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imp paul

posted on 8/10/12 at 06:17 PM Reply With Quote
looking awesome Joe nice job mate
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welderman

posted on 8/10/12 at 08:42 PM Reply With Quote
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Good work fella!



Ta. It's all down to you fella





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bi22le

posted on 8/10/12 at 09:44 PM Reply With Quote
Nice rebuild, i have just read the lot!

When you removed the old panels how did you get the old rivet ends out of the chassis tubes?





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daniel mason

posted on 8/10/12 at 10:17 PM Reply With Quote
looking good!






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welderman

posted on 8/10/12 at 10:18 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by bi22le
Nice rebuild, i have just read the lot!

When you removed the old panels how did you get the old rivet ends out of the chassis tubes?



To remove most not all of the rivet ends I cut the ends of the box section off with a 1mm slitting disk in the tubes that I though would house the most ends, then blew compressed air through until they flew out. Ended up quite a mess with bits all over the floor, but well worth it. Once I was happy with a good amount of ends being removed, just tig welded the ends of the box section back on. I also drilled out some holes with the hole cutter in some of the tubes that were not blanked off, ie met another tube end on so cut the hole rivets out and then weld back up.

Just for good measure I pumped end a little grease in a few places just to catch any rivet ends that may roll around. But I don't think I will hear them rattling around when I'm driving the car.





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welderman

posted on 9/10/12 at 07:45 AM Reply With Quote
Following on from the charge cooler, i forgot i had made the header tank for the engine cooling system.

Bought a header tank top from ebay and had some tube lying around, cut some holes out of some alloy plate for the top and bottom and welded the thing up.

Sorry no build pictures just the end result.

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welderman

posted on 9/10/12 at 01:57 PM Reply With Quote
On with the build rebuild blog re-build with lots pictures blog diary.

Decided to make a new plenum chamber for the blade engine. Did loads of searching, a few u2u’s here there and blatant copying of other designs, bit of a mongrel really lol.

But all said and done it looks very good, for now I’m going to leave as it is, it might need a few bits adding here and there like strapping down tabs etc.

All thoughts and critics welcome, I won’t stalk you forever.

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welderman

posted on 10/10/12 at 02:38 PM Reply With Quote
Engine install almost finnished

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Had some carbon sheet left over, this was going to be the bit behind the seats, but some kind person (aka the invisible man) here at work cut a 100x100mm square hole out of it, so it was then too short, to this day no one has admited to this crime, bastardo's.

So cut it down to size for the foot well cover.

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Moved the car over to the ramp now so its getting closer to the door lol

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snakebelly

posted on 10/10/12 at 04:59 PM Reply With Quote
Joe, did you get my u2u?
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welderman

posted on 10/10/12 at 05:22 PM Reply With Quote
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Joe, did you get my u2u?


Yep. Just forgot to reply lol
U2U back





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Dangle_kt

posted on 10/10/12 at 07:56 PM Reply With Quote
Looking really good joe - love the fact most is self made! Very

Also, massive congratulations on becoming a Dad again! its a shame you will be drawing your pension when s/he turns 8.

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welderman

posted on 10/10/12 at 08:36 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Dangle_kt
Looking really good joe - love the fact most is self made! Very

Also, massive congratulations on becoming a Dad again! its a shame you will be drawing your pension when s/he turns 8.


Thanks and THANKS lol. Might I remind you I will be the oldest dad at school in a few years time.
Plus side is lots of yummy mummies





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welderman

posted on 12/10/12 at 08:40 AM Reply With Quote
Decided to have a go at fitting the rear arches, but i came across a problem. I had a gap there the curve of the arch meets the frame.

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So after a call to an old friend for a bit of advice we came up with a solution (he had the same problem on his very first car he built), so cut and welded up some plate and fabricated some infill panels.





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Bluemoon

posted on 12/10/12 at 09:26 AM Reply With Quote
Just had a quick look at your charge cooler, the jacket is quite a large flat sheet, I would be tempted to pressure test this it may "swell" a bit at 15psi water pressure (or what ever these BEC use)??... You might need some enforcing ribs or something..

