furry muff, just curious as to how it'll be done

 

just give me a shout.

 

Been having a bit of a fettle with the front bumper as it didn't quite fit right after fitting the FMIC, APS supply templates for what you have to cut out of the bumper which were fine around the main opening but in the fog light area they weren't enough (maybe the wagon bumper is slightly different), so it was out with the dremel and cut away





The FMIC bar was also a nice place to mount a couple of my HID ballasts





Also trimmed of the opening for the FMIC with some edging trim and made a grille to give some protection for the FMIC



Without grille





With grille

 

i like the look of that edging trim...where did it come from Ian?

super accurate dremel-action


are you going to paint the mesh black?

 

The mesh is black but looks silver'ish in the sun

Got the trim from Car Builder Solutions

 

I still want to chop an inch or so out of the bottom of my bumper where it blocks the air flow to the intercooler....

dunx

P.S. Loads of ambition, little talent !

 

Nice job Ian, just need to clean her now he he he

 

was it this one?

7 x 4mm RUBBER U CHANNEL FOR 1mm PANELS TRMU1

 

No it was this one 13 x 7mm RUBBER U CHANNEL FOR 3mm PANELS TRMU3 but it all depends on how thick the panel is your trimming

 

Why would i want to do that, it will only get dirty again

 

Nice job, your intercooler looks better than mine for sure. My 5-speedgearbox is still holding on at over 400ftlbs but the clutch slips so that might protect it a bit...

 

Blimey thats not bad Adam

When i eventually get the rear brakes done i will let you know what they are like

 

Great project - can't beat a stealthy Wagon

There's a home for it here if you ever decide to sell...

 

I want my car back
Picked my car up from Zen yesterday after they had it for a month, it took a bit longer then expected as fitting a older type engine into a newage does bring up a few issues, also i had some other work done to it including fitting a PPG 5 speed helical gearset and a Helix uprated organic clutch so it's ready for the bigger turbo now

How does it drive
It drives very well, it has a slightly lumpy tickover but thats not a major problem, it still has my VF34 turbo on it at the moment and it's producing 346bhp & 345ft lbs, it's getting max boost of 1.65bar at around 3300rpm in 5th and the power seems a lot more progressive in it's delivery, on my old engine i would get a big kick from the turbo until around 6200rpm and then the power would just drop off but with this setup i still get a (not so big) kick but the power just continues until the redline of 7500rpm, looking at the dyno printout i have at the redline it's still producing 330bhp

Houston we have a problem
Unfortunately there are a couple of problems at the moment which hopefully Zen will be able to sort out
1st one is when your braking and dip the clutch the engine just wants to stall, it's doesn't stall all the time but the revs do get very low but if you dip the clutch without braking the revs will drop below normal tickover but build up straight away?
2nd is the engine light is on, Zen did fix this when i picked the car up but when i stopped for fuel and started the engine again it came back on
3rd is the cooling fans are turning on/off every few seconds

I'm sure these are just teething problems and Zen will be able to fix ASAP, can't wait to get hold of Eurekas turbo now and see what it goes like with that on

 

good news Ian

iirc your heads got quite aggressive cams so you would expect a lumpy tickover...shouldn't your redline now be 8200-8500?

 

As i said not a major problem the tickover and i can live with it

I thought he might of put the redline a bit higher but maybe he's saving that until the bigger turbo goes on

 

nice one gramps if the fans are coming on an off perhaps its got a coolant sensor fault is there no way you can read the fault codes yourself

 

i bet it sounds pretty cool too

 

Fans didn't play up today so don't know what it is, think i might get one of them machines that read the fault codes, any ideas on which are good ones

 

What ECU r u running Gramps ?

 

The standard ECU with Ecutek remap. Unfortunately it's not always easy to "knobble" the standard ECU into submission when all it wants to really do is try and be emmission friendlly and "warn" you of potential problems, which you usually know about because you deliberately unplugged XYZ or whatever.

 

I hope you can knobble it a bit more on the 22nd

 

im sure swifty has the tool to read fc off i got rid of the snap on one i had it cost to much to have with not a lot of customers to make it pay for it self

 

Drove to work this morning and the engine light was on, drove home this afternoon and engine light was off

 

that will be the indicators you plank!!!!! lol

 

having the rotated system exhaust and spec 2 headers fitted very soon gramps so the md will be available !!!!

 

 

Well thats simple then just drive it home

 

*cough* solaris *cough*

 

Thats a bad cough you have