Tuscan Tales

[m4tti]

StreetDragster said:

Brilliant, thanks for posting. Hopefully we'll see you in the Noble forum soon.

Matt

Thanks very much. I do keep getting the urge to pull a duratec apart, uprate everything and make it single turbo

[m4tti]

Thanks for all the positive comments folks..

Have now done 770 running in miles so big injectors and Syvecs time is approaching.

wongthecorrupter said:

That's a cracking looking engine bay Matt. What kind of power / torque are you expecting after the new management etc

Hi Simon, good question. Theres a PH members sagaris running over 440bhp, and the RG demonstrator has done about 470bhp, but the drivability was slightly compromised. Most of the others have ended up around 410bhp so I'd be happy with that.

Had a cheeky push up to 5500 rpm yesterday and my passenger said you could definitely feel that second shove of power kick in. Apparently it'll run up to 8k..

[m4tti]

F1GTRUeno said:

On a side note, do you really have to respray the wheels black?

I guess I dont have to but I think it might look quite cool, add to the stealth bat mobile-ness. The car's midnight blue so appears almost black in some lights. I also like a goon managed to scuff the paint on two of the wheels during the rebuild.. wheels which were spotless

I need to get some photo shop skills and see what it would look like.

Edited by m4tti on Monday 27th October 11:40

[m4tti]

Gday mate. Thanks for the kind words. As for Stella...ive moved onto real ale recently, the wife couldn't cope with the garage goblin emerging every Saturday evening covered in oil and full of high jinx
Personally I blamed Sainsbury for doing 18 cans of Stella for 12 quid, cheaper than mineral water

The longer your Stryker doesn't have an engine the less chance it has of over taking me and driving off into the distance.

If you can get a weekend off for good behaviour I'm sure we could put it together in a weekend. Bet I could even knock you up a genuine looking IVA certificate too in that time

Fingers crossed for some dry weather and more running in miles down to the breakfast club..

Edited by m4tti on Monday 27th October 22:13

[m4tti]

gordonsalive said:

m4tti,

any update on the syvecs, etc. just found this thread, great read and well done!!

Syvecs update incoming .... Hopefully get it written up over the weekend!

Needed to make the odd bit myself this time. Can you guess what it is yet...






And while we're at it how about some tig welded decat goodness IMG_1938 by Barkley Dogue, on Flickr

IMG_1940 by Barkley Dogue, on Flickr

Better just say that's not my welding stay tuned.

Edited by m4tti on Tuesday 14th April 22:41

[m4tti]

macdeb said:

Not seen this before, and excellent thread
Wasn't side tracked by some clown trying to be funny, which is nice.
Top Job
[how come not on TVR forum?]

Edited by macdeb on Saturday 22 August 10:59

Think I put it here for general interest, also put it here as although these are my views on why the engine has issues, there's some that will probably get very defensive of the speed six...

Will finish the syvecs update soon and post that. Things keep getting in the way of my free time.

[m4tti]

macdeb said:

Understand completely Keep us posted mate.

Will you be heading to Neill garners on the 26th of September. Fingers crossed if it's dry I'll be heading up there.

[m4tti]

Somebody asked me the other day for a pic of the whole car, and I realised I haven't really got any readily to hand. For now it's laid up in the cave awaiting this winters improvements.

Updating this thread is on my list.

[m4tti]

superfly said:

superb read.

way too technical for me - what engineering/mechanical background do you have?

still a superb read!

I don't have an engineering background per say (have a business management degree of all things) but my dad was an engineer and his dad was an engineer and I'd been around people working on cars from an early age. I also had some fundamental machining skill from working on a ride on steam strain of all things as a teenager

The electronic side for me is slightly easier. A carb is like black magic!

I'd previously built an MI16 205 GTI and transplanted the mi16 engine and management. So have had a little bit of practice

[m4tti]

And just to finish... I sold the Tuscan several weeks ago. It was good fun but I decided I needed something a little less fettling time intensive.

[m4tti]

Thanks Phillip.

As much as I liked it the wife felt travel sick in it and didn't feel as safe as in a "normal" car. With the time famine I'm experiencing between work, her and the dogs it had to go.

I'm still going to sneak in some spannering time on some little bits

It's funny but project cars are an absorbing past time... you don't rest till they're done.

Edited by m4tti on Friday 27th October 17:01