back today from it's skim, £20 and a cracking job. Now setting to work grinding the valves and putting it all back together.

Have had a problem with some of the upper spring washers. Three of them have got what seems like stress fractures

So I'm gonna speak to FRF tomorrow and see if I can get some replacements.

**MoleT-5R** · Wednesday 29th April 2015, 10:55

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

No plans to do anything with the AWD as yet, will be a daily driver. Can't wait to get back to some better grip.

It wasn't too bad to be honest, the broken one I've got has a shed load of crap in it, thank god I didn't have to clean that out

I can't remember what A series head it is, it's been sat there that long....

I'm afraid I didn't get that done, it did cross my mind when you mentioned it at the Two Henry's last year, but I decided against it in the end.

Head came back today from it's skim, £20 and a cracking job. Now setting to work grinding the valves and putting it all back together.

Have had a problem with some of the upper spring washers. Three of them have got what seems like stress fractures

So I'm gonna speak to FRF tomorrow and see if I can get some replacements.

just re-read the post and noticed it's the spring caps that have fractured so will you replace all of them just in case or just the fractured ones

**Dangerous Dave** · Wednesday 29th April 2015, 17:21

Originally Posted by MoleT-5R

just re-read the post and noticed it's the spring caps that have fractured so will you replace all of them just in case or just the fractured ones

Well, a couple that are cracked were off my dad's engine from when I replaced the head gasket, I just swapped them for the ones on my engine. It seems the later engine ones are slightly thicker (not by much, one of them is starting to fracture)

I ran them all under the wire wheel to remove the crap and show up any issues.

Anyway, I have some new ones coming from Sweden (via FRF) so should have some in a week or so (bloody bank holidays)