Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project [Year 3 - Engine and Chassis Rebuild]

[TooneySonic]

Re: Mk1 Hybrid Project

didnt recognise the valver yesterday mate, so nice and shiny lol

 

[Brett]

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What are you going to do about a cat for mot time then?

Use the origional cat you got with the hybrid? (well valver at the time)

Or could you fabricate it so that you use a 182 cat?

 

[f0xy]

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neither, i cant be bothered faffing with having more joints than i need to in the exhaust, its just going to be....Manifold-Downpipe-Exhaust....cant be bothered hacking things up to put flanges in to have a cat, etc....i can easily get an mot sorted

 

[geesus69]

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exhaust is identical to mine, i have that little centre silencer aswell, although i dont think it does a right lot!

 

[Limca]

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great work again j

 

[f0xy]

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exhaust is identical to mine, i have that little centre silencer aswell, although i dont think it does a right lot!

when you made a downpipe from the 172 decat, did it need length adding, or was it too long as it already was?

just trying to work out if i need any pipe to make it at the weekend or not?

 

[geesus69]

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mine had some funky adapter join (think it was so the flange could be twisted and therefore fit to a williams aswell as a valver?) which came in very handy in joining it to the 172 decat

however i did have to chop the centre section down a little bit where it clamps to the backbox to get it just right (length and angle wise)

hard to explain really

 

[jams]

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Good work jord!

 

[*Danny*]

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nice1 gopher, might pop round to the factory later and mither you lol

 

[.J.a.m.e.s.]

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33 thousand people have viewd ur thead jord, must be ur record

 

[Matteh]

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http://www.cliosport.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=82&daysprune=30&order=desc&sort=views

 

[f0xy]

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its 20 thousand views behind my old mk2 thread james, lol

 

[BRUN]

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finally you have washed the valver !!!

looks mint

p.s. is the top of the dash missing ?

 

[f0xy]

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yeah, ive had the multi meter out testing sensors and stuff for the other car

 

[BRUN]

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lol, you never stop tinkerin !

 

[f0xy]

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Day 172-173

Quick update from the past two days....I re-painted the top part of the bulkhead yesterday, and the suspension turrets in body color. Sanded, primered, painted, clearcoated, looks alot better fresh. Everything else is hammerite again (Need to touch up round the turrets with a smaller brush), most of it isnt seen, hence why I did the top of the bulkhead nice, and not just slapped hammerite on...

Also removed the tar, cleaned, then painted under the scuttle panel...

Also found some thicker steel (3mm) to make a sump guard out of, so the past few days consisted of using alot of disks on the grinder, and bending, and drilling...Got it to the right shape today, then put some nut/thread insterts into the holes on the subframe, so it can be easily bolted on and off...

Cut to shape...

Bent to Shape...

Nut/Thread inserted..

Then painted the guard, will post pics of it fitted next few days....

Last job this afternoon was to get the engine + gearbox home...easy...

Let the fun begin :evil:

 

[Balders172]

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nice work as always mate, love this thread

 

[AlexG]

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Cant wait to see the car getting built up. Such good work mate!

 

[bendee]

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looking awsome mate, im getting well down about mine really need it off the road to do some proper work can only do little bits

 

[*Danny*]

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NICE SUMP GUARD !! WHO MADE THAT?

 

[JD]

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awesome jords, i am actually getting excited for you!

 

[GarethM]

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looking good fella

 

[f0xy]

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Day 174

Few pictures of the sump guard laid on top of the subframe as requested..

Anyway, todays jobs...Fit the steering rack..

Fit the clutch...

Then it was time for the subframe to go onto the car, but I was on my own...rig-up..

Sorted....Brake lines re-fitted...

Then fitted the volvo clutch cable brackets/fork onto the box, and fitted it to the engine...along with the exhaust manifold, new gasket and nuts...

And not much longer later...

More soon...:evil:

 

[Beef-Mc]

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Good to see this coming together now.

 

[The Boosh!]

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WOW nearly there now mate

 

[Whiteley]

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Ace!

 

[Limca]

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fooking beast jord.... whats next on the job

 

[bmh.01]

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Looking well!

 

[f0xy]

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fooking beast jord.... whats next on the job

Hopefully get a radiator, get it plummed up, sort a downpipe tommorow and loads loads loads more, then I can try and start it

 

[Gray]

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This must be the quickest F4R conversion... If it starts lol

Top work lad

 

[Robclio98]

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Great stuff bud, cant wait to see a video of it starting

 

[Tonnentom]

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Very nicely, good work

 

[Willy]

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freakin awesome!

 

[GarethM]

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great progress dude

 

[f0xy]

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Not done much today, just tidied a few bits up...got a few daylight pics, all three mounts now bolted up...

 

[Matteh]

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all three mounts now bolted up...

:nono:

 

[Christopher]

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Who's is that f*cking shed behind it, with the MINT bearings?

Hi!

 

[jams]

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Who's is that f*cking shed behind it, with the MINT bearings?

Hi!

Who did you get to fit the mint bearings mate. Looks like a quality job.

 

[Brett]

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Nearly there Jord.

You've certainly been keeping hammerite from going bust this last month.

It will be worth doing it properly though.

When you looking to have it running? because getting it running correctly and iorning out niggles could take a week or two?

 

[Guppy]

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lol at the Sump guard!

No more gravell traps!!!