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Engine bay clean up
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:00 pm
by stani540
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???
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:37 pm
by Redline
Nice work, looks a lot tidier with the cover back on.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:00 pm
by JarnoVWPolo6N
Looks a lot nicer with the cover on, nice cutting you did there !
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:45 pm
by alexperkins
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
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:09 pm
by stani540
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??
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:20 pm
by alexperkins
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
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:59 am
by stani540
saw what you meant about the hose this morning what are you doing to solve it just relocating the air feed?
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:50 am
by Kam Racing
Looks much nicer.. which of the 2 breathers did it replace?
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:07 pm
by stani540
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
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:58 pm
by JarnoVWPolo6N
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
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:20 pm
by Bepe
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!
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:51 pm
by alexperkins
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
