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Did a bit of work on the car, rear guards all dzused up, just working on rear apron, one side to go...

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Once I have got this done Ill take the car back to my mates shop to sort the new seat and pedal position, get this set up then its wait time for the gearbox...

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Intercooler arrived (Garret core 65mm in/out), waterpump, and I have a 20l fuel cell that will be the main water reservoir, plus a radiator mounted... somewhere. Basically the reservoir and pump will mount in the passengers rear seat area along with the pump (pump weighs 6 kg !!) Plus I need to try and squeeze the oil tank on that side too.

Battery is under passengers side so add it all together with the oil in the tank and Im picking it will be about 45kgs of crap on that side. If I stuff a goat in there it will go someway to evening up my considerable bulk.

 

Water set up will run - reservoir - pump - turbo - intercooler - radiator - reservoir. Maybe turbo IC will be the other way round depending on heat soak from the turbo, see how it pans out. The turbo is a bit of a trick unit, because it is oilless you can mount it on its side if you wanted, http://compturbo.com/spotlights/oil-less

 

Anyway a couple of photos of stuff

 

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Good news.... The engine and Gearbox are both heading this way, probably a month till they land then the fun really starts. Box is really tall 4.13 diff ratio 3.11/1.93/1.26/.89 so good for 140 - 150 mph in 4th at 7000 rpm with a 26" tire. Decided not to go for a spool, wasnt keen on potential axle / cv breakage and hitting walls, so it has a LSD.

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Dump pipe is just on to cover turbo, but probably will form the start of te exhaust

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Ready to roll.

 

Only a month till Christmas !!

 

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Been doing a bit on the car, sorting brake lines, putting in linelok and re routing the staging brake so it works on the rears. Also ripped out the old -6 alloy fuel lines and replaced with -10 feed and -8 return in stainless braided ptfe line. Mocked up radiator mounts ... Still a massive to do list but at least it's moving.

Will get some pics.

Running gear due on the 23rd of this month...

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All the gear is finally here, second set of rears for street rubber (need some 4.5" wide chev pattern 15" rims for the front ), wheelie bars, gearbox and the motor.

 

Been doing a bit of cutting and tucking to fit the gearbox, engine in soon. Its a bit distracting when I have work stuff to fix in the shed...

 

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So should have engine in the hole over the next couple of nights. Big plumbing list coming up...

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Gearbox is in, need to modify the rear mount slightly and cut into the tunnel in the front to get the gearshift rod to line up.

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Axles are rifle drilled and 930 Porsche cvs.

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Wheelie bars, need to fab up a mount to make them remove able under the gearbox mount

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Rims to mount some radials on, they weigh 5 kgs each.

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In, kind of, turbo is touching bar between two coil overs so I either very gently notch and re weld the bar, or shorten exhaust on the LHS slightly, leaning towards exhaust, weakening the bar doesn't seem like a smart idea. RH guard doesn't fit, needs to be clearanced around RH post box, and clearancing required around the throttle body. Lastly, hole required in rear valance for oil pump, it's a close thing but too close...

Busting out the choppers tonight.... Chur.

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Been getting stuff mounted and accumulating more bits. Work is still on the rear end at the moment, it will definitely be next season before it hits the track. Oil coolers and I/C are mounted, oil tank and water reservoir to go. Have the bulk of the electrical stuff in my possession, but it's a never ending money pit hence the overall slowness of the build...

Here's the gearbox/sissy stick mount from the house of TBR

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The car will be on the Townsend Brotherz Racing (TBR) stand as a work in progress at the 4 and rotang show this Saturday, so have a gander if you are there !!

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This has been really slow, car has been getting some stuff done, brackets and mounts and stuff, and basically like the rest of the build it has been painfully slow. But I have been assured Ill have the car back by the end of the month (that'll be 5 months). Frustrating as fuck, but anyway, since everything has been sitting forever rust is running rampant, so I stripped the engine down to the block to sort out head studs and cylinders and getting the turbo exhaust housing all coated by HPC this week.

Since I bought the engine I hadn't really seen the pistons etc, so here's a couple of snaps. Pretty mega Conrod depth too compared to what I'm used to with these. Pistons are Venolia and the rods are Pauter.

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And a chamber shot, it is about 8:1 static based on what I measured.

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And its back together, heading back to the car ...

 

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I just cleaned up the head studs and got the length out of the case right (centre studs only had half the thread on the stud). The sealant is threebond 1211 - silicone based shit, nightmare to remove (about 3 hours for four cylinders), but apparently bullet proof (ish). Studs on the underside of head are a trick to torque, but got there through cunning. Used a 13/14mm ring spanner and an app - Norbar torque wrench extension - to get the torque right...

 

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Sneaky head stud nuts...

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Progress - everything barring the radiator pretty much mounted, I chucked it all together today to see how it looked and to make a list of bits and pieces needed and make a list of hose fittings and hose required.

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Remote filter mount

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IC mount

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Water Tank and water/meth injection tank

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Plug for all ecu wiring

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Coils now mounted on intake post boxes

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 And after that we were talking about the wheelie bars and the exhaust and the lack of ground clearance for all this. Suddenly came to me, engine mounts will have to be remade, needs to be lifted a least an inch to allow everything to work so back to the drawing board !

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Cha Ching week, got the dry sump system plumbed up, pretty much every inlet/ outlet is on the wrong side, so it's done but may change stuff.

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Pedals, still to be plumbed.

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Plumbing water and fuel this weekend. Big thanks to The Hose shop in Manukau for wasting 5 hours with me making hoses.

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Wasn't happy with the end result with the plumbing, so ended up making a bulkhead to make it tidier and easier to pull the engine out. All oil and fuel lines, and the electrical bulkhead plug run through it. The only potential issue could be if I need to put a scatter shield round the bell housing (thought of this 5 minutes ago). Also been looking at the way all the oil lines are running at the pump and filter, and it looks like I have the wrong remote filter mount, the ins and outs need to be on the opposite side to where they are.

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And nearly have all the brake and clutch lines sorted barring a few fittings and a metre of brake line. I'm picking it'll be an absolute arse to bleed. For the record -4 Teflon line is an absolute c@*t to make up.

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Still need to work out go pedal cable attachment etc...

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