GezP

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I'm not sure mate at the mo. hopefully late 400s or even 500. I've heard the sc46 is a brilliant turbo with great spool up etc and can produce 450 and upto about 480 with meths.

There's so many choices. Quiet a few other things need to be done before turbo to get that sort of power. Need to get better headers, better fuel rails and the list goes on and on.

I've got a trackday booked in may which I'm proper looking forward to and then it will be onto the gearbox

IainMilford

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oh yes the list piles up quickly and you need to enjoy it along the way i've got a few ideas but by the time i'm ready to drop the turbo in it will be something new out there !

GezP

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My list is massive mate and it's not full of cheap stuff either

You never know mate if there are other new stuff out maybe things could be a little cheaper

jura11

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Looking good matey.

Jura

GezP

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Cheers Jura

GezP

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It's been a crazy few weeks, daughter in hospital, me and the wife being really ill and starting a new job etc etc - all ****s and giggles.

Flocked dash (cheers Phil), steering wheel and harness bar and straps. Here's a few pic's from the day:

























We also changed the oil and filter and is now ready for Duncan and the final Map this week. Fingers crossed all goes well and gets some good results

martin850

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Looking good Gez, the flocked dash in my bugeye is one of my favourite mods done so far. Are the seats OEM?

Hope your daughter is better now

GezP

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Cheers mate, the dash does make a huge difference and I love the feel of the new wheel. Crazy how your old dash never ended up inside, bloody couriers ay.

They are standard hawk wrx seats, not the best but will do for a while.

My daughter is fine now thanks mate, just a really bad virus that just knocked the **** out of her.

martin850

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At leat you got one sorted in the end mate, Couriers can be a bit slap dash to say the least , no pun intended.

I've never seen any seats like yours before, they look pretty good as match the silver heater sections.

Glad your daughter has recovered, I look forward to seeing you hawkeyes completion

GezP

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Cheers mate, can't wait to have it back running properly and have some fun on the track

GezP

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A massive smile on my face today as Duncan took the scoob down to Surrey RR and transformed the car. It made 370 and feels perfect. It's great to have it back and running correctly, it's not been quiet right before the build for a while now.





A huge thanks to Duncan, he really knows what he's doing and cares about it too. Top man

IainMilford

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Nice graphs mate, looks good

Whats next??

GezP

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Everything mate

I need to get an oil cooler asap and I'm working on a custom center console to hold some gauges.

The next big thing will be the gearbox and then the next power stage. Bigger injectors, fuel rails (cosworth of course), headers and a HUGE HUGE turbo. But thats all a bit later

Cheers Iain

jura11

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Looking good,Duncan mapped our wagon and service from Duncan is outstanding,we are looking for more power in next two weeks


Jura

BrownPantsRacing

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Cool.good result and at least you know the engine is almost bullet proof now! Very nice graph. Duncan does it again. Top bloke indeed.

GezP

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cheers and good luck with the extra power

Yeah, really happy with the results and it is nice to know that it can take a lot more which gives me more plans for the near future

dynamix

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My pleasure Gez ... seriously lovely car 8)

tom-r33

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some interesting stuff in this thread

if you drill and tap the oil drain plug in the sump you can use it to return oil to the sump from your catch can, no need to ever drain it, you dont need to check the can as regulary, and you get more consistant oil levels

IainMilford

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I have a setrab cooler on mine, nice piece of kit

GezP

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Thanks mate, unless its a full track only car I'd never do a return to the sump. You should see the horrible **** that comes out. Don't really want that mixing with my oil. Now the can is in a much easier place, it'll only take a couple of minutes to get out and empty

I need to look into these and other brands. I need to get one thats only about 100mm in height but as wide as possible as I'm thinking of mounting it just above the FMIC so it will sit behind the hawk three top grills. I wanna go black stealthy look too

toyney83

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Hi mate, cracking build. 370bhp and only 1.4b. What caused you to stop at that level of boost mate?

GezP

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Thanks mate. The injectors were maxing out and I wanted Duncan to get the smoothest curve he could get. I think he actually brought it down a little to get an overall better curve.

toyney83

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oh right, makes sense ha. what injectors are you running, and what future plans have you got?

GezP

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They're just the blue hawk injectors. The immediate plan is to just enjoy driving it for a bit and a few track days. I need to sort out an oil cooler and some more handling mods like roll bars etc.

Hopefully in a few months get the box changed and then slowly looking at mods to help power like headers, fuel rails, injectors etc

GezP

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After reading Ryan's and some of the other amazing build threads on here, it's inspired me to update my thread with whats being going on and future plans. Must admit it's cool have the car's history in one place

The new engine performed really well at Cadwell and has been a joy to drive. But there were a few other things I wanted top get sorted. First thing was some quality track tyres, this gave me a good excuse to buy another set of wheels

The guys at Revolution Motorsport were brill and sorted me out a good price and I was really surprised when I got a very good discount for some 888's from Demon Tweaks. An added bonus was I had a work meeting up in Leeds for did a sneaky detour to Rexham and the fuel was all paid for







Next was to get an oil cooler system. This ended up being a bit trickyier then originally thought. The 2.5 headers are different to the 2.0, you can't really fit the sandwich plate as well as the modine. So we decided to take this out and give it a go.

