Hi,
well after months of thinking about it, I have now got a B18ft lump in my car.
In its long life my car has be changed and pull about so i throught i would carry on with this and change the engine.
Markey Mark built the engine so will ask him to fill in the spec sheet.....
will update more soon
Cheers
Heres few more pics for you mate
Cheers Mark!!
The plan is to have it at the pod on the 1st! don’t think it will be flying down the strip yet but hope to be on the road....
think MOT will be the Thursday at this rate!
I'm running a T28, so the only real headache left is getting the downpipe sorted out....
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Downpipe and fuelinghoping to get mine to pod but engine is still not in car so cutting it close. Be nice to see more b18ft 5s there
i sore your engine at marks...... fingers crossed,
down pipe i think is sorted.... fueling is another story!!
See my for sale thread boys
more work last night....... and also remembered that it still has an MOT! so it may get to the POD yet.........
Originally Posted by bigbadboytank
more work last night....... and also remembered that it still has an MOT! so it may get to the POD yet.........
I am loving all these conversion's at the moment and looking forward to seeing them all @ POD
Looking good Mr Tank
cheers mate.....I am loving all these conversion's at the moment and looking forward to seeing them all @ POD
Looking good Mr Tank
I was in two minds, but hey you only live once.....
Im sure we will get it to the POD...... it may be on the back of a AA truck but it will be there!
Nice to see you got abit of faith there mate!
Im sure we will get it to the POD...... it may be on the back of a AA truck but it will be there!
with Mucho thanks to mark again.... we are now only two wires away to trying to get the thing to start...... fringers cross for tuesday night!
The man's a legend, i am sure it will work fine
that he is mate......
seeing this is makeing me realy want to keep my car together for pod
keep it together davethe more b18ft 5's there the better
keep it together Dave!!!!! once last day out
so we tried last night to get the thing to go..... Fail,
has fuel, has lots of spark.... so guess it has to be a timing issue. time to look at the wiring I feel
apart from that I need to sort out some cable clips, plumb up two water pipes, and sort out the down pipe then we are on the road..... i hope
more pics......
finished a few Jobs last night so now all we have to do is get the thing to run....
tonight is D day if we can get it to go the it will be at the pod... if not then will be then its game over Fingers crossed !
Car looks good, I do hope it makes it to pod as i'd like to have a good look around it and ask some advise.
Looks good on the Williams wheels too, but then I am biased
cheers mate! fingers crossed !
I think they look good on 5's just had them re-conditioned and brand new toyo rubber so look super nice at the moment
its Alive!!!!!
the famous what does this Orange wire do lol
but running way to rich and still have to sort out a water pipe connection and weld up the down pipe.... + need to do a few local test drives to get thing set up ok etc.... make oil pressure gauge work. Make temperture gauge work etc etc... so its not going to make the POD
Marky Mark = legend !
well...... it was all working well and ready for its first day out...... and now we have lots of blue smoke....
think its the turbo... not sure yet, these things are set to try us......
well...... it was all working well and ready for its first day out...... and now we have lots of blue smoke....
think its the turbo... not sure yet, these things are set to try us......
At least it's now running
Keep us posted with outcome and pic's
We all have had conversion problems, my b18 had me close to tears so many times, lots of moaning to members and my other half.
It will get there keep at it
Same.this weeks problem is oil shooting out the breather
I had mine piped to a catch can, but on track it was filling up after 5-6 laps.Same.
What you planning gary, i was looking ointo putting a t into the turbo return to sump pipe, will that work?
phil
I made a pmt catch can (tropicana bottle
my clio b18 threw quite abit of oil out round mallory but was fine at pod. i dont think these lumps like being thrown around alot. Teeing into the turbo oil return sounds like an idea, let me know if this works please
It was a just push it back into the garage moment.....
However I am a bit more upbeat today; so will get it out tomorrow night and take the rear housing off the turbo to look for oil, the shaft on the turbo feels good so maybe it’s not the turbo..... ??
I have a T28 with Orange injectors etc.... but can’t seem to get the idle correctly below 1000 rpm its seems to “hunt” slightly....Has anybody else seen this issue ??
You got the standard Idle control valve still in place? if not I think it will hunt on idle as you have nothing to control the idle speed properly. If it is in place give it a good clean.
Ref to blue smoke check turbo as you are I would totally remove it if rear of turbo wet oily and the manifold section dry you know it's turbo if manifold wet you know it's coming from the engine itself. Have you done engine compression test yet? Are you using new ring's?
Idle value is there so will give it a good clean up, may see if i can get another unit...
I agree time to remore the turbo... again lol...
You haven't got idle control valve mate, i'll source one and we'll fit it on and give it a go.
I have another AFM too which i have set for about 15psi of boost so we'll stick that in too.
showing my lack of knowledge....
I thought that when we changed the throttle housing that we fitted one....
Anyway that hopefully will sort that out....
small quick update,
so Mark pop round and we took the turbo off (in the bloody rain again) and yes its Fcuked. joy. now just need to track down the guy i brought it off, he clamed it was a re-con fully working turbo,
its been sent off to have the seals done and a 360 bearing chucked in.
once its back we will get it up and running, Dont think she will be on the road this year now, but will hit the ground running next year
Chin up we all have set backs
after 18 months of doing Marky Marks head in..........
it is only on the road !!!!
Mark you are a top guy, and a Renault nut.
Good to see it on the road, and some interesting craftmanship at the weekend. And totally agree Mark is a renault nut
Well done lad's
Just noticed it's been just over a year since this last thread update. You better get it to the mot station and get out enjoying your fix of GTT.
quite a few set back alone the way, of ane life throwing a few spanners in as well...
Bigfoot - "use what is at hand" i think is what we will use there
Well done lad's
Just noticed it's been just over a year since this last thread update. You better get it to the mot station and get out enjoying your fix of GTT.
It passed MOT yesterday
Flew through it so he'll be out in it soon, might even get it up to the next Surrey meet for its first long drive
Bit of an update with this car
Few things have gone, mainly me being the new owner.
I bought it off Tank after him needing to sell it but have assured him he has first dibs on buying it back in the future if he wants it
I do have a few plans for it once I got my red 5 mapped but the plans are
-repaint all the kit in as close to original plastic black as I can so it looks more original
-replace few bits of kit too so its all original phase 1
-replace few bits on the interior and remove a few bits too
-new suspension and a freshen up
One thing I will be doing though is removing the Volvo engine, I know I favour these a lot but I have something else in the garage I want to try so something else will be going into the engine bay
If anyone is interested in a full Volvo 480 turbo engine (with few tweeks) let me know
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