Chimaera 500 work begins

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You`ve gotta have some old fashion bling on the car! Chrome don`t get ya home

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Don`t worry chaps i`ll get it powder coated
Below the water pipe is the oil flow and return to a remote filter located up front

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Remote oil filter located in the front away from the heat of the exhaust, The oil flow and return
pipes pass through the old air inlet hole in the left wing

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Back Again, Just had to many pies on the go and not enough fingers recently but i`ve been playing this last week and got the fuel supply finish and engine loom sorted, The fuel system is a returnless system in 3/8" goodridge fuel hose and a bosch 044 fuel pump with a motorsport fuel inlet with a upsized cross over pipe. The pump needs the 12mm inlet on the gravity side in order to flow 300ltr per hr, The banjo union on the underside of the fuel tank caused a headache as there very little room to increase its size

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Upsized crossover pipe

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104 pin ecu took sometime to seperate and splice back into the TVR loom, the OBD II port shed light on why it wouldn`t start! The Ford PATS security was still enabled on the injector map. Fingers crossed i should get the ecu back this week and its firing on all eight

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Alexdaredevilz said:

Looks great!

One of my favourite engines, is that a kenne bell blower? Are you running a charger cooler in the manifold?

Keep the up the progress

Yeah its a kenne bell, running a charge cooler that sits in the valley with the charger blowing through it. I was on with plumbing up the charge cooler rad and pump this afternoon so i`ll post some more pics. tommorrow
The fuel pump supply from the tank is now 1/2" and it just fits!

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Cheers guys and thanks for the comments, Not much on the telly today so i got the charge cooler piped up

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I think i`ll move them horns so there not interupting the air flow into the rads

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Alexdaredevilz said:

Any updates?

Hi all, I`ve kind of ran into a brick wall at the momment with the ecu and its build in security, Welcome to the world of Ford P.A.Ts Normaly the chip in the key communicates with the dash clocks this in turn tells the ecu and we all go for a drive down the road, As i don`t have the keys and clocks i got a guy to disable the security, brilliant till you turn off the power and the ecu generates a new code from a few billon its got spare!!! So everytings working except there`s no injector pulse, To sort this its
option 1: replace the lot with a standalone ecu/remap and return fuel system
option 2: breakers yard for clocks keys and a blast on Fords I.D.S to recode it all
option 3: handheld scan tool for some OBD tunning.

Option 3: i`m liking this week due to the fact i can solve the issue with the EGR/EVAP and rear O2 sensor and P.A.Ts but it does involve rebuilding the fuel map, downside its gotta come from the states!

For the interested http://www.deltaforcetuning.com/Commando-p/co-5000...

But i have been playing with toy number 2 while i make up my mind

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Summers over! holidays finished! So back to it with a trip to the breakers yard to rob a Mustang of it`s security bits and bobs

Key + Transmitter + Clocks = £300! I finally decided on this option simply because it was the cheapest if it works

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Jammy Dodger said:

SILICONEKID340HP said:

Come on Andy im sick and tired of Jammy Dodgers project This one is the mother of projects..

I'm sick of my project too - he's right on all counts. No-one is going to top this in a hurry

This one should edge out over 500bhp/tonne - nice work and beautifully executed

It never set out to be the mother of all projects! but it`s funny how these things just snowball! My first thoughts were "yeah that will fit" A quick once over with a tape measure, a bit of cutting here and there, then DA DAA! standard looking Chimaera with a bit more power

After a late night ITS RUNNING eight wires and ten minutes on the Ford IDS to reprogramme the ecu to the clocks & keys, To simple to belive it would work really

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SILICONEKID340HP said:

What happened to this baby ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0g00Wx7mi8

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DonkeyApple said:

Sounds lovely. Was that a bit of vicous torque steer half way through?

Ah you noticed! thats an eagle eye, trying to get the power down in 2nd can be great fun but then up into 3rd you`ve still gotta be gentle with the throttle, Its only running the 14psi pulley as its still being mapped, trying to get the Bosch 044 to run with the returnless fuel system has been tricky but its heading in the right direction now

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SILICONEKID340HP said:

Why does it not have a return back to the tank ?

Its the way Ford designed the fuel system, The ecu modulates the fuel pump voltage to maintain the fuel rail pressure. The idea is that your not circulating unused fuel to the engine and back to the fuel tank, heating it up causing more fuel vapours and more emissions.
The trouble with the Bosch 044 is its doing to good a job with to much fuel!

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SSPPGG said:

common with the Ls installs to place the pump/filter/regulator/return around the diff, so there is only a single fuel run to the front.

interested to see how you get on with the bosch pump and regulating flow that way.... and very impressed with the "make it fit" approach...those are not small engines!

It sounds like the LS fuel system may slightly differ? The Ford setup has no regulator, no return its all electronic. The fuel rail has a pressure sensor providing the ecu with the signal. The ecu then talks with another module, the FPDM (Fuel Pump Delivery Module) pulse width modulates the voltage to the fuel pump. The beauty with this setup is if your needing more fuel and your pumps maxed out! just increase the voltage and you`ll get more fuel "Simples" Kenne Bell sells a device known as BAP (boost a pump) which ups the voltage and the good old standard Ford FPDM will handle up 18volts.
The problem I`ve been having with the Bosch 044 is turning it down low enough, and we don`t know if it will last with PWM, its been causing driveability issue mainly stuttering on cruise throttle but thats pretty much sorted now.
For a job over the winter I`ve got a twin pump intank setup from an 05 cobra that I`ll "make it fit" somehow along with a small list of jobs to finish. But I just need to keep driving it at the moment to find out the niggles

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MPoxon said:

v8ndy said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0g00Wx7mi8

Fantastic video Andy, well edited. This is my new favourite TVR video.

The car sounds immense! I love that charger whine. Have you had it dyno'd at all?

The vids all my brothers handy work, Its not been dyno`d yet as the plan was to do a final map of 21psi pulley on the dyno, The 17psi pulley was live mapped on the road and its bonkers! although not perfect yet. Firstly it spat the bearing out on the idler pulley and stripped the drive belt so I need a new 8rib a.c delete`r pulley, I`ve sourced it to F150 truck but haven`t purchased it yet. Secondly the exhaust has been over heating the starter motor causing it to stick on, and also over heating the power steering fluid in the pump. I made some heat sheilds but to no avail! the sticking starter was the ignition switch! But to cure the power steering its required a complete re-working of the exhaust to move it away from the steering rack, pipes and pump. Currently the H pipe has been binned in favour of an X pipe and its given it a much harder edge sound (I`ll get my brother on with a vid)

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