Jono\'s drift project..... Truckin sideways

[Jono FD3]

no... she won\'t be at RS matey, although we did think about taking her up! LOL maybe next year when we have a blower attached to it!
Originaly it was a 2.3 Bedford Brava (basicaly an Isuzu P\'up sold under licence) the engine was changed some time in it\'s past for a Vauxhall 2.0 8v 115bhp, and as a result goes a hell of alot better than the 2.3 carb 82bhp engine! But we haven\'t quite got the grunt at the mo, hence the home-brew turbo mod, we should be good for about 180bhp then

Jono

[Grant Monkhouse]

This reminds me of mate that put together a car for the drag strip not drifting. He bought a decent sized turbo ff eBay for a quid, got a renault 5gtt carb, a boost controller, some ear defenders with a bit of pipe attached to the engine to listen for knock, my dad porter the head and inlet, then my mate bolted all the bits onto his polo 1.4. Went to a dyno session with the polo owners club and a achieved 118 bhp! All of the polo owners were amazed and there was only one polo that made that kind of power but had had thousands spent on it. My mate spent no mrs than a few hundred quid!

Can\'t beat doing stuff that doesn\'t cost a huge amount for a lot of fun.

Oh and I forgot to say it spins the wheels up in third!

He now has a rwd car that he is going to bolt a turbo to and see how they get on with power for that

[Grant Monkhouse]

Edit last post. Where it says 118 bhp it should read 208 bhp. Don\'t know how I managed that mistake. Must have been tired.

[Jono FD3]

Well, here\'s a quick update for those interested!!

 

We managed to get the box sorted.... turnd out to be the pin that activates the reverse lights! It managed to get jammed behind the selector rod in the box & put us ut for the day!! anyway, box was sorted & refitted on the thursday, hydro made & fitted on the friday & skidded on the Saturday! all I can say is... OMG what a difference!! Up untill now we have done one tyre a session... this last one we did 7!! we were carrying alot more speed in to the skidds & holding some nice angle through out the drifts! we also managed to snap out steering wheel in the morning, but managed to repair it with 1/2 a roll of gaffa tape! Propper motor sport! LOL

Anyway, here are some pics.... coments on the angle & in general all welcome!!






3 pics catching the exit of a good skid, but running out of tarmack!




This is what we had to cut off the axle after one tyre let go:


what ya think??

Jono

[Grant Monkhouse]

Absolute awesomeness

[Brett]

Brilliant! Love it

[Jono FD3]

A quick vid one of the lads knocked up from the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDjKeA7nIIc
Jono

[Jono FD3]

a little update for those interested:
a few parts I\'ve been hauding over the last 2 years finaly finding a use:

Fuel pressure reg (just need a gauge for it)


TD04 turbo from an impreza (cheers Joe )


Turbo elbow from an old stainless Scooby system I cut up for the RX7:


and finaly, I\'ve desided to turn the Janspeed tubular manifold in aggys post in to a top mount turbo mani.... basicaly we wont have to doctor the turbo in any way and the turbo elbow will be poinging the correct way:


well, turbo manifold has now been started well when I say started, the deconstruction stage is complete! the stainless 4 branch manifold has now been cut in to its componant parts, removed thestock manifold on the truck, so tomorrow I can bolt the flange to the head & make a start on the tubing! hopefuly it wont take long to tack everything up. then I can break it down to seam weld every joint (think there might be a few )

anyway, enough blab... time for some pics:

Roughly where the turbo will sit (battery will need relocating to in the cab I think!)




Manifold off the engine:


Stainless manifold ready to meet the grinder!


Componant parts ready for tomoz:

[Jono FD3]

Also did a few new stickers for her to make it look more like a genuine drifter (Although we might get shouted at over this one! LOL) :

[Jono FD3]

Oh what an evening! working away in the shed cutting the pipes so the fit.... then whent out to weld it all together & OMG why is it all white! LOL
anyway, got the thing tacked up so it resembles a manifold now, just got to fill a few little bits in and seam the lot up & then it\'s all set to get put on



This is what I walked out to after cutting & prepping:


and the final item all tacked up (just got to get the mounting flange & fit that, then we are done!


yesterday I seam welded the joints in the pipes and put the colector on to the manifold. All I\'m waiting for now id the flanges that my Bro inlaw is knocking up for me in work, then I can cut the vertical pipe to length, weld the flange on, then it\'s on to the exhaust!
Only thing is, yesterday we found that the rad had split in several places due to the big freeze the othe week so now we need a new rad aswell! hopefuly that will be soerted out by aggy today, then we can start fitting the intercooler and oil cooler..... after that it\'s just oil lines & we can start her up and have a listen to what she sounds like









Jono

[rx7boy]

Awesome work, cant wait to see/hear this running !!

[Grant Monkhouse]

looking good!! how are you planning on upping the fuel to get the turboabbused properly?

[Jono FD3]

larger injectors (already in) fuel pressure raised to 3 bar and a ecu chip (which conveniently is already there), just need to rotate it to sort out the ignition timing then we are good to run up to 0.8 bar! LOL

[shaunwil]

That is going to be mental. Would love to see it running next year. Very interesting project for sure !

Shaun

[TiddlesRX7]

Yeah you should bring it to rotorstock to go on the sprint track