jamie rigby

never heard of that, yeh let us knowm gonan keep on top of this thread now instead of the huge updates every 3 months lol


i had that set of Kent FZ2002's which are meant to be awesome but decided to sell them on for profit and going to uprate the Rear ARB and fit an LSD box before i go for more power

Cheers yet to drive and test it yet tho, going Oulton Park on Saturday to watch the XR challenge init so ill see how it is then

bluntys1rsturbo

no problem jamie im actually up there on the 20th this month to stick my car on the dyno.

iv not been to oulton park for a while, and your plans sound sensible lsd could gain you a bit of lap time

jamie rigby

cant make it this month

ive got a season pass but only been like 3 times this year, not made it worth while so im going to make the most of it now towards the end of the year.

and yeh hopefully thicker rose jointed rear ARB will elimate understeer then see where to go from there

bluntys1rsturbo

that sounds like it could transform the handling of the car defo a good idea for track action

how much was your season pass mate ?

no probs if you cant make it there is many more events ill be putting on

jamie rigby

the pass was 115quid iirc thats for all cars and bike events for oulton

jamie rigby

Took a Trip to Birkenhead wednesday night for these -




Cobra Suzukas in very good condition with side mounts, they've came from a guy who's got a Limited Edition Raider Renault 5 hence the stitching but i got them at a very good price and only used a fiver to go collect them too not too bothered that they dont actually say Suzuka on them.


they're GT width so they're 90mm wider at the front and 70mm wider at the rear than my old sparco circuits so ...

got some metal bar earlier -



measuerd, drilled and bolted to suit -



seat in -





only done the one as theyre really high sided seats and i wounldnt be able to use 1st and 2nd gears if i put the passenger one in yet, JUST about goes in reverse now...

Bought a 3" gearstick extension off ebay earlier, should be here tuesday/wednesday then ill whip the other seat in.

jamie rigby

Cobras have gone now sold them on ebay, they were too wide and the gear change felt wrank with that 3" extension so ebay'd em'!


the rear wheel bearings have been Burring like mad of late, getting worse every time i drive the car so ordered a pair from Euro Car Parts saturday, picked them up earlier, going to change them tomorrow/friday night.

Also ordered some 7" 450lbs rear springs from Gaz as apposed to the 8" 250lbs i have on atm, they're going to take 10-14days to arrive.

jamie rigby

Changed the rear wheels bearings earlier, old ones removed -



new races in taapped into place using the old ones and a 36mm socket -



all done, 22quid well spent opnly took 45mins per side to do!

not drove the car yet but hopefully its silent now, the car was quiet to drive as it was upto 60mph just road noise then burrrrrrrrrrrr bearings fked (probably wouldnt've help with using CV grease last time i fitted them last year whren i swapped the rear beam)

jamie rigby

massive improvement with the new bearings cant hear them at all


got bored as i had the day off yesturday so swapped the hub bolts round on the nearside so the camber bolt's on the bottom so then i just knocked the shock back and tightend them back up, now have near as makes no difference -2.5 degrees camber on both sides now! the tracking was knocked out yet again when adding the camber so i had to alter the tracking so its toeing out slightly again, will see how it drives on the weekend hopefully isnt pulling left or right and hopefully handles just as good going right aswell as left now the cambers matching again

also lowered the front 5mm and also noticed (pretty hard not too unless your stevie wonder) this -



then this, lol -



the tie wrap popped off the CV gaitor so as you can see there's gearse everywhere, so replaced the tie wrap with a 8mm wide one insted of the 5mm wide one that was on it, should be fine now.

then re-fitted my ashley exhaust, ive missed the noise -



ive done a deal with a guy about the magnex exhuast and a fuel pump as he has a Bosch ERST one which i need to replace (i think) my fked one as it shouldnt be suffering from fuel starvation with 2/3tank in on track, so doing the deal sunday!

jamie rigby

swapped the hub bolts round on the nearside so the camber bolt's on the bottom so then i just knocked the shock back and tightend them back up, now have near as makes no difference -2.5 degrees camber on both sides now! the tracking was knocked out yet again when adding the camber so i had to alter the tracking so its toeing out slightly again, will see how it drives on the weekend hopefully isnt pulling left or right and hopefully handles just as good going right aswell as left now the cambers matching again

pic of said added/max camber, handles so much better now -



new knob bit different -



also these arrived yesturday, 2 weeks early FTW -





new vs old -



the new height -





handles bloody awesome now!

randoms -

jamie rigby

Right, with alot of questions asked and searching for info ive found out my fuel starvation issues are down to the crap design of the Mk2i Tank (never once suffered from fuel starvation on the road mind but on track with R888s on it suffers with 1/2 tank which is no good)...

so ive bought a 1L external swirlpot and ive put for sale the ERST fuel pump i got on sunday and now about to buy a Facet Red Top fuel pump as its a low pressure pump, the ERST pumps are high pressure so would be no good to use that before the swirl pot...

heres a rough (well, sh!t) drawing of how it'll look all plumbed in in the boot, with this drawing itll be less confusing now to when i come to drill holes through the bootfloor for the 4 hoses to pass through lol...




