Nuvite II

[Spaceibiza]

Thank you. To do a proper job, I need to take off the rear arches and remove some of the front suspension, but I’m still driving it at the moment. I’ll take it off the road for the winter once they start laying salt on the roads, so that’s when I can really get stuck into it!

[mickrick]

There are a couple of spots over the rear arches that need quite a bit of fettling, where there are welds for joining the skins.

[harry b]

@Mickrick

How can I reach you, got a few questions about the brake setup on your car.

[mickrick]

PM'd you Sir

[Cmanby]

That's a work of art

[Trackdayguy]

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww

[mickrick]

[Farlig]

Wow - not been bhere in a loooong time so thought I´d check in, good to see it´s not dead Mick & love your garage & driveway!!!

I´ll be checking in regularly now!!!

Special engine - Millington Diamond for sure what a sound!!!!!!!!
Or a peripheral ported four rotor wankel hahaha

[Farlig]

harry b said:

@Mickrick

How can I reach you, got a few questions about the brake setup on your car.

Should ask in public, maybe others have the same questions - and techie stuff is always interesting!!

[mickrick]

Farlig said:

Should ask in public, maybe others have the same questions - and techie stuff is always interesting!!

It's all in this thread Sir

Engine has been decided. It's going to be a BDG.

[Farlig]

mickrick said:

It's all in this thread Sir

Cool!

mickrick said:

Engine has been decided. It's going to be a BDG.

Nice, very nice - they sound fantastic too on the boil!!!

[mickrick]

I’ve managed to get home for a day.
There was a package waiting for me at the marina office when we tied up this afternoon, so I had a bit of a tinker in the shed.
I removed the Caterham ironmongery, and I think it’s going to work.
Obviously I have to figure out the structural support, but that’ll give me something to do over the winter.

[Farlig]

Nice set of pedals!!! Glad the project´s still going Mick!!!!

[mickrick]

Thank you Sir
It's not really going yet. It's been hibernating under blankets for quite some time. Life got in the way, what with moving house, landscaping garden, building a workshop, then going back to sea.
It's always on my mind though. I finish on the good Ship Alcatraz at the end of September, so I have a bit of free time, which will be taken up with finishing off the garden, painting the house, and other mundane tasks... But once that lot is out of the way, I'l be going back to a regular day job in the new year, so more time at home
The pedal box was a steal, found it used on a certain auction site. The fellow had a selection of master cylinders, which happened to include the ones I needed for my setup. I've been after one for ages, and I'd literally got a quote from BGD for a new one about an hour after I'd hit the BIN button. So it was meant to be

[Farlig]

Well as long as there´s progress, it´s still going in my opinion - think positive I have a helluva habit with stalling projects too - always something else to do / SWMBO´s list is more important etc etc but as log as you´re buying the odd trinket here & there & shelving for later use on the project then it´s not really stalled haha

[mickrick]

Well, the ban on the sale of new ICE vehicles in 2030 has spurred me into action! I need to get this thing registered.
So I've gone full circle on engine choice, and I'm back at what I had the chassis spec'd for back in 2007!
I decided to go for a 2.0 Duratec crate motor. The problem I found with that is, there's a glut of 2.5 engines, and no one had, or wanted to sell me a new 2.0 crate motor. Those that have them, I suspect are hanging onto them for builds.
I was both amazed and disappointed at the number of so called specialists who didn't respond to enquiries on their websites, e-mails, or pick up the phone.
Apart from a motor, over the next year I will be wanting forged rods, pistons, throttle bodies, cams, dry sump, bearings, gaskets, timing chain kit, etc. etc.
So those Guys have lost several thousand pounds worth of sales. Well done.
I was left with no choice but to find a decent used motor to refurbish.
I opted for the Fiesta ST150 unit, as I learned this has the high port head worth 10-15hp, and as I found out, no balance shafts, hence no big gear on the crank, and no VVC
Not much to be found on this rock in the middle of the Med, so I had to gamble on buying unseen on the usual auction sites.
I found an 82k mile unit in Austria.
A couple of weeks after it landed, and I'd spent time and money on it, a new crate motor came up as a private sale... wouldn't you know it!

[mickrick]

It turned out to be a good motor, with hardly any wear in it, and no signs of it burning oil.
I have stripped it down to the bare block, measured everything, removed the oil gallery plugs and oil jets, bead blasted the block, had the bores honed, and the block then cleaned in an ultrasonic bath.
Next step is to drill and tap the oil gallery blanking plug holes to accept some M18 ORS plugs, the small one under the thermostat housing I already did with an M10 plug.
I'm waiting on news about a solid and keyed under drive pulley/trigger wheel and cam chain/oil pump sprockets before I get my crank shaft keyed at the local machine shop. Then I'll have the crank back in with competition main bearing shells and ARP studs.

Edited by mickrick on Friday 31st December 16:48

[mickrick]

I did a lot of de burring before sending the block for honing and ultrasonic bath. I was very pleased with the results. all the nasty brown oil staining gone

[mickrick]

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