The V8 Coffee Table

[Bounty Hunter]

So I've wanted one of these for longer than top gear has had their V12 (I'm a hipster petrol head ok?)

I bidded on a few blocks over the years, bidded on a few blocks with a few parts, I always wanted one with at least the block, crank, conrods and pistons, also it has to be an ally engine, I don;t want an ugly steel one, one night my old flatmate was yarning while drunk about how he had this rover V8 sitting in a gorse bush, later I swapped him a wrx block for it (cost me $60) sooooo $60 for my V8 and I was happy.

He went and picked it up and I left it in the front lawn under a bush in my front yard for a few months.
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I finally started tearing it down tonight...

[Bounty Hunter]

pics!

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[Growler]

Geeez, did you take these photos with a potato?

[Bounty Hunter]

Geeez, did you take these photos with a potato?

nah galaxy s2 while i was getting the pushie out of the garage, it might still be on macro mode....

[BerG]

Should have taken the photos with an iPhone.

Coffee table looks like a piece of shit.

[Emrico1]

Going to be cool. Keep us posted.

[Pitchey]

Are you going to tear it right down to just the bare block?

[Bounty Hunter]

Are you going to tear it right down to just the bare block?

tear it down to the block, clean up crank, conrods, pistons, (remove rings) lightly grease all contacting parts, build a small stepper motor controller and gear it to rotate the engine a full turn every 12 hours.

One bank is going to keep the cam shaft, valves and push rods.

I was going to put it on castor wheels, possibly on a nice ally chassis, but I might also bolt some really fucking heavy leaf springs on the bottom to act as "legs" except I don't want it to bounce (unless I do?! trampoline V8 coffee table!)

I saw Kevin McCloud's Man Mande Home on Sunday night and liked that sort of steam punk, slightly dirty look he made his chair


Kind of like buff up the steel parts on the extremities so it's all silvery, but leave the deep recesses and things blackened.

but maybe not, I was going to paint it up a nice sky blue or try polishing the rough ally and put a clear coat on it, Anyone have any other ideas?

[Pyromanik]

ally?

[deanox]

Aluminium, but if you are American Aluminum.

[Bounty Hunter]

Aluminium, but if you are American Aluminum.

this, or alloy, context dependant, probably a really bad habit.

[deanox]

I read op haha

[Pyromanik]

this, or alloy, context dependant, probably a really bad habit.

Yeah, I was thinking you'd typo'd alloy.
But then I saw it again so I thought you'd mis-spelt it.
But then I thought "Dave is smarter than that"
So then I thought it might have been some derpy autocorrect.

[deanox]

Give it a real good degrease, then acid wash it with some industrial acid, then polish what you can, that will bring up the 'ally' really nice and paint exposed steel satin black and keep the moving steel parts oiled with a lighter oil that keeps them from oxidising but doesn't hide their mechanical beauty!

[Ninja]

replaced the coolant in my water to air intercooler, the old
shit was red/brown and fucking gross

[Bounty Hunter]

replaced the coolant in my water to air intercooler, the old
shit was red/brown and fucking gross

lol ninja, wrong thread? or epic hijack?

[Ninja]

nope, im gonna go with massive browser fuckup :/ seriously i got huge problems with GetSome atm


cant view threads, pics not loading, and this sort of crap
sigh

[Codex]

PB blaster and a whiz wheel, buff that baby up

[Pyromanik]

Hi Ninja
As codex said, try updating punkbuster, works for me.
Hope it helps.
Cheers, Pyromanik.

[Bounty Hunter]

Pulled off the other exhaust manifold last night, snapped off bolts wont be too much of a hassle, I'll heat em up and get on to them with the vice grips when I get round to purchasing a pair.

Gave the engine a quick degrease with some oven cleaner, I know it's bad on ally (uminium) but I was quick and it hasn't done anything bad. worked quite well as a first go, I'll get some proper degreaser once I get further into the engine, I need a few tools for getting the conrods off and the pully off the end of the crankshaft.

[Pyromanik]

Just drill them out?
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(ermm, manifold bolts that is)

[Bounty Hunter]

Just drill them out?
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(ermm, manifold bolts that is)

Nah I've got a solid 10-15mm to grip on to, a smack with the hammer, a tonne of 5.56 and a solid grip on the pliers ought to see 'em pop out.

Might try heating, the ally will probably suck up all the heat though.

[Pyromanik]

heat stud, expands in hole, gets more stuck?
Or you mean heat head, loosen grip on stud? In which case you want the heat to be in the Al...

[Bounty Hunter]

heat stud, expands in hole, gets more stuck?
Or you mean heat head, loosen grip on stud? In which case you want the heat to be in the Al...

heat head, the aluminium will expand at a different rate to the steel bolt freeing it.

except there's lots of aluminium and it'll move the heat away almost faster than I can put it down.

I think a whack with a hammer and a squirt of CRC every now and then ought to do it.

[Bounty Hunter]

Ok so I've competely forgotten about this thread.

I have the whole thing apart now, except for one bank of head and I cant work out how the gudgeon pins come out of this fuckin thing.

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As you can see there's carbon and rust and grease and oil all over this fucker.

Am I best to get it acid dipped? what're the costs like? any recommendations in chch?