Car is finished being built up and now has an MOT :top:
11-07-2005, 10:34 AM
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Car is finished being built up and now has an MOT :top:
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)
Well chuffed.
Thanks to Rich for all your hardwork rebuilding it
(pics to follow soon when i get home at the weekend)
11-07-2005, 10:53 AM
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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.
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.
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what power we goin for chip? 
11-07-2005, 11:11 AM
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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
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
11-07-2005, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by B19-TRB
Kool!
You mapping it yourself!?
You mapping it yourself!?
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.
11-07-2005, 01:06 PM
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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
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
11-07-2005, 01:13 PM
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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!
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!
11-07-2005, 01:50 PM
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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
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
11-07-2005, 02:11 PM
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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
i got a helmet too
11-07-2005, 11:03 PM
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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
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
11-07-2005, 11:24 PM
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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.
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.
12-07-2005, 07:50 AM
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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
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