By h2pmr - Sat Aug 14, 2021 7:12 am
- Sat Aug 14, 2021 7:12 am
#97825
many years ago a friend of mine did some work for me and asked if he could have the S4 engine block i was going to throw out as payment to make a coffee table, which was a good deal for me.
fast forward to last week and i asked him how the S4 coffee table was doing, his reply was along the lines of what do women know about what looks good as a coffee table, so the block has been in his garage untouched ever since, he needed the space so i got it back for £20.
so its now on an engine stand, clean and just needs building.
it will never be good enough to be put in a car so i will be building an "exploded" S4 engine.
will include heads, cams and chains, cam sprockets, rocker covers, intake manifold, throttle body, coolant bridge, sump, exhaust manifolds, water pump, crank pulley and sump + a few other small castings.
all held in exploded position with either longer bolts or threaded bar and nuts either side of the casting.
just need to work out what looks good spacing wise and either get a local machine shop to cut the coolant bridge and intake manifold right down the middle so can bolt it straight up from the head mounts or make N shaped brackets to hold them in mid air.
wanted to test fit the heads but hardware store did not have any threaded bar with the head bolt thread, so test fitting water pump pictured, the gap between water pump and block is 1.5" now, what do you guys think of spacing, more or less?
with it all just bolted together, it can be easily stripped down for powder coating and transport
depending on how it turns out it will be the base for a large coffee table or a folly.
only time will tell
cheers
Phil
fast forward to last week and i asked him how the S4 coffee table was doing, his reply was along the lines of what do women know about what looks good as a coffee table, so the block has been in his garage untouched ever since, he needed the space so i got it back for £20.
so its now on an engine stand, clean and just needs building.
it will never be good enough to be put in a car so i will be building an "exploded" S4 engine.
will include heads, cams and chains, cam sprockets, rocker covers, intake manifold, throttle body, coolant bridge, sump, exhaust manifolds, water pump, crank pulley and sump + a few other small castings.
all held in exploded position with either longer bolts or threaded bar and nuts either side of the casting.
just need to work out what looks good spacing wise and either get a local machine shop to cut the coolant bridge and intake manifold right down the middle so can bolt it straight up from the head mounts or make N shaped brackets to hold them in mid air.
wanted to test fit the heads but hardware store did not have any threaded bar with the head bolt thread, so test fitting water pump pictured, the gap between water pump and block is 1.5" now, what do you guys think of spacing, more or less?
with it all just bolted together, it can be easily stripped down for powder coating and transport
depending on how it turns out it will be the base for a large coffee table or a folly.
only time will tell
cheers
Phil
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88 SE silver
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