My £100 barn find engine has a BIG problem- Am I able to strip it down and rebuild it in 48 hours?

[@woznaldo]

I think you and Thomas are the most underrated Car guys on the internet!

[@StavTech]

Hopefully more and more people think that as I’d like some money 😂

[@phoenixcomposites]

Social media misinformation is wild, there's hardly any point getting involved a lot of the time too because you're drowned out by people who heard something from their mate's mate who just don't want to listen. Keep fighting the good fight with the informative videos though man, nice work. Wil need to return to this later to watch the second half :)

[@gafrers]

Comments are always the best and worst part of anything. Glad you got more subs. Greatly explained, always direct and great work.

[@scott7024]

That dose noise as you let off, sounds absolutely mint

[@hectorlambies7400]

For the smoke coming from the exhaust, try one thing, floor it in neutral, if the smoke shows up when u go off throttle, valve guides/seals are worn, because when you go off throttle, the vaccum comes back and sucks in the oil into the intake through the valve seals/guides/stems, hope i helpd u 😅

[@SekoRob]

It’s amazing that it didn’t hurt itself sooner with them rings like that!

[@StavTech]

Insane. If anyone had told me what it was like I’d presume the whole thing was wrecked, but nope, it coped 😂

[@michaelmurtorff5428]

Just recently started watching and I am in love with the channel. Keep up the great content!!! 🤘🏻

[@StavTech]

Thanks!🙏

[@finlay230]

class, great result, cant wait till next vid !!!!!

[@scottbrown4142]

Lost it at the Mr Tumble reference 🤣

[@StavTech]

I think even he would struggle to get through to some of these people 😂

[@rs__daz]

Fair play mate that was a good save on the pistons.

[@StavTech]

Mental the car ran for all this time, dozens of dyno runs and road runs at 30psi, and was ok 😂 Any other engine would’ve been destroyed instantly with ring gaps that fucked up 😂

[@rs__daz]

Bonkers man totally crazy 😅

[@e34boat88]

great vid and lots of good info as always.

[@StavTech]

Thank you!

[@jcadlols]

One thing I’ve done before to narrow down where the leak is, is to hook up a leak down tester. You can then stick a bit of heater hose or something into the O2 sensor hole (check if an exhaust valve is bent / broken), a fuel injector hole (or any intake manifold hole), or the dipstick tube. Gives you a pretty quick idea of whether it’s head or bottom end. You will always get some leakage past the rings so that’s a bit subjective but there should never be any leakage past the valves when that cylinder is at TDC or BDC.

[@StavTech]

Didn’t matter where the leak is, it had to come apart regardless

[@Brad24v]

Great to see it on the road again and very good how easy it is to work on! Just wondering if you will need the map adjusted for the slight change in compression ratio now?

[@StavTech]

Good question. I’m going with “yes a bit, but not much” but that’s the beauty of having the Ignitron, I’ll just go for a drive and datalog it and see if anything needs changing. Certainly drives identically so far r

[@Brad24v]

@@StavTech cool! I have just fitted Link engine management to my Sapphire Cossie this week and I'm trying to get a very basic understanding of how to use it. It's mind boggling at first glance 😂 I'll leave the main stuff to a mapper but I'll do some research and try and understand some of the basics for myself.

[@mcgherkinstudios]

I'd be really interested to see the technical info on how you have antilag setup. I know you can do pretty well with throttle bypass, but I always thought you couldn't achieve much in the way of boost off throttle without either the engine RPM climbing out of gear, or the car 'pushing' as engine braking is removed, even with ignition retardation (this being the advantage of fresh air bypass as I understood it, you aren't needing to pass the whole air charge through the engine so it increases engine braking). So to see you pretty easily sitting at idle making 15psi of boost without the revs going out of control is very impressive to say the least. That would be very handy for hillclimbing for me. Do you log EGT? Would be interesting to see how bananas it gets. Great work on the engine rebuild. Rings are a very simple fix (especially when you have a full set of pistons and rings ready to go!), but a right faff to get to! Smacked back together and sent. Top man.

