'86 Capri Turbo

Bit of an update, done quite a bit

Bonnet now fits properly;



Hidden the intercooler a buit and opened out the lower valance holes for better airflow, I did have the intercooler in the grill with the samcos going through the inner light holes but it was a bit too in your face. Pizza delivery guy thought it might be an oil cooler till I told him



Plumbed the audi rad in;



and used a mk4 golf header tank to finish the cooling sytem and filled with summer/winter antifreeze;



Filled with some mighty expensive but mighty fine engine oil and new filter;



Battery charged





Better stance with the heavier engine



Under bonnet wiring finished (apart from leccy fan), all earths and battery wires done at last














To get it running (or at least to be able to turn the key and hope) I have to put two earths under the dash and mount the cabin fusebox out of the way but accessable (bit of a pain!) and put in a fuel line. I'm hopin that this time next weekend I will be able to try and fire it up

Cheers dude! Yeah, having to work outside for the most of it, the nights drawing in are a worry! Hoping it'll be done soon, I'm looking forward to a video of it firing up too!!

Quality motor!
Very much liking the choice of engine

Excellent! Can't be far off running now!

do yourself a massive favour and ditch the dumpvalve, will give you loads of running problems. the turbo chatter is enough to make you wet yourself anyway

ha ha love it! looking good chap, now get some sideways vids

Just got the anti roll bar back on with my new TCA poly bushes, moved it over on the drive so I can get in the drivers footwell and put the pedal box back in. All systems go! don't know what to do about an exhaust at the moment though! I think I can butcher my cherry bomb into a side exit which - obviously - would be very cool, but I think it might be too loud for using it every day. I might wait till I havesorted everything else, tow it to my welding mates house, give him my ashely middle and back box and get him to link them all up..

because it runs an afm there is a metered amount of air in the interooler and piping, when you back off the d/v releases the air but the ecu still fuels for that amount of air that has just been released. so when you get back on the throttle theres loads of fuel and no air leaving you with a massive flat spot and then a big pop and flame and off you go again. Very annoying if your trying to get through the gears a bit quick while embarrasing a poncy porsche A lot also boost leak and generally cause bad running like idling high

mine always idles around 1700rpm for quite a while its normal to be on choke for a long time but just make sure you have no leaks in your i/c piping or vacuum lines.

Managed to get the pedal box and steering column back on today, finished the electrics, fitted the clutch master cylinder and made a copper hydraulic pipe bled the system etc.. I have a clutch!! The Capri officially moved under the power of Nissan today! Unfortunately not sorted the accelerator pedal yet so it only moved a bit but it still moved!