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gonna be such a cool car! Hey Alex, what a small world we live in! Andy's car used to have megasquirt, the 'kit' is now in boxes on my garage floor and will be installed on the estate.....your old estate. So far the 6-3-1 is fitted and I am just trying to sort the trigger wheel on to a spare bottom pulley. The original viscous fan is going and the megasquirt will control a Kenlowe. All this will go on the original engine, once happy with the setupI can decide whether to breath on the engine or replace it with a mk1 pi engine that I have in the garage. This has the early cross drilled crank, lighter flywheel, better cam and a bigger valve head designed for injection. But the old girl is still providing sterling service. Colin Sorry for thread jack boris... But hiya Colin! Hannah and I were wondering how our old estate was going and we had lost your email so couldn't contact you. Glad to hear that 'old hoe' is still going strong. Have you got a thread up on her? Now Onto this beasty. I am very very much liking this conversion. For quite a long time now we have both wanted a mk1 and I have been looking out for one but Viva keeps getting in the way. When I find one I hope you don't mind me stealing your conversion idea. It fits easily and looks good. That said, I do have several spare Mazda v6 engines.. but they ain't anywhere near as torquey and that's what I have always loved about trumps. Really glad you got it all running now after all the bother. Will be a sweet car indeedy! Alex |
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This is one car I would gladly sell my car to own. fantastic job.
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No problem with the thread jack Alex, I've emailed Colin to let him know, not sure how often he reads this thread.
And thanks for the compliments, made all the better, coming from people who have built and own such great cars and because we're flat hunting at the moment, it means the housetruck is even more appealing!
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And MOT tomorrow (Monday)
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And MOT tomorrow (Monday) Good luck with that  Nick |
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Thanks Nick. So to follow on from my last build post, a new aluminium thermostat housing was purchased (cheaper than a proper BMW plastic one!) and the rad was duly removed.  As I removed the plastic housing, I realized that the sealing O ring was installed in the wrong place! And the plastic housing was fine!! In my defence, I did install it as shown in both the manual and the parts list. Still always good to add a bit of bling and the plastic ones are a weak point, I know it'll fail somewhere very convenient, like the Brussels ring road during the rush hour. A bicycle brake cable was purchased and fitted as a throttle cable, I was a little worried that the number of curves it passes through to reach the throttle body, might make it stiff, but it's very smooth and the accelerator pedal gives full throttle and before I'm making a dent in the floor. Brake lines were finished and installed, but the one that runs behind the engine, wouldn't seal. Because it's impossible to get this line installed neatly with the engine in place, Rally Design provided a braided hose. Which makes me wish I'd done all the brake lines in braided, it looks really good! Maybe when I fit the Stag brakes, I'll upgrade. The exhaust was removed and sleeved with a heatproof tube, not all the way along it's length, just the middle section where it runs near to brake lines and the battery cable. Which runs from the battery in the boot, under the car.  A aluminium right angle was fitted between the strut brace and the front edge of the engine bay, this provides support for the MAF, air filter and the air filter heat shield. The heat shield is made from a very thin printing plate, so thin, I could cut it with scissors.  And thin enough to give me a couple of deep paper style cuts! Must get some Band Aids into the garage, a tissue held on with masking tape isn't very hygienic! And then, as at the start, the girlfiend braved a cold day and helped me re-fit the bonnet.  Spot the difference between this photo and the photo where she helped remove the bonnet. No, same girlfiend, different everyday car! Attention then turned to the interior, with the parcel shelf refitted, drivers seat back in and the centre console is in it's new place. Because the engine and box fit so well, the console is just 2 mm out of place. Which meant new holes drilled and self-tappers in place of the original set screws. I'd had a plate cut in stainless to fit into the centre console when I had the exhaust flanges cut, this has been fitted with a period rubber gaiter, I can't say which car it's come from, I'd be thrown off the many Triumph forums I belong to!  I could now sit in the car and drive it. On private land of course! A small glitch, (wouldn't be the build thread you know and love, without one!) with the engine ticking over, the temperature gauge climbed into the red. However, the engine didn't seem to be overheating, Nick Jones spotted the deliberate mistake, the gauge voltage regulator wasn't fitted correctly! This regulator takes 12 volts down to 10 volts for the gauges, this stops the gauges fluctuating with the alternators output. If this regulator fails, the gauges over-read, because they're now getting 12v instead of 10v. Which explains the high coolant temperature on the gauge. The coolant fan motor blows a 30 amp fuse, when it cuts in, but runs fine without a fuse. Guess it's just the amp surge when it starts, so have now fitted a 40 amp fuse, if this doesn’t work, then it's bent nail time (or a relay without a built in fuse!). It is a huge fan, 15 inches and a “high” power motor, according to the catalogue. The Triumph speedometer no longer works, because the BMW gearbox is electronic, not cable. So I've used a bicycle speedo, this takes a reading from the propshaft. And the last thing (I think!), an original 2000 MK1 gear knob for the gear-stick. This has been in the flat for many months while I've been working on the car and is the part I've always said I'd fit last.  I'd really like to leave fitting it till after the MOT, but I'm scared the car would fail because of a missing gear-knob, so I'll do it just before I leave for the MOT.  And it's off for a MOT. |
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And it almost passed.........
