Spoona's 81' E21 "Tracy"

[draker]

We care. We just don't post.

[BLUE]

We read.
It's also summer time.
Keep chuggin along man.

[DRIVEN]

^This^. ^^And that^^.

[Spoona_Jay21]

To start with some stuff i said on the E21 forum last week... lol

So things have been a bit Hektic this summer so there has been no update.

Anyway, we were aable to get the head off. not a fun process... and to be honest it has been so long since i did it, these pics mean nothing cause they aren't in order lol.

I Do have one question for our M10 powered Owners in Europe. is the Wiring loom for the engine bay routed through the Intake between runners? that's how it was done on mine, and i'm not sure if it was just to screw with us Americans or what!

In other matters, since i have been low on funds, i have been doin a few other projects.

Working on a Brazillian Rosewood gauge cluster bezell.


and i have been working on redoing my Valve cover.


anyway, for those who are watching, sorry for the lame update after so long, i will post up my pics from yankin the head this evening. just pics, i have no explainations :loll

Now it is time for even more recent progress =P

here is more pics of that Brazilian rosewood cluster










All finished =D


and my repainted valve cover



















now thats for the little stuff....

[Spoona_Jay21]

Now on to what happened a few months ago. i'm just goin to post pictures cause i don't remember a thing. Rofl.



















































ANyway, as you can see the head came off. and isn't in the best shape =/ from what we can see so far...

[Spoona_Jay21]

then the other day i started to tear the head apart as i had nothin better to do.

















Exhaust Cyl 4






Exhaust Cyl 3






Exhaust Cyl 2




Exhaust Cyl 1. my future father in law kinda got to it before i got raw pics of it.






Intake Cyl 1




Intake cyl 2




Intake Cyl 3




Intake Cyl 4




Cylinder 4


Cylinder 3


Cylinder 2


Cyilinder 1


Almost bare head



and that is all i am able to get done for now. within the next few days i will be grinding all the Carbon off the valves

anyway, thats all for now. can't do much more until i get the head hot tanked and re-surfaced.

[Spoona_Jay21]

On a side note, i have a few stickers for sale if anyone is interested

top is 7$ the rest are 5$ and ther are roughly 8"x2.5"

[Spoona_Jay21]

Everything looks to have typical wear patterns. nothing out of the ordinary. looks like everything was oiling well. i was able to get some pics of the cam.













also cleaned the Carbon off the Valves. didn't get many pics of those, but they all looked normal so i'm not too concerned.









along with that i sanded down and put some clear over some pieces



some pics of a few of the contacts on the rocker arms...









Then i got tired of everything being dirty and grimey. so i took some steel wool to the rocker arms and valve springs and cups













and gave the same treatment to the distributor. alnd painted the clips black. much better than what they were.





And i have one more question for the M10 guys out there, my rear Coolant outlet below the distributor if a bit corroded.



Is there a way to pull this out? is it screwed in? pressed in? I just don't want to mess up the head my trying to pull it off when it isn't supposed to come off.

thanks again for the help and support. =D

[Spoona_Jay21]

picked up a Mk1 GTI front lip for the Bimmer in trade for some work on an Explorer




think it looks pretty darn good just a mock up, can't wait to get it actually on!

[Spoona_Jay21]

in other news, finally got my mk1 GTI front lip installed







and my buddy Justin gave me his old neck pillows out of his Acura, so i decided to put em in.





thats it. nothing really new.

[Laecaon]

I would so like to see a M18 swap on this...