Dan

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welderman

posted on 12/10/12 at 01:05 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Bluemoon
Just had a quick look at your charge cooler, the jacket is quite a large flat sheet, I would be tempted to pressure test this it may "swell" a bit at 15psi water pressure (or what ever these BEC use)??... You might need some enforcing ribs or something..

Dan


there's not much pressure going through the tank water wise, just a constant flow of water using a small water pump.

Well i hope lol, thanks





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Bluemoon

posted on 12/10/12 at 03:19 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by welderman
quote:
Originally posted by Bluemoon
Just had a quick look at your charge cooler, the jacket is quite a large flat sheet, I would be tempted to pressure test this it may "swell" a bit at 15psi water pressure (or what ever these BEC use)??... You might need some enforcing ribs or something..

Dan


there's not much pressure going through the tank water wise, just a constant flow of water using a small water pump.

Well i hope lol, thanks


o.k was assuming it's working on the existing radiator coolant loop (cold side).

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sebastiaan

posted on 12/10/12 at 03:43 PM Reply With Quote
Cold side of the rad will still be hot, so it needs to run on a seperate circuit.

Joe, have you tried to make sure the entire core is in the water flow (i.e. inlet and outlet pipes on opposite sides of the core and as far away from eachother as possible)? This is hard to see from the pictures and could make a significant difference to the efficiency of the cooler.

Nice looking work and rapid progress by the way, keep it up!

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welderman

posted on 12/10/12 at 04:07 PM Reply With Quote
The inlet is right at the bottom far away as possible to the outlet on the top. So hopefully there's enought water and no air going through

All runs on a separate cooling and electrical circuit too, there's loads of pipes lol

Thanks all for the comments, next job get the rear arches fitted, got a busy weekend though. But will see if I can have a bit of chill time

[Edited on 12/10/12 by welderman]





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procomp

posted on 12/10/12 at 06:19 PM Reply With Quote
Hi Joe.

Just been looking at some of the pics. One thing i notice is that you have a set of the very ugly MK1 wishbones on the front. Ill upgrade you to some of the much later ones. I am sure3 i have a few sets spare lying around. Ill sort a set out FOC.

Cheers Matt

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welderman

posted on 13/10/12 at 12:41 AM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by procomp
Hi Joe.

Just been looking at some of the pics. One thing i notice is that you have a set of the very ugly MK1 wishbones on the front. Ill upgrade you to some of the much later ones. I am sure3 i have a few sets spare lying around. Ill sort a set out FOC.

Cheers Matt




Matt your a star, once I've completed the build it's going to get booked in for a procomp set up





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welderman

posted on 15/10/12 at 11:26 AM Reply With Quote
Well managed to get out the house and down to work for an hour or so at the weekend.

Started the weekend off with a Masked Ball for my mates rugby club, Chorley Panthers, there was 250 all together, great night out and lots of money made on the night for the club.

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Then spent Saturday morning and afternoon feeling rough, then out again at night to a 21st.

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Sunday started off with a Mcdonalds breakfast, then off we all went PRAM shopping !.

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Once all prammed out, managed to get away and have a little time on the car.

Clamped the carbon plates on.

Took the clamps off this morning and all looks good.
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scootz

posted on 15/10/12 at 05:18 PM Reply With Quote






It's Evolution Baby!

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welderman

posted on 15/10/12 at 08:16 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by scootz



It's all starting to come together now fella





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scootz

posted on 15/10/12 at 08:19 PM Reply With Quote
I'll come down for a nosey (and a cup of tea) once it's done!





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ReMan

posted on 15/10/12 at 08:35 PM Reply With Quote
Thread reported to mods due to excessive pram-ness.

Seriously this is going really well and I'm watching avidly, particularly the turbo bit, was hoping to do mine last year, but other things in the way and taking my time. Your doing a great job, could you knock me up a plenum when you're bored?
What Turbo have you got/planned?
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