dimma 5 turbo

[tomdimma5]

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[tomdimma5]

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then I stripped her out fitted cobra buckets and that’s how she was for a while, power wise?? I dnt knw ktec set it up for 18psi on a t25 but I don’t trust previous owners so I turned the boost down for now to bout 10 psi well within what a standard carb can cope with. Then I hit some boosting problems at 2k comeing on boost it would splutter n nearly cut out, I swapped the modded carb for a standard one of my raider and it sorted it but again turned boost down to bout 8 psi
some plonker had fitted a surfboard to the front of the bumper so I removed, and added a ctm open mouth grill which looks wired in a pinky gold flip, and decided to go fmic.
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[tomdimma5]

Should help the little ones cooling issues the got some hard boost pipes but still haven’t got round to getting my silicones yet. This is how she sits atm moment, well sort of anyway ;)
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After a hard night at work ive decide on my color scheme 
Main body and centre of wheels will be ford panther black
All brackets and various other stuff and outer lip of wheels will be Chrysler sbe
Along come some Renault 21 txe discs 285 :)
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And the brackets to suit
Freshly painted in the color of choice 
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Only to find the calipers catch on the edge of of my rims, so that mod is on hold for now and standard go back on for now
Which brings me to this week if started to strip the under neath ready for painting
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[tomdimma5]

Tank off
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Going to be rplaced by a jaz fuel cell
Rear beam stripped and is at the powder coaters :)
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As well as a lot of other bits n bobs
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Got my first parts painted in the blue
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And started stripping down another block for a rebuild  with forged rods n pistons
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[tomdimma5]

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More updates to come. Hope it’s a good read and don’t slate me to much

[tomdimma5]

any way bit of an update nownt major. got the engine ready to come out just need to remove driveshafts and lift her out so hopefully next two days and thwe crack on with the wire wheel, oh the joys lol
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and just took some pics of my top mounts freshly powder coated, springs i think are 40mm lowering and were red but that dosent come in with the color theme so the got blasted and redone in black
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[tomdimma5]

best bit is got charged 60 quid cos im a regular customer finish is top darts.
pics dont do justice to the qaulity
dont knw if this hub is a standard one never seen 1 like it b4 if it is

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brackets for the brake hose on rear axel
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bottom pulley needs to be modded for a triggerwheel
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rear brakes
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timing chain cover
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[tomdimma5]

front hubs
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rear axel is now mint :)
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wel best of all, or maybe not, thy powder coated the full sump, i dnt knw if this will be a problem?? but i came up trumps noticeing baffle brackets, after a bit of research the only come on cup cars and early pahase ones and a real rare. :)
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[tomdimma5]

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[tomdimma5]

wat a day dint tink i got much done yesterday, all repairs now on offside just need a final skim and got half the boot floor down to bare metal. should get the inside finished next weekend and maybe the underneath bare metaled :) then crack on with the other side which leaves me a couple of bits to weld up, take doors of and finish the engine bay before i go for color,
i do hate this stage tho seeing your pride and joy in this stage, espes when there no light at the end of the tunnel!!
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[tomdimma5]

got a block with just over 16 thousand on it, just got it back from been refaced, now going to get it painted and then forged hopefully before christmas i hope :)

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also a coulpe of other pics of things to come :)
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[tomdimma5]

got my gt tunning rear strut brace today
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and now started bare metaling the boot
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[tomdimma5]

bin a busy morning at work but managed to start painting bits off the car, more i see this color more i love it, hope its up to standard, should of got more pics but was stuck for time
rear apex shocks:
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quick pic of the block but not finished yet
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nitrous bottle
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[tomdimma5]

just got in and finishing picking underseal of my teeth
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really happy, theres hardly any welding to do at the mo just a couple of patches for a e reg im over the moon

thats it up to now all comments and critasism welcome !!!!:laugh:

[Gttnutter]

the hub looks like a stndard one but with the cover removed. if you look closly you can see the renault stamp

really good work though and keep us updated :agree:

[Chris Hebden]

This is fantastic, nice to see someone putting the time in and not breaking a car! What paint did you use for the wishbones and suspension mate?

[Maggie]

My friend has a standard Dimma front Bumper for sale if your interested. Needs a little work but not that much.

Ring 07875 470252 nd speak to Bruce if you are interested.

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

I saw this on passionfords... looks like a really good motor... i cant wait to see the progress.

[tomdimma5]

yer i started it on passionford cos thats were i got all the insparation from if you see some of the cosworth threads the attention to detail is unbelivable and i want a shell thats mint.

i painted the new wishbones with wet on wet primer, max mayer base n with sikkens superior clear color is chrysler sbe. should soon have underneath and engine bay done.

[Maka]

hows this progressing? any updates???

[Sparkie]

the steering wheel hub is standard ph1 gtt, with the rubber shroud removed. mine is chromed....

i hope your powder coater removed all the shot blast material from the sump?

[Peter Ciganyik]

Wow perfect MAMBA

[Trevhib]

Feck me, that red/pink grille is from Dave Healy's old debacle! He spent a wedge making that car into a montrous, ill fitting heap about 6-7 years ago. Stayed in one piece for years, in fact I didn't know it had finally been broken up. The grille didn't fit right back then so good luck making it sit straight this time round. Lol.

[J$£5GTT]

looking good there,looks clean underneath,make sure you get some good
rust treatment in rear box sections an all in around where torsion bar fixes,
btw dont the dimma cars have it stamped on chassis??,cant remember?
top work :agree:
:)

[gtmatt]

great project , i need to crack on with mine , keep up the good work :)

[raj]

Feck me, that red/pink grille is from Dave Healy's old debacle! He spent a wedge making that car into a montrous, ill fitting heap about 6-7 years ago. Stayed in one piece for years, in fact I didn't know it had finally been broken up. The grille didn't fit right back then so good luck making it sit straight this time round. Lol.

thats going back abit:) the last i remember of that pinky 5 was that he didnt drive it as he bought an rx7.? he also had a nice phase1 didnt he.?

as for the grill not fitting properly, wasnt that more than likely due to his car being involved in a front ender? i recall even his morettes where sitting abit wonky too. may not be a grill issue.