Compressor tube no-no? More space in the engine bay :D

[TiddlesRX7]

Sensor should be easy to sort - unscrew that one, stick the standard one in, in its place, no?

I\'d leave it alone tbh. The FC sensor is 1/4 bsp iirc and the FD is M10 X 1.5 or 1.25. So you\'d have to fill the hole and re-tap it.

[Prof]

And thanks Prof. That\'s the problem with a new car, you\'ve done everything to your old one and know if like the back of your hand, but the new one is a mystery! Hope you sort it all OK!

Alas it is the old one that\'s been giving me grief - It needed some items done for MOT - and I\'ve hit all the usual problems again, plus some unexpected....
 
Still - fingers crossed - getting a temporary single exit exhaust on it tonight, and MOT tomorrow.

[papercutout]

I\'m going to confess once again my love for your FC, if i can get the front end of mine to look a bit like yours i\'ll be one happy man!!

:god

Seriously mate, it\'s easy. Take a mixture of a hacksaw, an angle grinder (I found I got straighter cuts with the grinder than the saw) and some files to it. I cut with a cutting disc, then used a grinding disc to shape the cut curves slightly, then filed them to a roughly reasonable shape.



Prof, why\'re you MOT\'ing the old one, when you\'re about to strip and break it? Surely that\'s throwing money down the pan?


Thanks Tiddles, didn\'t know that. I\'ll figure out some wiring trickery when it comes round to it then! Some skinny spade connectors maybe.

[Prof]

Prof, why\'re you MOT\'ing the old one, when you\'re about to strip and break it? Surely that\'s throwing money down the pan?

The red one is a long way off ready - needs a complete strip down - then wire brush / waxoyl the underneath - needs a couple of bits of patching / welding under there.
 
All the work I\'ve done on my front suspension - that\'s all getting transferred over to the red car.
 
And the back suspension I\'ll do on the red car - including an LSD in the diff.
 
The red one will get a new/reworked wiring loom with some extra wires in - saves trying to run them later.
 
So hopefully very little wasted

[B.Martin]

Seriously mate, it\'s easy. Take a mixture of a hacksaw, an angle grinder (I found I got straighter cuts with the grinder than the saw) and some files to it. I cut with a cutting disc, then used a grinding disc to shape the cut curves slightly, then filed them to a roughly reasonable shape.

I have absolubltly no confidence in myself when attempting butcher the front end of my lovely RX7

Plus how will the poor girl feel, had her shipped in a dark box accross the Med now she\'s been sat in a dusty port in the hot sunshine with no love for the best part of 2 months. Imagine if i then get the angle grinder out on her, she\'ll hate me forever!

Maybe i\'ll let things blow over and leave it to a proffesional - if they have them in Cyprus :confused:

[papercutout]

Aaah, I didn\'t realise the red one would take so long Prof! When you said \'in better nick than your present one\', I thought it really was, and not a \'will be\'!

And a few wires removed I hope, these FC\'s have so many extra\'s that aren\'t needed!



Car\'s like having their look improved, so don\'t hesitate mate! A little surgery is fine on something already plastic! They have some in Greece itself, there\'s a lot of rubbish there, but also some totally savage cars!

[B.Martin]

HaHa, you want to see some of the \'tuned\' cars in Cyprus man. Its worse than the saxo\'s and corsa\'s in the UK! But again there are some nice exotic stuff out here as well as quite a few Evo\'s, i see 4 pretty nice FD\'s on a regular basis, saw a very sexy S15 last night... It was very sexy as well!!

I\'ll take a look at whats involved once i\'ve actually got the car then see if i can pluck up the courage to do it myself or find a \'reccomended\' bodyshop and see how much it is for someone proffesional to do it.

[papercutout]

I can imagine mate.



Anyway ladies and gents, some feedback. Since removing the air pump and gubbins, turbo whistle has pretty much gone. Guess it was a boost leak then.

BUUUUUT, I\'ve been gradually winding my MBC back in to try to up the boost from 0.4 bar and it\'s made no difference. This morning I wound it all the way in and still 0.4 bar on the way to work.

WHY?! And what\'s wrong/how do I get more? 0.4 is getting boring.

[Prof]

I can imagine mate.
 
 
 
Anyway ladies and gents, some feedback. Since removing the air pump and gubbins, turbo whistle has pretty much gone. Guess it was a boost leak then.
 
BUUUUUT, I\'ve been gradually winding my MBC back in to try to up the boost from 0.4 bar and it\'s made no difference. This morning I wound it all the way in and still 0.4 bar on the way to work.
 
WHY?! And what\'s wrong/how do I get more? 0.4 is getting boring.

What air intake and exhaust are you running on it?
 
I get 7.5 (0.5 BAR) psi max with my muffler in, and close on 13 (0.8 BAR) with it out - that\'s a big difference just changing the end of the zorst !

[papercutout]

2.5" downpipe, straight through to the backboxes. Admittedly the backboxes are fairly large, but DtheB used to run the exhaust, and I\'m sure he got more than 0.4 bar. Plus, before I put the actuator arm on it hit 0.6 bar. See piccy for exhaust.

HKS mushroom filter.

[papercutout]

Bump this up to get some more answers. I\'m still running 0.4 bar, and got annihilated by my mate in a gen1 Focus RS. NEEEEED to beat him!

[dthebuk]

not sure how much boost i ran, the stock boost gauge used to go a bit funny at full boost though. When i ported the wastegate and put a single exit on it ran less boost. With that setup it made 230 bhp i believe and felt slower than it did when i ran the exhuast you\'ve got now!

[Timmyc]

sorry this is off topic but papercutout i walked by your car in the campsite at awesomefest and it looks cool as

[B.Martin]

sorry this is off topic but papercutout i walked by your car in the campsite at awesomefest and it looks cool as

I didn\'t, but i know it looks cool as :mmmm

[m1tch]

Its an FC, it has popups, so of course its as cool as