HI there
Well today started early for me, by 8:30am I was in Macclesfield picking up my uncle (truck mechanic), we were in Halfords in Stoke for 9:30am purchasing some parts and we arrived at OcUK Motors garage for 10:00am ish.
So work commenced, we got the front bumper, grill, sidelights, indicators all off with relative ease. Everything else was going fine until it came to remove the alternator pulley. The nut was on so tight that the pulley was slipping in the belt, increasing belt tension had no success. After approx 30 mins of trying several different techniques we gave up.
So we proceeded with draining the coolant and doing other areas. We gave up with the alternator pulley as the only way to get this off was to use the impact gun my uncle had, unfortunately we had no airline. So I hunted down an airline and then the alternator pulley came off with ease. Its amazing how easy the right tools can make a job.
So all was going fine again, then upon removing the metal water hoses in the engine valley represented a problem, we had no cap and so had to make something fit and in the process we probably lost a good litre of water, oh well.
Once again all was going fine until it come to removing the crank pulley, our pulley tool was useless. As the Saleen crank is very strange so the only way off was with mini-crow bars, hammers and lots of work arounds along with lots of patience. After about one hour it came free and thankfully fitting the new crank pulley was a breeze as it got onto the keyhole with ease and I was able to source a new bolt from Ford UK, though I was lucky as it was the only bolt in the UK.
Anyway from there on things have gone great. 8.5 hours later and we've got most things on and installed including pulleys, belt, spark plugs, Supercharger, intercooler, water pump/brackets and its now coming together.
Tomorrow we've gotta fit the new injectors and re-install the fuel rails. Gotta route some coolant hoses, wire up the H20 pump/switch, extend the alternator wiring, fit the throttle body to the S/C, install all the CAI and MAF which means were practically done. Then put the car back together and hope the bonnet closes and everything fires up nicely.
I did take pictures but left the camera at work so will have to put them up tomorrow but needless to say things have gone pretty well. My uncle has been a great help and having two of us doing it does make things a lot easier and adds further quality control to the job.
What was quite funny is at times we got ahead of ourselves, as in forget about the manual and just started removing parts which meant some later stages in the manual went very quick.
Thats the advantage of previously pulling the car apart. 
Well today started early for me, by 8:30am I was in Macclesfield picking up my uncle (truck mechanic), we were in Halfords in Stoke for 9:30am purchasing some parts and we arrived at OcUK Motors garage for 10:00am ish.
So work commenced, we got the front bumper, grill, sidelights, indicators all off with relative ease. Everything else was going fine until it came to remove the alternator pulley. The nut was on so tight that the pulley was slipping in the belt, increasing belt tension had no success. After approx 30 mins of trying several different techniques we gave up.
So we proceeded with draining the coolant and doing other areas. We gave up with the alternator pulley as the only way to get this off was to use the impact gun my uncle had, unfortunately we had no airline. So I hunted down an airline and then the alternator pulley came off with ease. Its amazing how easy the right tools can make a job.
So all was going fine again, then upon removing the metal water hoses in the engine valley represented a problem, we had no cap and so had to make something fit and in the process we probably lost a good litre of water, oh well.
Once again all was going fine until it come to removing the crank pulley, our pulley tool was useless. As the Saleen crank is very strange so the only way off was with mini-crow bars, hammers and lots of work arounds along with lots of patience. After about one hour it came free and thankfully fitting the new crank pulley was a breeze as it got onto the keyhole with ease and I was able to source a new bolt from Ford UK, though I was lucky as it was the only bolt in the UK.
Anyway from there on things have gone great. 8.5 hours later and we've got most things on and installed including pulleys, belt, spark plugs, Supercharger, intercooler, water pump/brackets and its now coming together.
Tomorrow we've gotta fit the new injectors and re-install the fuel rails. Gotta route some coolant hoses, wire up the H20 pump/switch, extend the alternator wiring, fit the throttle body to the S/C, install all the CAI and MAF which means were practically done. Then put the car back together and hope the bonnet closes and everything fires up nicely.
I did take pictures but left the camera at work so will have to put them up tomorrow but needless to say things have gone pretty well. My uncle has been a great help and having two of us doing it does make things a lot easier and adds further quality control to the job.
What was quite funny is at times we got ahead of ourselves, as in forget about the manual and just started removing parts which meant some later stages in the manual went very quick.
Thats the advantage of previously pulling the car apart. 
