MAD EVO 4

Awesome work mate

keep the pics coming of the progress

trevCOSS

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Well, I spent the best part of today cleaning up the front end to remove all the rust, then priming it seam sealing the seams priming again and then painting, unfortunately the paint that I had mixed at my local Halfords was like trying to apply paint with a hose set on jet rather than a nice mist so the finish is pretty poor, I think i will get a litre mixed up and gun it on properly, I may also do the inner wings if I decide to paint it properly.

Anyway here are some pics.

Bit of cleaning up






In red oxide etch prime


All the brackets to be blasted and stove enameled


Seam sealed


Primed




Painted badly






It still needs some waxoil protection once I have decided if im going to paint it again.

MAD EVO 4

combi van man

did you paint that with your eye's shut

id leave it mate,who's goin to see it down there.

trevCOSS

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may as well have to be honest, the can had absolutely no spray pattern to the nossle (which was not changable), it just came out in a stream of big blobs, Im going to rub it back, strip the inner wings of parts mask the engine and shoot the front properly, at least that way I will have nice shiny inner wings not crappy dull ones that ford gave the car. Im considering smoothing them as well I bloody knew it would be a bigger job than I intended, as is always the way.

trevCOSS

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Here are a few updates, I have copied them from another thread on a different forum so they may be a bit dis jointed but you'll get the jist.


well I finally got the bits back from being welded today, next is to give them a good old bufty polish and get them back up to scratch, then carry on sorting the little bits of rust at the front and get some decent fresh paint on it, then learn how to do aeroquip pipes

-6 welded on header tank



-6 welded on swirl pot



-12s and -10 welded on breather tank



-12 welded onto fitting to go into the rocker cover



rad repaired as it had a tiny crack in the origional weld



Debadged airtech turbo cooler



Modification to the intercooler to help stop air bleeding underneath it





received all the brackets that i took off the front end back tonight, they have all been stove enameled satin black







Another little update, spent the evening bufftying the tanks,



Another little update, I love parts update's just wish I could afford more parts to make updates with



mmm beam mounts, thanks Rich

MAD EVO 4

very nice mate

I think ill have to send some parts down to you , just incase you get bored or run out of things to buff

Ryan

looking good trev

fezzajsy

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well done..

trevCOSS

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Another little update some nice new compression struts



next is to take the altenator off and cut the block so I can fit a drop bracket in preporation for something and also purchase some topmounts.

R5COS

looking good there m8

Sticky.

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Looking good Trev

trevCOSS

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Thanks Guys, Took the turbo and altenator off this afternoon, the turbo is off up to rich's so he can deliver it to its new owner on the weekend I will cut the hoop of the block tomorrow and then once the drop bracket arrives back from being stoved along with the altenator bracket itself i'll get the altenator fitted back up.

Nash

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Trev I take it you have removed the trouser piece off the manifold mate?

trevCOSS

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why would I need to remove it from the manifold mate?

trevCOSS

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Picked up my topmounts today that Rich kindly collected of Kelv for me.



didnt do any work on my car though

Nash

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To get the new one to fit

rs2000kev

looking good mate what did you paint the front with??

Richie.

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A roller by the looks of it

trevCOSS

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may as well have been, as said above i painted it with a very rubbish mixed can of halfords paint, im going to do it again properly though!

trevCOSS

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Have done a little bit more work today, also received a few more parts,

more bits that have been stove enameled


WRC style cam trigger parts


some more aeroquip bits


and a new cam belt and tensioner from matt lewis


first job was fit the water pump pulley on


then tart the cam pulleys up to match


remove the hoop from the block to allow the drop bracket to be fitted





and fitted the drop bracket


next was to start some of the aeroquip piping for the breather tank


how it currently looks


lots still to get done

hitchwest

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lookin good trev

Steven_RW

First time I read this thread - awesome amount of work been put in here. I love all the little updates and the small touches

N1!

RW

Dan

Good work mate, car will be awesome! Multi-coloured but still awesome!

trevCOSS

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lol it wont be multi coloured forever mate, just keep putting off the paint work.

Sticky.

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Great Work Trev...

Dan

Paints not the end of the world mate, it is to me but thats a different matter

trevCOSS

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Well todays little jobs where to get all the brackets back on the front end, clean up and paint my coilovers collect my helper springs and also wire up some lighting in the garage.

trevCOSS

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Have done a little more work on the car, inlet manifold is off to allow me to fit an oil cooler sandwitch plate and also to pull the manifold apart and fit my eeciv manifold cover and plenum spacer,





As you can see the car has no cambelt, I went to change it seeing as everything is nice and accessable at the moment, changed the belt no probs gently nipped the tensioner after setting the tension, went to tourque the nut to the specified torque and the bloody thing wouldnt go, it has been over tightened in the past so out it came, i have helicoiled it and am waiting for a new stud and nut to turn up.

I also received my new (second hand turbo) and silicon hoses to go with it, as you can see its a t4 (thanks nash)







turbo now taken apart to have the compressor housing polished

Nash

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Glad to be of service mate

Polishing the housing is just Homo though :P

trevCOSS

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yes I know Im surprised you didnt do it

Sticky.

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Any updates Trev...

trevCOSS

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Not much Paul, pulled the cam cover off and inlet cam out and sent them to martoon for machining for my wrc style cam trigger,



Also got the cam tensioner stud hole drilled out re tapped and helicoiled and took delivery of a nice new stud and nut from GGR, also received my crank pulley and PAS pulley back from stove enameling, the turbo compressor housing is off for polishing ready for collection on friday, I'm waiting for some more aeroquip fittings to arrive for doing the oil cooler, I have stripped the inlet mainifold down and my Small turbo manifold and plenim spacer are off for powdercoating and thats about it, hopefully 2 more weeks and I will have everything i need to get it running again then i'll crack on with suspension

KSA-Cossie

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Nice progress m8.

Sticky.

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Richie.

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Nice work mate


Polished turbo housings are just plain homo as said

marco polo

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looking good trev , spot on mate

trevCOSS

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Right update time. 1st thing was I picked up my freshly polished turbo compressor housing



Also got my small turbo inlet manifold, i've drilled and tapped for all the sensors etc as well







next thing for it is to be sent for powder coating along with my thermostat housing again, as I have had to get a dash fitting welded to it so I can aeroquip from it to the heater.

next was to fit the turbo to manifold and then get the whole lot bolted up to the head



changed the actuator for a more bufty one



Removed the modine and fitted an oil takeoff sandwich plate



then got onto welding on brackets for my oil cooler, sorry for the pics my camera on my n95 no longer seems able to focus properly





then the cooler fitted in place



and pipework all connected





the other end



last but not least i did some more work on the breather system and connected up the last hose, I aslo trial fitted the inlet manifold to make sure everything would clear







Next is wait for my cam and cover to come back from Reyland the st manifold and thermostat to come back from the powdercoaters and get them fitted and then I can bolt everything else back together

Sticky.

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Great work Trev...

But why would you change a perfectly good Garrett Actuator for a crappy Collins one

trevCOSS

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it wasnt perfectly good mate it was knackered, also the collins one was free