right its been a while but its time to start the upgrading already,,,
just a few mods here, some more serious than others but all important,,
1st up i was getting sick of the standard xr2 steering wheel
,,,,so found a nice upgrade at the beds track day,,,, here is the 1 i chose 8)
almost matches the colour of the car perfectly
next up it is time to sort out the brakes
they have been standard since the conversion was carried out & there are & have always been,,,,,SHITE, so i bought these off the board to sort the situation,,
but they are not yet fitted as i could not find my set of allen keys for the bolts so they will hopefully be fitted this weeknd
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now for the serious mod
as many people know , running a turbo car,,eg, escort, fiesta etc with decent power,, they have a tendancy for destroying engine mounts
this end up with the nightmare situation ive had before where you dont just do the mount but end up needing a new rad, (as the actuator goes through the cores),,, and a fooking dent in the bonnet from the charge carrier
i was talking to a mate about this problem,,,, and he runs a 420bhp rear wheel drive turbo mini
(soon to be 600bhp on new engine with gas)
anyway he had this problem all the time trying to run 400+bhp on uprated vibra technics mounts etc
so he designed & fabricated a new mount incorpated in a cylinder sleeve which is welded to the gearbox bracket,,, you will see in the pics what i mean,,,,
it is no more harsh a tickover than on vibra t mounts,, but it does vibrate alot,, but gives the car a very solid race feel,,,,
but the main thing is with this design (mount/cradle) i will NEVER brake another mount again unless the welds on the cradle brake which is highly unlikely,
so thats good enough for me
a few pics just to give you an idea as to the design (sorry about the quality)
OLD STYLE CRADLE/MOUNT
NEW STYLE CRADLE/MOUNT
thats it for now,,,,,
but the cossie management is almost all sourced now :twisted:
just looking into the new engine, gearbox, turbo,,head,,
il post when more is modded
