well after a fair few years of being on this forum and using it for info and ideas for my various xr"s and rs turbos I fort it was about time I shared what I have been up to with a ka that was given to me last year ... a while back I sold my last rs turbo in a bid to move on from modded cars and think about a house . but its a hard thing to give up so when my cousin asked if I wanted her un taxed and un moted ka I bit her arm off . it was just supposed to be a small project so get it get it moted and taxed and flog it but it has all gone a bit wrong as you will see in the following pics . I got it running got it moted then it sat in my granddads work shop for a while and then I remembered all the spare parts I had from my old cars in my dads garage I poped round and had a look and discovered I had most of the parts required for a zetec conversion and to run it on bike carbs so I got to work

 

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so to cut a really long story short I have built the car myself I am a welder fabricator by trade so have made the engine mount, cage, fuel cel ect ect myself and it was running around 160 bhp witch was fun but my friends who I do track days with have 300 bhp + cars so I am now going 2lt zetec turbo running a td04 with my home made inlet and exhaust mani aiming for 250/300 bhp I will post pics of it all as I build it

 

awesome work buddy

 

Nice work,its little weapon

 

[IMG][/IMG] this is the inlet I have been working on the runners are from an Audi TT the custom plenum and a danst engineering flange and hopefully going to use the TT body . I am not up to scratch fully with injection and the wiring of it all but I am doing lots of reading and learning slowly ....

 

I bet it goes well with the NA engine in now. Will be mad with a turboed zetec in it.

 

Yer it is pretty quick was lapping brands Indy in 59 and that was pretty smooth driving no late braking ect could probably crack a 58 if I committed a bit more . Few mates do 54 s so I just want a bit more lol

 

looks fun mate, keep a eye on this.

 

looking good

 

tidy job