[DaN-R]

Fair point and to be honest waiting till I buy it wont make much of a difference

Drum roll please......

Its a 4G63 out of an evo 8, going to be running a speed density conversion @ circa 1.2/1.4bar and more than likely a dry sump (this was the expensive bit I was eluding to earlier). These engines can suffer from oil surge on RH corners, the orientation of my engine now means it`ll happen on acceleration which is far from ideal. I`d rather buy 1 engine and a dry sump now rather than 1 engine, a load of work making a wet sump that may or may not be up to it and then replacing the engine plus buying the DS anyway. I don't have the money or desire to fund the r&d for this sort of solution

 

[olionabike1]

Damn!!!! [emoji7]

 

[Mx5 Dan]

O M G

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

 

[Frank.]

Wow! Love this thread

 

[Bobby G]

Maaan the fab work on this is off the hook!!

 

[DaN-R]

Not much in the way of an update I`m afraid, got the wastegate plumbed into the downpipe but forgot to take pics of the fully welded piece. I went from having loads of time to non and I`m not sure how it happened, small jobs took way longer than planned!

 

[Mx5 Dan]

ooh thats nice

 

[Dude]

any progress?

 

[DaN-R]

Yeah, a little bit, work has been taking all my time recently and has only left me with a lot of time to daydream about working on the car

I`ve removed most of the crappy underseal from the floor pan and installed the gearbox mount, no pics of this as I was all PPE`d up and hungover. Its such a hateful job!

I have order lots more shiny (and expensive, don't tell the missus!) bits

My dry sump kit arrived









Whilst fixing the oil surge issues and simplifying some of the build its also added in some extra challenges. Part of the exhaust manifold needs tweaking, I`ve had to move the subframe brace and also relieve areas to run the scavenge pipes from the sump, plus moving the engine up so the sump cleared the rack was not something I really wanted to so. The only alternative is hacking into the nice new sump which is a last resort really. Moving the engine is a cheaper/easier option so I`ll try and see if this works. Crank centre lines of the new vs oem engine are withing a few mm so the overall impact on the package should (fingers crossed) be negligible

 

[Mx5 Dan]

LIKE :thumb-up: :thumb-up: :thumb-up:

 

[Dude]

As above! Look forward to seeing more.

 

[DaN-R]

Apologies for the delay in updates but I`ve got some fairly big progress to report

I picked up a standard intercooler for the evo engine and set about making a removable front end to act as a crash structure, bumper support and to hold the rad and ic









The ic is massive so the bumper is going to require so mods to allow decent airflow



Then last weekend I took a road trip to Jap Performance to pick up a low mileage evo 8 engine with ecu, loom and all ancillaries. It came out of a running car fresh from Japan about 12hrs before I picked it up!!



And thankfully the manifold fits



The gaping hole in the boot floor needed some attention so after a bit of after hours bead rolling at work I had a nice ali panel with added stiffness





I managed to tackle the time consuming task of installing the pedal box plate, clearancing the bulkhead and filling surplus holes, I hate grinding and mig welding!!

from this



to this



I`ve got a fairly busy time ahead. I`ve order a full gasket kit, water pump, timing kit to give the engine an overhaul before it goes in. It was serviced about 20000km ago but I`d rather know 100% that everything is up to scratch. Dry sump will also get fitted at the same time as the front cover needs replacing.

Theres also a fluidampr to fit, inlet manifold to make once the bits have cleared customs. I`ve also got this exhaust (well, this needs to go back as they sent the wrong config of inlet/outlet size) which will be mounted in the space where the spare wheel well was and the entire under car system to make. Plus all the wiring and routing which I am not looking forward to!

 

[Mx5 Dan]

wow! great progress

looking forward to future posts.

cheers

Dan

 

[coldclimate]

Absolutely blown away by the scale of this project ad the quality of the welding. Amazing stuff

 

[theonemanyuri]

Shit. The. Bed.

Awesome

 

[Sdperkins]

This is mad!! Love it all!!

 

[Law!]

Looking amazing my friend Very nice!

 

[DaN-R]

So 6hrs and 17m of rod later and I have an inlet manifold. Still needs a few bits cleaning up but its pretty much there, just need to drill the vacuum take offs

Mocked it up on the dummy engine first



Then started throwing the rod at it, the d shape extrusion is about 6mm thick so it it took a huge amount of heat and rod

 

[olionabike1]

[emoji7][emoji7][emoji7]

 

[Mx5 Dan]

this is epic.... amazing skills mate!