Looking forward to seeing this again this year

 

Need to get it sorted out!
Going to get shafts rebuilt and I have a Defi rev counter and boost gauge to go in.

 

Discovers my violent shaking was down to a completely obliterated centre prop bearing/rubber. Less than 1000 mile old too, whoops.
I've replaced that now, also got new drive shafts to go on and rewrapped the tailpipe!
Hopefully it'll be mobile again tomorrow and in for mot next week.

 

Slight update. She has new shafts on, new propshaft centre bearing on and we have nearly completed a hydraulic clutch conversion.
I have loads of pics but I'm using the app and it doesn't seem to want to work properly!

 

Good stuff mate, yeah get some pics up.

 

She's back on the road, fresh ticket, and now has a bara diff off sonic boom, got a splutter though! Possibly crank sensor I think

 

If feels good to have them back on the road.

 

Sure does mate, I'd forgotten how fucking fast it is! Haha

 

Mine only has greens and mine is fast enough for me lol.

 

Finally sorted some pics!
Modifying box for slave





Hose mount on car

Reservoir


Didn't get any of the master/pedal set up! Don't know why.

Had a clean today though!

 

Its still looking well matey.

Is the hydraulic clutch much lighter then.

 

Yeah, it's brilliant. I got in it today after driving my clio and it's lighter than the clio! It was hideous before, my mates mrs tried to drive it and when she put her foot on the clutch it stayed still and she lifted out of the seat! Haha

 

Here's one with my new daily

 

Looking good! How's the daily, considered getting one myself but not sure

 

The clutch sounds cool matey.

 

It's brilliant rog, great fun, goes well, not that horrid to be in and does 45mpg on a run!

 

luving it

 

Just testing the diff.......

 

She's had a cough at full boost for a while now, and it's been getting worse, we thought we'd fixed it by re-gapping the crank sensor but it was still playing up, so in preparation for classic ford this weekend, we have been through it with a fine tooth comb tonight!!
We found,
The main engine bay earthing point was loose
Vacuum hoses off
Dump valve had worked loose
Idle control valve wires broken
Plenum gasket was fubar
And a water leak at the turbo.
Whoops, been a late one, but it's fixed, and fuck me is it going well now!!!
If there's not a timing slip with an 11 on this weekend I will scream.

 

Had a good weekend at classic ford, utter shite on the strip though, my mate ran it Saturday afternoon and we soon discovered something I've suspected for a while, my gearbox is shit.
Will not let you change gear in any sort of swift manor, it's literally 2 seconds per change. So that fucked any decent times up completely, didn't bother running Sunday due to this.


Smoke em!

 

Seen you drive in again mate.... stunning saph this !

Nice updates and pics - pleased its going well for you - love this car ,

Keep up the good work

 

Thanks mate, next task is some severe heat management, engine bay temps are toastie.

 

Pic from pod at the weekend, don't usually bother buying them but I love this one

 

Cool pics and its nice to see your not scared to use it l0l. Shame about the gearbox though. Have you ran lls before.

 

No mate, 12.2 is it's best last year, not running full boost, poor start and a misfire/shutdown towards the end! So it should be capable of doing one. Was a similar spec one there this year, slightly more power, but he ran an 11.7 iirc.

 

Hopefully you can get it into the 11s matey.

 

I'm sure with the box sorted it'll do it.
With full interior and proper road tyres too, that's the plan.

 

Shame about the gearbox mate,
That 4x4 saff that was running 11.7 quarters, he did manage one 11.4 run on Sunday.
That burnout pic is awesome!

Cheer Paul

 

Yeah, I saw. Nice car that.
We'll fix the box problem, considering an m3 box at the moment!

 

M3 box's are crap in m3's and they only have 350 ish bhp

 

From what I've read the 5 speed zf from a 3.0 e36 will take 800bhp and 800 ft ib quite happily?

 

I'd be very surprised I no a guy who was into his sideways lol ok he drove like a cunt but he did the 5 speed box then too 6 speed box's

 

Did he? I've read the 6 speed isn't as good as the 5 but my mate who's big on bmw's says he's never heard of a 5 speed fail.
Is stick with the t5 if it would actually let me select gears!

 

Get a cts big tooth kit in it

 

I'd love too but living on my own and not have an amazing job makes funds a little hard.

 

Thats the thing. We all cant afford to spend a fortune on our cars.

 

Yeah I guess some have more to waste. What's up with your t5 when you say it won't select gears do you mean as in a syncro gone and and it grinds and won't go in gear. Or it physically won't select like it has a bent fork or something

 

It won't be rushed. It just will not go in gear, no grinding, however hard you try it won't go until the engines come back to idle.
Got a few things to look at, couple of ideas to try.
Box has never been right since I've had it, it is rebuilt and had uprated mustang synchro's and selectors in it.

 

Sounds an odd one if it selects the gears there's no fault with the forks. Sounds like it's bulking up and the bulk ring is un able to move between gears with drive to the box. Maybe a simple fix if the forks bearings and syncros are all ok could be worth getting it re built

 

Is that 1 gear in particular or all gears?