[@StavTech]

That’s just the usual complete bullshit companies selling you valves and manifolds want you to think. I used to have 29psi off throttle on my old Cossie like this, my Subaru had 15psi at basically idle using the stock ISCV, and 99% of Rallycross supercars didn’t use fresh air antilag, purely throttle bypass, despite all the boost all the time. Don’t get me wrong, fresh air is technically better for both potential and for reliability, but what I use is more than enough for 99% of cars, just the misinformation and BS due to people selling stuff and people just not having a clue makes people think otherwise.

[@mcgherkinstudios]

@@StavTech Yup, I’ve not run antilag myself before so can only go off what the plentiful (wrong) information out there is. That’s why I like this channel - because what’s said is right and if people don’t believe it they can just keep watching and see you prove it. Never too old to learn!

[@StavTech]

@@mcgherkinstudios in fact I learnt something new today- WRC cars haven’t used fresh air antilag since 2017, purely throttle bypass

[@JudsonBrundage-cf5qe]

I’d love to see a more in depth anti lag video. I remember reading late 2000s F1 cars that had a similar strategy, where off throttle tq management was retarding timing but hanging the throttle open (IIRC like 70%) for the blown diffuser, just using the engine as an air pump. Obviously cars weren’t turbocharged, but sounds like a similar strategy for different reasons

[@raghurao3851]

Hi...may i know what rods is it... Lookmg to get the same rods for my car ...

[@radstar2185]

I had a focus st with the 5cyl Volvo and got 224kwatw with simple bolt on and a focus rs turbo, but it cost me so much I had to let it go. Now I've got an mr2 spyder with the 2zz swap that I'm hoping to make into a bit of a sleeper/track day toy. I really enjoy your work. I might have kept the focus if you were here

[@StavTech]

MR2 is a way better choice. Even with a 2ZZ

[@mcgherkinstudios]

I have a C30 with the same engine/chassis. Great car for a FWD, mega tuning platform if done right, which they rarely are. Currently putting together a HY35 build that will make torque for days at most of the RPM range and hopefully just tap out at 500bhp. MR2 is an awesome platform with the 1.8t though. Super quick, way easier to work on, RWD, Stav's right, it's a much better/cheaper way of going fast and obviously going sideways too. But if we all just went the obviously better route life would be boring!

[@radstar2185]

@@mcgherkinstudios yeah I know, the c30 is a sleeper

[@liamlee2198]

Pardon for me for being ignorant, but why is the "muffler" so big and I also saw another smaller pipe to the side? Great informational video. Amazing how it didn't seize with 30 lbs with no gap. A 1.8 build may be in the future after seeing this.

[@StavTech]

Muffler so big as I don’t like loud exhausts when just driving around normally. Smaller pipe is from the external wastegate so only open at full boost. And yeah it was incredible the thing even ran at all, never mind lasted a good while like this! So lucky it didn’t wreck the bores too.

[@Stephenc4877]

Been flowing you for years bro just enjoy the shot you put out even on facebooked I learn shit watching you. Didn’t know the Castrol sponsored supra didn’t have a 2jz instead a 4 banger 🤯. Can’t wait for the in-depth on anti lag mapping starting to get my head around it, are you moving injection timing and ignition timing?

[@emppu011]

Even modern rally1 cars don't have fresh air antilag anymore. It was removed in rally1 regulations. I think last wrc generation(2017) cars still had it.

[@StavTech]

Really? I didn’t even know that, never paid enough attention to realise! Nice 👍

[@hectorlambies7400]

Same thing happened to me with my AUM, 4th cilinder low conpression, why? Tiny, really tiny hole in the head of the piston, near the wall, no cilinder damage, anything, just small hole/dent on the piston head, why? Idk 🙃

[@exvils]

12:33 for cable throttle you only need bike shifter, to open throttle manually

[@StavTech]

Shit way of doing it vs having an actual bypass valve

[@idus]

I use -6* timing and it seems to work well. I’ve never measured egts so a pyrometer is something I need. Then when I get in throttle timing goes back to normal and we are off. I’m using ms3 right now.

