Looks great like it was made to be in there.
Looks great like it was made to be in there.
Thanks fella,
Didn't manage to get the quick rack fitted as I didn't receive the new tie rods but that's easy enough to do, next thing will be rolling road.
I've tried playing around with the fueling but can't get it right!! Easier to let people that know what they're doing sort it out, i'll get them to run it in on the rollers aswell, that way we can monitor the AFR and make sure it's running right while running in, last thing I want to do is bugger this engine up!!
Little update,
Had a few hours spare this afternoon, so unwrapped my new seats and made a start on the passenger seat, after a bit of playing around, got it mounted to the original subframe, so it slides back and forward which I wanted to be able to do, without spending £80 on subframes specially made. Got the seat as low as I could, pretty happy with the seating position and height, will work well for the drivers side when I find 5 minutes to do that one, shouldn't be so tough now I know what's gotta be done.
I'll be honest I nearly gave in and ordered some but the finished result is worth it!! and I saved £160 notes!!
Just the belts to go, gonna mount them onto the bar between the rear shock towers, need some spreader plates and need to weld it in but apart from that small snag it's fine. Can't do the driver seat until the belts are ready.
Just draped the belts over to see what it looked like, then remembered I hadn't taken a picture but I'd already locked up so snapped a crappy one through the window!!
Engine looks good!
I was supposed to be in Lutterworth today but woke up at 2am with a wisdom tooth trying to eat my gum, couldn't eat or drink, so decided to sack work off and get to the dentist, could only get an appointment at 4.15 so instead of wallowing in bed I got my butt to my mate's garage and got on with a few bits.
Fitted the drivers seat, after doing the passenger one yesterday this was a breeze, straight in, I've decided both seats are too high but will rectify this over the winter when I can make some direct mounts in my own time. Got the belts all fitted aswell with some eyelets and spreader plates.
I've been struggling with high inlet air temps due to the exhaust running directly below the throttle bodies.
Knocked up this little heat shield to see if it makes a difference.]
It does seem to make a difference. but I think I'm going to have to make some sort of sealed inlet plenum that feeds directly to cold air, inlet temps of 60 degrees don't help make power!!
Next on today's list was to sort the mapping out, I've got it booked on the rollers on 12th September so not too long to wait but in the meantime I've been hearing some substantial pinking under light throttle load at around 3000rpm. After studying the map it was easy to see why!!
After some effort on the phone with my mate Matt from United Motorsports we managed to end up with this.
It's far from perfect but atleast we know it's not going to blow holes in pistons while I'm running it in before the rollers.
Got the fuel played around with aswell, managed to get it to lambda 1 +/- 0.05 which again isn't perfect but we know it wont melt anything before the guys at Track and Road work their magic.
Next major job will be sorting the inner rear quarters as they're rusting away merily, also need to sort out the roof where the helmet that had the car before welded in a sheet of steel to cover the sunroof hole and then added 15mm of filler. Has anyone ever re skinned a roof??
Helmet. Reskinning a roof is piss easygood spot weld drill amd an aitr drill or battery drill that you can drill alow andateady on. Takes about 1.5/2hrs too remove once screens out
Can you write that in English not Northern please Phillip? Cos I can't understand your accent!!!
would it make sense just to heat wrap the manifold and first part of the system? to reduce the temps.
Not keen on heat wrap, saw a mate's car go up in smoke cos of oil soaked heat wrap!! I'll look into cermaic coating if anything but until I get the stainless manifold made it's not worth it!!Originally Posted by ASH GSI
Last edited by House; 02-09-14 at 09:41 PM.
Got home a little earlier than planned today.
I'm moving soon and have had this tailgate in the workshop for ages, finally got it on tonight.
Although it's not a perfect example of a tailgate it fits the "rat" theme quite well.
Few things to do this Saturday before rolling road next Friday, somehow I've managed to put the ARB too far forward so the front brackets don't actually hold it!! Can here it rattling up and down when driving!!
im going to attempt something with the roof before I go down the route of roof skin replacement. I have purchased a new roof skin but after reading Benn's thread about it, I'm being a girl about it and don't want to tackle it!!
Also going to fit the corsa "quick" rack, not technically quick but at 2.7 turns L2L it's better than the standard one!!
Need some SR bumpers, don't like the black ones!!
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