Failed on poor handbrake and one headlamp misaligned!
The MOT man seemed to think that the headlamp was just a miss-fitted bulb. And I'm hoping it's just that the new shoes need bedding in.
Pleased that nothing in the conversion had caused a problem, but still disappointed I won't make the Ace Cafe on Tuesday.
The day wasn't without drama though and as ever, two steps forward, one step back!
While I was getting the car ready for the MOT, pumping up the tyres, changing a number plate bulb, the engine was running to warm up.
I was waiting to see where on the gauge the radiator fan would cut in, now the voltage regulator was working, when steam started billowing from the radiator!
It had sprung a leak........I guess where the (unknown used history) radiator had been in and out of the engine bay so many times while it was being fitted, it must have picked up some damage.
And it was leaking, badly. Some K-Seal was pored into the top hose and this seemed to seal it, so the car went for it's MOT.
However on return from the MOT, steam started leaking from the radiator again, so a new one will be ordered.
I'm also going to rethink the radiator fan layout, it's not close enough to the radiator, too much air leaks around the radiator, not enough air goes through.
Not sure whether to fit a different fan, a smaller one that'll fit closer to the rad, or try to seal the 5 to 8 mm gap between the present fan and radiator.
So a good few days before it's on the road, but as ever, getting closer.
And I did get to drive it a bit and I'm quite pleased at how it goes. ;D
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Fantastic stuff! Ok, so it didn't pass first time round, but a good 'shake down flight' none the less! Car looks brilliant. I'm still tempted by one but I've had too many Scimitar related christmas presents this year to change back again now.
Next time I head off to visit my cousines in Canterbury I'll have to make a slight detour and come and have a gander.
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Ah..... close! Bloody Triumph handbrake syndrome - an MoT on new shoes - always high risk........ I've had similar problems in the past!
I can't remember whether you have the Mk1 or Mk2 brakes on there now but if the Mk2 with self (ha bloody ha) adjusters my trick is to whip the drums off one at a time and gently step on the brake until you hear the adjuster click, try the drum on and if it's still easy, try for another click. You want it to just slip on. The self adjusters always seem to leave things a bit too slack.
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Nice job AB! What ort of power and torque does te bimmer engine make?
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Smiler, please do pop in next time you're down in Kent.
Nick, how now got some NOS asbestos shoes on the way, understand they give much better braking. Will get stuck into the brakes tomorrow.
Endatuning, who removed all the unwanted bits of the ECU programme did add a few extra HP. I think he just altered the map so it'd make maximum power, rather then economy. He's also upped the rev limit to 7200 rpm!
Not much else he can do, without a bigger throttle body.
Power Output (bhp@rpm) 170/5500
Torque (mkg@rpm) 23/3950
Are the standard figures, he said that the remap should push the HP closer to 180, can't remember what the Torque could be and I've lost the email! However, the air filter is now different and it no longer recirculates crank fumes into the induction system, so who knows?
I will put it on a rolling road to find.
I do know that the car feels a bit quicker.
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the 2.5 engines are 195bhp
I have the 2.2 straight 6 in my daily and that is the 170bhp one.
I think fitting a 3.0 inlet give a bit more power, i'd guess you would be over 200bhp from it.
must go very well, and the sound of a straight 6 is great
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Jan 21, 2013 21:29:00 GMT
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Third time lucky!
