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[Thousand Dollar Supercar]

Awesome!
Looks in good condition, but if repaint ever required, these look good in two tone red/silver over black:

[Poo]

yeah, my wife wants to paint it. sadly the budget doesnt allow for panel and paint yet (or mags).
i kinda like the small dents and scratches.

My son and I dropped it off at Woolf mufflers today to get the exhaust manifold made.
hopefully its not off the road for to long.
going round to a mates tonight to cut the TB off and weld it to the other end of the intake manifold.

[EURON8]

The decals along doors are sweet as.

80s transformers vibe

[Poo]

The decals along doors are sweet as.

80s transformers vibe

i was thinking more along the lines of 'Stormtrooper' more than Transformers. but i like the way your thinking.

and yes decals are staying.

[Damien!]

This sigma had my eyes locked on it when it was for sale.
Im pretty much jealous right about now.

[Poo]

so now i am on the hunt for another throttle body. the one that came with the multi point injection is only 50mm.
mite go on the hunt at PickaPart.....
i am thinking 65mm .

[Toucan]

Decal rules

[fuel]

try a Diamante throttlebody, they are about 60mm. VR-4 and Evo ones are around the 55-58mm mark. The 50mm SOHC throttlebody is still bigger than the 45mm odd one inside the throttlebody injection unit.

[Poo]

cool theres a diamante at avondale pickapart, just down the road from me.
i'll go on the scab later.

[fuel]

check orientation of the motor in the diamante, 95onwards switched sides so the throttlecable comes from the opposite side - could work to your advantage if flipping the throttlebody to the front of the plenum. Most have extra crap on them for traction control etc.

[Damien!]

Would the petrol Pajero be the same?
I heard they are sort of bigger.

[fuel]

yeah I would say so.

[fuel]

am pretty sure I told you that would happen with the turbo - you could low mount the turbo with the turbo inlet on top.

[Poo]

did you? i cant remember (i have an appalling memory).
and it doesnt work low mounting it. the turbo gets a bit close to the alternator and the intake is too close the the radiator pipe.
will probably have to remount the wastegate actuator as well, but thats easy.

i am thinking it will be a top mount and run it close to the brake resivoir. headers, and dump pipe will be HPC coated and then wrapped. then some sort of heat sheild made up.

i really dont want to have to get another turbo........ but it maybe easier.

[fuel]

you could angle mount the turbo - the way I was going to do was kind of a mid-low mount with the header pipes coming up and then bending back down to the turbo inlet, like this

[Poo]

i did think of that kind of setup as i was typing the last response.
it could just work/be a pain in the arse to change spark plugs. but that is cool.

[fuel]

it shouldn't be more difficult than it is at the moment, it's basically just header pipes in place of where the turbo was originally. Given you have a bit more room between the cylinder head and the brake master and strut tower in a RWD car as opposed to a FWD car between the head and radiator which the above manifold is designed for, you could simply elongate the distance between the head and where the turbo bolts on.

[Poo]

you could simply elongate the distance between the head and where the turbo bolts on.

thats what i was trying to tell them.
i dont think they listen to me, cos i turn up dressed in my fancy work clothes.
next time i'll turn up with with my overalls on and hands covered in oil.

[Poo]

ive heard sone of the down sides of wrapping an exhaust manifold is that it can cause the pipes crack or rust like buggery.

what i was planing on doing to my exhaust manifold is:
heat treatments, to stress releive the manifold.
HPC to coat the manifold
then wrap the manifold.

should i wrap or not wrap?

[Testament]

If you HPC/whatever proper ceramic hi temp coating stuff it you don't need to wrap it.