Yellow fogs make the front end look great
Yellow fogs make the front end look great
popped and saw my mate paul today (paulya610) and he worked a little majic on my car so that i can have some music while driving, the car didnt have speakers or a stereo installed. I got hold of an old Blaupunkt Windsor that was modified to have an aux input so i can plug in my iphone. paul then mocked up some panels to hold some 10cm speakers then proceeded to run in all the wiring needed for them and the power wiring for the headunit itself. Great to be able to drive along with some tunes in there now
also managed to get some shots of the gtt and the lecar together in the workshop. Only phone pics though
nice goin adey make sure you keep this one
thats the plan
so ive started on doing some preventative work, was getting a little bit of smoke when pulling up at lights after a hard drive. the rear of the turbo was so old that the clamps and bolts holding it to the core were rotting away and looked like they were leaking, also was getting a faint whine after a while of driving. I have a brand new turbo so thats now getting swapped on.
Efi side of things is taking a while, getting an inlet made up is turning into a bit of a pain due tot he shape it needs to be and also finding parts to make it out of seems to be difficult. ive been trying to find ali bends and such to mock it all up out of but to no avail. ive got hold of yet another inlet manifold so i will look again into modding the original inlet for injectors. Flywheel should be sent of in the next week or 2 for balencing.
still tying to find some gaskets for the manifold. i think ill just make some now.
omp brace is in position and ready to be bolted into place. it will require some hoses to be shortend slightly so they dont rub but hopefully it should tighten the car up a little
ive also managed to get a set of allycat alloys on ebay. should be here soon, 13x6. something a little different and im unsure what colour to do them. they all need a refurb but look like these
maybe a gold center will work against the silver body? unsure at the moment. All 4 hubs will need alterations so they are studded in the correct fitment but hopefully itll look good
Looking good materemember having a good look at this car at FCS this year
3 stud alleycats?
That was a rare find ady. Well done.
They'll look great with a light gold centre
no mate, im actually going to convert the hubs to fit the wheels. finding decent r5 3 stud fitment alloys will cost upwards of 1k. bit much for me. the hubs are studded already, so ill punch them out and redrill in the ford fitment the wheels are in
adey, when I had mine I popped to Wicks and in plumbing supplies they do a pack of small round rubber seals. These fit the manifold and can be used to replace the standard washers. Hope that helps pal. Car looks lovely.
beautiful car, absolutely love it and I think perhaps just gone on my wishlist!
This is an exhaust manifold gasket I need, well 2 of them. The manifold if in 3 pieces and it's the 2 intermediate ones I need
Where did you get the front strut brace from
i think it was somewhere in france, got it months ago though. ill get the part number for you so you can find it. there are uk companys that can get it though
part number on the bag for the brace is MA/1532
so today i ordered up 2 of these
and added to these
i may be able to cobble up and inlet manifold. the idea being i can either use the flange to bolt a plenum too or a set of jenvey itb's........
once they turn up ill pop down to my friends down at forge motorsport and see if they can weld me some pipe in between the flanges
Cheers will see if I can get one may work on the t2
tbh i wouldn't bother, its a poor fit and you have to drill fixing points.
turbo is nearly back on, just waiting on a new actuator to turn up and ill give her a few drives if its dry out before i sorn her for the winter. if all goes well when she comes back out next year she will be running sweet and hopefully full efi
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Hi,
Just been reading through your thread and I have converted my gordini turbo to run efi. When I first did it the injectors were about 15mm from the inlet face of the head and I had really bad fuelling problems on idle with fuel pooling in the ports.
I then machined the head and pressed sleeves in to hold the injectors so they were positioned right at the back of the inlet valve this solved all the idle running problems.
There is another thread on here with a guy using a gordini head on a gt turbo and he has machined about 1" of the inlet ports off than has mounted the injectors.
I used a clio 172 inlet manifold bolted to the head with a normal cable throttle body fitted and a charge cooler.
Good luck with the project.
Sounds good, do you have or can you take some pics of your inlet manifold setup please, would be good to see how you've gone about it as there's next to no space in there?
wooooo got the 5 finished for driving today, managed to take her fort a quick blast to blow the cobwebs off. what good fun. new turbo seems good, just need to dial the boost in now.
flanges have turned up too so will now see what i can o with regards to getting a manifold of some description made up
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I managed to dig out some photos from while back things have moved on a bit since then but you'll get the idea. Also a couple of photos from some sprints and brake / body mods over the years.
The 3rd picture shows the head being machined for sleeves to be pressed into take the injectors.
The car started off using a Lancia HF turbo twin choke carb onto the standard manifold.
