Engine: Tear down and inspection part 2.

Okay, so we had stripped down the basics that we would not be re-installing. Time to tear down the more important stuff and see inside the engine.

The broken turbocharger is off. We won't be throwing it away just yet, we might need the wastegate actuator off it. The exhaust manifold has some surface rust, but nothing that can't be cleaned off and made to look pretty with a fresh coat of paint. Also, the stud at the 2pm position is bent, but the manifold is good.

After removing the spark plug cover and coils, there was a little water on the plugs. After cleaning and removing the plugs, the cylinder tops look pretty good. Plugs were a little nasty, but they would have been changed prior to start up any way.

Our spark pulg cover is a little beat up, but a fresh coat of paint will do wonders.

Our Nissan badge is clean. We'll tape that off and paint the rest of the cover, leaving the silver and polished finish.

These valve covers are insanely clean underneath. This is not cleaned up.

The valvetrain is also spotless. I've pulled valve covers on engines with less than 20k miles and haven't seen them this clean.

So, what's next? Not pictured, I've removed both intake and exhaust manifolds. Timing cover and timing components are coming off next. Scrub down the block and heads, and paint the block, head, valve covers, spark plug cover, timing covers. Reassemble with new gaskets, install new timing belt and parts.

I need to choose a color for the engine and valve covers though.