my 1st mini

Phantom Grille, yeah buddy. Found it on Craigslist for $120.

Nice score

just bought an engine rebuild kit off of ebay. just over 112 for gaskets, seals, and bearings... guess ill be tearing down that motor this week so i can clean everything

Rebuild kit shipped today, going to start disassembling the short block I have.

Update: so yesterday I cleaned off the block... That thing was nasty. Looks 100x better. I Stripped it down to basically nothing. Only the crank, rods, and pistons are left. Checked the bearings and they look good so those aren't gettin replaced. Just waiting for the rebuild kit to come in. Gonna pull the head off my other motor today and start cleanin it up. I'll post pics up today of the build so far.

Ok so today I WAS going to install my phantom grille but I need to recess the headlights, anyone have any clue on how to do that? After that didn't go to well I took the head off and cleaned up the bottom. Found a snag along the way... Now onto the pics!

Phantom mock up! Lmk what u guys think



Intake mani off


Valve cover off


Head off


For those of u who haven't taken off a b2200 head, there's a 12mm bolt behind the head close to the firewall holding the coolant tube that runs under the intake mani, my finger is pointing to the bracket. It's in the same general area


Condition of the head





So here's my problem, the timing belt ATE thru the damn cover plate. So theres a little hole where the dizzy goes into the head... Any ideas on this? I was thinkin about taking it to the weld shop.



I forgot to take pics of the block, I'll get some tomorrow.

Magnum Cover comes on the 2.0 motors

never seen a belt do that b4

JB weld it up should be fine...

That's what I was thinkin, I don't know how the timing belt would chew thru that cover.