looks immense
well done
shane
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looks immense
well done
shane
Looking awesome Ad & Jonboy, looking forward to seein that in the flesh!!
Keith
Alright Jamied, Its me ;)
Yes do want the strut brace, cheque should of arrived to you today :)
Parts from rally design showed up today and I have now come accross a problem, will post in techincal to see if anyone has a solution
just read it all, im well amazed, decied im kicking the ber and building one !
that exhaust is pure sex !!
although i did see venoms in 1 of the pics, hmmmm ???
wow mate looking good when you hoping to finish?
Looks great Ad :)
Did the strut brace fit over the throttles????
nice work mate keep it up bogs dollocks
Strut brace is stilll at my work at the mo. Must remember to bring it back and try it on !
I've got plenty of bits to get done still but I've been uber busy with work.
Will hopefuly see some decent progress over the next few weeks.
That is pornosexual!
Phwoar.
Lushness! :thumb: :eek:
Pull yer finger out you lazy git.
Why wheres his finger?! Sounds dodgy to me. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Steady Ben!
It WILL get done soon, no need to rush it.
I also have my own project as well as this one !
Hows the escort coming on?
Time for a bit of an update....
Came close to breaking it but jb made me see sense!
Words and pictures taken from Turbo-Nutters. Words by Jonboy
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Due to work commitments not much got done on the car last year, it was nearly broken up but luckily Ad chose to stick it out and with another year starting it seemed a good enough reason to finally get it done.
The engine and box was dropped in last year, a few other bits were trial fitted but that was about it.
First problem come around when I fitted the tie bars and found the drivers one was catching the exhaust manifold, a smaller tie bar was fitted but it was still far too close so that was one thing that definately had to be sorted.
In this pic you can see the problem:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/adex2.jpg
Considering the cost of a new manifold it was out of the question to have another made so a custom tie bar setup seemed the best route, sadly the only off the shelf option is ?1000 which is designed with rallying in mind, really not needed on this car.
Even though with the thinner tie bars fitted you only gained about 1mm gap, it was no way safe enough as these have been known to break, this could lead to a rather nasty accident.
I know of someone who was making something to similar to what I needed so I asked him to make me a set.
They sit miles away from the manifold now so that could now be fitted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/tiebar.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...sejointbar.jpg
Before the manifold was fitted It needed to be heat wrapped, I used Thermo Tec wrap, 50 foot and another 25foot further down the manifold.
Its the first time I've used any and god damn it makes you itch lol, full of fibreglass or similar which ends up all over you !
Finished result:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ec/wrapped.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/fitted.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/wrap2.jpg
I need to order some new bushes for the wishbones then I can get it back on its wheels with some brakes.
Hopefully next month we'll get everything else for the fuel system then its ready to run.
It will use a 1.5litre external swirl pot in the boot with the fuel lines in car.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/swirlpot.jpg
Current state awaiting new loom and fuel system...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/doorsoff.jpg
Glad you didn't break it, too nice for that! Lol
Be good to see it finished :)
Looking Spunking mate
those tie bars look realy good, plan on selling any?
Looking very good there Ad!
them lower arms look spot on think il drop lee a pm! Are you not using a swirl potted fuel tank! or is the standard tank not good enogh?? looks good!
absolutely awesome mate!! will be a car and a half, once finsished!
hats off to you, nice TCA idea :)
any more pics of the TCA and tie bars, Please
Lee303 off MIG made the tie bars, I saw some in his build thread he made and knew they would be the answer to the tie bar issue.
The engine loom is now in and done, a few other bits are now bolted in but not much else done besides that.
Will probably run a carbed tank (as i have one coming off a mate) into a facet red top then external swirl pot in the boot feeding a cosworth fuel pump.
Ben- Escorts coming along about as fast as this nova lol its been dipped and I'll know more by the end of the week.
only other pic of the tie bar i have :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/tiebar.jpg
i must admit fair play to you for sticking with it just caught up with it and that is smashing work your doing!
Right, time for another update, Ad came up this weekend so we got quite a bit done on the car.
The engine bay is now fully wired, the new engine loom is in, 90% of the engine bay is complete, just waiting on a few parts to arrive then than side of things will be done.
The interior and fuel system is next to finish, a set of buckets and a new dash setup have hopefully been sourced so I will collect them asap. The whole fuel system and oil cooler will be aeroquipped which I hope I'll get this week, then it should be quite close to running. I hope by the end of March it will be running and ready for mapping in April.
Heres some pics of how it looks so far:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...weekender1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...weekender2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...weekender3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...weekender4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...weekender5.jpg
This is how the interior currently looks, that should hopefully change a fair bit over the next month
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...weekender6.jpg
something for me to aim for :)
hey, have a similar build to this in progress myself mate (although not as much internal mods...yet!) and was wondering which manifold you have as it looks pretty similar to mine and hope i don't have the same tie bars probs (although i was tempted to buy the kit from lee303 but feel it is a touch ott for what i'll use the car for)
keep the pics etc coming
The manifold was custom made by Simpson exhausts, it was made for another nova which the engine must of sat slightly different to this one.
ah, excellent!
Good work, its getting there :)
How meny meters of heatwrap did you use on the exhaust ?
GSI black dash needed asap!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Looking mint.
75 foot in total, I expected that would of been enough to go half way down the car ! maybe at a later date Ad will get the rest done.
Rick- Gsi dash would look better but tbh if it gets changed for anything it will be a flocked dash. I'm getting a load of bits doen on the escort so I might chuck them another nova dash to do.
Its all down to what he uses it for tbh, I believe its gone way past being a road car so luxeries are pointless, it is however not my car so I'll do what Ad wants (to the car that is ;)
Had a look at the car last night and decided as the cage sits sooo close to the dash that it can stay grey lolQuote:
Originally Posted by MAD_Rick
Ok small update.
A few parts showed up today so thought I'd get them fitted and finally find out how little room (if any) we had to fit the filter.
Originally the trumpets were chopped down slightly and drilled for nitrous injectors, these were fine for when using nitrous but shocking when your not so a new set was purchased. The problem was that they are big and clearance between them and the bulkhead was extremely tight so it was hit and miss if the firewall was going to have to be cut off.
After squashing the filter into a shape it wasn't overly happy about I managed to get it on which although its tight to the firewall shouldn't be a problem as the engine is nigh on solid mounted, time will tell though.
Heres the pics of the trumpets etc..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/trumpets.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/filteron.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ec/braceon.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/sideview.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../damntight.jpg
As you can see its mega tight but I'm confident that it will be alright.
Only other part that showed up was a 11" Pacet Fan, it took all of 5 mins to fit but its another step closer to being complete now :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/pacet.jpg
Whilst I had my mop to hand I thought I'd just buzz over a part of the roof to see if there was anychance of improving the paint where it had faded so much, besides making a fooking mess everywhere I think it will come up fine, the edges are always a pain on red cars as you cant go anywhere near them with the mop so they will need to be finished by hand.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/mopped.jpg
And thats it till the weekend, still waiting on the aeroquip and a few other parts but its really starting to get close to running finally.
Cheers for the update JB, really is looking stunning now!
Thankyou for your hard work :)
look at thos shiney bit looking good dude :)
Ok at last "most" not all the fuel bits turned up today.
I hoped for blue and red fittings but at the price I got them for I wont be complaining lol
Weekends job as Ad is up again is to get the underside of the car finished, some interior work done and fit some fuel lines where possible.
Heres some pics to tease you with :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../aeroquip1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/aeroquip.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../aeroquip2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../aeroquip3.jpg
Very nice, you cannot beat a load of aeroquip.
I need a swirl pot i think....