Engine inlet manifold

I couldn't resist a little tinkering with the engine, its been sitting patiently at the back of the garage for two months with no work done yet.

Dollie

A while back I actually made a simple mobile dollie for the engine which meant I could easily wheel it about. Invaluable in getting it out of the way when dropping the car onto its wheels, and very useful now to be able to turn it around and access all sides.

The dollie consists some 1/4" chip board & 4x castor wheels screwed in the corners. Rough & ready but a must have tool!

Dismantle

I decided to remove the inlet manifold and re-fit the modified manifold ready for the GBS plenum

Removed, butterfly throttle valve, injectors and inlet gaskets carefully removed for reuse:

The old manifold stripped of components does not get used:

Assemble

With all these parts on the bench it made sense to re-assemble on the modified inlet manifold and back on the engine to keep everything clean. The modified inlet manifold comes as part of the kit, just needed cleaning and then the gaskets from the original carefully transferred over:

Then the fuel rail complete with injectors push fits back in and held in place with a couple of bolts, again off the original manifold:

Cleaned the head with a little white spirit on a rag to get rid of any masking tape residue:

Then the new modified manifold with fuel rail and injectors simply bolts back into place. This is not tightened up, the plenum will sit on the same bolts in due course, for now this just lets me work out the engine loom & fuel rail positions as well as keeping the injectors safely clean.