it never ends for me ..

 

looks like a may of blown a piston ...

 

soo its forged time looks like

but gonna be off the rd for a little time and going to

miss some shows looks like :(

 

any one got a good bottem end with forged parts they want to sell ?

its back on the rd ... Done my first 20 miles in it all ready :)

its back on the rd ... Done my first 20 miles in it all ready :)

 

Well done mate, you've certainly broken some sweat over this one :punk:

Not a fan of the turbo tab washers are you. Are you heading down the Pod tomorrow?

turbo tab washers ... ?

 

will be at pod on sunday ... i have work tomorrow

I might see you on A1/M1 as im heading down early on the bike. The tab washers on the 4 nuts onto the manifold stop them coming loose as there is no washers on them and they are just plain nuts.

Doh ! ... yeah now i know ..

no there a bloody pain in the ass

betime i tuck them off again there was only 1 tab still on

will be setting off around 6ish .. will be on the m1 around 6:15 there abouts doing a steady 55mph

keeping her off boost and easy load

well done mark i must say tou really do sink yourself into something when you get going dont you. as i sai dto you as japfest your car has progressed so quickly.

its been hard I'm totally worn out ....

being at work 9>6 every day and then coming home working on car till gone 12ish

for the passed 2 weeks more so this week

 

all i want to do is sleep ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

Looks Mega Mate, Im sooo impressed.....

Well i got to the pod but not all well ...

 

had an erratic idle ... Found a vac line off ... :)

 

but all so had a Heat problem Temp kept on up and down like

an air block ... and on the way home is got worse and temp went just above 100c ...Way to hot

well anyways just take thermostat out ... with boiling water it was only opening around 2>3mm

not allowing the water to flow .. Stuck another one in and all is well

new one opens 12>14mm ish

all working fine now

Did you get that crankcase windage kit in the end Mark? What about a baffled sump or Accusump as I presume you will track it?

i didnt non of the above ... it will only see a few tracks a year but only for short time

the windage thingy ... what it didnt tell u on the site but only found out by doing some research

you had to butcher the sump pan to make it fit

 

the sump its self has quite alot of baffling all ready .. will just make sure its up at the right level

if not just a little more

Engine is back together again :) after turbo sticking and damaging the new build i did a few months ago

 

so i got my self a set of new manifolds and uprated fuel pump

 

in the middle of making a parallel fuel rail thought i pain up some engine bits :)

 

 

 

 

had to get a new rail due to the machine shop not doing as i asked ... wanted it gas welding but instead they used ark-weld

the thing leaks like a sprinkler :( ... so going to retry again