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Jan 21, 2013 22:16:18 GMT
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It now has MOT? All road legal swallowing miles beneath its tyres?
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Jan 21, 2013 22:20:36 GMT
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Yup, third time was the dream!
I'll post the full saga tomorrow. But right now, very happy. Only one thing could improve my mood, driving weather!
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Last read of this thread had me with a failed MOT, a leaking radiator and a poorly sited electric fan. A new radiator was ordered, Rally Design sold me a smaller fan that would fit tight against the radiator, this is held in place with 4 plastic ties that thread through the radiator. I had used these ties before, but thought they wouldn't work with a modern aluminium radiator, Rally Design assured me they would and so far, so good. (sorry Ray, you were right!) Unfortunately to remove the radiator now, it means dropping the engine out! With the fan now attached permanently to the radiator, it won't squeeze through the gap between engine and engine bay. However the brakes were harder to fix. One of the rear brakes had leaked, so new cylinders and shoes were fitted. But now, both the foot brake at the rear and the handbrake weren't producing enough stopping power. The new shoes had a modern non-asbestos linings, which I've since discovered can take a 1000 miles to bed in! I tried taking emery paper to the shoes, rubbing down the high spots, in an effort to get some back brakes, but the linings were so hard, I made little impression on them. So I tried the MOT again and failed. Luckily, my MOT man is one of the good guys, a classic car enthusiast himself, driving a original Model T. And not charging any re-test fees for the second and final attempts. I could see that less then 10% of the shoes were actually rubbing against the drum, I'd sourced some NOS asbestos shoes, but after some thought, I refitted a used shoe and a NOS to each drum. This isn't as bad as it seems, the pair of shoes that came of the non-leaking side had many miles left in them, were asbestos and had been perfectly bedded in. These shoes were fitted in the “leading shoe” position on each side, this is the shoe that provides 80% of the forward braking, the other (trailing) shoe only really works when reversing, so a NOS shoe was fitted here. And because the MOT tester checks the brakes on the rollers, as if the car was going forwards, I hoped this would give me enough brakes to pass. I spent a Sunday in the snow fitting and re-fitting drums, setting the brakes, sanding high spots on the NOS shoes. Then adjusting the handbrake. The car had also failed on a poor headlamp pattern, this was cured by fitting a spare. And success! And sorry, because once again I didn't video my happy dance. But some surprised people in the part of London where I happened to be when I got the phone call! The tester described the rear brakes as "fantastic now"! Now to put some miles on the car, to see what falls off or breaks! Already the exhaust needs a fiddle, to stop it banging on the floor and a new aftermarket temperature gauge is on it's way, the old gauge is giving false readings and I need to knows!, (apologies to Dirty Harry!). And the cold start device seems a bit lazy, not sure if it's a bad air temperature sensor or sticking ICV, car needs to held on a fast tick-over for about 30 seconds before it'll pull cleanly.   No problem really, means I get to listen to that great engine noise! All I need now, is some good driving weather and a tax disc. The second is easy, the first is going to be agony!  Moved the number plate, to let more air into the radiator, and it looks really cool (pun intended!), that's the inner boy racer speaking and it's him who loves the loud exhaust! And one last piece of good news, the starter motor that sounded like a tin bucket of nails, is slowly getting quieter.  I'm hoping my next post will have less fixing and more driving reports.......and now, the Oscar style acceptance speech. Thanks to Ray, Enda@endatuning, DanThe and all on the E30 Zone, the Broadway garage, everyone who helped with advice, encouragement and parts and the girlfiend for support (of the bonnet!). |
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Looks cool! It's starting to sway me back from Scimitar desire to Triumph desire (Damn you! I thought I had that decision sorted). That looks to be one car with huge grin factor. I'm looking forward to reading the road test report. |
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Top work Andy! Just needs full testing now. I think the CT 10CR is fully booked, but still some places on the HCR. I normally do about 1000 miles in 27 or so hours on those but this years will be more 'cause it finishes in Lancashire..... Now....... Shall we start a sweep on the diff life? ;D Nick |
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Hi Andy - I'm really pleased that you gave the car a run today and visited me at my workshop.
I was gobsmacked when you gave me the keys and said take it for a run !!
Suffice to say WOW !! You have one hell of a car there !! I'm glad that the work I did for you has helped you transform an ordinary Triumph 2000 into an
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