Warren G
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Registered: 14th May 06
Location: Kent
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Conrod change, one day....
Box of goodies
Car ready to go
TIme to start stripping down the engine
Small pile of parts building up
Draining the oil (Nice and black)
My turbo removed which is in perfect condition for having 53k on the clocks, no play in the shaft etc
More bits removed
Lower sump removed
Rocker cover off and removing the rocker cover
the the head removed
and put in a safe place 
Warren the cleaned the top of the block where the headgasket sits of all the gunk etc
More bits removed
Warren cleaned then it was time to remove the pistons and rods
Upper sump was then removed along with the oil sensor and baffle plate
Crank revealed
Standard Pistons and rods removed
Time to remove the forged pistons from the standard VXR rods
Pistons removed and H beam steel rods ready to go 
Then fitted
Warren marked each rod so he knew which hole it needed to go back into (Cant really see from the pics)
Installing the new Mahle shell bearings
Cheeky pics if the oil squirter
Pistons going in with Piston ring compressor
We were going to keep the old piston rings in because they were fine but swiftly changed plans and went with new piston rings
New
Old
Going on
Going in
Nice and shiny
Rods in with ARP bolts
344mm Brake conversion
cleaned the underside of the head
Headgasket on
Headbolts going in
New extended exhaust manifold bolts
Parts back on - Turbo, boost pipes & CDTi kit
Fresh oil going in
Then all done  and time for a test drive
I also got a few extra parts fitted - Cambelt & tensioners, waterpump, Headgasket, upper & lower sump gaskets, thermal inlet gasket
Awaiting Nortec manifold and GT28 Turbo for big BHP
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big eck
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Registered: 20th Apr 03
Location: Tullibody. Drives - Audi B8 S4 & Fiesta Zetec-S
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Impressive stuff buddy.
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
Location: South Wales drives: Vxr
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SteveoBC
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Registered: 22nd Feb 07
Location: Bucks
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 Warren working his magic once again
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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So jealous of all that space you have to work in !
Knowledge is power !
Conrods look the business to.
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Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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Great stuff that Warren looks like you know your stuff.
Whats your occupation just out of interest?
[Edited on 30-10-2011 by Mark.W]
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taylorboosh
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
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what do you mean by big power bhp wise
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Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: eastbourne Drives:zafira sold now a qashqai
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark.W
Great stuff that Warren looks like you know your stuff.
Whats your occupation just out of interest?
[Edited on 30-10-2011 by Mark.W]
That is his occupation
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spikedjack
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Registered: 16th Oct 08
Location: wolverhampton/cannock
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it says fitting the rods to the forged pistons.
why would you have fitted forged pistons and steel rods at two completely different times? Or are the stock pistons forged and only the rods need changing for the power you wish to achieve?
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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lot of work in a day
I changed my exhaust today, go me 
Any paticular reason they were changed or just strengthening for future plans?
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Oli_p
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Registered: 4th Jan 08
Location: Staffordshire
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vxr pistons are forged as standard, and if im correct chap that owns the car is going down the GT28 route
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