Good read that was

Good effort there my friend bit of **** news with the heads tho but like you say onwards and upwards it's a horrible thing this Scooby bug

Think I need to become a pro footballer or something that pays similar

Lookin forward to the updates, keep up the good work bud

 

Nice read GezP, how you doing pal, long time no speak. I see the cars still seeing some action.

 

I wish my email notifications would work, sorry for the delay

cheers mate, they're Corbeau Sportline RRB Seat

thanks matey, its a bottomless pit but hayho better for you than smack

I've replied to your PM buddy, the scoob belongs on the track. Funds permitting it will be on track a load next year

 

I'm try honest mate, can't really afford to come off much more. Cheers

cheers mate

 

A bit more

At Blyton I had a real strong smell of petrol inside the car. My initial thought was - running a bit rich. I thought I'd get a AFR gauge so I can keep an eye on it. I mentioned this to Duncan when he tweaked my map for the new valves and the mix was bang on but we found that the fuel sender panel in boot was letting some vapors out when pushing hard. Easy job, just need to order a new gasket.

But I still wanted a AFR gauge, but where to put it. I'm not a fan of the pillar pods - just my opinion. I wanted it in the centre console really, easy to see and it also helps its near the other gauges.

This might sound mad to some people but this is becoming more of a toy then a family / daily runner. Why don't I get rid of the stereo? Why can't I use all that space for gauges and switches? Although I do want some way of playing music as I often have a long journey to the tracks etc. I had this idea of mounting a small amp in the glove box and everything is controlled by my iphone. It seems sound, all my music is on it, you can get app's to do anything you want these days.

So I set about it, worst case scenario i just put it all back. I bought another stereo surround so I could go back.

Made a card template for the stereo hole and then cut it out of some carbon fibre.





Innovite AFR from Amber Performance



AFR, three kill switches and a switch to kill the power to the amp.











Just a simple audio jack wire that goes into your iphone. This is only a temp position until I find the best place for it to come out for me. I honestly don't know why this hasn't court on more. It's great having all that space and ease of everything being on my iphone.

There are a couple of teething problems. A few times on a long journeys I've had a slight bit of interference so I thought I'd change the wire to this type:


But with this you have no control over volume. You have to use something like the Denon app but is bit of a ball-ache. I've been told that If a buy a much better quality phono-jack wire thats insulated it shouldn't pick up that interference. Just need to get one and then hopefully should be sorted.

Thanks

 

Nice, good work there mate

 

Thanks mate

 

Some very nice work you have done there mate

 

Thanks mate, I can't decide what to do with the centre console. Leave it as is, have you paint it or even maybe even dip it so the hole thing looks like carbon fibre. If I go paint, maybe jdm Matt black defo have you do it. Your paint skills look amazing in your build

 

Appreciate the kind words mate,I'd go matt black tbho it just looks like factory only nicer.
They should have done them all in matt black,it looks so much better than the silver and grey!

 

Awesome progress matey and really like the mounting of the AFR gauge,switches



Jura

 

You're probably right mate and I am leaning to Matt black

Cheers mate

 

After suffering from some fuel surge last time on the track, I wanted to sort out a swirl pot system. After a few conversations and some advice from some pro's. I'm gonna relocate the battery to the boot which will leave me with space to house all the parts.

While we relocate the battery I wanted to put in a kill switch. I just want to be totally prepped as I've recently seen some nasty engine bay fire picc's which makes me wanna do an extinguisher system too but thats a later project.

Where to mount the kill switch? I think this is gonna be a marmite thing. Could be genius or people are gonna think I'm mad/stupid

I chose to use the armrest box. I had some left over carbon fibre so set about making a platform in the box for the switch to sit.









Should be relocating the battery tomorrow

 

On Saturday we set about relocating the battery to the boot. We ran the cable through the wing into the car. Which left a nice space for the swirl pot, filter and pump. Nice and neat.





