Was from lateral performance who own the banana

 

Jigsaw pieces started to arrive

 

 

Is that for re-locating the sump Simon?

 

yes, basically the sump is going to be in the passengers footwell

 

Been a long while since I have had time to work on the car and a lot longer since I last drove it, its been in some ways a nice break as I have come back to it today with renewed enfusiasm. I was meant to be flying out of gatwick today but the mapping job has been postponed to next month so took advantage and spent the day at tfs racing with stew and craig "wiggle it a bit" taylor (massive thanks to them both for help today)

First up was to start emptying some of the many shelves I take up in the engine build room! And fit the manifold, alternator, water cross pipe and new plugs and coilpacks and crank pulley!

Whilst waiting for new plugs to arrive we removed a bit more weight from the car lol
One brake stew power


Then added the clutch and dropped the engine back in



We then fitted the gearbox, prop.

Then the exhaust headers and turbos


Also altered the wastegate sprint rates and plugged the engine loom in and plumbed most of the engine bay up.

Pretty much just the dry sump plumbing and tank to install


Although cdf racing has the new fuel rails near completion

So will be swapping the rails and injectors before first fire up

Simon

 

Glad its all going back together again simon,bet you cant wait to hear it fire up as it seems like ages since it was last running,hope all goes well matey.

 

Thanks Glen.. yes looking forward to giving it loud pedal

 

This car is a big piece of awesomeness, topped with awesome and with an extra helping awesomeness on the side for good measure

 

Lol

 

When do you hope to have it up and running again??

 

Next week

 

You and stew don't hang around

 

Stews been working on it today

 

About time si when you next out?

 

Running is first goal lol

 

You planning on taking it to totb next month Si?

 

I was hoping youd be coming up in this on 28th for the mapping mate haha

 

Yes unless something unplanned crops up it will be there

 

Any of its long distance cruise usefulness has long since been removed lol

Its purely race car first road car second now

 

Seems like an age since this was last running and stew @ tfs (thanks mate) has been as keen as me to see it running again and whilst I have been busy has fitted the oil tank and made up the oil lines etc

So today was the day

It lives again





Some tidying up and a tank vent to sort and vac regulator left to do.

Simon

 

Congrats Si. Best of luck on the dyno. Can't wait to see it in action.

 

Nice, Sounds great and more to the point.....like its gonna scare the shi* out of you, Time to enjoy it now

 

Looks and sounds awesome simon,hope you sort it in time for T.O.T.B matey as im really looking forward to seeing it in action again.

 

The dry sump is one sweet treat !

 

Hopefully run it before totb but intend being there.

Just written a list of things left to do on it eekk.

Simon

 

Havent driven this gearbox in anger yet. So might be some mild panic pmsl

 

Thanks

 

Looking good

 

Well that was a busy day!

Got up early and got to tfs racing to collect the car for 8.
Over to surrey rr and did a few runs at low boost to run it in.
I wonder if the passenger footwell was most sensible place for oil tank lol
Just have to map it in winter from now on


Load car back on trailer and off to collect panels from paint shop which unfortunately are still not right!
Over to stews again and as the Wastegate springs had gone much weaker than expected so we changed the wastegate springs also which is always fun when they are in place, changed the oil and fitted the arches, boot and bonnet.

Back to surrey rr and a quick run on vpower to check that map is okay and then onto meth.

Got to 1.2bar and whilst idling as I was altering the map and basically pausing to keep it cool the engine stalls, strange, it wont restart and no cam sensor signal - quick check of wiring all okay, spend an hour searching for my spare sensor and find it and fit and it fires straight up - guess the sensor must be 20years old and objected to sitting 6inches from a hot gt30.
Very hot and himid evening and now 9:30pm so knocked it on the head at that.

Massive thanks to stew at tfs and charlie at surrey rr for today
Simon