right, bit bored so thought id start a thread about my xr. bought it last september, was totally std appart from a very lightly ported head, piper cam and bigger carb.
during the following three months it went from that to running a 1640cc lightend + balanced bottom end, stg 3 big valve head, D+G disks and uprated pads, avo coilovers and a couple of other bits.
come december i was pished off with fuel consumption a 400bhp cossie would be proud of, so decided to go zetec. started off with a 105 spec lump from an orion, before i fitted it i treated it to 2.0 throttle body, AFM and cams to bring the power up a bit. did the loom, engine mount and moddified a magnex 4 branch manifold for it, used a fiasco centre tank and erst pump.
few pics of manifold and engine mount:
got the xr2 rad with mix and match hoses. went well for a while with only a few hicups. during this time it had a set of new gaz coilies, new shocks on the back with spax springs, adjustable panard rod, new bushes etc etc and a set of RS7s from an S1.
feb time i woke up to a nice suprise...pikey wankers had tried to steal it
failed and decided it strip it of anything they could!
as you can imagine i was fucking FUMING
. they had the battery, chopped through the loom to get the ecu away so that was fucked, they stole a few engine part, they knackered the dash, had the stereo etc etc away, aswell as CDs and a load of stuff i had in the car. all in all not shy of a grand worth of damage/stuff nicked. but it gave me an excuse to get it off the road and sort a few bits. while it was off the road i put a new loom in, ecu, ERST gearbox, ERST clutch, new engine mounts and a few other bits. also finished stripping it out and got my recaros in!
got it on the road a couple of weeks ago and it looks somethign like this at the mo:
gotta love the cable ties
today i just picked up a new engine
2.0 mondy lump, done 34k, and is fooking mint! gave it a quick rub down with some thinners on a rag and its come up loverly, inside the rocker cover is even cleaner!
did get the loom and ecu with it but i cant be arsed to chop about yet another loom for it to run on th 2.0 management so im gonna get some megasquirt ordered next week when i get paid. was gonna run it on megasquirt when i put my throttle bodies on but decided to do it now. speaking of which, i got these off ebay a couple of months ago, waiting for the fuel rail to be welded, need to extend the linkage a bit and manifold be made and they can go on. theyre off a kawasaki of some description, 38mm throttles, should be just the job!
spaced out 36mm:
ignore the copper bits, was gonna have a copper rail soldered then chromed but going for an ally one now!
hopefully will have a few updates the next few weeks of the 2.0 in on the megasquirt, then the old 1.8 head is getting ported and polished, and will go on before or with the throttle bodies. aiming for well over 170bhp with the head work and throttle bodies on the megasquirt! should be lively!