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[scouse-sambo]

Cheers mate...

Does it look like the wall would take a drill and tap? (as a short term fix) or will it defo need welding... need to get mine sorted asap plus I gave my exhaust manifold to a mate to plasma cut and hes made a bit of a mess of it so ive got my work cut out getting that sorted now.

[dangerousdave]

lol my downpipes a mess its a t3 pipe from a escort with the last 3 inch of my t2 straight thro welded on to it loi

it wont drill and tap mate its only 5 or 6 mm thick where ive cut it! but its short now and almost thought id f**cked it as the hole for the centre of my frst tb is bigger than the inside of the inlet!! so made a thicker plate to weld to it with the exact bore size in and its thick enough to drill and tap a take off or 2 in even machined flats on the back underside for talkeoffs too as i made it out of round cuz its easyer! lol

so tomorrow just a tiny bit more to shave of the adaptor plate and get the sensor fitted somewhere then i wanna make fuel rail adaptor ends to fit hose sraight to so i can use a fse reg and gauge! pitty its plastic or i would of tapped it to fit an6 or an8 hose ends what did you do about the rail?

[jonyb4]

lol makes you think this conversion dont it?

really challenges your fabricating and mechanical skills

i wanna do one!!

ha all in good time

[dangerousdave]

yeah mate i know what you mean but ive never done anything like it before i trainder to be an engineers so i can make it and design it itsa just thinking of a suitable way thats strong enough if you know what i mean!? lol every thing ive leant about cars is from reading on the net and taking the engine in and out of my car hahaha well tomorrow is a new day and ill do something good with it! hehehe


now get building one to jonyboy!

[jonyb4]

ye ai know what your saying, its a learning curve


haha calm down mate not quite got this running properly yet
ill be happy enough with the power this will give me for a good while yet, mind you know how it goes, once you get a taster of more power, you'll only want more

[dangerousdave]

yup i know! why do you think i didnt fix the 1.6 cvht lol get the 2 l in there next then mate!!

[scouse-sambo]

at the moment ive just got the standard rover rail, 3bar reg and red band injectors, should be ok to get it running... i hope

What have you done with the plate then? have you tapered the inside so the hole is smaller on the inlet side? take some pics showing the difference between TB and inlet please mate.

[dangerousdave]

well done a bit today! finished the inlet adaptor needed work to sit flat on the head! now looks like




cut the end of the maifold off here...




then machined this ring (as it was easyer to bore) to mount the tb too the large flat is for the tb to open without interferance and the small one will house 1 or 2 vac takeoffs



took the rover charge temp sensor out then unsrewed the plastic bung to find the ali frst bung fits nicely just wanna turn 10mm off the end soon to aid airflow to that port



now the main thing i was working on today was a way to use the rover fuel rail and a remote fse fpr with a fp gauge so first removed the crimp end of the rail adaptor to see this..... happy days usable



but the fpr end was more tricky!....

the fpr i want to use......



so knocked up a mount for it



then set about making this little bit




this has a m10 fine tapped hole and a stst pc that screws in but its in the back of the focus somewhere........ lol


so tomorrow ill be fitting thje bottom half of the inlet and making sure the top half will clear!

[cowie20]

some top work there mate, like it, what injectors are you using again? i forgot to check the numbers on mine when was out at car. ill get tomorrow if i remember mate. the rover reg would of been fine if your using rover injectors..thats what am using for now.

[dangerousdave]

cheers for the complements buddy i know it would of worked mate i got an fse that fits the rail too i just wanted one with a gauge outlet to setup with a wideband i can borrow! haha llama at the min the red band rover ones are in it but im unsure of the flow rate! my vauxhal calebra ones flow the same as beige inj i may use them ...??

[jonyb4]

good work mate, wish i could fabricate liek that, mind id need the tools first lol

[dangerousdave]

loo, just wish i had access to a ac-dc welder it would be doing a test run on saturday! well a startup as the tax disk is 3 yrs out of date iirc! lol

[jonyb4]

LOL

f**k me what happend there lol?

[dangerousdave]

well in a nutshell this thread was started jan 08 when i had bits of cvht to build back up with after siezing the 2i block september off 2007 then i spent months and thousands buying new cvht stuff to drive a few miles and bottom end s**t itself! lol so now were doing zt ...... oh and i spent a year in amsterdam in between!

[jayrs]

great work mate

[dangerousdave]

cheers buddy!! hope its worth it to have this rover inlet on! llama!!

