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Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project ah right, just watched the video and thought 'yeh it bounces the limiter but why is the graph 500rpm short' lol

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Limters not at 7.3k now is it, why wasnt it taken to 7.8k?

Epic chimney, reminds me of my old 1800 lol sweet power still tho!

Saturday - started work on it at 12pm, finished at 8pm, this is what we got done..... Old tank off (hi andy) - New tank and fuel pump all fitted after about an hours fiddling - Filter plumbed in and mounted lol - FSE fuel pressure regulator (power b0000000st valve)...

why dont you all get off lyndens back ffs?

Flol!! lol at the convo lynden haha

Bodies etc arrived last night... just fitted them now... Cleaned them up, mounted them then made sure i was getting full throttle at the pedal after bending the stopoer bracket on the throttle pedal - i got this - then re-fitted the trumpets - Cant wait to hear them...

never get bored of that ae86, the sound and car control <3

gotta be the worst video in history, was expecting some drive-bys etc

shouldve came on the drive martin haha

wont be seeing big gains tbh, slight gains doing the ITBs conversion, will see bigger gains when i decide to go for cams etc. Im not buying them to see a bhp increase like i did with the DTH tapered 42s on the ZS im buying them for the reliability, driveability, more ecomonical, sound, and...

Bought a few goodies on tuesday consisting of... Jenvey 45mm Throttle Bodies 45x45mm trumpets Jenvey throttle linkage and Fuel rail Bosch 330cc injectors As they're off a 1.7SE i bought them minus a Inlet manifold, so ordered one from Shwaspeed last tuesday, arrived thursday then went to pick...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project ^^ Wheres this TDF Rolling road day Jord?

ill be there, as will lbrench and w17gle

Had the alignment done, drives awesome now soo much better than even before the crash when the camber was still 1.8degerees out and the tracking was all over the place... Now the cambers still quite abit out as you can see here but still everything else is spot on and it corners great, the...

New mounts with the new nylock nuts i got yesturday - old vs new mount - mounts fitted - started the car up, much less engine movement now, about half of what it was and a picture of the new camber on the front offside now whilst its back on the floor - alignment...

manifold glowing where its not heatrapped just before the collars would but cba, manifold was bad enough 2012 yeh, want some crazy NA power with ITBs first

couple of drive by videos from earlier, sound quality is shocking tho lol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCRYSNDx6c and coming back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP86qLI6xgM when got back as, i lifted the bonnet as the manifold still stinks from heatwrapping it and i noticed... This...

collected the 6pk900 and fitted that and the alternator and started it up, let it running for about 15mins till the smoke slowed right down, i can still taste it now lol! and... just got back from having the car all aligned to see if there was any further damage from the crash... the rear...

mint

ill be there

shouldnt be THAT bad considering how much its dry now, but yeh still expecting quite abit lol hurting lol high lol so... after leaving the manifold overnight i spent another 1/2 hour drying it with a heat gun - painted in VHT black - manifold, starter and dipstick fitted -...

alternator, starter and manifold off... manifold before - sanded down and painted - more paint as i ran out of red - progress - done - arms are itchy as fk now lol gonna let it mostly dry overnight, then dry the rest tmoz with a heatgun then paint...

awesome, what about the rear one with the boot opens?

haha, still took me 5 mines to work out what he was pointing too tbh (jokes) and yeh about 3 lol and no wasnt tbh, brakes were awesome when upto temp buts tills pongy as fk specially when cold lol

yeh doesnt look the strongest part tbh, the strut lined up well enough into the new beam anyways.... Went for a drive over Rivington Pike last night, first time ive drove the car really since its all back together, went well apart from the odd lock up and revs sticking which was abit scray at...

what picture are you referring to? first thing i thought what you meant is the bolts on the new beam on the floor but take it you dont mean that!? lol quote the picture and point to what you mean... Removed the thermostat yestuirday to see how it run like without it as the water temo does...

went pipewerx yesturday, had the manifold welded so its all one now, had a flange fitted instead of a sleeve joint and also now got a 5" flexi istead of an 8" so its not all over the place anymore... was pricey but well worth it now and no need to keep messing around with it all the time -...

its for sale lol

cheers, much appreciated :) what you trying to say eh haha