cambridgeshire mate

aye, not even half way there yet :P


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Jon from Shawspeed came round around 6is last night, got the cams in timed up etc... then i fitted new rocker cover gasket -



then cam belt cover on, new NGK plugs and fitted the leads -



lightened and balanced flywheel on -



helix clutch on -



New helix release bearing fited and box ready to go on -



box on and dragged round to the front of the car with some idiot -



got the engine in at 10pm on tuesday night -



Yesturday i got the driveshafts on, track rod ends on, nearside ball joint on, gear linkage is done, speedo cable is done, went over all the engine mounts again with my socket to make sure everythings tight...

then fitted the inlet manifold and took some fresh pics -









then today fitted the Vacuum hose to all 4 inlet primaries -



XR2i starter motor on -



Ashely 4-2-1 manifold on -



Lower arm/ball joint/anti roll bar back on -



Oil temp sensor -



also did the pressure one but forgot to take a pic lol...

wheels on and car back on the ground -



the tightened the HUB and wheel nuts.

Can tell the zetecs a lighter engine as the car sits like 10mm higher ta the fornt than it used to lol

The trackings a mile out so going to get that done once i get the new tyres on and the wheels checked out to see if they're buckled or not.

Just chopped off what i had to of the exhuast manifold and system and measured up a piece including a flexi joint ready to go Pipewerx on my way home from work tomorrow.

cut up the exhaust and measured up for the section that i needed making...

so cut this lot out/off -



went to Pipewerx on my way home from work and had this made -



fitted -



the sleeve and all the measurements are spot on apart from one thing... as you can see the flexi joint is hitting the shell slightly underneath so that'll be ittirtating vibrating whilst driving so once its all up and running and mapped ill shoot back upto Pipewerx and get it sorted and also get them to make me a 3rd hanger

auxuilery belt and alternator fitted -



hen cut down the carb hoses to 50mm and fitted the carbs -



then fitted the Rad, Fan, header tank, coolant hoses then filled it up with anti freeze/coolant ready mixed stuff form halfords -





Then filled the engine up with some 5w30 oil and the gearbox with 75w90.

Then fitted the clutch cable

then fitted the oil catch tank -







Omex wired up -



and after alot of fking about with problems it lives...

quick vid from when i was bedding the cams in and letting the coating burn off the manifold-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryMSd...layer_embedded

Only drove the car like 20miles so far over the past 2 days, having problems wth the gearbx really struggle to get into 2nd and 4th gear as and cant get onto reverse at all after adjustingt he linkage like 20 times so gonna have to contact the guy who i got the gearbox off and see whats what

also the engines smoking alot like just revving to like 3k which is another dissapointent

Done the tracking today with help from f0xy and a piece of string.

whilst the car was in the air thought may aswell fit the new Brembo Discs and Ferrodo pads so they're done with -





not drove the car today to bed them in will tmoz tho

Mappings booked for Monday so it'll be going there with no reverse lol

beeded in the brakes they're awesome!

done around 150 miles in the car now and its smoking quite alot, a mate thinks the pressure relief valve is blocked or jammed as the pressures high too ( like 3bar on 100degress idle).. so going upto his monday...

Had the car Mappe don monday, was running really rich when it went in and was suffering was bore wash slightly... so thats maybe kicked off the problem with the rings and maybe thats why it smoks so much, it isnt as bad as what it was but still pretty bad, will see how it is as ive only put like 100miles on it so far...

It made 158bhp @ 7k, pretty happy, atm thats what the limiter is set at as i need arp big end bolts as these cams are meant to make power upto 7.5k... so should brake ther 160 mark once i fit them, not worth fitting them yet if this engine is fked tho, will just have to see...

no torque figure tho as Mikes computer froze so he said he'll ring me back with the figure once its sorted as it still should be saved on his hard-drive, feels way torquier than the zs tho so should be high 120s... wheel spin in 3rd is fun!

also the car now goes into reverse too with abit of a struggle and grind lol

then on monday evening -





carbs jammed open whilst driving 'enthusiastically' lol, just went straight to the limiter... which wasnt pleasent. on tuesday i found the problem -





problem was this screw had popped out so there wasnt enough slack on the return spring, which was causing the butterflys to be around 1/4 open, so just found a screw to suit, fitted the carbs back on started the car, sweet as a nut, was expecting the worst tbh but glad it was only minor.

that night before the carbs jammed open we went out to get some vids of our cars, heres mine -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itVWg...layer_embedded

yeh as i said it smokes alot lol, goes well tho altho as i said it does need to rev more.

after the crash i had when i bent the front chassis leg, i also bent the rear beam, so swapped that wednesday -



old vs new -



new one already been painted in some hammerite -



fitted and car back on the ground, no more positive camber -



had the Toyo Proxes CF-1s fitted yesterday, they're awesome even just after 5 miles bedding them in you can really tell the difference over the Champiro Gts lol

then got back and gave the car a clean -

















then decided to paint the rear of the car in Satin black, will do the front next week probs, just looks alot tidier as it is tbh -



then last night i went to a mates to help work on his car on the way there my exhaust fell off... where the 2-1 part joins the 4-2 on the manifold, just slid off even tho i hammered it on originally and used lots of silicone sealent, so bren brought his jack and axel stand out and i fitted it back on just as tight as i could get the brackets on, just checked it and its slid back off another 5mm too (FFS), so again just undone it and tighetend the clamps up as much as possible, going to ask andy very nicely will he weld it together on monday for me as it needs to come off to get the sump off to check the oil pump, if he'll do that for me then theres no chance of it slipping off again then, good old ashley!


To be continued