Lunar Mk1 & Flamer
Sorry a Cut and Paste from C16v!
here is the story of the wukbrid....so far
here she is when we got her
mods soon followed
Magnex was whacked on
Decat added
Tunes Added
installed lenny on parcel shelf
Did a mini service, oil,filters plughs!
old plugs
Painted up alloys
Did a little colour coding
Wiper removed
bonnet smoothed
new arch
engine bay then got some love
more colour coding
straight though centre section
strippage behins
bumper modified
willy wheels arive
a quick shotblast and powedercoat later....
new quick shift
new number plate to replace the cracked one
mark just happend to have a wiliams wide track knowcking about.
so fitted that
back from mark and ronees .fitted wide trck new gearbox, service, cambelt etc
mental camber
Difontaine had a f7r bottom end knockign about so decided to get it too
Fatman had some nice carbon fibre
i then set about starting to strip the car ready for her new heart.
removed lots of parts to get thempowdercated and polished
head has been reconditioned
me and my brother in law managed to remove the old f7p
couldnt resist bolting shiney stuff together
Block treated to some hammerite
the old f7p
degreased the engine bay
headattached to block with new gasket and new guide pins, new tensioner and cambelt all fitted, new rocker cover gasket, new shiney bits added
thats about it at the moment, updates to come soooon!
just ordered some bracket to itch the PAS
waiting on more stuff to be powdercoated aswell
Ok been busy this weekend!
Gave box lick of paint.
Then thought what the hell, so welded the circlip in place, if it goes wrong again its a new box for me lol
removed subframe for a lick of paint.
Wishbones scrubbed and paint applied.
Powerflex Rubbers installed....what a ball ache!
New Performance HT leads arrived from fatboy
More pics to come later! Hopefully re fitted lol!
Ok update 2:
Freshly Painted and Polyflexed Up Subframe and wish bones!
Subframe + 1 piece of Ally Sheet i have "aquired" through Jarvis enterprises!
Bit of Home fabrication later we have a Sump guard!
Messy Messy Engine bay with fitted sump guard. But looks better with hammerite'd subframe
Got a bit of a panic on as suddenly had a thought the gear linkage wouldnt fit, so had to go find the linkange to check... result it fits
View with bumper back on
Whats left to do!
More today
New brackets powdercoated and fitted along with alternator (yes i know im missing a pully!)
Pipes powdercoated too lol
gearbox cover and mount powdercoated too
Also ordered up my first set of Samcos woop!
Todays Update,
Willy ***** Mould and Downpipe, (already wrapped ...bonus) Cheers Cliolord and Laine
More powdercoated bits fitted
im aware most of this will have to be removed to fit biut i have lots of bolts and wanted to make sure i had the right ones to fit lol
Pic says it all!
As promised
had these bits arive today,
Then paniced as i had no idea where they are from!?! couldnt match them to anything on the blovck or anything!?
Thanks to Kiz and Justin i know no that all the parts bar one, i cant use as ive ditched the PAS!?!
also looked into the rust whipped the dash off no sign its just under the skyuttle have treated it to waxoyl and will get it plated when she goes into the body shop
Finished work today, cracked on with the engine loom
looked like this
Removed all this
Now looks like this
Its all in the details,
just waiting for hose finishers and rest of my samcos!
Fitting on saturday!
Box is deffo jammed.
Looks like its stuck in first gear but with the reverse selector ...erm selected becausae im a numpty. Cat get it out! jammed fast!
Got engine in car anyway, dont know if it even runs, as the guy who was fitting my chip carrier had gone out to work yesterday untill 3am. So....we can turn the engine over with the starter...but thats it.
Hopefully will get further today but its looking like i need a new box
Manual Rack and column fitted to the wide track!
Loom being plumbed back in..... at this point im now noticing that the loom is actually more of a peach colour than a orange colour!
Engine in! Woop!
So Today will see if it works?!
Needs a new box although we are going to see if when the engine is working weather that helps or not?
