Just a quick update of whats been going on with my car , Fred called down this week and delivered my engine , so will be sorting out putting it on a dyno in the next week , Fred's coming along as well so he can play about with the cam timing if needed , had the car back from the bodyshop this week and all freshly painted red again , its looking lovely now , until the next rally lol , which will be 2 weeks tomorrow as I fancy doing the Talbenny rally as it runs evening stages so will finally get a chance to use my lamp pod !
Picked up a non running 172 the other week for the panels , it also had a set of HID headlights so have got those as well so will use them in talbenny to give me a bit more light , then swap them back to the cheap Euro car parts lights for the next rallies.
So i'm leaving it as it is till then , the engine should have been dynoed by then , send the box off to be looked at , then fit the new engine ready for Pembrey on the 30th Dec , can't wait to see how it performs with another 60-70hp
I'm fitting a DTA ECU , was going to go for the S40 but then was told it wouldn't run all the features on the XAP X-DASH , so went for the S60 , so they arrived this week as well
I'm dropping the car off tomorrow afternoon to the guy who did my wiring loom , he's going to make a new engine loom , wire in the dash , and wire up some electric windows , its a pain in the ass not being able to open the windows without opening the doors first as the winders catch on the roll cage , they are going to make the new loom for the engine and dash , but leave the old stuff on till talbenny , then i'll fit it all in properly when the engine and box comes out.
Had delivery end of last week of some GKN CV joints , so hopefully they will last better than the last un-named ones
Haven't had any issues in the last year with the GKN ones , the un-named one lasted about 10 miles !