What did you do in the garage yesterday?

[Pupp]

neal1980 said:

Pupp said:

Looks fantastic Neal but how the heck are you going to vent those wastegates? Two chimneys through the bonnet?

I'm in the garage at the moment making the link pipes. Will run across to the downpipes.

How's yours running ?

With a tank or two through it, it's been surprisingly well behaved TBH... now making only about 1.75psi or so at reasonable loads, still logging/mapping as I go, but can certainly feel that through my seat of the pants dyno Only turbo related issues were both minor and easily sorted, a slight weep from the oil feed (spotted and fixed after the first run), and a coolant pipe that was reluctant to seal into a silicone hose for some reason (second run). Apart from that, the only real grief has been the bloody SPA gauges, which are hyper sensitive to the voltage fluctuations and earth offsets rife in the TVR wiring. Have dash-top removal off to a fine art now and will be making a dedicated regulated and conditioned 12v feed just for the instruments!

Biggest surprise (and success if it holds good for higher boost levels) is the charge cooler. Despite being in the bay and above the nearside manifold, it stays stone cold with the pump running and is giving inlet temps pretty much at ambient. Leaving the pump off, it absorbs heat predictably enough but sheds it very quickly when the pump is flicked on. I have a neat SC Power heat-shield for that side but haven't felt the need to fit it yet.

So, so far so good, but expect I'll upset all that soon enough now I've a set of 42lb injectors and an 044 pump to introduce to the party

[Chuffmeister]

Sardonicus said:

Finally got around to assembling my shimmed rocker gear a big thank you to Spend

That looks pretty cool. Pardon my ignorance, but what are the benefits, higher lift, stronger? Were these a direct replacement or is there plenty of work to make them fit?

[s p a c e m a n]

Had a spare david brown tractor sump plug and realised whilst topping the antifreeze up that the plug in the top of the swirl pot is the same size, so now I have a nice alloy allen key plug in the top of my swirl pot instead of that crap brass slotted thing.

[dazee]

Continued to make slow but sure progress on the interior. One seat left and some small pieces to finish up. Will be getting a new set of black carpets and some sound deadening material later. Also opted for the safe option of taping from the boot release power cable for the mirror drive recorder as it's on the right side of the car for where the cable runs and comes on with the ignition.

[Tyre Tread]

Walked out into the garage, looked at my cars and the massive garage space I have and wondered where I'm going to find garage like this where I'm moving to.
:sigh:

[phazed]

Tyre Tread said:

Walked out into the garage, looked at my cars and the massive garage space I have and wondered where I'm going to find garage like this where I'm moving to.
:sigh:

Our old house was a beautiful Edwardian house with a tinsy garage.

Apparently I was miserable for the whole 5 years we were there

Happy now though

[Tyre Tread]

I waited ten yeears to build a decent size garage and now, after just seven years, circumstance is making me let go of it.

Damn you SWMBO, why couldn't you have got such a good job opportunity locally

:sigh again:

[phazed]

Just a little bit of dusting to do behind the engine..............

[carsy]

WTF Peter, you`re as bad as me.

Whats happening now.

[Pupp]

Spent half a day on what should be a 10 minute job... Changing the fuel filter. I'd like .10 minutes with the genius that came up with that location and bracket!!

Rest of the day scraping and painting chassis grot spots...

[SILICONEKID345HP]

phazed said:

Just a little bit of dusting to do behind the engine..............

Is the 500hp LS engine going in that hole ?

[db484bhpv8]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Is the 500hp LS engine going in that hole ?

I guess not if he left the T5 in there.
What you up to Peter? Not more heartache i hope.

[QBee]

phazed said:

Just a little bit of dusting to do behind the engine..............

I'd get that leaf out of your bell end if I were you.....

[estutjaweh]

Fitted the new GAZ shocks, wheel spacers, changed gearbox oil, topped up all other fluids, changed fuel pressure regulator, light tune, swapped an engine mount, straightened exhaust and tried to ... track down the reason my boot release doesn't work (fuse needed changing but still only works occasionally) and tried to change a motor mount (ended up giving up on his job)

Tomorrow I need to fix interior light, finish fixing boot release, fix dash light (full beam dash light comes on when headlights are on normal) and generally tidy her up for the upcoming MOT.

[phazed]

db484bhpv8 said:

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Is the 500hp LS engine going in that hole ?

I guess not if he left the T5 in there.
What you up to Peter? Not more heartache i hope.

A little bit of heartache but while that's being sorted and the weather is crap.

Engine lifted by my son, (starts new job on Monday)
Prep and paint chassis in that area,
Renew wishbones in tubular
Change back to the Nitrons, (being revalved now),
Re routing PS pipes
Ditto Breathers
Ditto Oil cooler pipes
Fitting larger oil cooler
Changing electric PS pump,
Fit SC Power engine mounts,
Fitting stronger clutch release arm
Possibly sourcing lighter manly clutch
Possibly fitting solid cam and lifters


The good news is that when stripping down we found that 2 of the 3 carbon fibre trumpets fitted in front of the TBs were lying in the neck of the inlet and it still made 385 bhp!

Joolz couldn't work out why it would sometimes shunt and 2 minutes later would be fine, now we know....

[Pupp]

Yep, stick 'em back in and it'll shunt all the time!

You clearly have far too much energy Peter.... and a bloody good garage!

[phazed]

Pupp said:

Yep, stick 'em back in and it'll shunt all the time!

I never thought of that

[Sardonicus]

Clean em key em and use that Loctite part number I give you Peter looks like Araldite or similar on there at the mo waste of time IMO

[phazed]

Sardonicus said:

Clean em key em and use that Loctite part number I give you Peter looks like Araldite or similar on there at the mo waste of time IMO

Thought you meant something else there

[Hoofa]

Why not try jools trumpet less base ?