Everything is very clean though
Big thanks to Harvy and Lesley!
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulrfxMczNSM
thats a brand new dogbone harv (£62), i bloody hope not!
Old finishers replaced
Old Jubilee Clips
Systec Hose Finishers
Car looking evil with no bonnet
My Car next to Scotts Epicly clean saxo VTR/S!
Slightly concerned this is a tad close!
yeh really weird!
Today i was greated with a big box
inside
okie dokie
as i was abit gutted last weekend, i set about painting some stuff!
Throttle Body did kinda let the enggine bay down....especially when coupled to a highly polished inlet
Before
After a bit of Z magic!
Also my Coil pack was also looking a bit shabby too! and also if you see the way its mounted means i cant get a strut brace in their either!
so again after a bit of Z magic its been painted and rotatedleaving plenty of room for a brace!
More updates later
Think Carbon
This has arrived! WOOP!
Also this was all removed then attacked with a can lol!
Also a new box! Harvy.....and Lesley Legends!
And a 4th mount!
Right then! Update... most know, the engine i fitted was knocking like a b*****d. thought it was tappets to begin with. but alas...no
Sooo I decided to stop fannying about and look for a propper F7R A 700 which i found in telford with a man called dan.
A trip to telford found this blokey with a car in primer paint... tbh it looked a bit of a dog, the stupid sod had removed the sunroom using liquid swartz. :mrgreen: Think the car was going to get painted Brands Hatch Red? but i dunno.
Annnyway
here she is.....filthy isnt she
I ordered some parts
My Group N Skuttle Induction
Oil Cooler and Mocal Sandwich plate with UPRATED oil lines.....330BAR or 4750psi
I moved the car into the workshop and started to remove things... lol
Moments later
mmm still clean
Inferior F7R D 710
My polished stuff had started to dull
Soo a quick going over with my custom washing machine motor and polishing mop later
First inlet has been done other three remain dull.... hard to photo graph
I even gave my knob a polish
at which point harvy and lesley turned up.... admittedly i was quite embarresed to of been caught poolishing my nob.... but this was quickly diffused.....
Harv works like a mad man..... In fact i feel useless in comparrisson.
Hubs were removed and shafts out, then all unessesaty things dissconnected then crane in and hitched up with an old seatbelt and engine removed......
we then spent a few hours removing all bits off the old one and fitting to the new one.
Old and New
New engine complete at which point we for the first time realised we should both stop and go to bed as it was 4AM!!
From this
To this
The next morning yes MORNING 8am to be precise after a mere 3 hours sleep, we got back to the workshop and got cracking.
Removed the interior seats.......
had to change the clutch pedal and it was easier to hoover lol
Then lesley got her funk on with my willy wheels.
and now started to re-fit the engine.
with an added 4th mount.....
as you can see here.... lesly got very busy
engine in
First start Video for Justin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvUU-_wOBfY
Few of her out side
More updates to come soon
Big thank you to harv and lesley for all their help and hard work with no complaints
love you guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAaFVoRxxQ
new vid for you to listen too
Ok updates....
Went for MOT
Failed...no supprises
001 : offside front position lamps wrng colour? :S
002: offside front headlamp aim too high
003: nearside front headlight aim too low
004: nearside fron brake hose fouls wheel on full lock
005: nearside wheel is excessivly worn
how the frig do i sort out the lights?! no idea im gonna get them to do it and just fit a non blue bulb!
Ive had some willy shocks delivered to me now aswell..... wassnt going to fit new tyres with camber like that tbh! So some nice willy items will do.
Going to my mates next week for tyres and balencing, should my tyres arive in time.
Brake hose will be fixed with a cable tie or one of those round spacers i have on the other side hose?
Then its retest time and on to stage 2
ok chip fitted! went for a quick spin cannot tell you how different the car is now its running a propper 2.0 chip, TORQUE!!! WOOW!
and a video for those that said i couldnt just have a go at doing my own ecu!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcH6O0ZIKA
and a video of the oil pressure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY2HCyISg8
ok bit of an update, i promised more videos.
