Engine bay clean up

stani540 · Post by **stani540** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:00 pm

after recently fitting my BMC with two standard breathers like so:

i decided to take Bepe's advice about fitting the one way brether from the original airbox as my oil levels were getting seriously low

so i rang round a few scrappies looking for a new engine cover but could'n be doing with paying 30 quid upwards for one so i thought id hack up mine and worry about getting a new one later!!

and here are the pics

new breather from air box

and then i chopped up the cover to tidy things up abit

what do you all recon???

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:37 pm

Nice work, looks a lot tidier with the cover back on.

JarnoVWPolo6N · Post by **JarnoVWPolo6N** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:00 pm

Looks a lot nicer with the cover on, nice cutting you did there !

Post by **alexperkins** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:45 pm

Mind the intake hose against the radiator hoses - it will wear through due to the vibrations. Ive had to replace mine already!!! Ive got some new tubing anyway its too scary to use the original knowing what it can do

I must say that is rather tidy might do that on mine

stani540 · Post by **stani540** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:09 pm

alexperkins wrote:Mind the intake hose against the radiator hoses - it will wear through due to the vibrations. Ive had to replace mine already!!! Ive got some new tubing anyway its too scary to use the original knowing what it can do

I must say that is rather tidy might do that on mine

its not the standard bmc one alex its the feed from my k&n 57i and thats where k&n tell you to put it and have had it on for almost two years now and its fine i think what sort of problems have you had any pics??

Post by **alexperkins** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:20 pm

Ye ill get some pics - basically the vibration from the hose touching the airfeed caused the airfeed to rub into the pipe and rupture it, therefore spilling boiling coolant everywhere

stani540 · Post by **stani540** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:59 am

saw what you meant about the hose this morning what are you doing to solve it just relocating the air feed?

Kam Racing · Post by **Kam Racing** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:50 am

Looks much nicer.. which of the 2 breathers did it replace?

stani540 · Post by **stani540** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:07 pm

it replaced the one marked 2 in the red box and the breather comes from the arrow marked 1 crankcase i think?

topped up with oil this morning so all should be fine now i hope

JarnoVWPolo6N · Post by **JarnoVWPolo6N** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:58 pm

Just a suggestion, some red ignition wires, I see that those run over your cover, recon it would look smashing as a little finishing touch

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:20 pm

stani540 wrote:it replaced the one marked 2 in the red box and the breather comes from the arrow marked 1 crankcase i think?

topped up with oil this morning so all should be fine now i hope

good lad, i havent had any oil lossage sinc i changed mine!

Post by **alexperkins** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:51 pm

stani540 wrote:saw what you meant about the hose this morning what are you doing to solve it just relocating the air feed?

Replacing it - getting some of that ducting off ebay thats glass fibre with a neoprene coating and piping it down to the fog grille.

The metal pipe will cause damage wherever it is

As for that filter, it will get totally full of oil fairly quickly even more so if the car is pushed a bit here and ther

Ill get some pics of what i did soon