V6 MTDI Project

[darrenjlobb]

Spent some more time on this today, have had to fit a screwed camplate for the time being, still on the lookout bigtime for an agressive DI 6 pot VE camplate...

Anyway, after alot of hassle finally got a pump together ( was determined to run a shorter snout due to lack of room, and also limited on shank size due to pulley brew, got there in the end, but had to pilcher bits from god only knows how many pumps!

Anyway, eventually ended up with this, its not clean / pretty, but this car is just a rough daily spec thing outside, so little point going to to much effort!




Starting making up a mounting bracket, start out with a flat plate in the base to the orignal 4 bolt holes:




Then drill holes to base mount the VE:




Then kill the drill:



Get another drill out, finish the bottom plate, and test fit the pump to confirm belt alignment etc:





All seems good, am going to weld a front plate on the front of the base plate i think to catch the pumps from mount as well, and maybe also to small strips across to each head to support id sideways on.

Have gotta bend a load of new injector lines tomorrow due to old ones being vp44 style and to big for any VE Dv's, but its making progress