Basically the Headgasket failed and the car got me really ****ed off tbh, so i thought fudge it. and took her to Jday Engineering (www.dayspeed.com) and got them to sort the bloody thing out!
So while she was in there i got a few things done...rude not to init!
new headgasket uprated steel kevlar gasket
head skimmed and rebuilt with new stem seals (bit smokey on over run)
Piper Vernier Pullies Fitted and timed up
Kent Cams RN2002 260* cams fitted to the above
a custom made "foxys" 5th mount
Everything rebuilt and a good checking over.
Well they have possibly the worst suppliers in the world but their work is very good indeed. They have a "we can do it" attutude which i love!
Their reports were...."**** this thing shifts" engine conversion is very tidy, and apart from a loose water temp sender (DOH!) very solid conversion!
£699 well spent!
My report.
5th engine mount, wow what a difference! engine dossnt move! gear changes feel fantastic! Reaally really reccomended to any mk1/ 172 owner with manual steering. completely different!
Cams and Pullies
Well to be honest i couldnt wait to see these! I started the car and .....nothing it was as smooth as silk...gutted...then all of a sudden "thub thub der der der thub thub"...Woop a lumpy idle....i know i shouldnt like this as its crap mapping... but the car hassnt been mapped...and i love it! Then out on the roadtest.... initially i wassnt that convinced by the cams, it still pulled like a 2.0 i had before, but couldnt really notice any major difference?! Then i took her past 5krpm to see she dossnt drop off at all power delivery is strong and very smooth and linier right to the limiter! It just pullls and pulls and pulls! TBH i cannot wait to get the next stages in and sorted! to tweek this! The cams have given the car a different exhaust note its more raspy than i would of liked but its growing on me!
The Videos
Cammed up idle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10H5O...eature=channel
Walked around... mm clean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or0T_...eature=channel
The flyby.... featuring Gay running from me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmi9X...eature=channel
new Group A induction
here is the story of the wukbrid....so far
here she is when we got her
mods soon followed
Magnex was whacked on
Decat added
Tunes Added
installed lenny on parcel shelf
Did a mini service, oil,filters plughs!
old plugs
Painted up alloys
Did a little colour coding
Wiper removed
bonnet smoothed
new arch
engine bay then got some love
more colour coding
straight though centre section
strippage behins
bumper modified
willy wheels arive
a quick shotblast and powedercoat later....
new quick shift
new number plate to replace the cracked one
mark just happend to have a wiliams wide track knowcking about.
so fitted that
back from mark and ronees .fitted wide trck new gearbox, service, cambelt etc
mental camber
Difontaine had a f7r bottom end knockign about so decided to get it too
Fatman had some nice carbon fibre
i then set about starting to strip the car ready for her new heart.
removed lots of parts to get thempowdercated and polished
head has been reconditioned
me and my brother in law managed to remove the old f7p
couldnt resist bolting shiney stuff together
Block treated to some hammerite
the old f7p
degreased the engine bay
headattached to block with new gasket and new guide pins, new tensioner and cambelt all fitted, new rocker cover gasket, new shiney bits added
thats about it at the moment, updates to come soooon!
just ordered some bracket to itch the PAS
waiting on more stuff to be powdercoated aswell
Ok been busy this weekend!
Gave box lick of paint.
Then thought what the hell, so welded the circlip in place, if it goes wrong again its a new box for me lol
removed subframe for a lick of paint.
Wishbones scrubbed and paint applied.
Powerflex Rubbers installed....what a ball ache!
New Performance HT leads arrived from fatboy
More pics to come later! Hopefully re fitted lol!
Ok update 2:
Freshly Painted and Polyflexed Up Subframe and wish bones!
Subframe + 1 piece of Ally Sheet i have "aquired" through Jarvis enterprises!
Bit of Home fabrication later we have a Sump guard!
