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Re shimmed and re assembled the transmission and did a few odd jobs on the donor engine today.

 

1. Clocked around the turbo for Engine mount clearance.

 

The turbo itself is very small but it will do for now.

 

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2. installed the rear engine mount to suit the MK2 Platform

 

3. Deleted EGR and started eliminating some of the unneeded functions (anti shudder valve etc)

 

Also yesterday I got my new Brake discs back from being Slotted

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Just a few little things after work today.

 

Started to weed thru the Sticky cluster fuck of Modern car loom, thankfully only about 1/10th of that will remain after I am done with it :)

 

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Also degreased the replacement subframes and sprayed over with some engine enamel for a quick tidy up.

 

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Stripped the brakes off and dropped them in a tub of Phosphoric acid so that they can be painted tomorrow.

 

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- Also ordered my Adjustable Coil-overs today

- 22mm Master Cylinder.

- New headlights.

- New handbrake cables.

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Bit of Cleaning, and stripping down today.

 

- Soaked the Engine bay with De-greaser and then pressure blasted to clean off 20+ Years of Grime and other shit.

 

Before

 

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After

 

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- Dash board out and factory looms stripped out, for re-routing and Splicing with the new looms

 

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- Installed the new pedal box for the Hydraulic clutch setup

 

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- Finished stripping off all the factory tape and hard plastic tubing.. heres the two looms to merge.

 

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Bit more necessary but dumb shit today.

 

Mounting the Electronic throttle to the Pedal box.

 

The E-gas pedal and bracket to be.

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Where the pedal needs to end up.

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Bracket Mostly made and welded to the Pedal box.

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Calipers are all done in Retina burning red!

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Also started on making the Gearbox mount, when i say making I mean measured and cut the steel ready to draw and cut the template on to them.

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Well since my last post, I took some time off to focus on the finer things in life... aka i was busy doing other shit to spend any time on this little nugget.

 

any who cracked back in to it the other day. this is the progression of progress since then...

 

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Assembled and installed the new sub frames, adjustable suspension, brakes etc to get the chassis rolling again...

 

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Test Fitted the newly painted wheels ta-da she rolls again (big whoop i know) now my hoist is free again.

 

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Proceeded to test fit the new heart to make sure everything clears as it should, and to help visualize where everything will live..

 

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sits in there nicely but unfortunately the engine cover will sit to proud to allow the bonnet to close, I CBF dropping the engine down (as the sump is low as fck any way)

 

Few changes here and there, what to do with the Oil cooler, intercooler options water to air vs air to air etc...

 

 

Have started merging the looms and tidying them up in a braided type cable conduit.

 

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The engine came back out again obviously too, far easier to work with it out.. plus the bay is getting painted this week.

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ECU will sit nicely in the Rain Tray here.

 

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Also powered up the ECU and ripped the standard mapping off the car and have now flashed a 140hp base map and will work on adding in things like Launch control etc with the tuning software later.

 

Quite cool what you can edit out of these ECU's

 

Few more annoying little jobs ahead but its really not all that far away from key turn.

 

- Installing the Pre supply pump and wiring.

- installing shifter mechanisim

- fabricating downpipe

- sorting out cooling system etc

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Currently pricing up a engine upgrade kit.

 

Now would be the time to do it before I bother making custom piping etc..

 

The stock power of the engine is "100hp" 250nM 

 

The small hardware and software upgrade would bring around 230hp and 500nM to the table. 

 

just trying to do the numbers to see if I can make it stack up financially.

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Well its been a little while since a update, purely because of my lack of time.

 

- Engine is back in, starts and runs too... exhaust is too quiet... despite no mufflers... lol

- Cable shifter mounted 

- Braking system (new lines)

- Fuel Pre supply pump installed

- Wiring (integration) of factory EDC15 Management complete

- Interior carpets pulled out and cleaned thoroughly

- Central Locking installed

- 2.5 inch Downpipe and Straight pipe exhaust system made.

- engine bay painted - cheers tyler.

 

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Downpipe

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Carpets stripped out

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Door cards painted.

 

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Basically whats left...

 

- change cam-belt and waterpump

- machine chamfer on to bottom pully to accessory belts can be install removed without having to lower the engine away from the chassis leg

- install front mount intercooler

- plumb up intercooler piping.

- plumb up cooling system

- bleed up brakes

- make new hydraulic line for the clutch pedal.

- setup coil-overs correctly.

- re install dash etc.

 

the body will stay rough for now.

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got a refreshed look on the gauge faces drawn up. my tdi cluster went up in smoke first time i plugged it in. pissed me off as it cost me a bomb ex the UK Ebay.

so have made new faces for the gauges to make the redline reflect the diesel style rev counter

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Well she went pretty well at the Nightspeed drags on friday night.

 

Consistently ran 15.5's all afternoon and night, got to the Quarters of the DYO Category, which was a heap of fun, got knocked out when she uncharacteristically pulled a 15.3 out of no where. so close to the Semi finals yet so far :( haha oh well..

 

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Quite a few of the Track staff had good comments and a little laugh about the car and the windscreen banner it was wearing.

 

I recorded one of the qualifying runs for a laugh here it is


 

Throw back to good old Gran Turismo music.

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