R5 GTTurbo 2

[markey b]

thanks for the great comments guys, still got lots to do, will get more piccys up over the next week or so, thinking of carbon wraping the 16v bonnet or maybe painting it blue, thoughts on that anybody

carbon bonnet will be coming of in the next three weeks
cough cough mr B

let me know your awesome mates rates price (and discount for it fitting crap) and let me know

i'm sure it will be cheaper than my bodyshop bill for having checkers painted on the corner! haha

[mattk]

thanks for the great comments guys, still got lots to do, will get more piccys up over the next week or so, thinking of carbon wraping the 16v bonnet or maybe painting it blue, thoughts on that

Personally I'd paint it, think it'll look nice with the phase 1 grill back on.

[HAndy]

few more piccys of bits ive so far made this week


these are the stainless steel rose jointed tie rods to support the exhaust manifold, the bracket bolts to the back of the block,.



heres a few of the new fuel line set up complete with inline filter




stainless bracket and clip to hold oil filter



heat shield to protect drive shaft rubber boot from exhaust manifold runners, dont want them getting hot a splitting sending grease all over the runners = instant fire


air filter bracket for holding the neck in position on the roll cage leg.


modified heat sheild to bolt on behind the flange plate of the exhaust manifold.


pick up moulds for wide arch kit this friday, will start making a new wider set of rear and front arches sometime next year, and develop a new front bumper and rear bumper

also ordered a wider set of rear tyres 245/40/15's and a set of new inner rim sections for the split rims, will be 10" wide. running 2 1/2 degrees camber on the back more updates next week

[TNT ANDY]

FFS Andy - Reading this is like listening to BBC radio 1.

Looks great, you keep dangling the carrot with shiney new this and mahoosive that, please get it on the road soon and let's see what this 'blue coffin of death' can do.

Looking awesome as usual.

BTW, when your all finished nancing around, there's a couple of spritely C1Js wanting to meet you on the twisties

[TNT ANDY]

thanks for the great comments guys, still got lots to do, will get more piccys up over the next week or so, thinking of carbon wraping the 16v bonnet or maybe painting it blue, thoughts on that anybody

carbon bonnet will be coming of in the next three weeks
cough cough mr B

Get Ross to wrap it for you fella - he's got some pretty awesome carbon wrap. Give us a shout and I'll see if he's about on Friday for a short while.

I tried ringing you last night - give us a shout

[Trevhib]

Such a wicked project this

When it's finished mechanically, I'd remove the rear spoiler, replace the wing mirrors with OE, paint the car a glossy black (including the bonnet), and the wheels silver.

Making it something like a next generation of this:

[mattk]

Sounds great Andy with going wider on the arches, can I ask where your getting the moulds from?

[Tutuur]

Good going mate! Keep em coming

[HAndy]

Sounds great Andy with going wider on the arches, can I ask where your getting the moulds from?

pick them up tonight from a bloke in gt yarmouth, along with some grill and bumper moulds of various styles


the idea being to produce the arches from the plug, build out/re shape the profile, and use these as a new plug, will be looking into doors bonnets /boots and grills also in the next year or so

[mattk]

pick them up tonight from a bloke in gt yarmouth, along with some grill and bumper moulds of various styles
the idea being to produce the arches from the plug, build out/re shape the profile, and use these as a new plug, will be looking into doors bonnets /boots and grills also in the next year or so

I like that approach mate, I think the idea I'm gonna go with is to flare the original arch on the car with fabrication work. I've seen it done before on a Citroen ax, that's runnings cossie 2wd running gear.

Personally I'm not gonna do it, a good friend of mine is a fabricator, my welding looks like random bird droppings

[Jörg]

great Car , you ( or better your car ) have now a Fan in Germany

[HAndy]

great Car , you ( or better your car ) have now a Fan in Germany

this is what i want to aspire too, just need to rework the arches a little on the rear, and change rear and front bumpers






although the side skirts are a bit to extreme, it could be fairly close

[SCHWARTZ]

Wow I need this in my life

[mattk]

Oohhh super production very nice

[Tutuur]

Take a look at this one:

http://www.motorsportmarkt.de/bilder...ull-specs.html

[HAndy]

loving the uber cool white finish ,screams prototype

funny enough i picked up a set of moulds for that rear spoiler also this weekend just gone got any more piccys

[Tutuur]

No mate, this is for sale so this are the only pics. Spec is in the advertisement.

[mattk]

Take a look at this one:

http://www.motorsportmarkt.de/bilder...ull-specs.html

I like that, widening the kit even further looks good, is this the type of thing your thinking of Andy?

