My engine rebuild and bay restoration

[DoubleA]

 

Figured I’d share the progress on my ‘74 2002. 
started in July after a compression test showed cylinders 2 and 4 were toast. 1 and 3 were hanging in there but if i remember right the readings weren’t great either. I decided to pull the motor and at the same time restore the bay. A lot of hours went into prep work and paint and I’m proud to share the results.

as for the engine, rebuilt the head entirely and put a new cam in, and basically replaced everything other than a couple valves that were in good shape. 
The block was in surprisingly great shape and didn’t need much.
i have only had this car for about a year now and i don’t know much of its history other than it was fairly well maintained. 
 

 

As you can see i still have some work to do but I’m hoping to have her back in the road in the next few weeks. 

[JsnPpp]

Looks great! Great motivation for me, I'm right behind you brother.

 

Jason

[jerryasi]

Nice work, I admire your wire wrapping work, that's tidiest. 

[BarneyT]

Looks great, very rewarding.

[Schnellvintage]

That looks great.  Very detailed and clean engine and bay.  Great color too.

 

Bravo,

Matt

[Mike Self]

Wow!  What a difference.

 

A trick I learned for masking off wiring when you're doing an engine compartment (or elsewhere where there are wires and repainting):  wrap the wiring bundles with aluminum foil.  Foil is great for odd-shaped things that you don't want to get paint on.  Squeeze it on tightly and you don't need masking tape.   What did you re-wrap your wiring harnesses with?  Hard to tell in the pictures.

 

mike

 

 

[DoubleA]

Great trick! I’ll be sure to remember that.. for the wiring i first replaced any brittle wires. Next wrapped them in groups as they previously were with Tessa tape. After that i wrapped them with wire loom. The loom is sort of plastic mesh that holds to itself, very nice. 

[Son of Marty]

It does look great malaga is such a deep color. I wonder how a 74 wound up with a round drivers side engine mount, gotta be a story there.