Ghibli de Hongrie [ENG]

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spacecadet a écrit : So I can either adjust the difference between the exhaust and intake cams by changing the pin in the sprocket in the back, or just change the chain since I already have it. By the way found the manufacturer mark on the chain: https://www.reginachain.net/ They mainly do chains for motorcycles, another Ducati connection like Nigusil?
Interesting ! Have you tried to contact them ?

I can not help about the shaft you tried to dismount. Honestly speaking I did not understand what you were trying to do.
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alpa a écrit :Yea this does not look right.
I'm sorry I did not read the entire thread. I guess you've checked first that there is a lash between cams and buckets ?
Your valves may have been burned if timing/richness was wrong and combustion was continuing with open valves.
Yes, double checked to be at TDC at the end of compression, and that there is a lash between the cams and buckets. First I though I'm at the wrong TDC, but unfortunately not.

I've measured AFR earlier with a wideband lambda, and that seemed to be ok (I don't remember the exact numbers) but that was after I've replaced the out of spec sensors. There was definitely a rich situation I think earlier.
alpa a écrit :Interesting ! Have you tried to contact them ?
Not yet, but I just wrote them an email. Will see.
alpa a écrit :I can not help about the shaft you tried to dismount. Honestly speaking I did not understand what you were trying to do.
Thanks, It's already done, it was just very tight. I had to remove the bearings first.

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spacecadet a écrit :
alpa a écrit :Interesting ! Have you tried to contact them ?
Not yet, but I just wrote them an email. Will see.
Oops, me too !
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alpa a écrit :I can not help about the shaft you tried to dismount. Honestly speaking I did not understand what you were trying to do.
Thanks, It's already done, it was just very tight. I had to remove the bearings first.

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Ok I see.
For your information you can mount old (before ABS) axles with their wheel hubs on these hub carriers. Perfectly compatible. This allows mounting old rims with the 96mm instead of 98mm (or the opposite, don't remember) center distance.
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Forgot to show these pictures. One exhaust valve is leaking. Is this white color normal? Could it be because of the additives in the modern fuels or it's burned?

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Modern fuel is not unlike 30 years before and modern valves are similar to what we had on biturbo engines.
This white color is not unusual on exhaust valves. It forms a kind of very hard ceramic, not necessarily lean combution. You'll find the same on the piston crown. For sure it was not running rich. May be a bit too much white especially on valves themself.
I can show you beatifull pinkysh valves from 3200gt.
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That's good news. The results are still hard to believe for me, so I'll triple check everything once again.
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spacecadet a écrit :Yes, I've fixed the pictures :)

Finally did the leak down test, should have done much earlier. The results are really not good, nearly all the cylinders show 25% leakage, regardless the number there a lot of air is escaping at the exhaust valves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRx4Bmjmq0

I don't think this is acceptable, I fear this means the heads should be removed. Could be burnt valves (they are pretty white)? Any suggestion?
I've made leak tests on different engines this week-end.
Primatist (2L 24v probably totally rebuilt, low compressions, not enough power) and my 2.24v (engine on the bench, 120mkm): 20-25% of leakage, same on both.
430 18v with a 180mkm engine: 5%
222E (2.8 18v) : 0%

Would high leakage be due to low tension piston rings ?
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Interesting. For me most of the air was escaping through the exhaust valves, some through the intake but couldn't feel anything through the crankcase though the oil pan was not removed.

After a long hesitation I've removed the head on the weekend. Glad I did because the gaskets were fully deteriorated unfortunately even pitting the head in some places. I've also found one combustion chamber with really strange marks, but nothing on the corresponding piston. The piston is still on the top, I have to block the sleeves to turn over and see the cylinder wall. The other walls look nice with clearly visible machining marks.

I think this head will need resurfacing (or I have to find other ones) but I wonder if that's possible. The intake valve seats are angles are dangerously close to the surface of the head. The manual calls for measuring the combustion chamber with fluid and plexi glass that can't be laid on the surface as the valves are protruding.

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By the way, did you get an answer from Regina chains? I didn't...
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I did not get answer from Regina, not surprising, Maseralfa explained in Italy you have to call before writting to them :) .
He'll try as a professional, he owns a parts business.

Your head looks like having had strong ping, ping melts down the surface. But it usually happens on pistons, not on the head. At least I have not seen such case but I don't have so much experience with this. Check piston crown when it's in TDC. These heads are extremely well designed so they are very well cooled. And pistons are forged. So it may be OK after some cleaning and surfacing.

Valves are OK and yes they are close to the surface but this is how F1 heads are :) . It's written Coscast, not a mistake, it's Cosworth.
Head oxydation is not unusual on old engines. You'll see more once surfaced, removing 0.1mm may suffice.

Note that valve seats are very special (round shaped like on F1 engines, not angled) so don't allow any wanker to work on them. There is only one angle on them.
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Did you have a corresponding gasket deterioration and possible water pathway in the shown circled zones where the head was pitted?
The imperfections of the casting may also be responsible for preferred water pathways and localised corrosion.
As alpa says, sanding the surface a few ten thous may do it and close the paths
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alpa a écrit :I did not get answer from Regina, not surprising, Maseralfa explained in Italy you have to call before writting to them :) .
He'll try as a professional, he owns a parts business.
Oh, great. I've heard the same, and of course you have to speak Italian :)
alpa a écrit : Your head looks like having had strong ping, ping melts down the surface. But it usually happens on pistons, not on the head. At least I have not seen such case but I don't have so much experience with this. Check piston crown when it's in TDC. These heads are extremely well designed so they are very well cooled. And pistons are forged. So it may be OK after some cleaning and surfacing.
I've checked the piston, haven't noticed anything, but it's covered in crud, might be that it has a small missing piece? Will try to clean it and check again.
alpa a écrit : Valves are OK and yes they are close to the surface but this is how F1 heads are :) . It's written Coscast, not a mistake, it's Cosworth.
Head oxydation is not unusual on old engines. You'll see more once surfaced, removing 0.1mm may suffice.
Does this oxidation that mean that gaskets are not designed for such a long time? Or improper coolant? Or if the car is running rare the corrosion inhibitors are not flowed properly through the engine? I'm just guessing here.