[HAndy]

I like that, widening the kit even further looks good, is this the type of thing your thinking of Andy?

pretty much, looking to add another 30mm over hang on the front arches, and re profile the rear wing and get it looking fatter,as it taperers in quite a bit,and also add another 50mm each side got a standard front and rear bumper styles to fit also, as i hate the skeete bumpers should look fairly close to the production racer

[mattk]

pretty much, looking to add another 30mm over hang on the front arches, and re profile the rear wing and get it looking fatter,as it taperers in quite a bit,and also add another 50mm each side got a standard front and rear bumper styles to fit also, as i hate the skeete bumpers should look fairly close to the production racer

That sound awesome mate

I'm gonna be doing the same thing, using standard front and rear bumpers and widening them to fit the arches.

[HAndy]

quick update , been busy this weekend making the most of the good weather, managed to get the manifold,turbo,all the bost hoses etc back on the car, ordered the exhaust wrap and tial spring, just got to get another exhaust mount fitted and wrap it ,fit the wastegate and take out the resistor in the second bank of injectors,give it an oil and filter change and fill up the fluids, then she will be ready to run

will get some piccys up tomorrow

[mattk]

Any more pics buddy?

[HAndy]

Any more pics buddy?

weather has been ****e, but will deffo be getting some up tomorrow

been getting some ideas for the new bodywork planned for sept 2013

[Tony Walker]

That exhaust support bracket looked like you were making your own wishbones. If your after so much extra track width maybe that would be an option endles caster camber and track width adjustment.

[HAndy]

ive got approx 70mm of adjustment on the rear rose jointed wishbone/tie rod set up already, which is more than enough

i like to over engineer things, i have this habbit of breaking things(and changing things at the drop of a hat) think i caught it of jp

will be rose jointing the front end late next year also

[HAndy]

engine up and running again, sounds like a v8!!! the cam is a little lumpy
the engine lost its low drone burble, and now gives out a crisper,but somewhat deepish raspy soundand the turbo seems responsive, 0.2 bar @3800rpm static idle, but to early to really tell, should be good though

gearbox and gears all seem to work, but the clutch is a bit hard!!!!!!well thats an understatement its ****ing hard!!!, and is very much on or off within 15mm of pedal travel!!!!!its going to take some getting use too,i dont think i will be doing much town driving in it

[TNT ANDY]

Nice one Andy - thought you'd died.

Let me know when you are up at Walkers, I've got a few days left in the bag.

[Tutuur]

Good to hear mate! Make a video of it idling please, really curious how it sounds

[Tony Walker]

Good to hear mate! Make a video of it idling please, really curious how it sounds

[HAndy]

latest piccys of the engine bay completed







the exhaust wrap and exhaust system thats been wraped




now the new gearbox and clutch is in, i had to mod the clutch stop as the biting point had move quite a bit from the jc5 gearbox set up

[Os8472]

Looking good fella

What's left to get it on the road?

You working on it tomorrow night?

[TNT ANDY]

Sweet!

[HAndy]

some more piccys of the exhaust system in place all wraped up




quick vid of the engine running


and a quick vid of engine being turned of from idle (900rpm)
and turbo spooling down, after shut off

[Os8472]

Give it some revs, we wanna hear it breathe

[The new Bill J]

Give it some revs, we wanna hear it breathe

He would, but it's not 0600, and he's not in a camp site full of people asleep

[Tutuur]

damn, i'm in love!

[HAndy]

rollerbearing for the win

also modded the exhaust bracket,so it does'nt flex anymore

anyway, engine almost complete apart from swapping the in/out pipe on the wastegate, which i managed to forget to doafter plumbing it in the wrong way

[HAndy]

just waiting for the new air temp/egt gauge to arrive (hopefully in a week or so )and the knocktec to fit as well

[Tutuur]

i'm getting more and more excited to visitting the Frenchies because this lovely motor is there too!

great inspiration for my 5

[HAndy]

here is a few more piccys

this is the support brackets for the exhaust manifold



turbo heat shield in place


new improved exhaust hanger bracket/and high temp rubber mount in red

[chris]

Amazeing work mate looks really good

[HAndy]

Give it some revs, we wanna hear it breathe

just for you although not big licks

[HAndy]

the knock tec device


maybe a waste of time but worth ago

[Os8472]

Sounds good fella, you on it tomorrow night?

[Jonny5]

Wow! Amazing quality of work, simply stunning

[HAndy]

Sounds good fella, you on it tomorrow night?

have'nt got the light to work on it, and i have nothing left to do until the other ait/egt kit turn up

[HAndy]

Wow! Amazing quality of work, simply stunning

cheers dude although the body work is looking rough

[HAndy]

was going to lag the runners on the exhaust manifold also,but really concerned about long term reliability

[mattk]

Fantastic progression mate

[Nick k]

Wow! Amazing quality of work, simply stunning

Looks like that scene from "Appollo 13" where they had to make a co2 filter from a load of flexi pipes and foil tape NASA would be proud Handy