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Bodywork is finished just to paint the bonnet, ill do that when the engine is in.
Built the engine yesterday and today.
Should be putting it in tomorrow night.
will update with pics the weekend.
Buddy is coming doing a bit of wiring on it also the weekend.
good stuff, coming along nicely frank.....;)
Cheers Niall, at this stage all i thought id have left to do
is give it a rub of polish :rolleyes:
good work man wen ya hopin to start the engine up??
Engine is being started up at TDP's, not sure yet when ill get up there.
When the engine and anchilaries (spell) are in and Wes wires it.
Ive to fit an BR25 box
do the fuel lines
Make firewall.....
Few other small jobs maybe
ah rite ya havent got many jobs left to do so
Even the small jobs seem to be taking ages though!
I also fitted braided brake lines for the handbrake.
haha the small jobs always do for some reason
looks gud frank!!!;)
Cheers Dano, Should be good when its done
Dropped in the engine today and started bolting...
Few pics
Pistons in
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Arp main studs and s14 pickup pipe
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My silver roof, didnt bother painting the pillars blue. If i get time i might paint them black ill see.
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looking good Frank... when ya hoping to have it done??
I am waiting for a few bits for the RB25 box conv and that was putting a dampner on my mood, but i was talking to Alan Sinnott there and i might just put up the SR box for mapping and round1.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigey00
Ill possibly be able to answer your question next weekend lad!
Cars like theses are done when there done............... Its impossible to put a date on them.......
Coming along well lad great build......... Some work and effort put into it...................!
On a MAJOR high my engine started this evening!!
For a change something happened without problem :rolleyes:
Started lovley with good oil pressure and nice and quiet.
Run in next and im booked in for mapping Wednesday...
Woooooooooohooooooooooooo, job frank, i may see u on the line
Hopefully dude, not finished yet but its certainly getting there :)
The only thing annoying me now is running the SR box, ill have to be gentle
That's great news ,what are you missing to get the rb25 box fitted ?
don't be gentle just break it haha, shes looking mintQuote:
Originally Posted by Frankae86
Fair play franky :cool:
Thanks for the comments guys, come over for a look and to say hello at Fermoy!
Slave cylinder (the Gosson has one)
Adaptor plate for bellhousing and prop
Some tidy build lad... :cool:
Paint looks fookin mint which is noice :D
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Originally Posted by Frankae86
Adaptor plate:
http://www.driftireland.com/showthre...hlight=gearbox
http://www.driftireland.com/showthre...hlight=gearbox
Cheers James but im comitted to buying another one, ah ill see what happens
so far so good frank.
Ha ha thats it lad...
The final hurdle can somtimes be the hardest :p
Got the car logged this evening at Barry's motorsport
Going running in the engine as much as i can tomorrow before mapping wednesday morning.
I know i promised pics ive just been busy....
What way you gonna run it in................!Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankae86
On the road, monitoring the fueling and checking for leaks. etc
Im gonna drive it as normal really up and down the revs witout going mad.
Some say run it in easy others say hard straight on the dyno!
Its an ongoing discussion...... Some even say if built right it don't need to be ran in at all...........! Im sure robbie will give it a bit of a run on the dyno aswell............!Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankae86
Ya ill tell him what i did and he can go from there.
Fingers crossed it all goes well (sweating buckets) ;)
Well best of luck anyway ya deserve it after all the hard work gone in......... Hope to see ya in formoy sat all going well......!
Housemates came home with good reports man, cars meant to be sick!! Looking forward to seeing it in the sun n maybe sharing some Hb ice-cream :)
Car is a credit to ya frank,mint in every way!! ;)
Cheers lads :)
So yesterday evening my buddy Wes thats wiring it for me came to finish it off and run the engine in, by the time we got going we only had half an hour before dark so we did as much driving as we could.
At around 12 the car starting running bad and we noticed it wasnt charging so off down to a crashed 180 to whip the alternator off it, by the time i had it fitted and the car on the trailer etc it was gone 1 o clock,
When i had my stuff together and in bed it was 2 and i had the alarm set for 5
So after in around 3 hours sleep i set off for wicklow, just after mallow i got a flat in the trailer and i was a c*nt to change because the lad before me had the threads damaged on 3 of the 4 studs :(
so did you make wicklow ted??????????
Was a small bit late arriving at TDP but they didnt mind :)
The lads were in good form today and we got the 180 on the dynapack swiftly enough...
I told Robbie how much and what way i drove the car so i let him do his thing on the dyno. To say i was nervous when the car was being mapped is an understatment, ive the front of my trousers worn away from wiping my sweaty hands on them throughout :D
Robbie says whats wrong and i said " oh i just hope it doesnt blow up"
And he casually says "well if its built right it wont"......
I was like ahhhhhh :eek:
Halfway through he seemed happy and said things were going well, it was making going power and stuff.
He mapped in on 2 settings
At just under 1.2bar boost it made 403.7flyHP 396.4lbft
At just under 1.5bar boost it made 465.6flyHP 477.2lbft
WheelHP is 351 and 404.
We were both happy with the figures and Robbie said he could have possibly gone a bit further but didnt want to be brushing up bits of SR box for a week!
He said its a brilliant setup for drifting, very responsive.
The bad news is im still waiting on modified steering arms i need to be able to set the car up and Robbie reckons the gearbox wont last 1 upshift to third gear :(
Im uploading pics at the min but i could fall asleep before the finish
fair play to you nice figure and lovely matching torque throw up the dyno print outs don't forget to change your sig
it makes it all worth while now doesn't it