now the finished article















All the smoothing bar one has been done to keep the line of the dash so the prfile is curved making it seem as though there was never a vent hole there. One has been left flat near the cage gole for switch locations.

Hope you like what ive done Will, must admit ive really enjoyed working on this project and im pleased with the results. Thanks

 

That dash looks cool as fuck mate

 

Dash looks good mate

 

Verry nice mate

 

That dash looks really good mate

 

wow!!!!

 

Nice one Raj, top work as ever there.

King of Flock

 

Really pleased with that Raj! You've excelled yourself

 

Lovely!

Now when can I get mine done Raj?

 

Dash looks great. Heres a few pictures of how tight it is, sorry the pictures aren't very good.

The idea about being able to see the wastegates went well out of the window!



Something else to melt the slam panel! Although this one isn't actually as close, also you can see the turbo clearance here.




Theres the other wastegate

 

Crikey, its update central in here tonight!

Thanks for the pics Ricky, good progress again

Looking forward to seeing it in the metal

 

Dash looks Great!

 

That font does look trick in the flock too Raj, top job once again

 

That flocking looks awesome well done Raj
Ricky down pipe looks great who do you work for?

 

excellent project, and that manifold is sexy!

 

looking very nice seeing your dash with Raj has just reminded me i still need to send some stuff to him

 

Dash is stunning

gonna be a nice addition to an awsome car

 

Popped down to Race-Tech yesterday to have a quick chat with Ricky and the lads about a few ideas we'd been bouncing around so took the opportunity to grab a few pictures while I was there!

As the car now looks:


Starting with the boost pipe stuff first - the end tanks of the cooler have been modified so that I can get away with a standard front bumper:


Boost pipe:


Boost pipe welded to the throttle body as we were concerned that a silicone wouldn't have enough 'bite'. To allow for engine movement the silicone hose join is about a foot away and there's another on the elbow out of the cooler:


As seen here;


And here:


Ricky wasn't lying when he said it was tight in there!




There is some clearance - but not a lot!


Downpipe is in place now and it runs under the engine to a V-Band, rest of the system is getting done this week hopefully:


They've even made my silencer box:


And my new 30 litre fuel tank:


This morning all my power steering and oil lines arrived from Earls:


Oh, and my front brake lines:




As the job list at Race Tech has grown, understandably so has the timescale to get it done right. At the same time, my hand in dates for all my final uni work have been brought forward two weeks... As such, a lot of prioritisation has been done and i'm seriously thinking about not entering the first round of Time Attack now as its literally 10 days before my uni deadlines. This is my final year of uni now so once it's done, I can channel my time and energy solely into the car but for now, I can't afford to compromise my future for the sake of 1 round!

 

this is amazing mate, good shout on the uni work though, the car will be there next year

 

Looking great mate. My mate Ben is working for Ricky now and was telling me about the work on your car.

And yeah, fuck the first round if it means missing out on uni work.

 

Ah! That explains a lot! Ricky was telling me about Ben's car

Hopefully it'll be Ben making me a new tunnel to clear the exhaust over the rollcage bar... when his hand heals

 

Ben's shit hot with the fab work, he did the new floors and tunnel for my Cortina.



And his hand wants to hurry up and heal as we're taking his Vtec powered Escort estate to Belgium in a few weeks!

 

Some amazing fab work and flocking going on here. Kudus to all involved!

 

Much respect to you for furthering your education and still juggling this project, good to see people taking priorities over their cars

 

much respect ... ricky's work looks spot on

 

ben is very good really top job on simons car hope his hand sorts its self out

 

Went and picked my dash up from Raj this afternoon and its even better in the flesh (well, flock!)

Good to see you again mate and thanks again for going the extra mile with it, really appreciate it

 

Well, while Ricky and the lads finish off their stuff with the car, I figured i'd take the time to make some headway with the uni side of things...

Having drawn up the Jenvey inlet plenum in CAD:


I've been able to take a model of the internal volume for use in the CFD and engine simulation software:


And today I've been drawing the inlet and exhaust ports from the cylinder head - very time consuming even when working to a +/- 1mm tolerance!

 

Looking good mate.

 

You really are going all out on the design side of this build, really like it, I've a great appretiation for a well engineered project.

 

Little update from a couple of day ago...

This was tight!

 

Haha! You found room then mate?

Good work

P.S - Did you get my email yesterday with the fuel tank fitting requirements?

 

awesome work from ricky

 

Whats the advantage running twin external wastegates?

 

So far i'm very happy with all the bits he's done for me

Because i'm running a twin scroll exhaust housing on the turbo, it effectively works like two housings, so each side requires its own wastegate.

It is possible to bring both wastegate take offs together with a divider in to a single large wastegate, but in this scenario, I think a single large wastegate would have actually been more of a problem to fit in!

 

Superb fabrication there Ricky!

How do you get in with the tig torch to weld in the tight/awkward areas such as the collector?

 

that looks amazing

 

stunning mate

and Raj top work as always fella and i will be seeing you soon mate

 

A couple more pictures from earlier with the rad out, you don't get to see how tight things are but you can see them better.

 

Wish I had the skills to make awesome manifolds like that.
Amazing build