Messy Messy Engine bay with fitted sump guard. But looks better with hammerite'd subframe
Got a bit of a panic on as suddenly had a thought the gear linkage wouldnt fit, so had to go find the linkange to check... result it fits
View with bumper back on
Whats left to do!
More today
New brackets powdercoated and fitted along with alternator (yes i know im missing a pully!)
Pipes powdercoated too lol
gearbox cover and mount powdercoated too
Also ordered up my first set of Samcos woop!
Todays Update,
Willy ***** Mould and Downpipe, (already wrapped ...bonus) Cheers Cliolord and Laine
More powdercoated bits fitted
im aware most of this will have to be removed to fit biut i have lots of bolts and wanted to make sure i had the right ones to fit lol
Pic says it all!
As promised
had these bits arive today,
Then paniced as i had no idea where they are from!?! couldnt match them to anything on the blovck or anything!?
Thanks to Kiz and Justin i know no that all the parts bar one, i cant use as ive ditched the PAS!?!
also looked into the rust whipped the dash off no sign its just under the skyuttle have treated it to waxoyl and will get it plated when she goes into the body shop
Finished work today, cracked on with the engine loom
looked like this
Removed all this
Now looks like this
Its all in the details,
just waiting for hose finishers and rest of my samcos!
Fitting on saturday!
Box is deffo jammed.
Looks like its stuck in first gear but with the reverse selector ...erm selected becausae im a numpty. Cat get it out! jammed fast!
Got engine in car anyway, dont know if it even runs, as the guy who was fitting my chip carrier had gone out to work yesterday untill 3am. So....we can turn the engine over with the starter...but thats it.
Hopefully will get further today but its looking like i need a new box
Manual Rack and column fitted to the wide track!
Loom being plumbed back in..... at this point im now noticing that the loom is actually more of a peach colour than a orange colour!
Engine in! Woop!
So Today will see if it works?!
Needs a new box although we are going to see if when the engine is working weather that helps or not?
Everything is very clean though
Big thanks to Harvy and Lesley!
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulrfxMczNSM
thats a brand new dogbone harv (£62), i bloody hope not!
Old finishers replaced
Old Jubilee Clips
Systec Hose Finishers
Car looking evil with no bonnet
My Car next to Scotts Epicly clean saxo VTR/S!
Slightly concerned this is a tad close!
yeh really weird!
Today i was greated with a big box
inside
okie dokie
as i was abit gutted last weekend, i set about painting some stuff!
Throttle Body did kinda let the enggine bay down....especially when coupled to a highly polished inlet
Before
After a bit of Z magic!
Also my Coil pack was also looking a bit shabby too! and also if you see the way its mounted means i cant get a strut brace in their either!
so again after a bit of Z magic its been painted and rotatedleaving plenty of room for a brace!
More updates later
Think Carbon
This has arrived! WOOP!
Also this was all removed then attacked with a can lol!
Also a new box! Harvy.....and Lesley Legends!
And a 4th mount!
Right then! Update... most know, the engine i fitted was knocking like a b*****d. thought it was tappets to begin with. but alas...no
Sooo I decided to stop fannying about and look for a propper F7R A 700 which i found in telford with a man called dan.
A trip to telford found this blokey with a car in primer paint... tbh it looked a bit of a dog, the stupid sod had removed the sunroom using liquid swartz. :mrgreen: Think the car was going to get painted Brands Hatch Red? but i dunno.
Annnyway
here she is.....filthy isnt she
I ordered some parts
My Group N Skuttle Induction
Oil Cooler and Mocal Sandwich plate with UPRATED oil lines.....330BAR or 4750psi
I moved the car into the workshop and started to remove things... lol
Moments later
mmm still clean
Inferior F7R D 710
My polished stuff had started to dull
Soo a quick going over with my custom washing machine motor and polishing mop later
First inlet has been done other three remain dull.... hard to photo graph
I even gave my knob a polish
at which point harvy and lesley turned up.... admittedly i was quite embarresed to of been caught poolishing my nob.... but this was quickly diffused.....
