Busy night and weekend ahead! (Turbo conversion WIP)

[Ali]

Is that the guy who broke my oil catch! ARGH"!!!

 

[Djw John]

Na hes not in any of the pics!!

 

[Djw Dave]

Nope thats Craig

 

[Djw Dave]

Not done anything today (yet) but ordered my new re-circ dump valve

 

[Djw John]

Get the pics from tonight up son

 

[Djw Dave]

Quick update

Got bored so made my mate fly lol

Nothing too exciting, but progress none the less.

Big thanks to "wee" Jamie for his grinding skills and again John for all his efforts day in day out.

Cheers

 

[Djw John]

God i must be working fast

No worries mate, it'll be worth the hassle, money, stress, fighting, self harm, lack of sleep etc etc

 

[Djw Dave]

Like lighting bro.

hopefully it will be worth it! Hopefully.

 

[jonesyx]

Looking good dave, did you manage to sort the loom out?

Is the other enigine modified btw?

 

[Christopher]

keep 'em coming.

looking good

 

[Djw John]

SSSSSSSShhhhhhhh dont mention the loom!! Im working on it but its probably the hardest bit of the whole job!

Think we're at the stage we just need to hook eveything up to what we think is teh right ecu for that sensor and try it!!

 

[jonesyx]

hehe sorry, i can imagine it would be a bit of a bollock-ache! Good Luck

This conversion did cross my mind but think im just going to get a valver possible even run it as a second car or track car.

 

[Djw John]

Its not my b****cks which hurt just my brain!!

Wilkie (on the engine crane) on the other hand..........

 

[Ali]

loookin fit. Will be good to have another mk1 at meets!

 

[Djw Dave]

Mk1 power

 

[Djw Dave]

Hopefully running this weekend chaps

 

[Andy_J]

Good luck! i wanna see this running, get a move on! lol

 

[Leeshez]

Wow looking good

 

[mas]

dave - Big Respect...... looking at doing a similar thing to my car when i can afford to insure it.. whats insurance going to be like on it mate??

PM me youre details if you like n tell me how much you pay

its going to be mint, will hopefully see you at FCS next year mate

 

[Djw John]

Got a couple more pics on my camera that I need to upload tonight

 

[Djw John]

got bored

 

[Djw Dave]

Cant wait now. Getting more and more excited every day. Just need that b*stard wiring done now!

 

[Giles]

need a bit of cleaning there

 

[donsrno1]

good work fellas. Had somehow missed this thread but good to finally see the engine in place and close to getting started.

Love the look from the front where you can spy a little something lurking behind the bumper.

 

[Djw John]

I know Dave, Im sure it'll worth it!

Giles pop up and help with it!

yeah love how subtle the intercooler is mounted

 

[ajketley]

looks sweet as and cant wait to see the final thing.

 

[Djw John]

me too!

 

[Graham Gooch]

malice had that engine in his mk1 clio years ago lol

 

[Djw John]

Yeah, he ended up running it on acarb rather than efi which is our aim, only hurdling block is teh wiring which we will get to the bottom of!

 

[Russ.]

lookin good guys. would love to know performance stats when this is up and running.

 

[Jonaldinho]

More good work chaps! Keep it up (The work so theres no confusion lol).

 

[Ali]

Having that! Get it finished pronto!

 

[Djw Dave]

malice had that engine in his mk1 clio years ago lol

Yup???

 

[Djw Dave]

I Want A Clio Turbo!

 

[Djw John]

Get down the workshop, its only rain!

 

[Djw Dave]

Its wet rain though! The worst kind!

 

[Djw John]

Well we went down for an hour the other day, then Ihad to do uni work and Dave had to play Goldeneye on th N64 till his eyes bled!

Sorry about the quality, shite cam phone pics

 

[James.]

Well we went down for an hour the other day, then Ihad to do uni work and Dave had to play Goldeneye on th N64 till his eyes bled!

:approve: legend lol

Cars coming on, cant wait to see it finished.

 

[Russ.]

lol my eyes bled just looking at that wiring...chaos

 

[Djw Dave]

lol my eyes bled just looking at that wiring...chaos

Thast it almost finsihed as well!! It was worse before! lol