It took alot of time to get the EFI sorted and a whole season of tuning / modifying and setting up to get it to run well, and its still really a work in progress there always seems to be something else to do.
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thats some great work there, i see you have gone 4 stud as well? how did you go about that if you dont mind me asking?
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I machined out the hub carrier to take a super 5 wheel bearing then pressed the drive flange from a gt turbo into the hub. I then machined the splined center out to take the gordini splines.
It seemd to be the only way to be able to locate the wheel on the center.
I think the photo shown is from a earlier verison with the gordini drive flange just redrilled to 4 x 100 and then studs fixed in to a ring behind. But I could never get the wheels to centre properly which caused vibrations.
awesome, cheers for the info.
you should start a thread up on your car and how its come along
so after spending months trying to get a manifold for my car and then starting to get the bits to make one, this turns up for sale in germany
after a few poorly translated emails its on its way to me for a decent price. This should fit straight on and now either allow me to mod it for injector bosses or fit jenvey itb's and a plenum. ill see how funds are looking in the next few weeks before i decide what to do. After that itll just be an ecu needed and a new clutch then the main fitting can be started
Last edited by Adey aka Ewok; 30-11-2013 at 18:30.
that looks bad a55, nice work..Originally Posted by ren5gord
this turned up from Germania today
well before i put the car away in the garage for work to commence i decided it would be good to get a base line of power as she is. she runs a little more boost than standard and enlarged second main jet. She put down 129.8bhp and 131.2lbft running around 0.8bar afr was running at .83 ish lambda on full chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NV7olpb_eA
That's a much throatier sound than a c1j. I assume that's due to the cross flow head?
Sounds great.
Is it a 5 speed in these adey?
yeah wee 5 speed box in there. its on a stock exhaust and stock inlet with airfilter and a draw through carb, i havent heard a stock 5 gtt for years so wouldn't know how different the sound was sorry
probably more to do with the twinchoke weber carb....
its never easy or plain sailing when trying to do something that's not normally done. Whipped of the inlet manifold this eve (what a c**nt of a job) to offer up the inlet manifold. I knew it might not fit due to the manifolds only being available for left hand drive cars and low and behold it doesn't lol. Im now going to have to look at modifying the bulk head above the pedals and move some of the wiring loom out of the wayhopefully i have enough space available above the pedals to do it.
this is the part of the bulk head that needs reshaping and theres some wiring that comes through it that needs moving also
so today i had a spare 30min to tinker on the car. I decided to start removing some material to clear the manifold. Painful to do but want to get it ruffly right before removing the engine. Need to borrow a dremell with a slitting disk to get it all removed but it should get me somewhere close. Our continental friends have the luxury of being able to cut huge amounts out but i dont have that luxury, Once the engine is out i will weld it up nicely.
Also in the post today is a nice cam from Mr Cooke. I have been told its wilder than the turbo 2 cam so it should make a nice addition to the efi.
Loving the work mate, car looks good on the rollers to
cheers buddy, hopefully it will all come together over the next couple of months.
this is as far as i can get without some cutting equipment.
it does look like the wiring loom will need to be relocated as well.... sigh yet more work lol
Soon be there adey nice work
and after a little more time they are in
Last edited by Adey aka Ewok; 13-12-2013 at 17:10.
Good work
A little more.....
and now this, but another slight snag..........
its a little too high to close the bonnet. i have 2 options now. have a plenum made or flip it so the inlet is underneath and modify the inner arch?
Could be worse....
Power bulge
not sure i want to upset the bonnet with a bulge
with the longer but smaller internally jenveys on
making a plenum would stop me having to cut the inner arch and weld it up for clearance
i do like the thought of using the jenvey plenum too......... ill make a decision over night tonight before busting out the grinder and welder
you might want to keep your eyes open for a T3 off an Escort RS Turbo. From memory you have a 40 trim compressor and a .24ar exhaust housing and the escort is a 45 trim with a .36 exhaust. (from memory, so almost certainly faulty information.) That'll either turn it into a laggy POS, or a boost monster
Already been looking lol, what sort of boost and flow do you think my turbo can flow?
assuming you have the 40 trim.
Boost won't be a problem, flow will, I think it'll be about there in the 1bar/180hp area. Just guessing though. IMO, if you want to make 200 you want the 45 trim, you should be able to swap the exhaust housings between the two to see what works best.
Normally you couldn't just swap those compressors with the draw through carb, your turbo should have fancy seals to allow that. Not going to be needed with he EFI.
btw, don't think I'd bother with the throttle bodies. Can you get an injector in a better position?
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