Quite a few nasty edges around the dash etc so a bit of extra protection around the cable.


Resistor all ready to go in


Clean some patches of the sound deadening for the bolts going up through the floor. Had to use one rivnut because of the chassis rail.



Cut some neat holes in the carpet so it can sit on top and then the battery on top of that.



Could of pics from Sunday. Due to it pissing down all Saturday and being pitch black by 3pm and bloody freezing we didn't quite get it all finished. I still need to wire in the ignition to the kill switch and relocate the resister into the engine as it stank when we tested it.




This will all get sorted when we do the swirl pot system hopefully just before Xmas.

Cheers

 

kill switch looks mint Gez 8)

 

+1 accessible but still stealth and out of the way,Good job.

 

cheers guys

 

Some really nice work there Gez, makes we want to crack on with mine!

 

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Slowly but surely I've been getting the parts together for the swirl pot system.

Had this swirl pot made by Rsm fabrication, they also did the battery box. I'd totally recommend these guys. They made the box to my exact size and made me the 1.5 swirl pot. Box was only £45 all in and £62 all in for the swirl pot. Really impressed with them.



Picked up this little puppy at Amber Performance, while I was there they got out the cosworth fuel rails - these are gonna be a must, very sexy parts

 

Little bit of an update:

Fuel pump arrived the other day



Just ordered all the AN fittings and hoses which should arrive this week. Should also be picking up the Cosworth fuel rails

I was able to get another set of TGV's as my original set have gone missing from a so called mate :brick wall

Little bit of work and now ready for blasting and the powder coating



Next year I'd like to put in a full extinguisher system but I wanted to have another bottle in the front to hand.

1.75lt from JJC


Needed to make a bracket, wanted to attach to the passenger seat. Simple ally 1/4 inch bar.




I ended up having to space it off the bar slightly, I'll get some tubing so it looks a little nicer



Little bit sanding, ready for powder coating


Gonna drop off a load of parts tomorrow for powder coating and hopefully get a bit more done over xmas

 

Christmas came a bit earlier for me this year all the braided hoses, pump bracket and fittings have arrived. The RCM adapter fitting also arrived but forgot to take a photo



The other day I picked up these puppies from Amber, probably my fav part at the moment. I do love a little cosworth



I've just picked up the powder coated parts. They had a little suprise for me as they did this new two stage coating. Firstly the coat a deep matt black and cook and then coat a separate lacquer coat. I'm not sure these photo's do them justice but the gloss finish is amazing.










I had a spare inlet manifold that I wanted to experiment with, the same two stage process but with a gold. I'm unsure at the moment about this, it's not 100% smooth surface.



I've currently got a ceramic coated manifold but it's a bitch to keep clean and some patches have slightly faded. I might just use this one while I get the ceramic one powder coated on top.

Hopefully be able to get this all fitted over xmas or just after

 

Looks good, some nice bits there

Make sure you clean out the inlet manifold before fitting, suprising how much sand gets in there from the blasting despite it being taped up

 

As Iain said, when you think its clean & blast media free, clean again, anything left in it will kill your engine within the hour.

 

Cheers mate, it was the tgv's that got blasted. The manifold was chemically dipped. But a heap of brake cleaning will be used just in case of anything got inside

 

 

How much was the bat relocation kit?

 

I'm not 100% sure, I'll try and dig out the receipts tomorrow.

Wiring about £40

Battery case was £42 all in I think. Give Rsm Aluminium Fabrication a call on 0161 643 6358 they made it to my dimensions. They made my swirl pot too, really recomend these

 

We got a little done today on the swirl pot system. I wanted to prep and double check the pump, swirl pot and filter were all gonna fit in the batteries old position.




Only got time to sort out the line from pump to swirl pot.



I originally wanted to keep the battery stand but they just wouldn't fit so out it came. Bit of a bitch drilling through all the spot welds.





Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to paint the area left by the battery tray