wide ka

Coming on dude!

When you aiming to have it on the road?

scottyrs

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looking good mate your flying along!

Red16

Hoping to have it on the road in May

cozzy jeff

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you've been quiet recently mate how you getting on?

escort1989uk

Any updates ?

Red16

I've been really quiet lately, been working in a shipyard in Poland for the last month, hence the lack of updates, but I have bought some new parts...

Fuel filler cap, stainless bolts, locking ring and filler neck hose



Various silicon hoses, reducers, alloy hose joiners for the cooling system, some adhesive foam tape and jubilee clips.



So if I pull my finger out I can get the engine/header tank/radiator piped up, leaving the wiring to crack on with!

escort1989uk

Good I enjoy seeing your updates has been a while can't be much more to do

-beefy-

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what you doing out in poland fella ?

fezzajsy

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fezzajsy

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double post

Red16

Not much at all really, a quick list of jobs left to do is...

Pipe up cooling system
Fit filler cap/neck/hose
Bleed brakes
Fit arches
Fit lights
Wire up lights, dash switches, engine
Buy seats and harnesses then fit them
IVA test
DVLA inspection
Trip to Reyland/BigCC Racing for a mapping session
Take it out for a bit of a drive

I've been rebuilding some mud pumps on a semi submersible oil rig in a dry dock in Gdynia.

Spaz

Dicko&Vacant

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take it your not at nissan anymore ben?

Paynee

no he saw the light like many more of us!!!

Rod-Tarry

Just read through the whole build, great job - well done.

My only comment is with the wastegate pipe, mine cracked doing much the same as you have. The solution was not to weld the last joint just have it a nice snug fit so it can move. I think you will have probs if you dont.
Congrats on a great build so far should be a very quick car.

Cheers Rod

Red16

No mate, as Paynee said I seen the light around a year and a half ago, I work offshore now.

Didn't know you were a member on here David!?!?!

Cheers Rod

The exhaust is finished now so time will tell, if it does crack, i'll be forced to fabricate a new one along the lines of what you have described, or maybe with a slightly longer wastegate pipe incorporating a flexible section.

I ordered some wiring components yesterday, and suprisingly they were delivered this morning, happy days

NEIL A

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What a build stunning attention to detail and should be a proper giggle on the road.

Ps . Are you working on one of the Awilco rigs in Poland, and you wernt on the Magellan in Rotterdam a few weeks ago were you ?

Red16

Cheers Neil, it should be a hoot on the road

Yeah, I was on the phoenix rig out in poland, but not on the Magellan in Rotterdam.

Red16

I made a start on the cooling system yesterday, plumbed in the turbo water feed and return, also the turbo oil feed with new braided hose, then the coupled up the water pump and thermostat housing to to the radiator, still needs tidying but there is more plumbing to do first, more specifically the header tank.

Here are the pics

Red16

I've been pottering about in the garage this afternoon, fitted the header tank to the bulkhead panel and then plumbed it in.



A closer look at the header tank and bulkhead panel



In this photo below you can see the overflow hose from the header tank still needs to be clipped to the bottom of the chassis to keep it nice and straight. The coiled up hose from the bottom of the header tank is to be plumbed into the water pump inlet hose, i'll do that tomorrow when the fitting is delivered.



I then quickly fitted the boost pipework and inlet manifold to see how everything is going to look.









It confirmed one thing... the boost pipework and inlet manifold definitely need to be black

Minirotty

Maybe a silly question thats already been answered but why is the engine fitted on the piss like that? as in the direction of the prop.

dvid

I wondered this too, wont weight distribution be affected or does it not really come in to it?

Porkie

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awesome work. great install

Porkie

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LOVE the blue

Red16

It's trying to make the best of the situation... the position of the gearbox output shaft, it's quite far back on the engine meaning when the engine is fitted into a car it's quite far over to the drivers side, it's just not possible to have the propshaft straight.

It doesn't make a great deal of difference, the ZX10R engine/box together weigh 67kg, especially not when you consider the 80kg of driver sat on the right hand side of the car.

Cheers

-beefy-

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looking stunning mate , deffo agree on the black pipes and plenum ,


i hope i fit in that passenger seat lol , if not you may have created the first ever reason ive needed for dieting !!!




beef

Red16

Aye black pipes and plenum ftw!

Just in case you best get dieting now because I'm hoping it's going to be on the road early May!

Red16

Bought a self sealing hose take off, to allow me to connect the feed from the header tank into the water pump inlet hose, not got any photos of it installed though as I got carried away with other jobs on the car.



Tied up a few loose ends and got the car all prepped, ready to go down to Mac#1 to be wired up and IVA tested, trailer hired, all set to go...





Made it down to Mac#1 safe and sound, here she is sitting in their workshop where she was born

-beefy-

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what the boys at mac1 think of it ben ?

Red16

They were pleased with the way it has turned out

Mark said "I can't wait to have a f%%king drive of it!"

and that I'm in for a bit of a suprise myself when I first drive it, especially having never driven one before!

-beefy-

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fezzajsy

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coming along nice n good

cozzy jeff

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nice to see it out of the garage ben,looks stunning in the sun,when do you expect it back?

CraigoScott

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cool! is that a kit car lambo in the backgroound? the front bumper just doesnt look right for some reason?

Red16

Yeah it was nice to see it outside again, even more so out on the open roads, albeit on the trailer

Yeah it's a kit car, based on the usual Toyota MR2, but it's running a 3.0 V6 engine.

Red16

Small update, unfortunately with no photos, but you'll just have to wait for those

The wiring has been roughed in and the engine turns, fuel pump primes, sparks etc, an exhaust servo eliminator has been fitted to do away with the butterfly the standard bike exhaust has and no fault codes are being displayed, happy days

The dash is currently being wired up, I'm going down to Mac#1 tomorrow to do a few bits and bobs on the car, the wiring can then be tidied up for the final time and then the engine can be fired up for the first time

The IVA paper work has been submitted now so the clock is ticking, hopefully it wont be too much longer til it's on the road

-beefy-

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great stuff fella ,


will have to pop up at some point when its back ,


still need to collect the cleaning fluid for the brake servo tank

b

escort1989uk

congrats hope iva goes well looking forward to some you tube clips

tigra turbo

Well done then!!!!! they just tune blue cars

Red16

Well I made the trip down to see Mark and Colin (and the car) this morning. We coupled up the remaining vacuum hoses and oil scavenge pump hoses, proved the operation of everything before getting ready to fire the engine up for the first time... see the video below for the outcome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opp8ecvY7nU

It's not too loud which is nice

The whining noise is the oil scavenge pump, which moves the oil from the bottom of the turbo back to the sump, I think I'm going to have to replace it for something quieter!

Ginger Will

Sounds naughty!