[dangerousdave]

well spent an hour on the car today and did a little

first up i noticed i may have to get a zetec rear engine mount for clearence as before there was a knocking noise and i think i know wht!!, the bolt on the spacer wont fit on here as the bottom hole is behind the engine mount and i dont really wanna choppin the mount up any more! will have a better look after the inlets welded up so ill know if its sucking in air! lol

just about see what i mean on this s**t picture



then when bolting it all together i noticed one injector fell into its locatring hole and had a look and the o ring was flat on one edge! lol so swapped that over stuck it all together and .........




for you scouse_sambo i offered the tb and plate up and it looks like this.....

that should be enough room id of thought

this is the bit im thinking about tho!.....



do i weld it on and leave it or should i try and get a bar in there and bend it a little ? shouldnt be restrictive i wouldnt think?

and for jonyb4.........

[crazycage]

dont try and bend it out a bit with a bar!!!! its cast it will snap. just weld it and then die grind it on the inside to blend it in as best you can.

[dangerousdave]

yeah thought it may give a little with some heat cheers tho mate ill just die grind it like you say! going to get the welding priced up monday as i aint got a ac-dc welder then it should be all good and have it running next week hehe then it just need a basic setup and to be used........then stripped and tidyed

[jonyb4]

hehe look that that TAX!

lol i probably would have bent it myself,

and then id be out there now glueing it back together


:O did i hear next week?

eek at this rate you'll be done before mine!

f**k i gotta get an act on

keep at it mate, shalt be long now

[dangerousdave]

hehe look that that TAX!

lol i probably would have bent it myself,

and then id be out there now glueing it back together


:O did i hear next week?

eek at this rate you'll be done before mine!

f**k i gotta get an act on

keep at it mate, shalt be long now

should startup next week i hope but wont be finished just be driving it onto the trailer to take it up to the workshop prob end up waiting till i can aford to tax and insure it and get a better turbo or strip the one i have and rebuild it! still need to sort out boost hoses but might get a universdal fmic ?? or wait till i strip it again next year!??

[jayrs]

cheers buddy!! hope its worth it to have this rover inlet on! llama!!

me too

[dangerousdave]

least i can get my rocker cover polished or powder coated without worrying the cross over pipes going to scratch it up!.... cooler carge temps too

[jayrs]

very true mate

[dangerousdave]

should be good hopefully find someone to weld it next week, or theres some stuff rich has found on the net we might give a go

so whats new with your project mate? any further?

[scouse-sambo]

Thanks for the pics mate... all looks good.

Is it clear of the bonnet with the TB sitting that way around?

When you have a weld on the back you should be able to grind that back pretty much flush anyway.

[dangerousdave]

im not too fusses about grinding it back mat tbh and i made some 25mm alli bonnet raisers that ii copyed off the ford racing ones so if it does sit high it will be ok! lol cowie and crazy cage both have theres mounted that way so it should be ok

[scouse-sambo]

How are you getting on mate? have you had the plate welded on yet, just to let you know ive had mine done and it all fits sweet as a nut with the silicone elbow on aswell

[dangerousdave]

did you cut yours about the same place?

i aint done anything beside get the focus through mot and im skint now and gotta tax focus on monday so that leave 20 quid for 2 weeks! lol but got an interview monday so hopefully fingers crossed ill be working soon and have it finished hehe

you had yours fired up yet buddy?

[scouse-sambo]

Yes mate, heres a pic of it in situ.

Not fired up yet still waiting on my manifold ive changed plans, didn't want to cut the front of the car up so im having one made up to put the turbo over the box.

[dangerousdave]

sounds good mate! looks alright too whats the curved boost pipe from or is it made to fit?

[scouse-sambo]

Not sure what its off mate, Volvo 850 in the scrappy I think, I had loads of bits lying around from when I put a front mount on my daily driver, I went the scrappy and got about 40 bits of pipe with all different bends for about a tenner dont think that one will fit with the new manifold but its just to show it all fits nice, I was a bit unsure when I took mine to get welded up so thought id let you know it all fits. The elbow is tight against the resivour but it clears the servo by a good bit.

Good look with the job by the way

[dangerousdave]

cheers mate hope i get it can finish this quicker then! prob get aftermarket management too then


think i cut mine roughly the same place, hope it fits but like i say when im working i can even get a brake pedal bias box thingy on it if needed....... whos doing the over the box manifold for you? thats what i want on mine ideally! would be mint,

[scouse-sambo]

Ian Howell is doing the manifold, its still about 10 days off though so im itching to get hold of it so I can get my rad and cooler mounted I need to get them both as far back as possible to keep the boggo bumpers

Once ive got mine up and running im hoping to swap over to megasquirt and learn how to map, what management you going for?

[dangerousdave]

at the min ofac on a chip cuz i have it already, later i am going for megadquirt v3 running coil on plug setup

do you mind me asking how much the manifold is costing?, as i cant see it being cheap lol!