Under-bonnet scenery

[Junkman]

Apologies in advance to Junkman for disgraceful lead routing.

 

PMSL.

 

[Spiny Norman]

Always loved these with their shiny manifolds. Must be one of the prettiest engines you can get for a few hundred quid.

[Stixy]

[Stixy]

[Guest Breadvan72]

The FabboceptorTron.  Currently looking rather more foutu than it does in this photo, owing to some sort of fuck up with the Dilithium Crystals.  

 

[trigger]

A few of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

I still wish i kept this 1602.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Lancia Beta 2000.  Check ma airbox Bling YOLO

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Talbot-Matra Murena.  Fugg ugly Talbot boat anchor.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Lotus Excel.  Stop fapping, you pervs!

BROKKEN by me, FIXED by Des.

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Always loved these with their shiny manifolds. Must be one of the prettiest engines you can get for a few hundred quid.

 

 

My one looks totally skanky and shit compared to that one.  

[wackywacerwill]

The engine cover on the Leon is a great place to put your tea and if it's ever removed it will only be to release the irony alloy from the steel shell before it hits the bridge.

I'd vote for the pinto too, simple with loads of room for maneuver. A flip up front would be great for saving my back though, as would a decent sized garage.

[Stixy]

The Pinto would have been perfect it the cam came out the front  not the back 

[eddyramrod]

Is it true that it's possible to change the clutch whilst sitting in the drivers seat? Or another one for the myths thread?

 

Actually sitting in the seat, probably not, and as someone else suggested, passenger's seat would be easier.  Many years ago I bravely attempted to change the clutch on my Toledo, which also had the removable tunnel.  I found the easiest thing to do was remove both front seats.  Mind, this is how much my advice is worth: I took a week to fuck up the job and the clutch was never right afterwards.  Soon after reassembly, I lurched it onto an Invacar, writing-off the poor chap's mobility aid; it wasn't long until I scrapped the Toledo.  I can say here with total confidence: I'll never again attempt a clutch.

[Station]

 

 

 

[derskine]

Personally love the simplicity of the under bonnet of my mk1 cortina

 

[skattrd]

Here's a couple of mine.

I like the simplicity of the Daihatsu (catch tank to be removed shortly)

 

 

This is just a nice lump of pig iron

 

 

Apologies for the silcone

 

 

 

[cort16]

The Pinto would have been perfect it the cam came out the front  not the back 

 

Possibly one for the taxi thread but my mate who used to work on Cortina taxis back in the day they used to cut holes in the bulk head so they could swap the cam shaft more easily.

[minolman]

The easiest engine bays I have worked in were an 1930s Austin Seven, almost nothing in there and everything very very easy to access. Lots of room also in my Model T Ford and my 1963 Morris Oxford. Triupm Acclaim was a bit cluttered and I can hardly work out how to even change the air filter on the Megane.

[Squire_Dawson]

It's hard to get something easier to work on, IMHO, than a RWD A-series, such as the A40 Farina.  It's a small simple engine in a roomy bay; ideal.  For beauty, you can fit twin carbs and all kinds of dressup stuff.  Of course for natural beauty this Detroit V8 lover nominates a RWD twink, such as a Fiat 131 or the XK-powered XJ6.

 

I agree. This made me happy and it was good because there was usually always something to do. Ultimately I'd like something like a Packard with a straight 8 though, or at least something where you can see and admire all the gubbins before they started cramming stuff in and covering it up. But beauty is often simplicity.

 

 

Now I know this next one isn't strictly shite, but it is old and when I saw it at Tatton in June I was in awe. 1930s Rolls, a work of art under the bonnet.

 

[tooSavvy]

 

contemplated one, when current.... still would 

 

TS

[oldford]

Engine the correct way round and room to work.

 

[DVee8]

Can i play

Daimler V8

 

 

[danthecapriman]

My Mercury has a huge bay, and they still managed to fill it to the brim! Look how much shit is in there!!

 

 

 

The best imho are pinto engined capri's. Ive sat on the slam panel with a leg either side of the radiator/engine before to work on mine. As said earlier if only the cam came out from the front!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Go to the Gallery for the higher def versions of these pics

 

The sparks side

 

 

The carbs side

 

 

Battery panel up

 

 

Towards the rad end

 

[twosmoke300]

Why is it that nearly all tweaked pintos have no cambelt covers?

 

Cos they dont keep going long enough to bother with the cover?

 

Owner lazyness?

 

Upgraded bits dont allow fitment?

 

I would be too worried about a stone getting in there.Would be unlucky but possible

[Stixy]

Why is it that nearly all tweaked pintos have no cambelt covers?

 

Cos they dont keep going long enough to bother with the cover?

 

Owner lazyness?

 

Upgraded bits dont allow fitment?

 

I would be too worried about a stone getting in there.Would be unlucky but possible

 

I was still putting mine back together  after headgasket job 

 

Bugs me too about people leaving them off  on the road 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Over the years I've had a few cars where the spare wheel is stored under the bonnet, this has always struck me as a sensible place to keep it. There's usually space to put odds and sods of tools,jump leads etc.

My current car has a bonnet area bigger than a Mk4 Zodiac and a similar compact 3.0 V6, but it's crammed with plastic shit.

 

MkIV

 

Renault 16

 

Austrian tank

[fordperv]

Why is it that nearly all tweaked pintos have no cambelt covers?

 

Cuz pplz on their osf spec excort want to show off their anodized vernier pully and Burton power cam belt

 

As with the cam on pintos, I was talking to someone who used to race alot about pinto tuning and got on to the thing about the pita cam removal and he told me about the hole cutting and removeable cover that used to go on so the cam could just slide out

[Stixy]

Kia Magentis  V6 

 

Not a bad engine to work on with plenty of space around it  , cam belts are an easy change  but alternators arnt 

 

but tbh  generaly not worth fixing anyway 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Rusty Red Rangey of SHAEM, with Photokredits to Red5.

 

Note Komedy battery connector arrangements (since changed in interests of not exploding).

 

 

Winner of the Detailing World OMFG Prize for 2013.

 

 

 

 

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwesome lump of awesomeness: