Sounds like you've been busy mate! surely soon be time for another east coast massive get together :D
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Sounds like you've been busy mate! surely soon be time for another east coast massive get together :D
Yep, sounds like a good place! thinking around end of month be good as im moving house soon, if not sort something for Easter weekend in April cheeky first BBQ or something maybe??? ;)
can i bring the ped? its much more fun than the car :laugh:
Saw the mag feature on this, amazing build! Cannot give you enough praise mate :agree:
thanks Phil :)
i will get some piccys up next week of the new tubular exhaust manifold, the car has changed slightly since the shoot with ppc @mallory park, mainly 15" satin black split rims and colour coded rear scoops instead of the flat insert grills/ help to force more air, and changed the grill for more airflow to the pre rad:ashamed:
Sounds good mate:agree:
Have you sprayed the image splits black or got a new set? Really liked them. Ah were you having cooling problems?
Looking forward to the pics
Hey buddy anymore progress on this little beasty? pics? :burnrubber:
stripped and rebuilt the 6 speed 02m gearbox replacing the crap rivets on the final drive ring gear with arp bolts and uprating the gear selectors, waiting for the clutch to arrive then i can fit it all , which should start monday 14 may , booked the week of work to get it all done, so will have quite a few new pictures to go up then:cool:
Fantastic, i take it this has the capability of handling a lot more power and torque then your old one? Was this the main reason or was there other reasons for changing it?
I'd just like to say that this project of yours has inspired me (plus getting clearance from management) to start my own little R5 project :smokin: but not until september time when i've raised the capital to start :coffee:
:D more reliable long term solution to higher torque loading than what a jc5 can offer, with trackdays in mind;) plus being rwd it will put more strain on the transmission anyway:laugh:
glad to hear your going for a project build, let me know what you have in mind:cooter:
C'mon Andy - get this done, I can't wait to see this on track.
Sidways:cooter:
WOW!!!! how have i not seen this before?!?!? Just spent the last hour reading through all of this! really inspirational and shows how time really can fly on a little project, Ten years later and I have just about got mine the way I want it hehe :)
Some pics from Andy's current bodging...... Sorry I mean on going works ;)
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Thanks for the update Oli. Glad to see it in bits again:laugh:. You wwern't kidding on the manifold, beautiful:agree:
How long does it take you to get it out of the car now? Must be abbout 7 seconds by now LOL
Can I see a crack in your gearbox housing.5th picture down?
Loving the fisting in 4
Awesome! Haven't seen this one before!
Going to have a read soon, looks promising!
casting mark on the gearbox;), examined all the casings when i stripped the box and uprated the diff rivets to bolts and selector forks :)
gearbox is in and all new v8 rover mounts fitted:cool:
very little engine movement now;)
reinforcement box section fitted to tie in subframe side rails, as was suffering flex, beefed up the four bolt fixing areas that hold the subframe also, as the original metal plate thickness is like paper:ashamed:
fitted the 560cc injectors to the second rail and trimed the arches around the front wheels ,as they catch on full drop on end to end full lock, with the valver wishbones in place:crap:(should never be an issue on the road/track,but just in case:laugh:
tomorrow will be rose jointed wishbones/tie rods and the rear strut angles then depending how well things go :coffee:
the drive shafts tuesday
gear linkage wensday
splitter and spoiler thursday
friday route the water/meth injection system in the car and snag any other outstanding jobs ,
possibly mot sat??
Nice one Andy, don't forget to put the clutch in!
:smokin:
any updates?:)
until this clutch turns up im stuck (almost 4 months waitng)
if i had known this in the first place ,would have gone else where, that and being lied too on a weekly/ monthly basis:mad:
anyway ,should be with me this friday, so next few weeks will be up and running again:eek:
Loving the wishbones :)
Really keen to see more of this!
once its up and running will get some piccys up and maybe even a few dyno runs
with some power figures etc:)
it has changed a little bit :laugh::laugh:
Sorry to hear about the clutch issue, hope its arrived now :)
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::sad::sad::cry::cry: helix have done nothing but **** me over, they have not even bothered to ring me :mad: after 4 months 3 weeks of waiting and being let down week in and week out, ive ordered a spec job this morning, should be with me in a week or two, looks like i will have a busy month ahead of me:cool:
ordered a duel air /egt k type sensor/ gauge kit from m&bmotorsport this week,for myself jp and os84271 ,so can keep an eye on whats happening;)
here the link http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/shop/Default.asp
also bought this
[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-8-BSP-To...02wt_1163/url]
and 1m x 6mm copper pipe for the exhaust collector, so i can measure the exhaust pressure as described in corkey bell,s maximum boost :)
apart from that ive got everything else sat here in a big box waiting to go on:coffee:
come on! get it slapped together!!!! :smokin:
Glad you've seen sense Andy - bring on the power, you've got some work to do:cooter:
Just reading Max Boost - took it on holiday with me - It's quite a good read as it happens, I can't read 'novels' etc, they just don't interest me - unless it's by Terry Pratchett, in that case I'll make an exception. I need to do some calculations in respect to VE as a starting point.
Hope Handy dosen't mind but though i would put some pictures up of his new clutch only been 4 months+ to sort out you geeza :cooter: lol but now its here no excuses :coffee:
Whats so sprcial about it? Not bein funny, just wondered?
I had a one off centre plate made by helix, only took 2 weeks!
I like the fact it came with an alignment tool!
I made my own by cuttin an input shaft up lol.
The recess on the O2M flywheel supplied was only 3mm deep which means it wouldn't accept a factory fitment clutch and cover. the pressure plate on the cover that pushes against the friction plate has 3mm machined off it so it should fit and not puts the bearing out of position
so what you're actually saying is the Scoff flywheel isn't just a fit and forget item?
couldn't the design be adjusted for it to be a fit and forget?
to be honest the cover plate is nothing special, it seems to be share the same size cover plate as the sachs racing cover, apart from the locating stud pcd, and clamping plate that holds the 6 paddle etc, has had 3mm machined of it to allow the cover plate to locate correctly to the flywheel face, must amit the sachs cover looks better built, oh well.