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  2. get one mount it low vl spec or slant forward perhaps. It looks so nice black. Iirc cutting holes is fine, but as for what is/isn’t allowed, Cletus will confirm…
  3. Well that's black and white been a while since I read the LVVTA bible...... Current plan is obtain a bumper beam not mess with it and sneak a less tall intercooler under it same specs just not as tall can carry on as is for now get it running and worry about this later. As pipework locations will be same. Got lots to fabricate intercooler pipework a battery to move and wiring for my reversed inlet manifold to do. @cletus I take it putting intercooler pipes through panelwork in engine bay is a no can do now? Eg coming through where airbox was and battery. I can try squeeze it between radiator but would rather not.
  4. Good excuse to put some form of heat exchanger in the system? A car AC condensor will be rated to ~250psi which would be an easy addition. Guess would be original was 1-1/4" tube? A std polymer hose won't be up to the temps unless it has some form of reinforcement, depending on the application, service temp can really drop the rating too. Almost any metallic tubing at that size range will be good for 100Bar and not care about temp. Metallic connection will also give at least some effort of dumping heat before the receiver, comes down to access to suitable bending gear and compression fittings can get spendy over 1" If you go for steel, make sure the bends are in such a way so that thermal expansion doesn't try to pull them apart, a big elbow usually does the trick.
  5. One year mot for everything appears to work in the UK. Not a fan of their over forty years old exemption though.
  6. Well fuck.... lucky I kept the piece I cut out. I'll work on moving it back further. Could I get a replacement fabricated Or its just new car stuff that can't be messed with? I won't lose sleep tonight over cutting a removable part as a smaller intercooler is always an option. Thanks for heads up.
  7. Had access to a large plotter table at my last job which was super handy for reverse engineering or taking prototypes from the computer to the real world, could print notes and datums to cardboard before cutting out for test fits or confirming bolt holes before longer/expensive processes. Today step one of bringing that capability home began, a vivid/sharpy holder for my cnc router. 3/4" mm seamless tube offcut has the same id as the markers, weld 1 stainless washer to the end completes the holder body, complex eh! All I needed was a suitable compression spring to ensure the marker holds a constant pressure without needing a perfect level bed. Awesomely, big green and big orange hold stocks of these things, sadly they are both closed today, buzzkill. Wanting to test NOW a full workshop search was initiated with a suitable donor found in an old BB gun, the slide spring happed to be 110% perfect for the job. Length is set to hold the two types of marker I usually have littering every corner.... Fitted up into a tool holder and good to go
  8. It's the hassle factor more than anything. What makes a 2000 car safer over a year than a 1999? Nothing, that's what. It's a stupid rule, but I don't expect a change.
  9. 1 year wofs on a classic car are a bad idea imo. If your getting upset over a 60$ wof then don't own a classic car. And if the upset is from needing repairs every 6 months then it shows the car actually needs work and isn't safe for 1 year so the 6 month is kinda doing its job But if jt passes who cares its probably the cheapest part of owning a classic car
  10. Broke out the angle grinder and created a space for the intercooler tried to be conservative left some structure in it so it's not all floppy 2x 8mm bolts and the intercooler is hanging securely off it. Now I can start making intercooler pipes and fitting up the turbo setup.
  11. Remembered a problem which cropped up with mine. Unless yours has been modded or is a CF2, you'll have drum brakes all round. I found that even well balanced fronts showed signs of being out of balance. Narrowed the problem down to the drums. The worst one had the OD 5mm off center from the drum inner. Very poor castings. Used a mates big lathe to machine the od concentric and never had a problem again. I was told the accepted fix was to go to a place which could balance wheels in place on the vehicle. in the 80's there was one place in ChCh. No idea if any still do it.
  12. Took this to Frankton Thunder this year and to KFC once..... I reckon it's safe to pull off road now and make a start on the final push. Hoo roo bumper! I need an intercooler in here. Bumper support is obviously in way and power steering cooler just behind it. A bit of force moved the power steering cooler and its bracket easily enough.
  13. Yeah, I don't have expectation of it getting better
  14. Yeah .. I could have held for way more money ..but I got the car back cheap and sold things for what people offered..... I made my money back and enough to get my mk3 all legal.... so happy as with that
  15. Makes sense that it's 6 months from inspection date though.
  16. Fixed the rust hole, no pics cos boring. Made a heatshield for the alternator, first drilling and tapping some brass hex to stand it off, then some CAD, then some shiny so it reflects heat; Then I grabbed the pretty non functional catch can that I made for the truck, modified it so the wire wool was less in quantity and right before the outlet rather than at the inlet, which is why I suspected it didnt work well, then gave it some chode so it would fit in the engine bay; Went and filled it with some 95 as it was pretty low and it definitely needs some time spent on tuning, the low throttle popping and banging sounds good but the afr tells me its not right. Man it feels good to drive tho, the combo of the gogo and the noise is pretty great. If anything it sounds better now the air filter is on, a really purposeful growl.
  17. So the car has pretty much been all sold. *Motor is going into an escort. *loads of parts are going to others to keep other st170s on the road *and the rest of the car is going to palmside to be a race/rally car ....so thats awesome.....no waste
  18. I'd go a hydraulic hose, or we used a hi temp braided line on our 12v compressor in our service ute as it gets farking hot. Or hydraulic hard line with some cutting rings?
  19. Need help. The pipe that goes from the compressor to the tank is to short. The fittings are M33 x 1.5 and the tube is about 35mm aluminium. I've seen some jokers using a nylon braided flex line which I'm not sure about. This pipe gets hot which is why they're copper or aluminium. Having said that the pipe from the compressor to the tank in my MS51 is nylon and it gets plenty hot. 10 years without and drama. So yea what do you reckon? Anyone got experience with a flex line straight off the compressor? Tell me what you think.
  20. This part of the article is a little concerning. The Tertiary Education Commission has told polytechnics and universities to lift their pass rates. .I hope it means they have to teach their material better rather than just letting the failing students pass anyway.
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