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Umm the exhaust cost a pretty penny... but hey! it looks good and it should provide better power compaired to a log style mani


And thanks D4ve.

David.

Looking good Dave! mind if I share those pictures of it fitted up?

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

Thanks. It's not the greatest photo, but fill-ya-boots!

David.

Lovely job. I'm glad that someone else thinks that it is worthwhile going down this route.

If you want any help with the EFI, give me a shout. You're welcome to come over and have a look at our 3 EFI projects for pointers.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Ah well the tabs I have open are pretty much all started/contributed to by you, so I'm sure you will be a great help when I need it.

Just gotta start getting my head around it then I can start flooding questions in. I might have you up on that offer though!

David.

Take him up on it Pauls garage is amazing

Been finishing off my diffuser, getting back to working on it as I haven't done anything really since October.

Main reason for the diffuser is because I've lightened the rear of the car so much, I wanted to gain back a bit of higher speed stability whilst still keeping light weight.


















Still a bit of trimming and shaping to do on the fences, will most likely bond a 2nd bit to each one to increase the rigidity, although its not too bad already.

David.

I've got it back on the floor. The diffuser sits at quite a nice height... however, even pushing it off the drive means i scrape the front section (before the rear wheels) And thats before the front end is lowered, which'll mean it'll catch more when at the right height.

The rear of the car (suspension height wise) is about right, but the wheel isn't centred in the arch- this is an issue with the mini spares beam. I'll be looking for an extrusion of aluminium (I think it pushes it back circa 22mm back in the arch, the KAD unit pushes back around 16mm) the box section needs to be narrower to bring it inline with the original dimensions of a full subframe. In essence the design is good, so will use the same idea of the aluminium blocks inside the extrusion, may even use is as template for the hole positions, but it's just not right, I'm loosing suspension travel as the tyre could touch on bump towards the rear of the wheel well.







The rear of the diffuser, doesn't protrude too much- certainly wouldnt want it sticking out much more than it is.

As I said, still needs a little bit of shape work, the top edge looks a bit wavey, so will likely bond a bit more material to give it rigidity.


Anyways... With that done.


I've started positioning the handbrake- no photos, it's just some brackets! But I'm going to need a custom cable making up, the handbrake has had to be moved back and of course now doesn't fit.


But I have also been buying goodies.





Trip to MED saw me pick up a light weight Verto flywheel, to which i'll bolt an RTS style clutch when I've done it.

All alloy vernia pulley,

Roller Rockers,

Turbo oil pump,

Dry deck kit with the steel cometic headgasket.

Race followers,

4 bolt main bearing.

ARP 11 stud kit and also crank main cap bolts.


Then my Widebands turned up, got X3 Innovate LC-2 Widebands to speak to the ECU (which is STILL sat in customs!)


And today my DSN parts turned up.

Water pump blanking plate

Oil filter housing with hole for oil temp

Thermostat housing

and also the timing chain housing.


Something I'll add incase anyone comes across it.

MED sell 2 types of pulley for the mangment- DSN list the sensor bracket as suiting the MED pulley- sods law I end up grabbing the wrong one!



I needed to get the pulley with the teeth inside of the pulley. No problem, they will exchange it, but thought I'd note it down FYI.


On top of that bunch of stuff! I've still got on order

the Megasquirt

Under crown oil cooling jets from BMW

and 2nd hand, a 55mm AT power shaftless throttle body.



Oh... and my engine is now at Southam mini metro centre for machining. Aweh YISSS!

David.

A nice parts collection!

I would be wary of the oil pump.

I'm not too worried about the oil pump at this moment. In any case it'll be dry built and the compressed area can be checked.
MED expressed their concern over the new pump design, through increasing the material in the effected area, its decreased the passage way for oil to get through, not something to be desired for a high flow pump, like others on here I'll be have oil jets, the turbo feed and oil cooler. so if I can get away with this one, it'll be peachy. if not, i'll work something out I'm sure.

I went back over to MED to swap over the pulley.


As you can see, it fits a little better, although this isnt fitted to the engine.

Also picked up some steel push rods while I was there. Think thats the majority of the engine components required.


And I got the last of the ordered bits.
The squirter jets first. Thanks to whoever put the P/N up on here a while back.


Have a question, do these need to be run with copper washers under the banjo?



55mm shaftless AT throttle body. Need to get an inlet and plenum made up, which this'll bolt onto. Also came with a foam pod filter, not sure that i'll use as I'd prefer a K&N type.

And finally-

The new box of tricks... Going to be quite some questions about this I'm sure!


Anyway, enough waffling...

David.

Nice

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!