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| posted on 3/12/14 at 11:00 PM |
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While your at this stage of the rebuild you might want to consider raising the height of the top chasis rails to keep the lump beneath the bonnet line
DRCIndy has this lump in his Indy and it fits snug under the Bonnet.
I believe your chasis is slightly narrower and possibly a little lower as the first MK chasis was designed around the Ron Champion book
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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mk85
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| posted on 16/12/14 at 11:15 AM |
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I thought about raising the hole body. But am going to look at making a bonnet. As I want to sit low in the car and don'twant to raise the front
nose and the dash as then it will end up to high for what I want in the end.
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mk85
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| posted on 16/12/14 at 01:13 PM |
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I thought about raising the hole body. But am going to look at making a bonnet. As I want to sit low in the car and don'twant to raise the front
nose and the dash as then it will end up to high for what I want in the end.
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daveb666
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| posted on 23/12/14 at 08:00 AM |
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Good progress mate, new cooler is a big improvement.
2007bc Photography - Commercial and Wedding Photographer based in West Yorkshire
http://www.2007bc.co.uk / http://www.huddersfieldcommercialphotographer.co.uk
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FlansS14
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| posted on 29/12/14 at 03:05 PM |
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Nice project you have going on here. I have the same lump in my Luego. All fits under the "locost" GRP but the sump is VVV Low and ive
already gone through 1 sump 
Good tip about the apexi AVCR and the speedo... ive been using a bike speedo up till now. Might have to upgrade!!
Re your Intercooler. I went down the Chargecooler route with a rad in the back (Above the fuel tank) works really well. I used to have the
chargecooler rad at the front but the engine kept overheating.
Good luck with the rest of the build, if you need any info just shout
Flan
Why didn't i just make it simple!
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mk85
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| posted on 3/1/15 at 05:32 PM |
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Had loads of little bits turn up over Xmas. All the niggly bit's that i need for the turbo feeds and gaskets. Spent the day sorting out the
loom and routing it through the car. Hopefully going to do one big order from car builders solutions for the likes of all the p clips and grubbins
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mk85
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| posted on 3/1/15 at 05:34 PM |
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 he engine and starter loom striped
down to the basics and emobliser remover
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mk85
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| posted on 3/1/15 at 05:35 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 8/1/15 at 10:46 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 8/1/15 at 10:46 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 8/1/15 at 10:46 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 8/1/15 at 10:48 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 8/1/15 at 10:48 PM |
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Well the past two weeks I've been picking little bits up I needed of eBay and Amazon.
I send my ecu and loom away to have the immobiliser removed and a few repairs done to the engine loom. I also had some relays missing and the ignition
amplifier that where supplied and fitted.
Just now am going to concentrate on getting the motor to turn over and fire up. And to me that's a big milestone in the build.
But as the car sits everything needs finishing or starting all together. But once I have it fire up I can then work from the engine outwards.
But wiring is something I just can't get my head around. So I've invested in a few books and keep having a read up on the net and
hopefully I can do it myself.
[Edited on 8/1/15 by mk85]
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mk85
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| posted on 12/1/15 at 10:49 PM |
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Popped to my local motor factors over the weekend and picked up my battery. Am using a type 054 normal found on the likes of a Nissan micra.
It's a common swap on the Nissan s14 and ive used it previously. Only for the guy on the desk to bring me out something that you would use to
start a diesel locomotive train.
Well after a little research on the starter wiring I had a little play round but am waiting on my battery terminals to turn up. I managed to give the
starter a little crank over and ooooo it felt good.
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mk85
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| posted on 12/1/15 at 11:03 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 12/1/15 at 11:04 PM |
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The battery works out at £54 with the vat. It's pretty slim to helping save some wight
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mk85
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| posted on 13/1/15 at 10:18 PM |
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Spent some time sorting all the little out that have been turning up the past week.
As am running a mx5 handbrake leaver and seirra calipers I had to mix up a few bits.
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mk85
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| posted on 13/1/15 at 10:21 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 13/1/15 at 10:22 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 13/1/15 at 10:23 PM |
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mk85
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| posted on 15/1/15 at 11:09 AM |
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Had a really good few days on the car now.I've managed to get the starter turning the engine over I was made up hearing it turn over its some of
a big mile stone of the build to me. But still more to do before I will be happy to fire it up.
The intercooler will be ready this week after having some ally welding done for the mounting brackets.
I still have loads of bits on order am using a mix of eBay and Amazon and using the free postage and going as far as China for simple plugs and relays
sure they take two week's but in the end an making good savings.
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daveb666
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| posted on 16/1/15 at 04:54 PM |
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Good progress mate. Its an awesome feeling when it fires up for the first time. (Or not as it was in my case lol)
2007bc Photography - Commercial and Wedding Photographer based in West Yorkshire
http://www.2007bc.co.uk / http://www.huddersfieldcommercialphotographer.co.uk
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mk85
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| posted on 19/1/15 at 09:43 PM |
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Well as our house has gone up for sale the miss's created a nice list of jobs to do. And I realised my younger brother was out of work so
I've got him round to get those done while I do bits on the car. So I made some good progress today.
As I mentioned uryler on in the tread i purchased an APEXI AVCR. And I hadn't even checked if it worked after getting it for a bargain price. So
here it is
As you can see i can have speed revs and the boost prssure
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mk85
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| posted on 19/1/15 at 09:48 PM |
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Master cylinder turned up so they where bolted into place to stop them getting damaged or lost
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mk85
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| posted on 19/1/15 at 09:51 PM |
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And then i put some panels on just to get a feel of it and an wheeled it out into the sun for a bit
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