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Great work ... id give my left bollock for a workshop like yours , is that a lathe you have in your earlier photo ?
cheers, I spent quite a few years getting my garage sorted how I wanted it could do with a good tidy after I get the blue car up and running again.
Yes i I have a little lathe with a milling attachment, it's very useful at times, will be using it tomorrow as I need to make some steering rack limiters as the wisefab front uprights now give to much steering lock so I need to restrict it. Will give me even quicker steering, will be interesting to see how much? It was 2.3 turns lock to lock with the quick rack before.
I have made some steering rack limiters, I now have super quick rack 1.7 turns lock to lock. It feel very nice on the road.
I Have also swaped over to the Newage cam and crank sensor set up and new belt, hopefully that will stop the cutting I was experiencing a VMax.
The car is running well on waste gate pressure but will need a map before it can be turned up, unfortunaly that will have to wait as I am going back to work soon.
Nothing better than seeing it back on all fours after major surgery , Have you driven yet ?( obviously because its out of the garage) and i was thinking it might have slower speed tough steering ? such as hard steering when parking ect? I know its a track car but you will need to park it at some point .
Nothing better than seeing it back on all fours after major surgery , Have you driven yet ?( obviously because its out of the garage) and i was thinking it might have slower speed tough steering ? such as hard steering when parking ect? I know its a track car but you will need to park it at some point .
yes it's been out for a drive, the steering is not overly heavy at all even with 285 tyres
first on the list was to fit a coolovers bonnet vent to help with charge temps
I was finding after several laps on track or over 170 the charge temps were creeping up a little. I think it’s due to air flow through the cooler rather than the cooler it’s self.
Looks good are those louvres angled in a specific way ? your brave cutting a hole in your mint looking bonnet ........ cheeky can of stella on your beer fridge
Last edited by lockheed; Oct 13, 2020 at 05:45 PM.
Looks good are those louvres angled in a specific way ? your brave cutting a hole in your mint looking bonnet ........ cheeky can of stella on your beer fridge
yes each Louvre is at a different angle to promote air flow and downforce.
needs must I do have another standard bonnet if it does not work, but the company I got it from have done wind tunnel and quote big flow increases and a good gain in front down force
Next up was a trip to the Dyno, the new turbo was 600 rpm lagger and was 40 bhp down.
Was very deflated to be honest my car has always done well at the dyno I was really hoping for good thinks from this newer turbo tech.
the mapper said it pointed to the turbo being a mismatch of compressor wheel and turbine wheel but I was not convinced, I thought it might be the dump valve I had just fitted passing under boost.
I found my test blanks and decided to test the full boost pipe work dump valve etc.
as soon as I started the test the problem was clear the intercooler has failed on one row !!!
Its good you have found the problem what will you do replace the cooler or repair it if such a a repair could be made, i notice its a tube and fin arrangement, mapper chances his arm on his diagnosis.
I read that there were a few incidents that day! Not for you though, hopefully.
there were quite a few unfortunately!
not me but did have a bit of a near miss when one of the Front pads came of the backing plate leaving me with no brake pedal entering tower !!!!!! Managed to scrub enough speed and Chuck it in sideways to get round !!
After speaking to Steve SMG I ordered an XShift +Plus I went for the longest ratios they do, I also decided to get new carbon DCCD plates and an updated DCCD coil fitted while the box was apart
the box has now arrived and I decided to take the engine out to fit it and do a few jobs while it’s out
Jobs planned
re-torque the cylinder heads
new cambelt and high RCM tension
flow check and clean injectors
map DCCD controller
intercooler to complete
, Have you driven yet ?( obviously because its out of the garage) and i was thinking it might have slower speed tough steering ? such as hard steering when parking ect? I know its a track car but you will need to park it at some point .
