So the great resurrection shuffle begins again. The first thing we needed to eliminate from our enquiries was the wastegate. If you remember, it had come from a car that had blown up whilst mapping, and when we bolted it to mine we found a bit of apex seal still trapped in it. I'd had boost issues on the dyno to the point the mapper thought the boost controller had been plumbed wrongly. All this pointed to the wastegate perhaps not being all it could be. I was through taking risks on secondhand stuff, this was going to be done right this time.
A mate in the club imports bits from all over, mostly the Americas. He did me a mates rates deal on
a Tial v60 60mm wastegate It's a wee bit lovely, innit?
Right, moving on the next thing was I needed a manifold to replace the cracked cast one. Enter stage left...
A tubular stainless Trust manifold. It was used,but that was OK cos we'd need to cut it about a bit anyway to fit with the rest of the gear. At least it was sound. The next major link in the chain was the wiring. About the time I was still having loads of problem with the rat's nest while on the twin turbo setup, the engine horse-shoe loom had been replaced (it runs round the engine bay in a big "U", hence horseshoe). It feeds sparks to all the engine ancilliaries, but they suffer from being cooked by turbo rotary heat and mine had been 17 years old by then.
Of course, the replacement was designed for the twins and had loads of now obsolete wires and connectors hanging on it. Plus, it was getting as crusty and brittle as the last one. Since electrical issues could well have been to blame for the enigne blowups, the loom had to be changed. And not for another manky used one, this time we agreed J was going to make a one-off bespoke loom from scratch, exactly what was needed, no more, no less.
Which led on to the ECU. The Apexi had had its day as far as I was concerned. It was OK at running the car so long as everything was purring along, but it was just too numb and too slow to react to mutant problems. More to the point, you had no way of interrogating it after the event to find out what had failed or why. It was time to move onwards and upwards, to be exact, a Link G4 rotary specific ECU. To my knowledge, the first on a UK street rotary.
They have a great rep amongst the Scooby boys,and are so much more advanced than the Apexi, packed with features, extra resolution, datalogging, ancilliary control (it'd even run the Oil Metering Pump that injects oil into the housings to lubricate the tips). Yeah, it was twice the price of the Apexi, but hopefully it was twice as good.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I'll be needing one of these
Mmmm, nice, eh? Ed, the purveyor of fine wastegates sorted me out with a cut-price Brazilian
That's an MPT64 with .70 on the front and .96 on the back on a P-trim. Or roughly, a bit bigger than a T04R. Hmmm. Gonna need bigger engine porting.
An exhaust was flung together from a Stainless Dragon mid-pipe with tiny silencer, and a very dirty and disreputable Kakimoto Red Label. Which is supposed to be a competition-only exhaust. It's loud. Full circle, it's as loud as the first blue Rex was on the hilariously named "silent" Hi-Power
The parts were assembled (again), would it work?
Place your bets ;D
A mate in the club imports bits from all over, mostly the Americas. He did me a mates rates deal on
a Tial v60 60mm wastegate It's a wee bit lovely, innit?
Right, moving on the next thing was I needed a manifold to replace the cracked cast one. Enter stage left...
A tubular stainless Trust manifold. It was used,but that was OK cos we'd need to cut it about a bit anyway to fit with the rest of the gear. At least it was sound. The next major link in the chain was the wiring. About the time I was still having loads of problem with the rat's nest while on the twin turbo setup, the engine horse-shoe loom had been replaced (it runs round the engine bay in a big "U", hence horseshoe). It feeds sparks to all the engine ancilliaries, but they suffer from being cooked by turbo rotary heat and mine had been 17 years old by then.
Of course, the replacement was designed for the twins and had loads of now obsolete wires and connectors hanging on it. Plus, it was getting as crusty and brittle as the last one. Since electrical issues could well have been to blame for the enigne blowups, the loom had to be changed. And not for another manky used one, this time we agreed J was going to make a one-off bespoke loom from scratch, exactly what was needed, no more, no less.
Which led on to the ECU. The Apexi had had its day as far as I was concerned. It was OK at running the car so long as everything was purring along, but it was just too numb and too slow to react to mutant problems. More to the point, you had no way of interrogating it after the event to find out what had failed or why. It was time to move onwards and upwards, to be exact, a Link G4 rotary specific ECU. To my knowledge, the first on a UK street rotary.
They have a great rep amongst the Scooby boys,and are so much more advanced than the Apexi, packed with features, extra resolution, datalogging, ancilliary control (it'd even run the Oil Metering Pump that injects oil into the housings to lubricate the tips). Yeah, it was twice the price of the Apexi, but hopefully it was twice as good.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I'll be needing one of these
Mmmm, nice, eh? Ed, the purveyor of fine wastegates sorted me out with a cut-price Brazilian
That's an MPT64 with .70 on the front and .96 on the back on a P-trim. Or roughly, a bit bigger than a T04R. Hmmm. Gonna need bigger engine porting.
An exhaust was flung together from a Stainless Dragon mid-pipe with tiny silencer, and a very dirty and disreputable Kakimoto Red Label. Which is supposed to be a competition-only exhaust. It's loud. Full circle, it's as loud as the first blue Rex was on the hilariously named "silent" Hi-Power
The parts were assembled (again), would it work?
Place your bets ;D