Alan Jeffery

We were approached by a client, Albert, who lives in Gibraltar, and likes to use his Scooby on track days. He wanted to improve the experience!
He shipped the car across Spain to Santander and it was duly delivered to us via the ferry link by a Spanish transport company.

Unloading!



All parked up and unsuspecting.



All set for the rebuild, we tested it first. The boost control was really poor, so we gave it a map tweak, just to see what we were dealing with.



That helped right away!

We then pulled the engine and box out. The box needed new synchros.
The spigot bearing was siezed to the shaft, so we had to remove the clutch bolts to get the box off..



Engine out

Alan Jeffery

A few of the parts used;

Cosworth pistons



I beam rods with 625 rod bolts



Cosworth 12mm oil pump



Nitrided crank



RCM twisted kit with GT35R billet





Jetex 3" exhaust. We like these, they flow very well, and aren't too noisy. We weld on a 3" flange section at the front.



Short block assembly, balanced of course.





Heads on



Fully assembled with kevlar belt



And manifold



Radtec oil cooler



All finished!



The final spec includes a twin plate Exedy clutch, Litchfield swirl pot and Bosch pump, Exact fuel fittings and filter, Deatschwerks injectors, Perrin rail system and front mount intercooler, catch tank system etc..

Alcatek engine management



We've also fitted a Toucan touch screen to monitor and control all the features with an LC1 wide band and full sensor pack.
This will cover oil pressure and temp, fuel pressure, charge temp and lambda readings. Any deviation from the pre sets will result in positive action as well as an alert.
It has launch control, anti lag and flat shift enabled.

Albert is flying over in a few weeks. We have a track session booked at Llandow so he can try the car before it's shipped back over, which will be my first Saturday off in what seems like a lifetime! We're seriously looking forward to it.

johnson12

Great build alan should fly. Cant wait till you build mine. Lots of rcm bits commin this week. What was the final bhp

Alan Jeffery

We're running it in as we speak, as a track day car we've selected 500 bhp as a sensible place to run it!

Matt Sills

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Nice.

jura11

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Looks good Alan


Jura

beef-on-the-bone

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how far off are the alkatec updates then Al??

MartynJ

Yours is up there being done now

Alan Jeffery

It's a constant topic of conversation, put it that way!
We're very pleased with the results of all our testing and as soon as the backlog clears, I'd say there'll be a lot of happy Simtek owners.

stevep360

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You didnt tell me you did yellow enginetuner stickers :-o

beef-on-the-bone

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looking forward to it

Alan Jeffery

All you gotta do is ask! you can have whatever colour you like...

stevep360

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dazdavies

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Alan,

It's so nice to see a tuner go to the lengths that you guys do.

I remember my first build and how deflated I was when I got it back after spending the best part of £10K on it.

When I went to discuss the build before hand we agreed a spec which included all the hoses being replaced for samcos etc.

What I got back was a run of the mill rebuild and no samcos in sight.

After splitting the engine after it failed (6 months after it was built) the Carillo Rods and Omega pistons that were agreed on turned out to be Eagle rods and CP Pistons.

It's just nice to see that you guys continue to be at the other end of the scale to those cowboys and just keep turning out great builds.

Keep up the fantastic work.

Alan Jeffery

Hey, thanks for that Daz, much appreciated.

martyp1970

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Excellent build and workmanship as usual Alan.
Thanks for reply through Pm too.