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after a really good push on the car last night and the massive help from Joe and Mr.fail

THANKS GUYS

so here's the progress so far

after the night before chasing the subframe around the floor for 4 hours and trying to get the bushes out i finnaly rememberd that we have a vice in the unit well 4 of them lol, i shoved it in and got cutting with the hacksaw then a good few smacks with the hammer and bar got them out a treat in less than 10min's (DOH) then came the pain staking job of getting the paint off it :down: until i brought this wire thing for my grinder and the paint flew off so heres the pics now

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mr fail him self flatting back the car after masking all the trim

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and joe stripped the engine bay for me taking the slaves out and the wireing ready for flatting and painting and took the door off my old car ready to go on the new car as it seems to be better

from this

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to this

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this is how how my old car looks now :)

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so update then

after taking the subframe down to bare metal i laid a good 2 coats of zink primer on to it and let it dry for a few hours then put a good 2 coats of hammerite smooth black on the top half and i think it's came out quite good

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so with the paint was drying i proceeded to get the engine and box ready to take out

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me and lloyd were pretty fooked working on the cars all day and this was about 7.00 pm

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so back to the engine after lloyd and adam gave me a chuck and about 2 hours later

TA dahhhhhhhhh

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and this is whats left

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more later

i had some solid bushes made up that look like this

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then started to build the rear subframe up with all the new arm's and bushes

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so then i started on the diff i had a small leak on it so striped the back plate off and cleaned it up and put a new gasket on then gave it a clean then primed it up then hammerited it in smooth black

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then made a start on the arches

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rubbed them down and then a good coat of white

ok not too much going on really but working on the plenum so here how i have done it

you can see the water feed across the plenum? the holes needed to be drilled out by 2mm as the holes in the plenum didnt line up bang on but this didnt cause any problems at all, also fitted the AAC valve with a new gasket and bolted straight up reall nice

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so now the piping and i re-used all the pipe that i already had from the stock plenum any way and the clamps too, use this pipe

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and cut this amount of pipe off

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then the other end of the pipe you have this

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cut this much off ish

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but remember mesure twice cut once :down:

then i got some plumbers tape (PTFE) and wraped the outlet threads up like this

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and inserted it in to here, 19mm spanner was used but dont go mad thinking it will go all the way in it wont, but a goot 3/4 the way in and nice a tight :)

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then the pips that was cut earlier was installed like this

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you will also see that there is on pipe lift to fit on the ACC ? you will need to get some pipe to go from there to the inlet pipe from the cooler thet you will need to get made and will be added to the thread at at later date

so on to the injectors pretty much as you took them off BUT replace any worn or old "O" rings and top tip use vasalene (??) or you will tear them and cause fuel leak's, i also needed to open the holes a little on the rail to ease them going in

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i managed to buy a Q45 from GARAGE D so i didnt need an adapter plate and loose power with the set up im going for

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stock one on the top lol

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ENGINE PIPE'S

so down to the engine piping now heres how it looks stock

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and took all this off as im going for a spec 1 oil filter housing to reduce piping and the chance of air locks as im running a front mount oil cooler

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this is the pipe off the heater pipes that run across the back of the engine, i made a cut here to make it square 90 bend now

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and used the supplied joiner here

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then used some of the pipe that im using on the AAC to run from the old location of the water pipes and used good clamps and did them up real tight

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you can see there is 2 water pipes left to connect ill show you what im doing with those in the next update

thanks for looking Noel@ jpoc.co.uk

what a fantastic weekend!

I DROVE THE CAR OFF THE RAMP'S AND EVEN OUT IN TO THE SUN LIGHT!!!!!!

after Geoff painted the body kit (just waiting for it to dry) and Martin (Teyaki auto's) tracked the car up a treat, then fitted the bonnet catches last night we are sooooooo close now :down: here are some pic's for you to have a nose at

hope to be having it MOT'd and mapped by PROTUNER (greg gush=god) tonight or even tomorrow daytime fit the body kit and off to santa pod Wednesday for a shake down ready for llandow's BDC on saturday

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  • 2 weeks later...

it's pretty easy to be honest, lots of boxes marked up and take lots of pics too so you can go back to them when you need too

while it was all out i did a wire tuck too and took the loom behind the dash then brought what i needed just below the plenum to keep the wires out of the heat

Edited by jpoc_noel

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