About time Looking good mate, painting doesnt look too bad, defiantly picked the best colour!!

 

Cheers John! Yeah I can get quite a good finish now straight from the gun and the good thing about cellulose paint it can be flatted and polished fairly easy so should look good when it's all done! I didn't know if the frozen white would look to new for a 205 but I think it looks good, really freshens it up.


James

 

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Bit of an update, I have set the car back up on the jig to line up the subframes its mad how far out of line it can be with the play in the bolt holes especially the front lower arms, I have managed to line up every thing to with in 0.5mm so I'm super happy.







The next job was to modify the front lower arms. I purposely mounted the engine/gearbox etc slightly further back to make more room up front and this meant the front wheels would sit too far back in the arches but i had the idea of modifying the arms.





It doesn't look like it has moved forward much in the pic but I've actually cut the end off and moved it forward 30mm bringing the wheel back in check and with my camber/castor plates on max i can now get nearly 7 degrees positive castor so its worked out well, i have also fitted an internal plate where i cut the wishbone and plug welded it for extra strength.

 

Looks like its coming on well. much left to do now??


I went to fastcar a couple of weeks ago, and thought id pop round yours on the way through, but no one was in!

 

Only just jumped in on this. Pure skills u have there.

 

In a way I'm glad yours was out!!! Mine is out a few mil only measured with a tape not used a laser or string line yet, but did think I had mad a few mistakes,

Arms look good, how much more camber do you get now?

Have you had it running yet ?

 

Hi John, gutted I missed you I still haven't seen your new scoob yet either, theres not really much left to do on the pug just a matter of finding the time I,ll try and keep the pics coming.

 

Thanks mate!

 

Cheers Ian, I've twisted the camber plates so I get camber and castor adjusted together I haven't measured the camber yet.
No its still not been fired up but its getting close.

 

I've re located the coolant tank and mounted it as high as possible as it needs to be higher than the radiator in the boot to bleed the air out.



And now for the radiator, this has taken a lot of thought and I think i've come up with the best set up.

 

 

Inlet pipe and filter fitted just about, lol its bloody tight.







Rear trailing arms modified with ultra strength rose joints.



Roll bars painted ready to fit, I've stuck with standard sti ones and I will be looking for some uprated drop links.



3inch downpipe wrapped now fitted.



Alloy fuel tank I've had made to suite the standard in tank pump/sender assembly.

 

Rad looks neat and like it will flow well, are you taking air in from the side pods?

Looks like you've been busy... Trailing arms look good

 

Let me know when your testing at curborough race track, ill pop down!!!

 

Cheers mate!! Yes I'm ducting the rad from the side vents, i'm thinking the the hole in the boot floor will create a suction when the car is moving and pull the air in through the side vents.
The size of the ducts might look big but as soon as the fans kick in they will need the free air space. I've seen similar set ups that have used just two 100 diameter flexes and to me as soon as the fans kick in its like trying to suck an apple up a straw kind of thing! I'm a ducter by trade lol.

Glad you liked the rear arms, I copied you on that

 

Deffo mate, will do!

 

cracking project be fleet motor, although heads up my eclipse inlet sucked shut at 380 depending on your power your running

 

Poop!! Thanks for the heads up, I won't be running anymore than 300 hope it's ok at that, it did seem quite robust I thought,think its a triple ply! Obviously not strong enough if yours sucked in.

 

haha yeah i thought it would have been fine but 380 seems to be its limit under that it works perfectly well, good luck with rest of project will be watchin closely

 

That's going to be one hell of a track car! You're wasted as a tin basher. I was wondering why everything was being built from unistrut. Can't wait to see a clip of this running.

 

Lol, cheers mate I'll bare that in mind if I get hungry for more power!

 

Lol, thanks mate!

 

Bit of an update!!!!!

I have made a base for the fuel tank and the battery and clamped them down but I'm not really happy with how close the battery is to the fuel tank so I might fit a sealed battery box in case there was a fuel leak.







I have managed to plumb in most of the coolant pipes from the rear rad, its starting to get pretty busy now in the back and I'm trying to leave room for the flexi side vent ducts too.



The brake lines are completely plumbed in now and I've fitted a bias adjuster for the rear brakes.



A few random jobs now, i.ve given the top mount I c a bit of a spruce up and modded the hoses to suite as its a newage one.

 

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I've made a turbo heat blanket out of some pipe insulation and then wrapped it in heat wrap I'm hoping this will keep most of the heat off the I c.





I've got my seat and steering wheel fitted now, things are getting exciting!





And now for the dashboard, I have spent so much time on this darn clock surround.







This was my third attempt at flocking this small piece of dash and man is a bugger to get off, I finally mastered it with a diy kit I found just to keep piling the flock on as the extra weight and pressure forces it into the glue.
Really happy with it!!



And I've carbon wrapped some plates for the dash and fitted my gauges and knock link.
Next job is to fab up a switch panel.

James

 

Looking very nice James, do you have to use an extra water pump to circulate to the rear?

 

Cheers Ian, No there's no need to run an extra water pump the standard one is good enough on its own! I had a similar set up on my last project with the engine in the back and rad up front, it flowed fine! It's has been proved to work well on plenty subaru beetle/camper van conversion too!

Your cars is seriously coming on now too I've noticed, I will be over to drop this extract fan off so I can have a butchers in the flesh!!

James

 

Glorious madness

 

This is awesome.... nice work mate

 

This is amazing, cant wait to see it finished. You have some serious skills