McC\'s Build

[McC]

aluminium loft insulation tape as is it shiny & will reflect the heat away from the inturnal wires!

ah good call! might try that myself!

[McC]

well got an email from my rebuilder, and he saying that the block the housings and iron are good to use again, which is a boost. And he will be inspecting the rotors and seals today. Hopefully going to go round to his tomorrow to have look for myself.

[McC]

well i went round to have a look at my engine. And as you can tell from my wanted post,after a clean up there were signs of damage.

Pics are a bit unclear, I used my works camera as I didn\'t have mine on me at the time.

Here is my bits:




damage to the front housing, grooves on the face.


damage to rotor, no evidence how this happened, even my rebuilder is stumped. big chunk off center, near the tip.



just a little bump in the road

Other than the damage everything is within tolerance, the irons just need their faces skimmed by a couple of thow (thousandth of an inch) to get them smooth again.

[McC]

Good news, both the housing and rotor are good to use again, double check with pip and he said he would use the rotor again, and my rebuilder managed to save the housing so all I need is seals, gaskets. Win!

So yesterday and tonight I got on to cleaning some engine bits!

How they looked after a power hose blast:





After the first bash of elbow grease







second stint today





getting there, slowly!

[McC]

Haven\'t done much recently due to weather and recently my daily driver packing in.

But before the thunder last weekend I managed to trial fit a front coil-over, old stuff was really easy to come off, I think it was due to the mass amount of wd-40 left to soak in over the last 2 weeks!






And tonight I have placed the order for all my rebuild parts which included:
1 x 13B Engine gasket set with water seals
6 x Apex seals (2 piece, 2mm)
6 x Apex sealsprings long
6 x Apex seal springs short
4 x Oil control ring rubber seals inner
4 x Oil control ring rubber seals outer
12 x Corner seal springs
1 x Front main oil seal
1 x Rear main oil seal
1 x Pilot bearing
1 x Pilot bearing oil seal
1 x FD Lower intake manifold gasket
1 x Upper Inlet Manifold Gasket
12 x Corner seals with rubbers

Still need to decide on a clutch and get a clutch release bearing.

[McC]

need some advise guys, engine is coming along nicely.

got me an apexi ecu thanks to a very nice member on here, cheers dude!

right so to run in the engine,i should hav it on low boost. my question is, once iv got the engine in can i control the boost thru the pfc or do i need a manual boost controller? The pfc that i got is a used one.

any advice would go down a treat! cheers!

[karl_tate]

you dont want to be using any boost when running the engine in. any sort of throttle position to put some load on the engine but dont let it go out of vacuum, a little amount of boost after a few hundred miles.

i dont know anything about the twins etc but you must have some sort of boost control. when do you think it will be back on the road??

[karl_tate]

oh and i carnt believe how much is actually attached to the block, its crazy

[McC]

oh and i carnt believe how much is actually attached to the block, its crazy

Your telling me! lol!

this is my first boosted car, so im abit of noob when it comes to how to monitor and control the turbo\'s. Can you turn down boost levels so low that there hardly coming on?

Well at the moment my daily driver has packed in so im trying to get that back on the road, then it will be all hands on deck to hopefully get it run in and mapped for the trip down to JAE in September, hopefully!

[karl_tate]

just keep an eye on your boost gauge. no proper way to turn the boost down but im sure others with twins know of a way by blocking one of the many pipes, solenoids and all that mess.

[McC]

Update!
okay doke so i got my block back, to say that im chuffed with it would be an understatement!






Still have to clean the sump out, fit the oil up take pipe and seal the sump on.

Changed the choice of clutch, instead of the stage 2 exedy im going for a stage 2 ACT 6 puck. It should be arriving this week, along with new coolant hoses and vac hoses to recondition the rats nest!

So the plan this weekend was to get both the front and back done, in terms of disks, pads, lines and suspention! But due to mother nature conspiring against me i only got the front done:Grrr
I started by stripping the HSD\'s down and greasing them up:



If these seize im going to be mega angry!

as i said, the heavens opened and i was practically swimming

so i thought :Nono! im not stopping now! Up with the gazebo!


out with the old, in with the new



coooos came to visit and just stood around staring, pishing and ....ing......never even bothered to lend a hand!

Had to camfer a corner off the hex\'s to make them fit into the original brackets but i made them work. I like how they had turned out!



end result.....for the front at least


I havnt adjusted the coilies to slammage yet but i think im going to have to roll the arches and remove the plastic trim to scrap the floor, cause it pritty tight just now!:eek:






how it sit just now:



think it will look better when i get the rear end done!

It better be nice next weekend.....hopefully i will get alot done!:happ:

[McC]

Well I didn\'t get as much done this weekend as I would of like due to alot of drinking, poker and catching up with old mates.

But thanks again to John at FCM my clutch arrived on Saturday.




so on that went


Kinda make me want a banana FD! LOL!

Gave the housing a clean and replaced the release bearing



Me.....struggling with a hangover! Thinking........wtf is this......?!?!


Also stuck in new spark plugs and put on some trimming.


So what is left to do? :
Sort out rats nest with new hoses
bolt on alternator, power steering pump, water pump
bolt on manifold, turbo pack, lower+upper intake manifold
then drop it in
connect everything up
fill up the fluids
get it running:happ:
still have to do the back suspension and brakes
fit diffuser
fit and connect gauges
re-tape wiring loom

getting slow but surely!

[McC]

Well...it\'s been a while. I will post up more detailed pics of what\'s been added and changed over the last few years. Not much tbh, haha!

Basically got it MOT\'d, insured and taxed the other day

As it stands now

[wolfie1]

Will look out for you going about aberdeen!

[McC]

I don\'t suppose your the Wolfie that works at Wallace performance??