Wasn't impressed with the HKS oil filters, never had this before


Lots of nice Mocal parts



All the header heat shields had to come off, so out came some heat-wrap and made some brackets for fitting the oil cooler.








Then it was ready for the next track day. A few pic's from a great day at Bedford. I'd like to say this is me faster than Pete (budgie) but he soon overtook me






These 888's are probably the best thing I've ever bought for the scoob, they're so good. I had Si (Arkwright) with me teaching the track and must say he was brill. By the end of the day I was flying - well, it felt like it


One problem with the car, the oil temp was right up. I was only managing four laps a time. Also thought that it would be a good time to upgrade the sway bars and drop links.




So the plan was to get some 2.0 headers so I could get the modine back in.

This is why you should never buy average, especially cheap heat wrap. This stuff was like glass and went everywhere.


New wrapped headers


Modine back on


A bit of heat shield for the oil pipes



And then it was the white-line goodies My good man Tim @ scoobyparts sorted me out, always a joy to deal with.





I was then ready for the next track day at Blyton

To say it went badly was an understatement ( I laugh now though ) In the morning I came off, over cooked "Port Froid" and ended spinning out. It was when I came in, one of the tires had slightly come of its bead and was full of dirt. I then spent the next hour or two finding a tyre place, they popped the tyre off, emptied half of Blyton out of it and popped it back on.

The after some lunch and a quick tuition I went back out, this time my mate Phil, he was in the passenger seat. On my first lap I completely ballsed up "The Wiggler" The back end came out and we went onto the grass. Next thing, massive thud from underneath the engine. Engine cuts out, wouldn't start again.

The marshals come out and towed me back to the pit area. Quite embarrassing but I did have a smile on my face having the tow of shame past all the other car waiting to get back out.

I tried once more to start her up and there was massive BANG. I did **** myself a little. Phoned my man Tim (subbus) and after a quick chat it was a case of just getting it home so he try and work out what had happened.

The next problem and it was a MASSIVE problem, how the hell was I getting home. It was about 150mile trip. AA didn't want to know and they said a reuse vehicle would be £700-£800

My mate Phil (the legend) came up with one of the nicest ideas ever. Leave the scoob in the hanger and we'll come back up the next day to take it home on his trailer. Bearing in mind he lives in South End, he drives to me (bedfordshire) we then drive up and then takes me home and then he goes home. It was a hole day of driving and it was back to work the next day. That's what good friends are made of.




After some investigation work, we found that the belt was stripped and the tensioners all bust up. Some of the valves were bent. Not really the news i was hoping for but onwards and upwards.

So the heads went off for some nice new super-tech valves and machining. New cossie belt kit and some new shells.




When the scoob was going on the trailer the front skirt was really catching, I've also had problems with my MOT centre because its so low. So we came up with this quick release design.

Simple strip of ally bolted on with some riv-nuts


Just two countersunk and washer bolts either side with the traditional bolts in the bay and the undertray screws. Takes just 2mins to get off and you don't brake your hand trying to get in the wheel arch


I know I said at the beginning of this build i want to get about 500ish which I still do, but its not the first thing I want to achieve. 370 etc is plenty for the time. I want to make this the best all round 370 car possible and then look at more power. BHP won't necessarily get me around the track quicker

Every time I venture up to Demon Tweaks I'm always in love with all their seats. After trying virtually every seat, I found the FIA approved bucket seats aren't for me. I love the look of them but just didn't feel right. I then found these:

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/perfor...tline-rrb-seat

These are so damn comfy, they feel as supportive as a fixed bucket but just that little more suited to me. It was just the price that scared me. I couldn't really justify £1,200 to my wife after spending about £1,500 rebuilding the engine from Blyton.

But then one day I spotted them on bay, hardly used and in perfect condition - virtually brand new. I had to get them, I won the auction and got them less than half price happy days.


Got the runners for them, which were a complete bitch to fit. Holes didn't align and the runners were too close to the seat so you couldn't use the adjuster bar. After a few choice words I worked out I just needed to use longer bolts and pack the runners off the seat a little.




Took a little while longer than thought but well worth it. They're a lot lower than standard seats and I can drive for hours in them and not complain.




More to come

IainMilford

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Nice update mate I was wondering how you'd been getting on only the other day.

Love the quick release front bumper I need to do something similar myself

GezP

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Thanks mate, been loads going on and I've still got a load to put up but my fingers gave up after all that typing.

The quick release has been brilliant, and you hardly see it. It's so handy, it's now a doddel to clean the filter

Ciaran

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Brilliant build thread. Car looks perfect and sounds like it goes well to.
Keep it up to date and try to not have any more offs

stonejedi

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seats are well NICE.

sonic93

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What seats are they ? So nice