Ada7\'s T-Rex

[Ada7]

Thread revival
Ok, i\'ve been trying to get stuff together to finally be able to get the car ready for mapping.  
Finally got a twin plate clutch and along with a radtec V-mount myself and Kieron were planning to fit it all today. As it turned out the V-mount was enough work for us for one day (even with the help of Lewis sorting out the electric fans) and we decided it would be best to get reworx to do the clutch. Better safe than sorry (Told you so i hear you all cry :o:()

I know i\'m going to have to uprate the fueling and so i\'ve got some 1680cc injectors and waiting for a fuel rail to put them in. Once thats here i can get the car to reworx have them do the clutch, secondary fuel set up (all the connectors and hoses) with fuel pump and then finally map the beast

Anyway, here\'s some pictures of how the V-mount looks now




Red hoses for the hot side, blue for the cold side. Its the latest and greatest trend and you saw it here first :p
Love the way it fills the whole front of the engine bay

Adam

[Test Drives Unlimited]

Looking good there Adam & hope you can make it for Rotorstock 7 :driving

[Ada7]

Got my car booked into Reworx to get all the bits i need doing and then mapping
Very excited now :D Gonna have boost at last

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

BOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSTTTTT! Yayy, good news dude! I got mine going in next week too, so looks like we\'ll both be out menacing society at the  same time :Giggle

[L18M]

the new ic looks awesome
much better than that little thing you had before lol

[Prof]

Liking the look of that intercooler setup :cheers

[Ada7]

Went over to the barn again today to do a few things to the car but by the time me and Kieron got there niether of us were in the mood for doing much :o
Picked up all the bits i needed though for next weeks work and mapping at Reworx including my twin plate OS Giken clutch. Second hand but will do nicely for now


Kieron was taking his Ronnie out for a drive now it is all taxed and stuff so on the way back we stopped on the Top Gear start/finish line for a quick snap


Picked up Hannah on the way to town and let her have a go. Brought a smile to her face...


.... and who says you cant do your weekly shop in an FD


The boot was full up of parts before you ask why is it all in the back seat :p

Adam

[RXSpeedy]

LOL who says there\'s lack of room in the back :Laugh Awesome progress with your Rx and looks lovely, i want your steering wheel though haha.

[Ada7]

Well back home now and what a day its been. I\'ve been up for 28 hours now and absolutely knackered but got a huge grin on my face from the drive home.
First off i\'ve got to thank Chris and Geoff from Reworx so much for all the work they did today on my car and of course BIG hugs, tugs and love for the Oldone himself Era for building me the strong engine i have :D

First of all was fitting the twin plate clutch i got. Annoyingly i wasn\'t sent half the stuff that was supposed to be with it. All the bolts, fixing and converter for it were missing but thankfully Chris was able to route through many mystical and magical boxes and pull out all the bits i needed to get it on. I so glad i didn\'t attempt this at the barn now as i had no idea how much work in involved in getting the box, clutch and flywheel off. The fdukin flywheel nut just wouldn\'t budge at all! :o

With that done and the box back on it was on to the fueling. One of Kev\'s Billet Blitz fuel rails with some 1680cc injectors and some nice connectors to go with it was fitted as well as all the lines for the boost controller sorted out. I\'d bought along a walbro 040 pump on the tank bracket just ready to drop in but it turns out i already have one so that\'ll be up for sale soon
A quick oil and filter change and a couple of other bits and it was all ready for the mapping

Geoff got it all dialed in pretty quickly and gave it a few runs to see what figures we had. It sounds SOooooo loud in there and the turbo spooling up is, and i dont use this word often.... awesome
Sadly the 040 pump wasn\'t man enough for my ports and turbo and so we only got a max of 355rwhp at 0.8 bar. All the solinoids and live feeds to the pump were good so nothing to worry about there. We were all a little disappointed but Geoff seems to feel that with a bigger pump (044) and another tweek on the roller that it will easily make 400 and could go as far as 430-450 when up to 1.1bar boost

All i will say about the drive home is that people weren\'t getting out of the way of the massive grin on my face quick enough! The power comes in so smooth and just keeps building to the 6,500rpm limiter that Geoff put on for now (just so not to run lean). the clutch will take a bit of getting used to (as will watching the fuel gauge drop even quicker now :o) but by god its good fun

Gotta go now as got to get ready for going out (god knows how i\'m gonna stay awake) but for now all i\'ll say is i\'m loving the single life :p :D:D

Adam

[Ada7]

Few pictures ......






