Looking good

 

Thanks

Fingers crossed, keep us updated

 

Looking good mate!!!! You going to be doing sprints ect next year?

 

few more bits arrived today! firstly the r1s are really bad for oil starvation and breathing so ive bought a baffle plate, the blocks already been modded internally and will put 2 extra breathers in the cam cover.




one with the airbox on, with it haveing a shallow sump im hopeing that it can be mounted quite low allowing me to keep the airbox / bit of forced induction!



and a new sprocket-prop adapter

 

mark, the indy is the bollocks, looksa great now its white with the graphics

 

Beautiful project!

Reminds me of an ice race Fiat X19 I built with a Honda VF1100 engine about 15 years ago.
Fun car - shifting at 10,000 rpm was great.

 

cheers guys!!! santas been today (parcel force delivery man) with a little present!

3 way nitron dampers and eibach springs




just got to get some measurements and work out the front rocker ratio then get them re valved at nitron and away we go! bargain of the century!!

 

Very nice!!! wicked attention to detail and inovation love it!!!

 

great build ive a kit car looks abit like yours too! same colour dash etc....

 

thanks alot

 

good stuff what is it??

 

It's a old shawspeed race car, given it a new lease of life just finishing it off will be running a 1600 zetec turbo engine hopefully done in the next few months

 

sounds good get some pics up!!

 

a couple for you, ill update the thread on here at somepoint there afew nice kit cars on here now!

 

Some posh suspension bits there mind

Passionford kit car track day next year

 

And meet up, where all north of England!

 

Well spotted... that sounds like a great idea to me!

 

yep definate plan there! outon park session it is!

 

good work you have done to it Mark.

 

best of 3

oulton
croft
cadwell

 

It's a bastard being in the North East at times, not a lot is close to me think I could do with investing in a trailer and tow vehicle.

Croft - 43.8 miles
Oulton Park - 178 miles
Cadwell Park - 181 miles

You lads ever been on track at Blyton Park, it's a canny little track, nicely priced and not too strict on noise etc

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blytonp...re/5786202893/

 

Been to blyton in my Ka before it was resurfaced, need to finish mg car first

 

well the engines in, in a fashion! got a fairly good angle on the prop which will bolt streight up with a little machining to the adaptor, manifolds not a million miles off and makeing the rest of the mounts up isnt going to be the end of the world so im a happy chappy! airbox is going to be the biggest issue as i really want to retain the tricy trumpets but going to chop it up and bring the intake from the opposite side piped from the naca duct which shouldnt interupt the airflow if done rite but wel see! time for the professor to make some nice mounts now lots of pics comeing! to be continued . . . .

 

well posties been again today! last big spend before christmas thank goodness, so this weekend il mainy be makeing a pukka loom! k6 arrived full of funky features! going to control the variable trupet motor with the vtec output, anyway lots more loom building pics in the next few days hopefully, looks like a sony advert but not intended!!! also the rsst of the flatshifter expert/blip kit is here. unbelievable support and communication from both companys (which maks all the difference) and in constant contact brilliant!!

 

right managed to squeeze few hours in this afternoon got bits of wiring done and fitted a innovate wideband lambda guage.was going to just get the controller and run it through the dash/ecu but the guage isnt much dearer so thought id just get that. all looks a little messy at the mo but will be much better once tie wrapped up!




heres the blipper for the flatshift kit, simply remove the throttle off cable and fit this in its place, took a bit of messing to get it working smoothly but is all good now!




and a few of the cradle just needs welding up now and painting. spacers used to make it easier to remove as its bound to break it has cosworth parts in it!!!




on with the engine loom tomo!! not long now!

 

did you not fancy the dash 2 doing the wideband?

where did you get the wideband gauge from?

 

yep the dash 2 will display the lambda data aswel from the ecu got it off ebay!

 

bit more progress, mocked up a mount for the gear change solonoid, cradles all welded up and wired the ecu, just waiting on some more heatshrink lables and away we go! could be on for a start up next week! getting exited now!

 

suspention looks the nuts mark.. where u get the wide band from? and at what price. first dibs on it when u change ya mind and get sick of it flashing at u. if i havent go1

 

unfortunately chris i need it to run closed loop cos it gives the ecu a wideband output. il send you a link to the guage! think its probably the last thing you need at the mo anyway!

 

awesome fella !!!!!

 

cheers beefy

right had a mess with the throttle bodys and variable intake trumpets. my ecu will only give an out put to operate the motor one way so at rest i needed the trumpets to be fully closed rather than sat off so set about turning a groove onto the link rod to bring the mechanism lower and fitted a longer stronger spring



fully closed at rest now


also with it being a flybywire set up the preload holding the butterflys closed was pretty extreme so stripped them down again and removed the large spring from the middle where the motor would normally go, is much easier now and will take a lot less load of the blipper

 

bit more done to the loom tonight all labelled now ready to be terminated and plugged up



3 way switch for switchable maps

 

the coffee table work bench is looking good mark

 

just one of the perks of liveing on your own hahaha

 

right big update time! a load of pics in no real order,

first of all a bit of a pikey touch up paint job while the bits were off for powdercoating!



moved the solonoid for the gearshift down under the cradle out of the way keeping the weight low down





exhaust headers modded and lower primary has been completely remade to go under the brace bar



made a bracket for the clutch slave pinched form my old engine, was originally from a pulsar gtir and was the perfect ratio so decided to stick with it



lambda boss welded in the collector for the wideband



little tip for cooling systems!! needed a reducer so rather than makeing one pre soldered plumbing fittings have little ribs on them already and are perfect for the job so the pipes dont slip off! whole things piped up now (with plumbing fittings and samco)!! and decided to run a thermostat so managed to get this inline one so see how i get on with it as it tool so long for my old engine to get up to temp properly!




few random ones!




spot the plumbing fittings!



ecus, gearchange on the left, flatshift and throttle blip on the right and the engine ecu under them

 

quick vid of the paddleshift the shifting is so fast its unbeliebable!

 

getting there!!!!

 

i need a go in this mark

 

not far now!!