Carnage Plus EP60 - Building A Barra For Boost - Part-1

To make sure our Mazda's new Barra engine has a chance of living its best life we pulled it down and gave it valve springs, head studs, a head gasket and oil pump gears. Here's how we did it.


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[tcpnetworks]

Who was doing the edit? Music off with dialogue!

[rockersrockers]

I like the way Mr Scotty presents this project with his calm way of talking it makes a nice change and gives a novice confidence to carryout a project such as this. Choice mate!

[brendandavies]

Got a real good laugh when the screen changed to the oil pump under the drill press, some things are inevitable.

[MatrixGammna]

I love these type of videos where they pull everything apart and do it back up

[fords]

Awesome Scotty I’m gonna be doing this to my FG real soon. This couldn’t have come at a better time. Thanks!!!

[madmick]

Carnage to quarantine rescue again.
Cheers to the crew.

[gossy]

Scotty must have the virus, no Shifter was used in this episode.

[idoskidsattheawesomeauzzie]

Thank You 🙏,
As you 🎞 filming this takedown & rebuild has helped me with my Build of the Triple Turbo Barra

[dinosshed]

Petroleum jelly for the pump gears as it dissolves far quicker than bearing grease. I'd use the battery impact gun with getting the screws out, allows you more downward pressure and high impact force on those awesome screws. Good donk these ford sixes.

[robbierobbie]

Great vid Scotty. Loving the Barra Build. A great tool to use for those oil pump screws is an impact screwdriver. You hit the end with a hammer and it turns the screw as you hit it. I use these on old motorcycle engine case screws and nothing else works. They cost about $20 from Amazon.

[codyhayden-holmes]

buy an impact screw driver . rbs have the same issue with getting the oil pump apart or if you have a welder handy just weld a nut to the screw

[Pats-Shed]

I hate those Phillips screws too, a lot of brake disc retaining screws are the same and are rusted in. I use an old fashioned impact driver to get them started, but can be too aggressive on precision light alloy parts. I keep a selection of cobalt reverse spiral drill bits just for these kinds of situations. It should be noted that oil pump gears are precision ground/lapped and should not be separated as the inner and outer gears must remain in the same relative rotation.

[smdnz]

Hi Scotty, love the build. Im slowly build a n/a barra here in nz and just but to do oil pump gears. Will be watching closely to whst you do too mate 🍻

[hespie]

Nice one Scotty and Keyan. I have often heard of these mods but haven't seen it explained so clearly. Cheers.

[jamiegreenwood]

scotty your knowledge on the barras is awesome .enjoying all the carnage videos and builds are one of my favorite has produced own about twenty barras ....passoniate owner of ba s and bfs ...also replacing timming chains at present on my ba xr8 finding the job a bit of challange has all its rewards in the end

[MrBrandonfulton]

I've watched this video a few times now. Helps tremendously here in the states!

[benbullock]

Hey mate, I’m an Australian mechanic working in Europe. With the rust and the torx I learnt to use a 3/8 ratchet in those situations because it gives a better feel and use Hazet tin coated torx bits.

Using a hand impact driver like snap on PIT120 or KOKEN attack drive can help but I just get a punch the same diameter of the torx and hit it with hammer to jar the torx so it loosens.

[ohcamsrazor]

Good to see a recovery from broken oil pump screws, this is probably what is going to happen to most of us in our shed.

[marklewis]

You sure got excited (relieved) when the drill self extracted the broken bolt :)
Nice to see how that pump actually comes apart and we see the workings. Great work documenting this procedure.

[HarryCoyle]

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