[Binney]

Wow!

 

[SiCaln]

Pleasure to meet you on sunday mate

 

[DaN-R]

Pleasure to meet you on sunday mate

You too mate, sorry it was a bit rushed but thanks for meeting me, was a massive help. This is the beast the cw&p and maybe the whole diff will be going in

 

[robd]

Amazing skills, keep up the good work. :thumb-up:

 

[Sdperkins]

This just keep getting better!!

 

[DaN-R]

I managed to get down to the workshop tonight to test fit the manifold which thankfully fits and clears all the master cylinders





And also bent up a couple of supports for the BGW, won't be to everyone's taste but it's functional and there will be front aero to balance it out. The supports are only 2mm all to check the shape and I'll get the proper ones water jet from 5mm Ali

 

[Shadowraven]

Now this is how to build a car. Excellent work.

 

[Justinio]

Subscribed. Epic!!!

 

[Sdperkins]

By looking at the cut out of the rear arch I know what your sticking there and I'm excited to see it when it's all together

 

[BoWzER]

Unbelievable Jeff!

 

[DaN-R]

Apologies for the mega update however I`ve been pretty busy and progress has been good

I got my wing mounts water jet and bent up, think they look pretty good!





It was my birthday at the beginning of August and got an awesome present from my wife, 52mm ally rad. I was trying to keep the oem mitsi cooling system however the rad was too tall so I`ve gone for a thicker core but shorter rad to offset the loss in height.







I couldnt use the original lower mounts so fabbed up some small arms and they bolt to the rad with rubber mounts

Then came the really exciting part, a quick rear crank seal change and then the engine and box could be mated up ready to go in





Proper chuffed that it all fits. I`d been doing most of the mock up without ancillaries and a rocket cover so I had to trust my measuring skills, its tight in a couple of places but nothing clashes and I should be able to route all the cooling pipes from the back of the block.

Got the turbo clocked and mounted



And treated myself to a AH fabrications dry sump tank, its a bloody monster tho so I`m going to have fun finding a place for that!



Having a rejig of the downpipe as I got carried away and made it before I`d decided to go the dry sump route so the engine has moved, it should be saveable though



And lastly I dropped the wishbones off at the powder coaters last night so I should get them back friday or early next week

 

[Jacksheps]

This car gets better and better!

 

[DaN-R]

The shiny bits are starting to happen, got my arms back from the power coaters who have done a cracking job



I`ve not pressed the new ball joints or bushes in yet but hopefully they all go in without damaging the coating

Also order a Tial Q 50mm blow off valve

I started on my boost pipes too. My current welder is DC only so I cant weld Ali at my workshop so I`ve gone for 0.97mm Titanium. Which meant I had to cut 66 pie cuts to form bends. Annoyingly the yanks have a decent supply of straight/bent & pie cut ti but even getting a 3m length was a massive pain in the ass with most places wanting mill runs as minimum orders!



Grinding titanium and a plastic dust/spark catcher was never going to end well



Part way done



Its pretty tight around the rad and roll bar but she fits





Also fully welded my manifold and clocked the turbo so I can start on the other boost pipe this weekend



I also had a bit of a sage with the starter motor. I figured the guy who made it would have used the evo starter as the bell housing is for an evo block and uses the evo flywheel. However the n/a version of the evo block is fairly popular in the states and he makes bell housings for that too which also share the same pitch and tooth count of the flywheel. So I`ve ended up needing an n/a starter which is bigger (I`m guessing due to the c/r difference over the turbo engine) and I`ve had to buy brand new as most 2nd hand ones are goosed after being sat in a scrap yard for years!

 

[Harvey_Tim]

Amazing fabrication skills !

There can't be many cars out there with Titanium IC pipework

 

[johand]

WOW , nice fabrication !

 

[Jacksheps]

Wow that is really impressive! Is there any flexy part for the IC pipes to move around with engine movement?

 

[DaN-R]

Yeah, you can just about make out the silicon couplers on the throttle body and ic

 

[Law!]

Very impressed. Giving me goose bumps it's that cool!

 

[DaN-R]

Just a small update from this weekend, had a trivial matter of the wifes 30th to contend with which ate up valuable workshop time!

I got a nice piece of anodised machined porn from Tial last week



A nice 50mm BOV, this will work with both the maf setup and speed density conversion that I plan to do once shes up and running. I just need to get the adapter machined in Ti so I can weld it to the boost pipes

A bit of a marathon yesterday saw the compressor outlet to IC pipe made, this is a bit of a monster and makes fitting a bit tricky so I`ll probably end up adding another joiner on the straight piece that comes up the rad. Not ideal as I was trying to keep the no of joints to a minium







and how the engine bay currently looks

 

[Jacksheps]

Beast