Hi there! My friend bought himself a first car and it happened to be this super cute little black hatchback Cuore. We absolutely adore it and i try to help him to make it run good and reliable.
Done so far:
Car was bought non-running, with bent valves, they were replaced
Basic maintenance, oil and filters changed
I measured compression and did endoscopy, it gives out 8.0 at each cylinder and the engine is consuming oil now. So now we will be ordering EJ pistons, rings and crank bearings for overhauling
Engine is ED10 block with ED20 head and Volga Gaz-24 126 Carburetor (you cant find any oem parts for cars like this in small Armenia, so we run anything we can find here)
I am very happy to find this forum and thanks to @evilhighway I now have information and understanding that EJ block parts will fit into our ED
Welcome Vlad, Good to see someone else having some fun with what I have done before.
Let us know how it goes and sing out if any help needed.
@Vlad Your country side looks similar to how mine is in outback Australia.
@DaleJeffree a 6 valve ed with ej pistons was what was in my budget track hack before I sold it. Because ED’s have a habit of the cam timing gear flogging out I put an ef one on there. The timing had very minimal adjustment. Because of that I used to put 4 Litres of E85 in each full tank of fuel just to help reduce and possible knock. After I sold it the new owner did blow it up. I did tell him but…
In that car I got my personal best at QR Raceway. Beating the previous times I got in the turbo move and it was N/A.
Hi there! Finally we pulled out the motor and disassembled it. Crankshaft has already been repaired by someone in past, so we have to do at least 0.50 repair on it (or more). We already found crank and rod bearings and gasket set online, the main question now where do I find a head gasket for ED block that will fit 73mm bore? Should I order custom one?
The car will be a daily driver, not a track one, so the reliability is a top priority
when converter goes bad they just cut it out and thats it
this country doesnt really have any vehicle inspection required to drive on public roads, it was only introduced this year, but it opened a big corruption window because the inspection is being done by individual entepreneurs services and for around 15 bucks you can just buy it from them.
roads and ecology are absolute shit here, soo, yeah, catalytic converters is the least thing armenian goverment worries about
huge death rate on roads, nobody buckles up. in heavy rain and snow conditions people were driving bald summer tyres, and only this winter it became a must to change to winter tyres. about half of cars dont have their lights on in bad weather conditions, these roads are dangerous.
i myself ride a Yamaha Vino 2 stroke 70cc scooter for 4 years already, ive been into mutiple road accidents, you just cant avoid it here, drivers are stupid. 10 years ago anyone could buy a driving license with a bribe, nowadays it became better, but still there are lots of drivers who doesnt know how to drive at all
We took our engine to machinist to re-bore it for new pistons 72mm. Head was resurfaced also. Crank was bored to 0.50 repair size (overall work cost around 200 bucks)
And my friend also decided to change his ceiling covering and repair door trims. we stripped all the interior, removed glue on the ceiling with angle grinder with metal brush disc, this was the only way it came off. there was a little bit of rust because of moisture captured in foam rubber. I cleaned it off and applied regular acrylic spray can enamel. later this week we will put a new cover on ceiling
while we are waiting for remaining parts, i have to make carb-intake transfer plate, change fuel pump to new one, replace cooling hoses, we also ordered new clutch kit (part no. Ashika 9206633) – $150
fuel pump is Stellox 1001001SX – $10
Also there is an electronic module that tells fuel pump when to work, anyone knows if it can mess with fuel pump itself? We had a problem when pump stopped working after 30-40 minutes driving. I will change fuel pump and put a direct 12V cable from ignition switch, i think it will help it
