Eddie's Engine Project

Eddie has purchased a used 2.5V6 block to completely tear down and rebuild as his new engine. Lots of pictures from the project will be posted here, as well as more descriptions. Some plans in the works are so radical I have been asked to keep them secret for now!

• 12Mar98 - most of the rest of the garage pics.
• 10Mar98 - roll of pics taken at eddie's garage, about half scanned as of today.
• 1Mar98. james took a roll of pics at eddie's garage. will be posted next week.
• 12Feb98. more disassembly as we get into the heart of the engine. 3 new pics
• 11Feb98. some disassembly. 2 new pics
• 4Feb98. mostly intact block, new parts. 4 new pics

12Mar98 - More pics, still no time for thumbnails

oilpan.jpg - simple shot of the oilpan.

crank2.jpg - a good look at the crank and how it fits in the block

baffle.jpg - the oil pan baffle and oil pan. (Keeps the oil from all moving to one side during hard cornering.)

udppull.jpg - UDP pulley and stock pulley side by side with a teape measure

time.jpg - some of the timing pulleys

v6.jpg - the top of the engine eddie bought. shows the date, mileage, etc.

10Mar98 - about half the pics taken at eddie's garage. Sorry no thumbnails yet- next week or two.

bags.jpg - bags of parts in eddie's garage

crank.jpg - crank and block- the crank is a beauty!

nos1.jpg - the dangers of NOS- fried plug

ofilter.jpg - oil filter

piston.jpg - closeup of top of piston

tinyhole.jpg - when HLAs collapse tiny hole gets clogged

valve1.jpg - shot of valves

vristwo.jpg - shot of VRIS, closed and then open

Click the thumbnails for big pics...

Block

The bottom end intact. Dome of the pistons is shown. Lotsa carbon again and all that other crud. Definitely don't want the knock sensor to go bad on your car. All this work to get to the knock sensor. (It's the wire that is between the banks.) 

Headstuds

The headstuds off the 2.5L V6. Will be replaced with ARPs.

Valves

Picture of the cylinder head flipped over. Valves exposed. 

Heads

Cylinder heads off the block...and stripped of cams, rocker arms, and HLAs

Cams

What should we do to these?...

Front bank

Top picture is of the front of the engine with the valve covers removed. Bottom picture is of the rear bank with a close up shot of the cams and other oily stuff. 

Rear bank

The back of the engine that a lot of people have never seen.  

VRIS

Ihe mouth of the intake manifold with the throttle body removed. First notice the carbon residue on this engine that only had 18K miles. Imagine your car with 60K and no carbon cleaning service. But the picture shows the VRIS solenoids and plates blocking the inlet of the intake. It opens and closes at certain rpms. 

Underdrive Pulley

The drive belt side of the engine with the timing belt cover ripped off. The right side of the picture is the Unorthodox UDP matched up against the stock pulley. 

Manifolds 

Intake Runners

You can see the outlets of the intake runners. There is a small port at each outlet for the nozzle of the injectors. The intake manifold flipped upside down. so you can see the outlet of the intake and also the squirters.