Ahhhh you !$!@$@#!, Lincs holding my ECU hostage...
Yeah those bits will be delivered on Friday of this week, whats a week in a years delivery time
I will take a pic of the painting I did on weekend, car is white now... soon to be black

 

Heres my latest, a whole bunch of parts arrived, its christmas in July, thanks to the three guys on here that made it all possible... a year to get the stuff over now to restore and make the thing go....

 

More pics on the stuff as it go unpacked,
You cannot see the fine details of stuff like cams, solid lifters, gasket kits, rs500 thermostats etc... but its all there

All of the stuff in front of the table and not hanging on wall is what arrived

 

wot parts did you get then mate looking good

 

Heres the list:
Its just a lot of stuff to add to the pile.... From all over UK to Sunny Queensland Australia...

Harvey's cams and solid lifters
Windscreen rubbers - 3dr
Full 2wd gasket set , minus bolts and with WRC gasket
Spacers for cams (to allow 2wd cams in 4x4 head)
Front grill rubber
2wd front ARB bracket
2wd drive shafts (complete).
6 long studs, Mike Rainbirds
EECIV inlet manifold
Two x ET20 9" x 18" wheels
Two x ET35 8" x 18" wheels
RS500 thermostat housing
RS500 water pump
Pair of rear wheel bearing set (steel cage type)
4x4 Head
2 X Cam covers
EECIV Throttle body
Turbo cooler
Sump
Enkei Magnesium sport wheels and tyres (5 wheels / pirelli tyres)
Rings and gudgeon pins
200 block
another cosworth head 2WD
another sump
Oil pump
Another water pump

 

some great fab work and thought gone in to your project mate

 

Thanks James, I have made pretty much everything myself... not as good as the pros I am sure but I did it... and am happy to share whatever I learnt...
Linc is making my adjustable TCA, brake bits and machining the exhaust housing to my spec etc... Other than that its mostly in the shed work.

Here are some pics for your info...

Some Cossie artwork from where I put primer on bits and bobs, see if you can identify the bits...


The car after its 2 pack primer


You can see I now have a hoist in the shed....

 

And check this out , somewhere in the shipping process someone dropped this head... (I reckon it would be a UK courier, I know the other people and it would not be any of thier crew ).
The thermostat housing sacrificed iteself so that the head would remain safe... sooo close...

 

when do you hope to have it finished ?

 

I think that time was last year... I had some changes forced on me by a guy ripping me off... then I got laid off and have to work away from home during the week.
I am hoping for this year... if I keep at it I would hope to have something that is drivable but not complete by then (I have a tons of carbon fibre and other bits to do which are likely to be a stage 2 thing)
Next step is send my three heads off to see which one I port and run... and get the engine built while I get the car ready....
Lincoln - I will need those bits soon.....

 

Jesus Gav and I thought my photos were poor. Sort it out.

Also, YES, I can hear you wheels squeaking! Remember BE the WHEEL

 

Gav, you have more parts than me lying around! Are you painting the body again?

 

I resized the pics to be smaller is that the problem, if it is being able to see stuff (ie the having the stuff laid out nicely), I was not trying to show all the bits... just the stage of the project .
Linc, have you got those bits done yet...

 

Vic, I am gonna build this car, more bits might just make it happen.
I am still painting the car for the first time, i had to stop and work on our kia van for months. I was waiting for these bits too.
Oh and yes I was waiting on Linc to get those parts done, squeeking wheel in motion...

 

Here is the EECIV inlet

 

Here is what the wheels look like:
Note the difference in presentation of 9" to 8" MO's... wife did not like initially so I was scared, but after reviewing pics on compomotive site she is fine with em now.... phew...

Oh and then she chipped me on the mess I have made outside...

 

I now have three Cossy heads with following specs

A - 2WD YNO627 - V86HF 6090CA Coscast 138.8 mm no corrosion
B - 4X4 YNO643 Coscast V86HF 6090AA 138.6 mm no corrosion
C - Crate RS500 YN0627 V86HF 6090CA 138.3 mm no corrosion, needs line boring on cam tunnel.

Assuming all heads need valve guides replacing and that they pass pressure testing and hardness testing.

I want to get one head ported and put on my near 500hp engine build. Will have solid lifters, double valve springs, Mike Rainbird cam in it.
Keep one as a good spare maybe put on second block I have.
Third is the one I might sell. (yeah Im a hoarder )
I am going to get all heads reconditioned while they are being measured.

What would you do ?

Here are some pics of the heads I now have, I asked PF members to vote on what ones to use where...

Left to right, A 2WD, B 4X4, C RS500

 

My car is off the rotisserie and stood on its own wheels today... pics coming shortly...
woo hooo .... at last...

 

My compomotives had the wrong offsets... spent a while thinking of options, ended up with the rear arch mod below to make the most of it.


I made my arches act as mould for a fibreglass back plate that will be used to bond the standard arch to using sikoflex


This is backing plate




The backing plate on car...


Start cutting up the arch


Cut and bend out bits
Panel beat out inner skins and Tig weld



Since this post I have fibreglassed the backing plate to the skins...











Waiting for it to set and sun to come before finishing it off with more fibreglass and doing a proper test fit...

 

For those who may still remember this thread, its still active...
Car is painted black as shown...
Carbon fibre door skins set up for mounting
Head ported and flow benched
All engine parts crack tested
CP pistons now being ordered

 

I have not posted on here for a long time, I have not given up and will update pics shortly...

 

Head and inlets ported
Motor being built by ex Bryant Engineering folks (they built Group A stuff),
Good input from guys ex Dick Johnson racing.
Motor being dry sumped
Hand brake is brembo, most expensive parts on car...
Trying to finalise brake assy, so I can annodise them

 

I have three clutches now, full reconditioned 4 puck on std tested pressure plate and flywheel, 6 puck on std pressure plate and lightened flywheel and now this one which I thinkj I am planning to use
Ex Tony Longhurst Group A twin plate clutch....
Check it out... per my builder and other Group A folks , this is genuine... and really nice.

The clutch plate, see how they attached the surface to std flywheel...



The clutch itself, more like a rally clutch... again known to have worked well on the track. The clutch guy from the era described this clutch assy to exact detail before I saw this... a lot of history here

 

yes, that is the same clutch I threw out! the Grp A ones are pretty much all stuffed, and not worth repairing.

 

I agree, the flywheel maybe be useful

 

I ended up going with an new AP twin plate clutch (well kinda new, got an ex works WRC twin plate (used for one day ) and had new ceremetallic driven plates made up for it)

 

Expecting engine back shortly, in the meantime running some brake lines

 

Just got engine back will put a few more pics up of whats been happening asap

 

And the clutch

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And the fittings Red Horse.... great stuff

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