Jake.Lowther

More welding and cutting today got the majority of the intercooler to throttle body pipe work done, tad more todo then I'll post a pic of it on the car. Been just cutting bits of pipe and taping it together to see if it fits and clears everything in the bay. Just finished welding the last bits for today. Feat Megan the dogo.

It's tight but my nuts and bolts fit

While I've had a load of time off I've been cracking away and have turned a junk piece of 1.5mm mild steel sheet scrap into this art piece For those who don't know its a custom MAF adapter plate, there are threaded stainless nuts wealded to the rear of those holes. This will then be welded to the intake pipe which I'll make another post about over christmas since its almost complete.

Made a start on welding up the pipe from the exhaust to the exhaust side of the turbo. Still on my first bottle of Argon with no previous experience I think it's confident to say I'm a natural when it comes to Tig welding

Haha I think its overkill for what it is. Cheers and its a totally valid point my bench testing could be completely wrong and I might eat my own words

I thought that at first but for now its strong there's also a third bracket you cant see on the back of the strut bar wuth another 2 in.i guess only time will tell it won't go anywhere since it has about 50mm clearance from my under tray.

Slowly getting there doing bit by bit each weekend.

Got my new intercooler all mounted up had to make soms simple brackets and drilled and tapped holes into the crash bar. I've ordered some An6 lines and a load of fittings along with oil pressure regulators and guages. I'm running a standalone oil system with turbowerx oil pump.

Haha it's been a while, it was always planned as a winter project

Hi All, Let this be the official start of my DIY rear mount turbo thread. Firstly I would like to thank @andybp (who previously has made a DIY rear mount) for helping me out with parts and knowledge. This is not going to be a quick project I'll try to keep this updated but we'll see This project has been set back by a month or so after I injured my hand cutting exhaust pipe for a friend. I ended up severing the main radial artery, 10% of the muscle round my thumb and a couple of nerves. Had plastic surgery on it for an hour. Moral of the story wear protective gloves when working around metal. (Slightly gruesome pics of stitches no blood) So to get the ball rolling I've installed a piggy back UTEC ECU. Along with that I had to do a tad of welding to get an AFR sensor in the decat pipes (Images below) Following on I got my hands on some C section mild steel and some mild plate so I've welded those up to make a resorvoir which can hold roughly 1.8L of oil. I also bought a cheap sight glass and threaded bung as a filler cap. I'm not the best at welding I've only recently got into it with no experience I just bought a Hawk 160 TIG and haven't even gone through my first bottle of gas yet

Would be interested in these and the block but you're all the way up north I'm from near London

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5575378759&campid=5338273189&customid=&icep_item=173273178818&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg&toolid=11111

Wrapped by me and my mates first time we ever tried it cost me £180 was silver in a previous life

Any condition going to be fiberglassing and smoothing it over so not fussed even if its cracked. From Bedfordshire

Not a bad start I'd try something coming from either side where the headlight braces are if you can cram it in lol

Could be worth it in the long run, would have to do some research in heat reduction from the wrap. Also you can get heat resistant/insulating paint which if you put in the side of the block where the exhaust ports are I imagine would make a massive difference to bay temps.

Glad to hear, again maybe be stupid but have you tried heat wrapping the headers and down pipes?

Ah fair enough it stopped most of your heating issues then?

May be a stupid suggestion but what about small mini ducted fans with some ducting pipe bringing cold air from outside into the bay, could be discreetly installed wouldn't have to go right to the intake trumpets. Would lower the temps a small amount, anything creating air flow in the bay will bring the air temps down. Like the old BMWs had belt powered cooling fans.

I still think the levels of maturity and overall forum atmosphere is better than most car forums. You go on some of the Facebook pages and you'll get a new guy ask a question and get roasted for it. But it's not perfect and it'll be nice to see the activity perk up again, I've noticed the activity has dropped in recent months.

Preferably after market but if the price and distance is right on an oem one I'm also interested. Willing to travel upto around 150 miles of biggleswade in bedfordshire.

Got any pics of what the lower indicator lights look like lit up? I know the jdmtoy ones also add braking with a red outer ring do these do this? If so I call first dibs

Hi all After preferably a import rear bumper can be in any condition and colour if not post what you've got. Also after any condition front bumper post what you've got, willing to travel a fair distance. Jake

Haha sure mate shoot us your payment details

I'll take it Whats the cost of postage £3.45?