Swirl pot and Facet red top are both mounted in the boot now and 4 25mm holes drilled in the front of the boot for the lines to run through, not touched the ERST pump yet until i get some Fuel hose tomorrow after work, i mustve gone to 5 places and only found one place that does more than 1m in length/on rolls and i ned 6m lol, so tomorrow all should be done!

all done -





just need a coulple of P-clips now for each hose so it looks abit tidier...

bloody loud inside the car now with both pums Buzzing away!

jamie rigby

Well... went down to Santa POD for RWYB yesturday, was alot of fun and a great day out, something different as ive never been before...

altho the times were different on the board at the end of the strip to the time sheets ill give you my times off the boards which my mates who were watching told me after every run...

My first run i ran a 14.2 @ 103mph... i was kinda happy with that considering the epic amounts of wheel spin as i launched at around 4k and didnt do a little burnout... then i ran a few 13.8s which i was happy i got in the 13s which was my aim...i didnt think id get a quicker run that them, but up against a Chevelle SS drag car i stepped my game up and scraped a 13.6 @ 108mph, chuft with that altho i didnt quite beat the chevelle haha

Pics and vids to come

Twins

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devonxr2

awesome thread mate spent ages reading threw awesome car

RO13 rs cabriolet

Love this car one cracking little xr2 top work

jamie rigby

Cheers guys much appreciated!

few pics from Santa POD last weekend -













still got a video to come of my best runs later

zetec-Sam

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Everytime you update this thread I start looking for xr2's.

Pob

My GF likes your nob, where did you get it from?

jamie rigby

haha buy this if you want :P

she has good taste! haha, ebay, any Ball she'd likes they sell 'em all!

zetec-Sam

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How much?

jamie rigby

haha its not for sale really, not now anyways it was on earlier this week on PistonHeads at 4,250 but i don't think id get anywhere near that atm so im keeping it for another year for now! REALLY want a mk2 escort!

jamie rigby

been on the rollers today at a local Rolling Road day at TDI North in warrington, known to be spot on rollers, didnt seem that today with the first 4 cars being clio 1*2's all ran wayyyyyy above expeceted, then a few fiestas then mine, ibizas and civics etc all made AROUND the correct figure... mine made 175bhp 157lbs ft









little video of the noise, was loud back here lol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwdxSKmYHe4

jamie rigby

got bored yesturday so went the local factors and bought a tin of paint for the track wheels -



also removed the spots and fitted the slightly damaged bumper ready for Oulton next friday -



you'll notice if you havnt previously, the bonnets lower on the nearside than the offside, took a look at the bonnet bracket before and it needs bending slightly, the bonnet needs removing to do this which is a ball ache, not possible on my own so thatll have to wait for abit.


batterys new home -





just need to get rid of the horrible battery tray out the bay now, gonna do that after oulton and try find a new brace bar that goes to the inner wing

xr2imetalhead

love this car keep up the good work matey! really want an xr2 now though

jamie rigby

haha cheers mate



picked up one of my new seats off a mate the other night, fitted that along with going upto a mates last night to sort the custom door bars finally, the front of the cage needs removing as the brackets welded onto the cage are only 30-40% welded on as its too tight to get anymore weld on down in the footwell... so when i remove the front part ill be removing he rear too and going to have a few more bars added in, more on that over winter, here's how it is for now -





Awesome day at Oulton on Friday!, weather was on our side, only rained a tiny bit, was very greasy and slippy in the morning but got a dry line towards dinner and stayed dry the rest of the day then, the video camera was abit iffy so im not sure how theyve turned out...

Swirl pot worked brilliant, was in the red at one time and still getting no starvation, win.

Springs i think seemed to have helped a tad, becuase ive got used to them i think ill feel a bigger difference if i just put them on today etc, only stiffed the rear 6 clicks instead of 12 with the old springs too.

only thing was the brakes, HEAVY judder and vibration when hard braking once they were red hot upto temp, i know one of my discs is cracked but its not a massive crack and its been absolutly fine ont he road and they were great at cadwell too... think a new set of discs and dot 5.1 fluid is in order to replace my dot 4 in atm as my pedal bit is very low now after today, when braking i was braking as hard as i could every corner it wouldnt lock up only in the damp in the morning.

few pics from yesturday -















f0xy got some epic tripodding ones and glowing brake discs hopefully he'll upload them later! make sure you check back to see them

other Sparco rev fitted -





then swapped the bumper, bled the brakes again to find both front discs cracked -





NOICE...

whilst bleeding the brakes i decided id paint the road wheels black too, here's the car when i drained some of the coolant out before refilling with some anti-freeze ready for winter -




and a short drive by vid from Friday -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEToS7on9lI


