Thanks Graham...hopefully it won't be another two hours of reading before its running

How's the Vauxhall Ian?

 

 

Whateva Treva (see what I did there?!), painted your door handles yet?

 

No

 

Should have the full specs for the new drivetrain this weekend...

 

Something special ?



Jura

 

kinda

 

diffuser\parachute fitted...I used pop rivets instead of the supplied fixings and used substantially more than originally supplied!





I also made up some three brackets as I wasn't really impressed with how wobbly it was



On Steves' advice I'm loosing the lightened crank pulley as its not damped so I've started to clean the OE one up...

 

get some wet n dry on that tailpipe!

 

lol, shiny enough for me as it is

 

Wow diffuser looking nice Ian,love your improvisation with making new parts or re-using old parts(in new term "recycling" parts) and get them new OE look,but in more cases much better than OE look.

Jura

 

cheers Jura needs must really on the damper though...have you seen the price of these;

http://www.atiracing.com/products/da...dam-subaru.htm

 

£240 from USA without the shipping,TAX,VAT etc.

Ian but must exist something similar or no for less?


Jura

 

I wouldn't normally do this, but, it's been getting on my nerves.

So, why in the blue ****, did I bring a pair of crank pulley's to TOTB for you, and then neither you, nor, your mate that was supposed to be there could be arsed to get in touch........

Ian, if you no longer needed them, what would the harm be in saying so? I was at Drew's when he was speaking to you on the phone, you knew I was fetching them down.

A little common decency wouldn't have gone amiss.

Annoyed from Newcastle.

Keep cracking on, I'd like to see this running by the end of the year.

 

possibly, not looked much after a brief chat with Banny here;

http://bbs.22b.com/cgi-bin/ultimateb...c;f=9;t=002144

Steve has said the OE version is fine though so I'm wondering how much bling over function there is here. Still waiting for my gearbox costs too so am hesitant to commit t additional costs that aren't an absolute necessity

 

I've looked,but cheapest(Triton) is for something like $450 excluding taxes etc.,still too much.
If Steve said OE is OK,i would refurb yours and if cash in future allow i would go with something more bling,but for now OE look with your skills will be like new

You are sticking with PPG or 6 speed or something like Sequential box(wish i have £7k for Kaps sequential box )

Jura

 

Micky the only reason I'm refurbishing this one is Chris didn't bring the pulleys back from TOTB...I sent him your number and sent his number to Drew so assumed you'd have made contact...I guess I could have phoned to make sure but felt like I would be hassling people doing me a favour so didn't...apologies for any inconvinence, last thing I intended

Me too mate, me too

 

PPG...with DCCD too I think

£7k holy crap

 

PPG wagon too


Ian new sequential box cost £14k-£20k depends on more factors..£7K its not too bad,but still if i could get one for half,i would be very happy


Jura

 

PPG wagons FTW!

There's always the next round of upgrades lol

 

Agreed on both

When you are think engine will be ready for drop in?


Jura

 

spoke to Steve on Friday; dummy build will be completed once the heads are sorted...I need to decide on the level of head work first though as they are only small port they will need some work. Steve is going to advise me how far I need to go once he has some feedback on some work he has just carried out on another set the same as mine. I'll be popping over to SMG one afternoon this week to drop the pulley and a few other bits off, so shall find out more then I think

 

Getting there hey!

Liking the diffuser, looks much neater attached with rivets rather than screws
Interesting you needed to make additional mounts though They should be part of the kit if its that wobbly imo A quick e-mail to the manufacturer is needed eh!

.....and before you ask, no I haven't painted them yet

 

Cheer Trev...it's a HT Autos version; apparantly tested to three figures but as I'll be taking it on track I want to certain its not going to fly off at the worse possible moment

some people eh...you do you best to help them out

 

Standard crank pulley for me too, sold the RCM one

 

good enough for a gazillion bhp Banny then good enough for me

 

You'll be a member of the gazillion bhp club soon Ian

Good to see the progress!

 

Cheers Ross...I'll be very happy with what you've got to be fair

 

what the disadvantage of a lightweight pully then?

 

No you won't... mine is way to conservative these days...

Any idea on engine drop in time?