looks fantastic dude
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looks fantastic dude
i'm stunned that you are doing this out in the street... in hinckley, either the council or the pikeys would have removed it by now.... good job so far though.
cheers fellas. we're gonna be mocking the engine up today to make sure its all hunky dorie before we go any further with that side of it
I was thinking something like this too!Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
Fair play for working on the road side, is it at yours Luke?
The Neighbors must love you? lol
yes its outside mine mate and no they really really dont lol
nice work mate. keep it up!
well ive been a lazy cnut and only just woke up lol. mean while nick has painted up all the bottom arms and gear linkage and is gonna start on the hubs. im starting on the wiring
as stated luke i only hold my hands up to you mate for the work your doing outside,should be sweet when youve finnished!love the old skool motors.and getting up at ten to four wtf lol
pictures time. as said my task was sorting an re-routing all the wiring to hide it all. it wernt quite a tricky as i thought when i identified everything which is all good :)
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the routing in the wheel arch. it'll all be wrapped correctly once ive ran the rest thought.
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we then tried to work out where the chargecooler pump and header tank were going to go so fitted the rads. it is silly how close everything is
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proper stelth :P
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nice clean shell love it! :-)
thats looking sweet mate! my mate whats to give it a cuddle when its done!
tell him to buy it then he can cuddle it whenever he wants lol
wiring all finished and taped up properly
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magical invisable washer pump wiring
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...o/S7303293.jpg
whilst at the scrappy we found this non level sensing cap aswell which is much neater
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this is the reason things appear to have slowwed down. the engine has taken alot of working out and modifications to get it to work but its pretty much ready to bolt in now :)
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Looks like you have left it out for the bin men!
doing well burgo i wish i had your motivation
ubber progress today :d or at least it seems it as the engine is in, woop woop
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to be fair it would have been in sooner but i had to make this
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which holds this
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just here
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we also got the linkage bolted on and clutch cable in and steering column in, blah blah
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More good grafting :)
Don't forget to take that bolt out sitting on the piston ;)
Cool project!
Seems to be a shed load of space lol
i was suprised how small the engine looks at the mo
Update please mr burgo:thumb:
He did at 10.55 last night lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Spudly
Give him chance to work through the day. lol
Damnit no, thats not enough, ive got such a soft spot for mk2 fiesta's and i would still own an XRpoo given the chance, had a poo-i (mk3) and it was a hoot but i still want a mk2 and this one is going to be utter p0rn once finished, and i want to see it:thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by NOVABIKECARBED
Looks a good project, bay looks well now its all painted up :cool:
here you go mr impatient spud. unfortunetly the rain spoilt play abit but i managed to get the rad shortened and sealed up today and as with this car it just gets better or worse however you look at it. i got nick to strip the head
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and then i was going to port match it, this is where i discovered it wasnt a turbo head and actually an xr2i head!!!!
which means porting time :d
standard head
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opened out to the gasket
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finished with a flap wheel
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then rain stopped play
Thats impressive work luke im liking the way youre just going at each obstacle rather than just saying oh fcuk ive gotta find 'this' bit now, nope ill just mod whats there to do the correct job, good man:thumb:
dont have much choice mr spud. gotta be finished at the end of the day
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Originally Posted by burgo
Fair point but your skills are impressing me for one and im definately keeping an eye on this one for the updates bud, she gonna be a good one when youve finished:thumb:
looks mint mate :D
So basically it was a turbo bolted onto a n/a engine?
no it was a turbo bottom end to be fair lol. quite impressive that it made the power it did concidering it was less than standard
so another thing to prove the last owner was wrong again lol
Luke i feel that i may be in love with you!!lol
Spudly can gladly explain!!:d
nice bit of porting there burgo what did you use (pics) i might give my 8v head go
now i have pics but there not great as the screen on me camera has bust anywho porting finished
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and sweed got the hubs on and then the brakes stripped off to paint the hubs
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did try and and get a pic of the shortened chargecooler rad but its ubber blury
nice one luke..
That head looks mint luke, you seriously got some skills:thumb:
thats only a quick fettle
another quick update
head is now built up after nick lapped all the valves in
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being as i have the steadier hand out of us i hand painted the "turbo" bit on the cross over pipe and "efi" bit on the inlet
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that'll do for now lol
it will be running by the end of the week