RX4 BridgePort Turbo

[Grant Monkhouse]

Grant, looking forward to seeing your car mate. Keep up the good work.

Cheers
Mir

Thanks mate. I\'m getting excited about the first start of the car even though that is a while away at the moment, but it\'s getting there slowly.

[Mir]

Looks good mate. I bet you can\'t wait to get it up and running

[Grant Monkhouse]

Engine harness striPped and retaped blue. Cut out loads of crap such as rats nest, OMP control(going premix) and loads of other stuff

On the LHS is a bunch of cable I\'m keeping in just incase one of them is needed but once the cars running they will be cut out, only ones in that bunch I will keep are probably the fluid level sensor cables but might not even need them.

On the RHS is the cables that run to the year box, may end up removing most of these except the speed cable with plug. Again I will know what I don\'t need once the car is running.

The centre harness is all the main things I need, fuel injectors, TPS, CAS, AIT, AIC, fan thermoswitch, however I may run something seperate to an override switch along with the thermo switch so I can cool the water after I have turned the engine off by flipping the switch.



Just noticed too that I have laid the cables down on the floor in a penis shape. Lmao

[Grant Monkhouse]

Now I have these 2 holes on the rear plate of my engine, FC plates, and want to know which one does what? One of them is for oil temp and the other is for water temp. Which one is which please?

[HaywardRotary]

Now I have these 2 holes on the rear plate of my engine, FC plates, and want to know which one does what? One of them is for oil temp and the other is for water temp. Which one is which please?

Oil pressure on the right and water temp on the left.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Boom

Boom again


Thanks to Steve for selling me this beauty.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Chopped off some of the piping as it will have to be changed to fit in my car where I want it, but I am keeping it as it is big stuff, 100mm pipe!!

Cutting this off also made it easier to handle to get some polishing done on it as it was looking a bit pants TBH. Quite a few deep scratches in the charge cooler but with patience I should get near enough all of them out.

Spent an hour or 2 polishing the charge cooler core this afternoon. Still needs some more work but it looks a lot better than it did before I started.



I wasn\'t going to polish anything in my engine bay but it\'s too late now, no turning back. Compressor housing, alternator and inlet pipings are all going to be polished.

Piping I will do myself but alternator will get sent off as its got too many surfaces and small gaps for me to have any kind of patience with it!!

[Paul-Tll]

Whats with the 3 Lambretta chain cases, barrel and head? looking for a resto project at the moment!
Oh great thread by the way, been following this for some time now lurking about. looking forward to what will be a great motor when finished.
Paul

[Grant Monkhouse]

Whats with the 3 Lambretta chain cases, barrel and head? looking for a resto project at the moment!
Oh great thread by the way, been following this for some time now lurking about. looking forward to what will be a great motor when finished.
Paul

Those casings are my dads, he\'s building at least one more engine for his lambretta using his old racing barrel 225cc. He\'s done some seriously crazy porting in it too.

My cars going to be interesting to drive when it\'s finished and hopefully it will be to everyone\'s liking.

[Mir]

Grant, this is a nice bit of kit. I really liked your car\'s build and I hoping to see more of it soon.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Dropped the engine in today with gear box attached. Going to be taking it in and out a number of times to make the engine mounts in the right place. Once the engines mounted I can check clearance for the turbo and manifold and weld the new flange on in the right place.

Then I can start mounting the charge cooler and all the ancillaries and mount things like FPR and run fuel lines

[600gaz]

FPMSL at the Penis wiring loom pic .
I\'m running a charge cooler on mine as well so looking forward too seeing yours all fitted up .

[Grant Monkhouse]

FPMSL at the Penis wiring loom pic .
I\'m running a charge cooler on mine as well so looking forward too seeing yours all fitted up .

Well mine is huge, been trying to see where everything will go today. With the sheer size of it I will not get any heat soaking.

[re japi]

Nice! Do you have more pics, colour looks nice?

[Grant Monkhouse]

OF the car? there are loads on the thread but havent taken any with a decent camera just yet as need to roll the car out into the sun and give it a good polish up.
 
The colour is an RX8 colour. Stormy Blue i think it is called