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thats awesome mate, i love this SO much! btw - i think you have given me thanks where its not due. at least i don't remember offering you advice on this.
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Your right mate, on a rescan it was Phatphord, my mistake! Ill change that now My apologies Phatphord, my memory is wibblepoo! J
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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As I've said on another thread some time I just love big diameter blower tubing snaking around an engine bay! Looking fantastic BiI I think your skills are well up to working on other cars
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Dec 13, 2006 17:15:18 GMT
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Dec 13th Right well I’ve got a few more bits done – the fuel pressure regulator is in, it was difficult to find a site for this in considerations of being able to see the pressure dial, and having all of the connections accessible. I finally mounted it on the rear cross member mountings. – I drilled out the final few pressure taps for the boost gauge, ECU, and fuel pressure regulator. It was only once I had fitted the manifold and plenum that I’ve missed one! Ah well its got to come off to have the manifold flange milled flat anyways! The silicone reducer arrived from Hong Kong, this meant that I could finish the intake system and fit the air filter. I also assembled the whole plenum assembly, this involved shortening 52 M4 stainless cap head bolts and run a die down each and every one, but it had to be done so hey ho! Here’s a few piccies – The engine bay as it is currently, all the nylon pipes make for such a neat set up, no jubilees in sight!! WhooOOOoOOOpppP!! Cheers J
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Last Edit: Dec 13, 2006 17:23:38 GMT by Blown_Imp
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Dec 13, 2006 17:22:29 GMT
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That is a proper work of art.
Wow.
Speechless.
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Dec 13, 2006 17:55:16 GMT
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TRG - the sillz are ace, no rust what so ever thanks mate, really appreciate it! J HAHAHA when am i gonna learn to read my posts before i post em hahaha i do like ur SILLS aswell tho, they're lovely
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Dec 13, 2006 18:02:58 GMT
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slater
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Dec 13, 2006 18:20:33 GMT
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Foooking ell! thats amasing.
Any idea how much heat the nylon pipe can withstand? i was thinking of using it on the metro as i can get it from work but don't want it melting!! Then again alot of the metro stuff has barbs for rubber hose on it so it might be easyer to stick to that.
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Dec 13, 2006 18:38:11 GMT
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bstardchild
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Any updates?
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Jan 10, 2007 18:16:09 GMT
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ive run out of money again, and time! There are little bits happening here and there, ill get some pictures and things up soon. I got the tensioner machined today at work, the wiring loom is almost there, the intake manifold will be milled flat tomorrow to remove all the heat warp from welding. Not too much to sort then, just the radiator and the alternator. I went for my second interview at triumph on yesterday, it seemed to go well, so i may have some more moany to get it finished soon Cheers J
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Jan 10, 2007 18:18:00 GMT
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Phwoar!
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lebowski
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Jan 10, 2007 19:04:15 GMT
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I had an interview at Triumph a few months ago. Unfortunately I was a hour late (not my fault!) so kind of shot myself in the foot there. Good luck with it.
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Jan 10, 2007 20:04:10 GMT
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J - grab me two sets of 955i throttle bodies? Kthnx. (Best of luck, dude *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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PhoenixCapri
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Jan 10, 2007 20:11:32 GMT
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Interview at triumph cool, got a mate who works there, seems to enjoy it. I even made a 2nd interview there (god knows how) only to say it didnt go well! woops, thank god for Ricardo offering me a job doing something I had a vage clue about! Good luck, hope u got the job (cos I want to see the imp going!)
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Jan 11, 2007 20:24:53 GMT
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Well i fuond out today that ive got thorugh to the last stage, they have asked for a medical too so i think I'm getting close! When i went for my first interview there was a chap there who had been there previously but arrived real late, they still let him come back again! Got some machineing don't today, the intake manifold flange is now flat, I promice itll be going soon J
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Jan 20, 2007 20:20:23 GMT
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January 20th 2007 Yay, update!! Finally time for another update, I’ve been so busy that this was the first weekend I’ve had free since christmas! I have built the wiring loom up and it’s almost finished, I have used the combination of a loom wire kit, nylon braiding, and lots of heat shrink. I’m quite happy with the end result even though there are still a few bits to tidy up. I have yet to attach the power wires front to back or mount the relay board, in this picture you can see the wires going to the coil pack and splitting off going to the water temperature sensor. The nylon braiding is fantastic for covering he wires and keeping the bundled together, it’s very abrasion resistant and looks the shizzle The past couple of weeks I have been assisting in the rebuild of a 1926 Rolls Royce phantom 1 engine, this has been super fun and a real learning experience ( now have a pretty good idea how magnetos work, crazy stuff, they don’t need a battery to make sparks!). Whilst I was there I got a little time on the mill and lathe, so the last bits of machining are done, the flange on the inlet manifold warped from the welding heat, so that’s milled flat. The other bit was the finishing touch for my belt tensioner, the bore of the idler wheel was about 20mm, so I needed a reducer incorporating a 5mm spacer to bring it inline with the belt. Once it was all done I drilled out the mounting plate that I made for the tensioner and put the pulley on, the centre of the pulley is on an eccentric so I can turn it round and tension the belt very finely without drilling more holes, ace! I also got some stainless cap head bolts for the mounting place, mmm shiny I was very apprehensive about putting the tensioner on as it will reveal if I had mounted the blower straight, fortunately when I took the plugs out and span the engine over with a socket and brace it ran straight and true, damn it I’m a genius Here is the engine bay as it stands, I have to get a new manifold gasket and then that little lot can have its final fitting I’ve also found a place to put my new monster tach, it’s too big to fit on the dash top, but I have a redundant space to the left of the steering wheel. I shall cut a piece of carbon sheet to reinforce the dash and neaten it up, then mount the gauge through the carbon. Tomorrow I shall fit the gauge, and sort out the radiator pipe situation, I have come up with a cunning plan as baldric would say. My water pump has 19mm inlet/outlet, and my heater hoses that run front to rear are ¾” or 19mm, this would mean no pipe inside the car and a hell of a lot neater than the current solution. More soon J
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Jan 20, 2007 21:31:53 GMT
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Woot MOREMOREMORE! *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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DutyFreeSaviour
Europe
Back For More heartbreak and disappointment.....
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Jan 21, 2007 16:13:18 GMT
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- at last the boy realises what we've all been thinking since way back - genius indeed.......... been away busy too - is there an update on the Triumph job? Best of luck there....... The end is nigh !!!! ;D
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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Jan 21, 2007 16:54:14 GMT
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well currently the engine will never start, as my laptop has thrown a complete hissy fit, so i have no drives what so ever (CD floppy etc), its asking for a driver so it can see the ECU but that needs the CD drive. Even when that was working every driver i found woulent work, this is driving me up the wall, and there is no end in sight as i am pretty curse word with computers. What i want to do is format the hard drive and start again with windows XP, but that wotn work as the external CD drive needs a driver to work, so once the HD is formatted it wont recognise the curse word CD drive anyways, POS J
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