Rob-se9's se9. (picture heavy).

[Rob-se9]

I brought my se9 back in September 2011 for £220 off that internet auction site. Both the head gaskets and oil cooler had seen there day and to be honest the car just need a little bit of TLC .

Heres out it looked before i got it home.











A few pictures of how it looked once i got it home.

[Rob-se9]

Let the work begin!!

I started by striping the front end down ready to get the radiator out to give it a good clean.



Me when I was 21, the stranger looking guy in the background tampering with the engine on the se2 is my dad (robs-se).



Then the next day after that I started striping the engine down.











After i cleaned it all up.

[Rob-se9]

As the heads were off i preceeded to strip them ready for pressure testing. I also ported and polished them but i didnt get any pictures of the polishing part at the time BOO!










I also polished and ported the air intake dividers, Again no piccys of the polishing part. I must of got bored of taking pictures lol





My Roose Motorsport Hoses all nicely fitted, easy with the heads off! lol




unfortunatly i never got round to taking pictures of me putting it all back together . The first time i put it back together the timing belt slipped and i bent 6 of the inlet valves on the back head double boo! I learnt by my mistake and heres how the engine it looks to this day.



I polished the manifold up myself using the same techniques from the polishing and porting, added and painted red Vectra rocker covers, painted the brake lines red and lastly the engine cover has had the oil filler hole fiber glassed, filled and sprayed by myself, also the insert has been rubbed down and sprayed myself and bonnet lifters added .

[Rob-se9]

Heres the last pictures i took of her. Its changed slightly since these where taken.










Engine bay:

Roose hoses
Bonnet lifters
Polished intake manifold
Vectra rocker covers
Modified engine cover.
Lemux sports exhaust- stainless from the cat back.

Future mods on engine:

Cold Airfeed
3.0 cams
3.8 fuel pressure regulator (on order)
New rocker cover gaskets as it got a slight leak.
Spray the inside of the bonnet

Exterior:

standard apart from side indicator repeaters. (not shown in picture)
Sprayed the wing mirrors (not shown in picture)

Interior:

Standard with some club calibra mats

Furture mods:

Rear headrests

Ice:

Vibe space 6 3Ds in front doors
Vibe QB69's in home made parcel shelf
Pioneer deh 7000ub head unit
Standard rear speakers
6 disc cd changer.

Will post some more pictures once the weather picks up .

Thanks for reading.

[Mark1]

Coming along nice Rob, paint the bonnet you lazy sod

[Rob-se9]

Thanks Mark. I would do if i wan't so lazy

[Callyman]

Look good Rob, good work.

[rich30mex]

nice looking cally there bud always liked the se9

[Allys Cally]

looking good mate, first pictures reminds me of how mine looked when we first picked it up as well

[v6 steve]

looking good mate hope you get it along to billing this year and drag the old man and his se2 along too

[craigyboy]

Good thread there mate ,nice to see the progress

[Phill]

You have a nice car there rob

[splinter]

Bloody good work . Looks nice.

[Rob-se9]

Finally got round to spraying the bonnet up .

I think it looks 100 times better.

[MadOnVaux!]

I thought you'd have put a picture of my knob on...............