Friday 27th April
After picking the bits up yesterday i decided to get cracking puting it together on the 5.
Heres what ive done so far:
Wipped the top of the carb off with the plate
Then fitted the new silicon elbow
Now that i have removed the pace intercooler and the relative boost hoses i have now been able to mod my induction filter with the old std boost hoses:
Now that i have no breather outlet i decided to use my old green mini filter that matches the induction kit (off my ph2 19
)
thats all for now. just about to take bumper off and start fitting FMIC
Friday 27th April....continued
Removed bumper:
due to the positioning of the pipework of the itercooler i had to move the rad over an inch:
also had to knockout a bit of metal on either side to allow the intercooler to sit propa!:
Fitted:
I then started fitting all the pipework wich tbh was not as hard as i initially thought after moving the rad there was so much more room to play with.
Here is the finished pipework. Looks mint propa shiny yeah:
from the other side. I had to change the placement of the induction kit but imo i think it looks pretty funky sticking slightly up.
Fitting the dump valve was a mission! the outlet was made so it sits right behind grill. man this is gonna be loud.
Just before i packed up for the day i trial fitted the new bumper ove the intercooler. Looks ace but i am going to make my current one fit as it has already been chopped.
i couldnt resist having a look at what she'd look like with std grill. Looks much much better. even prefer the bad boy bonnet with std grill
enough for today more tomoz
Saturday 28th April
Got up really late today but cracked on after 10 cups of coffe sorting the bumper for the IC.
Cut out the bumper and grill Mesh:
Fitted:
Needs tidying up a little and the sides filling in with either mesh or fiberglass.
Oh BTW the Masking tape is holding the badge on i had to do this as some backstreet trader sold me some dodgy peice of crap
Right thats the end of the day for me. FMIC all done dusted and bumper bacl on.
Took her out for a raz and she seemed more responsive, i think maybe the lobster elbow must be cracked somewhere as she also idles alot better.
Looks the Bollox:
Monday 14th May 2007
Right well not much more to add..
Sourced a 2nd hand Bailey Dumpvalve off ebay as i loved this on my scooby and also it gets another bit of chrome under the hood and gets rid of all the red, completely gone now
Here is a crap shot:
i am hoping that my door cards should turn up this week after ordering them a month ago from some complete numpty!! But TBH the door cards will prolly be the last thing i do for some time on the 5 (Except for maintenance etc) as i willl be starting my original project R19 16v Chammy PH1 Restoration (Well Minor anyway)
Reet,
Just a tad more to add as i have been hard at work on the 5 again......
With FCS coming up i deided to pull me finger out and start fitting the Fuel Cell. Got her all fitted and decided it looked so crap in alloy. Gave it the racing look but i started thinking paint was in order.. So here is a picture tour!!
This is the base product:
Primed Up:
During Wet Sanding:
PAINT!!!!
oooooohhhhhh Different:
The next step really put a huge smile on my face
I had previously purchased a replacement rear bumper wich had a couple of changeable center plates, I decided to use the stainless letters that had been mounted on a bit of black acrylic.
Here is the end product:
And in the 5!!
Really really please with it
I am also currently working on some new door cards. I have decided not to use the std ones cos they really look tatty. These should be going in tomoz so WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!
Been busy making door cards, well actually door card. This was kinda a prototype as, with everything on this car, its a first attempt for myself.
Pretty Cool me thinks:
Still needs propa screws and the plastic trim cleaning and possibly darkening...
BTW if anyone hasnt noticed this car isnt going back to std
I am going to keep my PH1 19 Std instead!
Another entry into the proj rep that has been forced upon me lol
Last week the fuel pump started to fail nearly every day and i had to get out and twat the thing with a screw driver to get me home
So after recieving the new pump and filter i decided to crack on:
New Pump and Filter:
Taking the olduns off was a bitch as the jubille clips had rusted to fook (Possibly due to the fact that the whole lot was oem off the prouction line back in 1991! Still orig pump!!)
So cut the pipes and got the old shite off:
Due to me having to cut the pipe, it left a narrow connection onto the fuel pump wich gave me so much aggro trying to get the new pump on but after a lot of shouting swearing nearly crying i got the bugger on.
Shoved on the filter and was all done and dusted:
Had to got to work this avo so demo'd it downt he a38 and it was shite, stil the same ish as before at high revs
After getting home i thought maybe the carb needed resetting up so had a play and FOOOOK MEEEEE Boost Booost BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST