Driving to work today on leaf covered roads make me thing of planning the next round of winter mods. What are you planning?

Myself I will be installed a higher pressure oil pump, remote filter and an oil cooler. I am also going to change the headgasket and re-plumb the cooling system with a header tank.

Finishing the supercharged Duratec install once all my parts arrive

Making my new garage water tight and relatively dust free.

Lots of DIY on the flat.

engine upgrade from xflow to zetec, and complete new paint job and hopefully smaller headlights, chassis to be stripped and re painted too

how long is winter????

chris

Doing all the post-SVA things I never got round to doing when I passed 3 years ago would be a start!

Then there's the interior that needs re-doing, the dash need re-doing or atleast re-inforcing.

Test the new radiator setup.

Sort the leaky filler neck hose (turns out the fuel resistant hose bought at great expense wasn't :mad

Setup the suspension properly front and rear.

Raise the rear wheel arches.

Fit the 3rd brake light

Fit fire extinguisher

Get the new seats/sliders in properly.

Probably a few things more.

Cheers,
James

Engine swap

rewire the engine

make some new parts including a bonnet scoop and new bulk head from carbon.

and with alot of luck I would love to make use of the 3.38 diff thats been sat in the shed for some time.

Finish the soft-top
Make up an EFi plenum with injectors (MIG ali tack welds then off somewhere for some TIG)
Get an adaptor made up to mount the new pulley wheel onto the crank pulley.
Whip the Honda ECU stock spark map (ie using a timing card and strobe)
Put above spark map into Emerald as a base map
Get the Innovate LC1 onto the car (on the exhaust without the leak at the headers!!)
Sort out fuelling
Maximise maps for POWER

That's enough for one winter

Though ideally I'd also like to get the dry sump conversion done and dusted...

.... and the blower cradle added....

New dash, rose jointing all the backend

Rich

Gearbox and diff rebuild for mine spent most of the summer nursing a poorly gearbox through to winter.

Just hope it lasts this month out and doesn't explode must resist from turning the boost controller back up

engine rebuild (almost done), ali panels to be replaced with carbon fibre, fit bonnet scoop. maybe do carbon fibre dash change over, detachable steering wheel. and need to get carbon fibre arm rests and half doors made. im sure that there are loads of other things but i can't remember everything!

oh i forgot i have air box to do as well!

and i want to fit a hydrolic clutch

its a never ending list!

[Edited on 1/10/09 by omega0684]

Does a first drive count as a winter mod?



Do have some plans, all cosmetic stuff, but depend on money.

Full new glassfibre body kit, sprayed, graphics kit, dash panel, cycle wings, digi dash, tunnel top, interior panels and new harnesses.

Big job, so might leave it till I can face it/have money/have time/have made up with the wife for all the hours I've been in the garage over the last few years!

Well I have someone coming to view the Indy this weekend so it may be gone soon

If it stays then winter work will include...

1. Fit a 12V power socket under the dash

2. Make and fit a boot box to go under the lockable cover

3. Fit some protection film on the rear arches

4. Make and fit some front mud flaps

5. ooo! Hydraulic clutch - now there's a thought!


Failing that I'll be busy stripping my new donor and refurbing the parts ready for the next project

[Edited on 1/10/09 by nick205]

I will be swapping a 4 wheeled car for a 3 wheeled bike... well.. hopefully

for me its something like this:

1) fit new seat mounts/remove sliding rails
2) buy new seats to fit to uprated seat mounts
3) fit some new carbon parts
4) get some race livery stikers
5) remove the parts where the crappy powdercoat has flaked off, blast them, and repaint
6) Fit air induction box, and cool air feed pipe
7) fit Oil Pressure + temp Gauges
8) remove the diff, and get it checked over/rebuilt, as im sure its noisier than it used to be

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Originally posted by omega0684
engine rebuild (almost done), ali panels to be replaced with carbon fibre, fit bonnet scoop. maybe do carbon fibre dash change over, detachable steering wheel. and need to get carbon fibre arm rests and half doors made. im sure that there are loads of other things but i can't remember everything!

oh i forgot i have air box to do as well!

and i want to fit a hydrolic clutch

its a never ending list!

[Edited on 1/10/09 by omega0684]

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mods? still got to finish the first round of the car

1. Fit gear indicator
2. Fit Flatshifter kit

But winter begins in two months, until then we have to have our intake valves replaced, the Power Commander mapped on a rolling road session and test drive the car on a track...
Gergely

Make some progress on getting the car on the road

1)Finish Windscreen Mounting (change angle)
2) Change rear Diff to LSD
3) Get a Hood asI have a Windscreen
4) Tune with rolling Road hopefully

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Originally posted by clairetoo
And maybe a set of billet alloy multi V pullies

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In order from now:

send my rebuilt zx9r carbs off to bogg bros

final fit the the steering column

install the oil cooler

fit the side panels and temp fit the scuttle to allow mounting of the header tank.

plumb in the engines cooling system and electronics

fit completed zx9r setup

have the car sent to my exhaust guy to have that fabricated

then....

START THE ENGINE

Does anyone on here use there kit car in the winter months, winterised ot otherwise?

ive got the following on my list:

finish rebuilding hubs / shafts
swap hubs and diff our for the 3.14
full cage + side bars
tidy up engine wiring + move ecu onto engine cradle
few over bits of wiring to tidy
improve coolant plumbing slightly.

Ill be using mine when its not raining - don't mind cold but hate rain!

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Originally posted by morcus
Does anyone on here use there kit car in the winter months, winterised ot otherwise?

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i am taking the pinto out fitting a durtec, and chaning the diff, rear half shafts and rear brakes to disc.

Well the old girl went for her upgrades this afternoon,

R88's and 13"minilites with CSR front wings.
V6 capri gearbox,
Koln to atlas axle swap
Triton seats
Possible dash swap, no digi dash purchased yet tho!
907 can fitment.

Fix the pheasant strike to the nose cone and get a load of powdercoating done.

Don't know what i'm doing next week and no the VTEC isn't going in, it's for a mates mini.





ATB Dan.

Oil Pump replacement
Sump modification for turbo oil return
Clean and degrease engine
Buy shiny new T3 turbo from the states
Test drive
Start rubbing down!

Hmmmmm turbo zetec

ATB Dan.