Hope you like, More soon

jamie rigby

drift?
































here's the in-car video, LOL at some of the editing and i was quoting someone else when i said 'dont tell me how to drive sinshiiiiiine' lol, just wish it could've worked for when it was completely dry but here's the best bits that was video'd from Oulton on Friday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhI4inmK31Y



also weighed the car on friday came in at 800kgs, with 175bhp thats near as makes no difference 220bhp/tonne.

jamie rigby

Battery tray removed after about 2 hours of faffing with hacksaws, spot weld drill bit, wood chisel and of course a hammer -



just sanded and primered over it to protect it for now... probs gonna be best to cut a square out where the holes are and its got quite abit of surface rust too so just probs get a 2mm plate welded over it -





bay looks miles emptier now -



this just needs a coat of paint -



new Brembo HC discs and ferrodo DS2500 pads fitted now, also copper greased the sliders, it was a mare one of them the grub screws rounded off when tried to undo it so had to drill it out and just nut and bolt the new discs in place and file the head now very slightly so my spacers and wheels sit flush (yes i primered my wheels :laugh



will bed them in later, oh and the old pads, lol -

jamie rigby

new track wheels in a rare set of RS7s -



obviously not going to be using the centre caps when on track fitted to try one out see what its like -



just need to get the tyres swapped over now!

Painted the gearbox in hammershite black, looks miles better the bay now, will be popping upto a mates to tidy up the inner wing and paint it properly over winter sometime.

Ordered 2 1/2meter lengths of 51mm CAF ducting for my brakes, should be here by weekened.

Bought a Polybushed Adjustable Panhard-Rod as a guy makes them on xrtwo and lots of people have had them and recommmened them, plus im currently running one 3.5mm spacer on the O/S/R to match the wheel out to the N/S/R as obvioulsy ill make the adjustable panhard-rod shorter when fitted to pull them beam over which is the whole point of it when a mk1/2 is lowered by more than 30mm.

Also, i need a new N/S/F wheel bearing as it hums/slightly vibrates on and off when cornering either way, so ill just end up doing both fronts tbh then have to alter the tracking AGAIN!

More soon.

jamie rigby

one polybushed adjustable panhard rod -



and fitted -



before with the old solid panhard rod the rear was over to the nearside by 4mm, so fitted this up then centralised it by lining a spirit level from the wheel arch to the floor then measuring to the centre cap of each wheel so now its bob on!


cold air feeds done for the brakes too -







Fresh pics from a meet last night -

MrCapriScort

Great thread, loads of up and downs, but a cracking XR2

jamie rigby

cheers mate!


Pics from cadwell from 5 months ago, better late than never eh...





































and the damage i done on the day, alot worse here than it is now -

BIG.DAMO.H

top car this jamie seen it at oulton park when i was with are jay. feb 25th track day next year get it booked i be there with mine

jamie rigby

Mr Hennefer Bro i take it?

and at Oulton? who's the organiser...

bluntys1rsturbo

as always love the updates on this, proper old school cool seems like its very capable on track as well even better with you new brake set up
i should be on track around march/april next year will have de tune the r5gtt for it though run a smaller turbo and less boost i think.

are you looking at getting some more power outta the engine you have? would be nice see it hit 200bhp id imagine 285cams and headwork would see you there?

jamie rigby

Cheers mate!

and funny you say that i emailed Newman last night about ther Ph3 290 cams, theyve not replied yet tho, not going for headwork cba removing the head seems as ive already changed the gasket and upped the CR once!

Turbo Al

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i like this fez, keep up the good work

paulsheerin

Seriously love this car mate

Put the pepperpots back to silver tho. car looks far nicer like that imo

bluntys1rsturbo

Brilliant mate i remember when i was on itbs a while.back and went from 270 to 285 cams and the difference was night and day prob the best upgrade i did

Coto

Carefully follow your car from Galicia (Spain) admire you aspire to one day have something mounted, Greetings

jamie rigby

Cheers guys, nah black pots are staying, rs7's are staying silver tho!

hate to disapoint the new cams are 270 but with quite a large lift lol, maximum thatll fit in a standard head and seen nothing but great reviews and power figures so we'll see...


Ola... Thanks!




new servo and mastercylinder from a mk1 mondeo -



going to be fitting it tomorrow if it doesnt rain too much.

also new front wheel bearing -



will fit that when i get time.


and these arrived today only 20hours after paying for the direct from David Newman yesturday-





Newman Ph3's, missed out on the group buy on xrtwo so contacted Newman and he still gave me abit of discount but not as much as the group buy unfortunatly...

Should see some nice gains of around 20bhp & lbsft but all down to the timing obviously, im going to fit them as soon as my timing kit arrive off ebay, time them upto standard then take it to Mikeanics for mapping and timing set up properly!