Harv works like a mad man..... In fact i feel useless in comparrisson.
Hubs were removed and shafts out, then all unessesaty things dissconnected then crane in and hitched up with an old seatbelt and engine removed......
we then spent a few hours removing all bits off the old one and fitting to the new one.
Old and New
New engine complete at which point we for the first time realised we should both stop and go to bed as it was 4AM!!
From this
To this
The next morning yes MORNING 8am to be precise after a mere 3 hours sleep, we got back to the workshop and got cracking.
Removed the interior seats.......
had to change the clutch pedal and it was easier to hoover lol
Then lesley got her funk on with my willy wheels.
and now started to re-fit the engine.
with an added 4th mount.....
as you can see here.... lesly got very busy
engine in
First start Video for Justin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvUU-_wOBfY
Few of her out side
More updates to come soon
Big thank you to harv and lesley for all their help and hard work with no complaints
love you guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAaFVoRxxQ
new vid for you to listen too
Ok updates....
Went for MOT
Failed...no supprises
001 : offside front position lamps wrng colour? :S
002: offside front headlamp aim too high
003: nearside front headlight aim too low
004: nearside fron brake hose fouls wheel on full lock
005: nearside wheel is excessivly worn
how the frig do i sort out the lights?! no idea im gonna get them to do it and just fit a non blue bulb!
Ive had some willy shocks delivered to me now aswell..... wassnt going to fit new tyres with camber like that tbh! So some nice willy items will do.
Going to my mates next week for tyres and balencing, should my tyres arive in time.
Brake hose will be fixed with a cable tie or one of those round spacers i have on the other side hose?
Then its retest time and on to stage 2
ok chip fitted! went for a quick spin cannot tell you how different the car is now its running a propper 2.0 chip, TORQUE!!! WOOW!
and a video for those that said i couldnt just have a go at doing my own ecu!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcH6O0ZIKA
and a video of the oil pressure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY2HCyISg8
ok bit of an update, i promised more videos.
Basically the Headgasket failed and the car got me really ****ed off tbh, so i thought fudge it. and took her to Jday Engineering (www.dayspeed.com) and got them to sort the bloody thing out!
So while she was in there i got a few things done...rude not to init!
new headgasket uprated steel kevlar gasket
head skimmed and rebuilt with new stem seals (bit smokey on over run)
Piper Vernier Pullies Fitted and timed up
Kent Cams RN2002 260* cams fitted to the above
a custom made "foxys" 5th mount
Everything rebuilt and a good checking over.
Well they have possibly the worst suppliers in the world but their work is very good indeed. They have a "we can do it" attutude which i love!
Their reports were...."**** this thing shifts" engine conversion is very tidy, and apart from a loose water temp sender (DOH!) very solid conversion!
£699 well spent!
My report.
5th engine mount, wow what a difference! engine dossnt move! gear changes feel fantastic! Reaally really reccomended to any mk1/ 172 owner with manual steering. completely different!
Cams and Pullies
Well to be honest i couldnt wait to see these! I started the car and .....nothing it was as smooth as silk...gutted...then all of a sudden "thub thub der der der thub thub"...Woop a lumpy idle....i know i shouldnt like this as its crap mapping... but the car hassnt been mapped...and i love it! Then out on the roadtest.... initially i wassnt that convinced by the cams, it still pulled like a 2.0 i had before, but couldnt really notice any major difference?! Then i took her past 5krpm to see she dossnt drop off at all power delivery is strong and very smooth and linier right to the limiter! It just pullls and pulls and pulls! TBH i cannot wait to get the next stages in and sorted! to tweek this! The cams have given the car a different exhaust note its more raspy than i would of liked but its growing on me!
The Videos
Cammed up idle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10H5O...eature=channel
Walked around... mm clean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or0T_...eature=channel
The flyby.... featuring Gay running from me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmi9X...eature=channel
new Group A induction