[@Benharcombe]

I bet most who remember the 5th injector saw it on boosted cars back in the day I remember them setups vaguely

[@hectorlambies7400]

I need a video dedicated to programming the antilag, i wanna test in my 1.8t /ignitron tonsee the effect 😍

[@yourdadsgarage253]

that motor id imagine is common as a k series here, common swap to do in your country?

[@StavTech]

Common everywhere. We’ve sold more kits to the USA than anywhere else. Because it’s better value for money, better fit, easier to work on, etc than a K swap

[@SCOTTDIESELCRAZY]

Could you not put the piston in from underneath Without taking nothing other than sump off

[@StavTech]

No, can on a few engines, but not many, and defo not these. Even on ones you can it’s crank out which is gearbox off etc so a much bigger job

[@brendanj1124]

Officer: "Is that stock, sir? Stav: "yes. stock"

[@Sam-go3mb]

later on in court: 'ohhh I thought you meant stock chassis'

[@edups3307]

Very cool m8

[@CosmicMomentumX]

Hello it's me, I'm new subscribe person

[@incolink]

as always i hail the ghetto tuner king ... surly a bloke as smart as you checked the the rig gaps as you where throwing it together ? apparently they are known to have weak rings a lot of guys open up the grooves to run thicker rings.. Steve what are your final thoughts on the old pre turbo throttle body it looked to work awesome on your volvo years ago but Ive never seen it descussed again

[@StavTech]

I paid £100 for the bottom end, I wasn’t gonna check shit. Never known these to have weak rings but this was just a stock pistons nothing special engine, just someone did it wrong. Yeah pre turbo throttle thing works if done right. Still used on current F1 turbo engines

[@codemiesterbeats]

Always curious what they do elsewhere on the globe... But this is a prime example of why every time someone says something like "engine has been rebuilt" or something I usually cringe a bit and say "by who?" If it wasn't my ocd ass or oem it increases my pucker factor 😂

[@StavTech]

Yeah I don’t pay more for anything with claims like that, as usually it’s a pile of shit lol

[@matthewsaville3592]

Just needs a turbo expander (cold air turbo) now for sub ambient inlet temps but good luck explaining that to people 😂😂😂

[@StavTech]

I’ve got 2 of them here actually. Really want to experiment with them when I get a chance. Even to me that seems mind blowing but I know it works.

[@matthewsaville3592]

We had a stock Octavia vrs as a test mule for a while so.theyve been proven on a 1.8t engine....

[@StavTech]

@@matthewsaville3592 I saw one on a 1.8T something ages ago, maybe that’s the same car? I forget

[@matthewsaville3592]

@StavTech must be, there can't be many around.

[@radstar2185]

I just bought a turbo kit from the USA cost me $4500 . I wish you were here to install it. Mate you're a fucking genius. But now i can't afford your subframe. Can you keep me in mind and give me a discount later on? Love the old car at the end classic in every way

[@StavTech]

Turbo kit for what engine?

[@TurbineResearch]

Car muggles watch a doughnut media video about antilag then think they are god and go comment on every video with turbo noises 😂

[@StavTech]

Pretty much 🤦‍♂️ that channel has a lot to answer for 😂

[@BEYTEK]

Moral of the story… 1.8t are shite engines 😂

[@StavTech]

Moral of the story is you’re a clueless spastic as ever. And either haven’t watched the video or even thicker than I thought if that’s what you gathered from it…

[@BEYTEK]

@@StavTech theres a reason people are talking about you on social media and its not for the reason your thinking 🤓🤣

[@StavTech]

@@BEYTEK only people who talk about me is you and your little lovers. Same as they’re the only ones who give a shit about you. See me on your shit commenting? No, as like everyone else, I couldn’t care less about you, you’re just some annoying clown who’s got nothing better to do than bullshit his way around the internet. Shame really as the car you’ve built is great, but you’re just a hateful cunt

[@BEYTEK]

@@StavTech theres pages and pages of you shit talking everyone. And as soon as somone calls you out on the utter bullshit your speaking, even in this video its toys straight out the pram. Its hilarious 😆🙈