Got some videos of it on the rollers but need to sort through them to see how good they are

Adam

[Ada7]

Here\'s a graphs from one of the power runs


Adam

[Ada7]

Just a quick update on this as havne\'t done a lot recently.
Got rex booked in at ReWorx next tuesday to have a 044 fitted and then a remap to up the boost and hopefully loose the 6.5k rev limit.

Also while i\'m off this week i plan to (hopefully) finally fit my Knight Sports Twin Pop ups. Thinking i might get some HIDs to go with them.
From advice from Phil i need H3 fitting with what ever temp bulbs to go with it so thinking between kits like these on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370464058904&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260741827880&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Any more advice anyone can give about these would be great
Got a couple of other little bits to add and touch up too while i can. Plus now after the Brighton run on sunday i\'ve got to get my front bumper repaired and resprayed due to a small arguement with a kerb! :mad:

Thats it for now, as i said, not much changed or happened.
Will let you all know what power figures i get tuesday once the pump in sorted out

Adam

[Ada7]

Well not a very productive day today in the end.
Me and Nik were going to finally get my Knight Sports lights on and also fit the HID kit i\'d got too. Well thats what we thought...
In the end it became a battle between us and some bloody stubben bolts and screws that just wouldn\'t undo (plus me also being an idiot and geting a rachet spanner stuck between the light unit and my intercooler, resulting in me having to remove said intercooler to get spanner out ) so we ended up after a good few hours more or less where we started.
Only good points were that i fitted some LED bulbs to the side lights and got my Dragon Performance tensioner pulley on
Oh well, hope tomorrow is a better day at ReWorx
Photos please Nik

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

Lol, what a fduking frustrating day. Just hours spent chasing our tails in ever decreasing circles. The spanner was just funny by that stage, it had undone the bolt right to the point where it was up against the IC end tank...and that was it. Cos it\'s not a reversible spanner you have to take it off the bolt and flip it over to do the bolt up again, which we couldn\'t cos the spanner wouldn\'t do up the bolt again without flipping it over which we couldn\'t do because the bolt stuck out too far to get the spanner off....aaarrrrrrgh! Endless loop :mad:

Plus the fact that every single fduking fastener seemed to have irretreviably welded itself to its receptacle and the bizarre wiring for the Knightsports lights that seems to be more complex than rocket surgery errrr brain science? Meant we gave up in disgust and put it all back (almost) as it was Whoever at Mazda thought of those Eeezzzeee-rust phillips head screws holding the light covers on need killing for crimes against amateur mechanics :mad:

Tried everything, here a random fat old silver-haired bald bloke tries an impact driver on them :rolleyes:


some of the fasteners just wouldn\'t give up, even after blowtorch, dremelling, drilling, stud extractors and sheer Herculesian brute force. We did eventually get one side off, here the car is trying for a starring role in the "recognise the first signs of a stroke" adverts


And we even got as far as trial-fitting the KS lights before getting the spanner stuck and having to diassemble the entire engine bay to get it out :o


Look nice, yeah? However, we just ran out of time to get it finished with all the wiring that would need doing as well, so here Adam is in his best mechanics\' pose putting it all back to stock


Still a lovely lookin car from most any angle though, innit!


Not a total waste, nice shiny billet Dragon pulley was a minor triumph


PLEASE, kids, don\'t try this at home as a method of cleaning your pulleys


New LED sidelights are probably brighter than the stock headlights :cool:




Oh, yes...


Awwwwwww Is this the look of a man suffering acute terror or what hahaha

[Ada7]

Yeh holding Niah was the scaryist part of the day for me, even worse than cleaning up the pulleys with the engine running :p
We should of just got both KS light units trial fitted in and left them like that (never mind all the covers and electrics rubbish). It looks quite good just as it is there :p
Loving the new LED side lights, pictures look great. Cheers dude

Adam