Valves seemed to me so close the the surface that removing any material will cause cutting into the seat, but I've never seen similar heads. Neither F1 heads :)
alpa a écrit : Note that valve seats are very special (round shaped like on F1 engines, not angled) so don't allow any wanker to work on them. There is only one angle on them.
So it's not simply the traditional 45 degrees cut as the manual writes for recentering the seats when changing guides?
Froggie a écrit :Did you have a corresponding gasket deterioration and possible water pathway in the shown circled zones where the head was pitted?
The imperfections of the casting may also be responsible for preferred water pathways and localised corrosion.
As alpa says, sanding the surface a few ten thous may do it and close the paths
Yes, the pittings are at the worst gasket deterioration areas where the coolant seeped through (slightly visible on the first picture).
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With some help I've removed the valves. There is definitely carbon buildup on the exhaust seats contributing to the leak, which was also verified before disassembly using liquid.

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The damage in that combustion chamber is from a foreign object, marks also visible in the intake port. This will be smoothed down.

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There is noticeable play in exhaust valves / guides. The guides will be replaced, and since I also have the inlet guides those will be replaced as well.

Having seen the seats now I understand how they are round shaped. They are also very nicely blended with the ports which are also properly worked surface. All in all I see why you say it's Cosworth :)

The heads have been sent to soda blasting, hopefully next week going over to the machining shop for resurfacing, replacing guides and recentering seats.
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Thank you for sharing, interesting pics.
The carbon buildup looks important indeed.
Anyway now that it's open, head resurfacing + guides' replacement + valves' seats cleaning, you will recover a fully tight head :D .
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Gaskets are not designed to last forever, like any part. But not changing the coolant of course makes things worse. Also not using the engine accelerates oxydation because this lets time to air pockets to react with coolant and metal.

Cosworth is one of best engine designers in the world. Their casting is one of the best. It's a real race engine company.
3200gt heads are even better from the flow point of view.

Such small damages can be due to a broken compressor wheel, this makes tiny pieces that are smashed and melted down in the chamber. 800-900C are enough to make them disappear.
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Finally got back the heads.

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- Guides were replaced, the new guides had to be drilled out first before reaming because the valves didn't fit, their internal diameter was 6.5mm.
- Valve seats recut and recentered
- The heads pressure tested
- Finally resurfaced. This removed most of the pitting on the Right side, some still remained on the Left side. but this is where my problem starts :? They had to take down 0.3mm because they were not flat, but factory limit is 0.2mm. Ok compression will increase slightly more, but the bigger problem is that I think they didn't properly level the Right head and even cut into the seating area (middle grey area) of the valve seats. Also apparent because on the Right head the casting numbers on the side are slightly cut, but not on the Left head.

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The valve job and the surfacing was done by two different machine shops, said to be best in their fields. Not sure anymore. Should I try to assemble this way or the heads and the new guides are wasted? After this I guess it's better if I also verify the valve concentricity...
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I think your correct exhaust seats should be at least 1.2mm wide. If in the cut area you still have 1mm it's ok, if it's 0.5mm then I'd hesitate. Valve width is for the flow but also for valve cooling. So having such small nearow area isn't a problem I think, but it should be let's say 0.8mm wide.
Worst case just recut seats more. Exhaust valves flow better than intake, you won't impact performance.

Did they do a small second cut under the main one ? Not sure it improves anything, otherwise Cosworth would have done that.
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Pity, and strange that tolerances (0.2 mm) are that thin for resurfacing the head to maintain an acceptable area for the valve seats.
Therefore the importance of timely coolant replacements to avoid pitting of the heads surface
Also, warping a head would mean a basket case...

Seems from your pic that the seat width is about 3/5th of the nominal width, so 0.7-0.8 mm thereabout (to be checked).
And the constriction looks limited to a small area.
Maybe worth remounting as such, as alpa suggests, but difficult decision...
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Thanks for the suggestions. I've measured and it's 0.8-0.9mm. I was also more concerned because of the cooling, but indeed it's not a very wide part compared to the whole seat. I'm a bit revealed based on your inputs, I'll probably go ahead and mount them this way.

They only cut the factory suggested 45 degrees, no second or third cut below and above.

But before mounting the heads, I'll open the bottom to check the condition of the bearings and the rings. Since the engine is already apart I decided to check everything now instead of having to open the engine later. As I know that the bottom is quite strong, except the main bearings but at least I will know how everything relates to specs.
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spacecadet a écrit : But before mounting the heads, I'll open the bottom to check the condition of the bearings and the rings. Since the engine is already apart I decided to check everything now instead of having to open the engine later. As I know that the bottom is quite strong, except the main bearings but at least I will know how everything relates to specs.
Wise decision.
Be prepared to replace main bearings. You can do replace only half of shells, the top ones are usually intact so just change the bottom ones. There is only one class for bearing so they are all the same, no problem to mix new and used if the used ones look new.
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