What have I done??!!

[Don Pamponi]

SOOO excited!!

I must have been on the phone to Tim almost every day asking silly questions.

Its getting aggressive porting & custom manifolds this week:cool

Cant wait to get this thing on the rollers.

Looking into LSD (for the car this time...) + new brakes.

Does anyone know how practical independant rear suspension is?

Can anyone recomend better springs & dampers?

Goodness knows what I\'m running (spax I think) it rattles your teeth.

WHYG?

[travellinbob]

Hey don, are you thinking of converting to IRS at the back? your 7 should have a 5 link rear end from the factory and can be set up to make your car handle extreemly well. Also a fixed rear end will be better for drag racing.
 Go the wheelie bars!:D

[Don Pamponi]

LSD, gearbox & shocks next year me thinks.

My daily driver is broken down, so I suddenly have higher priorities for the ££.

Just in time for the festive season - doh!!:mad:

[Dan Norton]

Sounds like a wicked project don........will love to see it run at rotorstock.

Similar with me.....rebuild, single turbo, apexi power fc.......you think fooking hell how much.....but i think at least once in your life you have to sort a project like this.

Good luck with it all man.

Cheers,

Dan!!

[Don Pamponi]

Yes, I think I\'ll actually be in physical pain when I have to write the cheque for this one!  I\'ve never spent this much on 1 thing in my life:eek:

[MikeLMR]

i\'m sure it\'ll be worth it

[Don Pamponi]

Yes I\'m sure it will too.  Will have to tighten belt for 6 months tho.

It may even be ready for the S E meet in jan.  Hope so.

Just need to sell the Elford kit....

[travellinbob]

hey Don, great to hear that the project is well and tryuly on the way. Can yu tell me about the turbo that you ar eselling with the elford kit? I think i recall that someone had said it was a t3 item? Does it use an intergrall wastegate? Is the exhaust manifold standard? do you have photos?
 sorry for all the questions. Cheers, michael.

[Don Pamponi]

Hi Mike

The elford kit came to me with a non standard turbo a T3 I\'m told - off a cosworth RS200 & 500.  The fellow who sold the kit to me was unaware that the elford configuration is different from most other turbo applications in that its draw through bot blow through.

So, you need possitive oil seals to stop the oil being blown through the turbo.  Some helpfull chap who\'s a club member clued me up on this.
So I took it to Universal Turbo\'s (as recommended by Tim @ RX motors) in august.  They found impact damage and so I had to buy a completely rebuilt exchange unit with the new oilseals.

About £500.  First time I used it was to take the car (a new build from bare shell) to RX motors for a check over & shake down & on the way back I lost compression & had to be flat bedded home.

Turns out the "Rebuilt engine" I got with the car had never been apart ever, only painted, and was at deaths door.  1 motorway dash killed it.

As a result turbo has only done 100 odd miles.

The rest of the kit is mint:

New down pipe, new braided oil feed pipe, new boost gauge, new bleed valve,

Everything painted & heat wrapped.  Even got new inlet gaskits for it.  All you\'d need is a sump gaskit.

It is complete, all inlet/ex manifolds, sump, oilways, SU (serviced), K&N cone filter, the lot.

Only part you may have to modify is the downpipe to suit the exhaust you have.  I had to weld on a flange to suit the rotechnics pipe I was using.  Easy enough to do , or get done tho.

Can\'t take any new pictures cos the car went to RX motors with the kit on it & it\'s still there.  Will attach some pictures of my car with the kit.  Hope this helps.

[Don Pamponi]

from the other side

[travellinbob]

thanks for the photos and info don. What price are you looking for all the bits? and will you separate and sell them off separately?
 perhaps sadgoth would be interested for his new series 1?

[travellinbob]

Hey Don, me again, can you tell me what distributer you were running with the old kit? Are you going tobe running a distributerless system with the new set up?
  cheers, michael.

[MikeLMR]

from the piccy above it looks like a bog standard 12a dizzy with the vacuum advance plugged.

[travellinbob]

Thanks again Mike. I have heard of tuners "locking" distributers, where by < if I am right, they lock the advance mechanism at a certain degree but it cant advance or retard. (somebody PLEASE correct me if I am wrong).
  I am mostly interested because I am wanting to know what to do with mine!

[MikeLMR]

that sounds about right, the standard dizzy has the weights which change the timing with RPM and the vacuum advance which is just for part throttle running I think. Neither are going to be what you want on a turbocharged car.

The 12a turbo\'s have a special dizzy I think ? I also thought the Elfords had somthing rigged on the dizzy ?