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neat work as always although the alternator bracket looks heavy!

Edited by Tupers on 29th Aug, 2013.

Cookies are no good mate!! I find Fingers are so much better in the tool box! also when there done you have some nice card to draw stuff out on.

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

hahahaha!

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

No fingers for me Simon, I can't be trusted.

I just see the box as a snack now a days lol

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

I got the nose mount cut out and all the holes lined up.





Even better it fits on the engine.


I started on a template for the mount of the other end as well.

Loving all the fabrication work on this, what I did see the other day is a guy that makes his templates out of 1mm perspex. Thought that was a awesome way of doing it.

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

seeing the detail in your fab work, I now have thoughts of re-doing some of the work in my engine bay

Don't do it Rob it's a slippery slope. I started the 3 years ago and it was only supposed the be a pair of sills and a respray.


Pinky most of my templates are 2MM thick card. I've never heard of perspex being used but I can see the virtues.

haha! its taken me 14yrs so far and i'm already contemplating stripping it back down again before its finished!

I love the engineered to slide builds. His drift ute is something I'd love to replicate one day.

Spot on, that guys has some amazing skills. Have you guys watched the video about the Smartwire system he has in the ute?

Sorry for the hijack.

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

Yea and watching the videos and photos is delaying my build even further as I'm redesigning a lot of it now haha!

Don't worry Pinky, there's always time for ETS talk.



I cut everything out and fitted the locating dowels from the old water pump drive into the new mounting plate.


The first section of bracket from the block was bent and then twisted to line up with the plate on the SC.



I got everything else lined up and tacked together, this wont be flexing.


And now it's back on the block again and the SC is free standing.

grate skills mate a quality build

That's some very nice fab work

Thanks guys.



I pulled the engine out this evening to get a grasp on how to tension the drive belt for everything. I originally intended on using the tensioner from an MPI mini but the bracketry was too bulky so I stole it's pulley and decided to make my own mount.


Plotting all the pickup points for this was a pain but using the plumb line as my starting point made measuring to the bolts marked in silver much easier.


After a few attempts I came up with this.


The adjuster will sit on the outside and been nice and easy to get to and the mounting bolts will run in sleeves that will be gusseted to the mount.

So I stumbled across a Specialist Components EFI kit that someone was selling on after running for a year and decided to snap it up.


It needs pulling apart and cleaning but that's OK as I'm considering anodising it all in gold anyway.


I had to bolt it up just to get a look at the complete set-up. I guess I'll have to start designing a new plenum to suit the throttle body now.

Great work as usual mate

Good work!

How do you cut the sheet steel so neatly?

Nial