23 March 2021 A quick trip to the garage this evening and I got the water pump fitted and the cylinder head bolted down. I had fitted new dowel pins to the block and the head needed the corresponding bolt holes just cleaning out to let it sit on the dowels smoothly. 26 March 2021 Not been in the garage much this week but have been thinking and startng to plan what I am going to do with electrics. I already have my Canems ECU and new loom so that takes care of the engine side of things. I still need to wire up lights, horn, ignition, gauges, ECU feed etc. I am planning to strip the Mazda loom down for the wires and reuse a couple of the plugs to connect to things like the ignition and column switches. CBS have just added some reasonably priced sets of waterproof connectors to their range which would be useful. I've been trawling the internet for something to help me with designing the wiring circuits but there doesn't seem to be much out there for the hobbyist car builder without a large commitment in software subscriptions. Plenty of options for designing PCBs and the like the biggest problem is finding something that has a set of suitable icons. In the end I built my own gallery for OpenOffice by borrowing shapes from open source galleries and creating the missing ones myself. Next task will to start drawing out the individual circuits. 27 March 2021 Had a few hours in the garage this afternoon and got the lifters and cams fitted. The lifters were placed back in there original locations and oiled up, I checked that they moved soothly in their bores. The cam bearings and lobes were coated with assembly lube and carefully poisitioned. Then the caps were placed in position and torqued up. Finally the cam oil seals were pushed in to place. 28 March 2021 I intended to fit the thermostat housing to the engine today, but my gasket set doesn't seem to have the right o-ring so had to place an order for one. Instead I cleaned up the cam cover to get it ready for painting. I stripped the VVT unit, cam sensors, PSV valve and all the brackets. I stripped the plates inside the cover so I could give it a really good clean and also so I could remove the PSV valve grommet. I went all over the outside surface with wire wheels to clear any loose corrosion off. Then I gave it ia good rinse in the parts washer and dried it off. I carefully drilled out the snapped EGR valve bolts. I was unable to save the threads but I can easily get bolt on the back to secure the EGR blanking plate. The intake manifold/plenum also got a similar cleanup and I also ground off the worst of the casting flash lines. I applied some aluminium putty to the cam cover to cover up the Mazda lettering. Once it is cured I will sand it off smooth. All the bolts, screws and brackets from the intake manifold and cam cover were run through the ultrasonic cleaner, dried and packed away. I also stripped the split conduit off the front to rear wiring loom so I could see all the wires and connections for when I need to look at the wiring. All the conduit and any fixings I was able to remove were put in a bix in case I want to use them in the future. There is still a huge pile of wiring loom to take apart.
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