Few minor things still to sort, like the fuelling is all over the shop, i knew it would be though and have a programmable ECU for it to sort that (SECS one) but its all finished now and MOT'd and driveable, just needs to go back for a bit of paint and i will be out and about in it.

Well chuffed.

Thanks to Rich for all your hardwork rebuilding it

(pics to follow soon when i get home at the weekend)

 

Excellentay!

 

Should be out in weston in it in about 2 weeks time hopefully Lewis.

 

pics

also hope you havent forgotten

Good to meet you on Saturday, even if it was rather brief

 

flock me, nowt like "not hanging about" is there

 

Well I may make a special apperance then just to come see it! & a spin!

 

Ryan, not forgotten mate, we still have the RS500 shell (whats left of it!) to cut your bits out of for you mate

Dont actually remember meeting you on satuday, so must have been very brief, lol

Im crap with names anyway im afraid, goes in one ear and out the other!



Lewis, im hoping no spins will be involved for a while, dont want it off the road for ages again!


Have to hand it to Rich for the time taken, he hasnt cut any corners and has done a good job of building everything up and has done it from start (bare painted shell with nothing on it) to finnish (MOT'd and running) in under 2 weeks
And thats depsite me keep turning up with new bits to bolt on, like new turbo, new clutch etc so it hasnt just been a straight swapover of bits.

Also included the extra time taken to weld in a big chunk of the RS500 tunnel which was different and needed for the sliders for mounting the T5 on so would have been quicker if it was a 500 or cossie shell to begin with not a 1.6GL one originally.

 

Ryan was with me in the bar chipper!

LOL No spins aye! best not give me the keys!

 

Rudey, its going to be stage one in a few weeks when ive finished with it

 

Just all depends on what you call "stage one" really mate

Its the first stage i will be going to with it, so therefore its stage one by my reasoning.

Not worried about making it mega quick though, got other cars for that, just want a nice reliable fairly quick everyday useable car out of it really

 

Was just think whats your definition of stage 1!

350hp chipper!?

as i believe u have purchased a t34! & Im sure i heard u mention greens!

 

Lewis, those bits may well be involved in my stage one conversion

 

Kool!

You mapping it yourself!?

 

 

well done mate, if i can get the shonky RST running i may pop down to weston aswell

unless its the weekend of the 30th as im getting married

 

Cheers chipper

 

ANy old excuse aye!

 

yup

 

Good to hear things are progressing Chip

Could you possibly try and get some of the lads together for a sutton meet this week?

 

Well kind of, Simon (SECS) has already done a basemap for similar spec anyway, so im not having to start from scratch, so ive only got to livemap it just to finnish it off.

Going to do the fuelling first then might try and chat Simon into either giving me a hand or getting the exact details off him to make some det cans so that i can do the timing, as at the moment im only equipped to map fuelling.

 

Kool!

 

Nice one Chip

Were's the pics

 

Ive got some pics on my camera, but no lead, Lee has posted me a card reader (free of charge, nice one ) which should be wiating for me when i get home at the weekend

 

Damn it Chip stop posting these threads unill you have the pics

Glad its all nearly done looking forward to seing the car will make a change from all the usual boring colours

Well done to Rich you'll have to let him crash your cars more often

 

Im trying to talk him into taking my half finished nova out for a drive at the moment, so he can crash it and build me another one thats all finished

Will possibly bring it to the next Berkshire meet or Croydon meet if its all mapped up by then.

Just need to find some fool to pilot it at silly speeds on the public highway while i prat around with the laptop and wideband kit now, im sure the mrs wont mind doing that even though she doesnt like cossies much!

 

if you get stuck, let us know

 

Fairplay mate

What WB02 sensor are you using?

 

Ive got a techedge kit ive been using for this sort of thing for years, and it uses a honda item for the actual wideband sensor.

Dan, cheers for the offer mate, might take you up on that as sadly if i jump in it and say to cally "give it death" i will end up trying to map it while she does donuts as she has an obsession with doing them

Last time i let her loose in the rwd nova in an open space i had to get the RAC to take it home cause she popped both the rear tyres

 

Goos stuff Chip. Pleased for you mate. You know you will enjoy it

 

i got a helmet too

 

Now up at the paintshop being sorted (slight colour mismacth all been taking care of) I took it from a bare shell with NOTHING in it (it was rolling on the 1.6 shite that I had to remove anyway)

Bear in mind:

I have never worked with a ford before
I have never worked on a cosworth before.
I have looked into ford wiring looms before (I can real off vauxhall looms what each colour is and what it does etc)

EVERYTHING (ok apart from the brake "servo" motor) worked, and it pretty much fired first turn of the key.

In total it was 4 weeks including stripping both cars down, sending them off for paint, putting the tilt and slide roof in, repairing the new shell etc and general sorting out.

to be honest having built one from scratch, some of it I thought was a very poor design from a putting togther point of view not enough captive nuts etc and to many afterthoughts in the body.

None the less its done now.

Chip if you want to do your RWD nova properly I'm afraid you will have to pay me.

Rich

 

Nah RWD nova is fine mate, last thing i would want it someone else to do it, i enjoy working on cars

you are right about the afterthoughts with a cossie i guess mate, as obviously it was, they made the sierra first then had to shoehorn the cossie bits in after rather than designing it that way initially.

 

where are the pictures you got today?

Rich

 

Going to wait and post them up at weekend when i get the others sorted and do it as a job lot.

 

cant wait to see the pics matey

 

Couple of the pics that came out ok of the engine:

 

I better get my butt over toio rich's tonight before it goes!

As for the mapping, I'll give you a hand! lol

It would be good to compair your kit with my new one (innovation lm1)

Alex