Bigs 300 bhp xe project

not sure what inlet/ex it comes with

theres a few other XEs on ther running dry sumps etc, high specs

ok thanks. i will be looking at them abit later

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Originally Posted by Dan 130

in all fairness **** looking welds can still be strong it takes a bit of practice to have good looking welds

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true it took me a good year of practtice, to get good welds and i still carn't always get it.

practice makes perfect:thumb:

Well seeing as i havent updated this for ages might aswell give a little update. Carring on from the inner arches, as i finished the box section and it was strong enough for my liking. Then went about the rest for the finshing touches that i wanted. i.e the smooth euro look. so here is the first pic of most of the inner arch cut out ready for the fabricated plates i made to go in place.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...eengine033.jpg

then the first plate welded in

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...eengine034.jpg

then the rest of the plates in place

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits040.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...eengine035.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits041.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits043.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...eengine038.jpg

and with a bit of paint just so it dont rust

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits048.jpg

still dont know weather to put a plate in between these to stiffen it up even more :confused:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits051.jpg

And after the other side was complete i started on cutting the other side out.





notice on this one the three layers of metal :eek:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ngine043-1.jpg

Then it came to mounting the engine in the car to weld the six speed mount into place.

(this first bit is copied from my other tread )

Bought this conversion kit little under 2 years ago

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=013

And yesterday my and a mate went to fit the engine alone with a f28 to weld the 6 speed mount into place. Thats what we thought, we bolted the drivers side mount on first all seems good. Then to the rear mount which took us about 2 hours to get it in line with the hole to put the bolt through. we done that and all still seemed ok untill we tryed the 6 speed mount and went down hill from there. And the 6 speed mount was bought from C Ashley so we know that will be fine and the gap was about 1 - 1 1/2 inches to short for the mount to fit :eek: and chris drilled the holes abit to close together for the bolts to line up with the rubber mount so off it came anyway to make one of the holes big enough so i can get both bolts in the hole. So then we taken the drivers mount off and put just the 6 speed mount on and pushed the engine over to the left and could not get the drivers mount on at all. So we thought wtf is wrong and then looked at some projects treads and other mounts for sale. then it hit us they sent the corsa mount :mad: And that left me with hours of work for nothing :cry: Well here are a few pics to show you anyway.

When i first put the engine in on just the drivers mount

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...va/bigs123.jpg
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...va/bigs121.jpg

And just the 6 speed mount on the leg which fits very nice

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f.../bigs013-1.jpg
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f.../bigs012-1.jpg

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And because we were so mad and needed cheering up we decided to fit my manifold to see what it looks like :D I will be cutting out the slam panel to so dont worry about it being abit close on the pass side.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...va/bigs007.jpg
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...va/bigs009.jpg
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...va/bigs008.jpg
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f.../bigs011-1.jpg
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f.../bigs010-1.jpg

And then orderd the 2ltr mount for chris ashley to sort the problem out

Then a few days later this came in the post :D

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...newnova005.jpg

So then started right away to finsh mounting the engine and gearbox. heres the pic of the mount in place

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...wnova006-1.jpg

then ck welding the six speed mount into place after we got the car level then the engine

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...wnova007-1.jpg

and to make sure the engine wasnt going to move i filled the mount up with tigerseal

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits071.jpg

and the mount spot welding in place intill i take the engine out and fully weld it allround

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...wnova009-1.jpg

here you can see ive cut the slam panel out so it dont hit the manifold
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...wnova008-1.jpg

And then had abit of money to play with so got on the phone and orderd new wheels for the car and a rally cross wide arch kit.

few days later the wheels came

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits069.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...tr/bits047.jpg

Pro race 1.2 on 195-45-16.

then about four weeks later the kit arrived

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ights018-1.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...archkit011.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...archkit001.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...archkit003.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...chkit006-1.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits059.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits058.jpg

Then went about getting my 2.2 bottom end(X22XE ) after many months calling around and serching i found a car with it so up i go to take the engine out and keep the bottom end. for a good price of £120 :D. so got it back and here it is and have to say thanks to ck for coming up and helping me take it out in the rain :(

LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE FLYWHEEL :eek:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ovapics011.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ovapics013.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ovapics012.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ovapics014.jpg

and while i was up there i took the oil cooler off it as it was much better then a standard astra gte one. the 2.2 one is the bottom one

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ltrbits064.jpg