28-02-2015, 09:57 PM
So a little more progress has been made. Lately I've been trying with the idea of selling the car and getting something more luxurious for a daily driver. At the same time I don't want to give up as I like a challenge. So I've carried on with some engine bits. Also got a set of injectors which will cope happily with the power.
First up I cleaned the engine up, and got it looking all pretty
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Then painted it all so it looks ultra awesome to make up for its lack of power [emoji106]
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After the engine, mountings and ancillaries were dry i popped it all back together. Also heat wrapped the exhaust manifold. Not 100% happy with how it looks at the collector but it's not like anyone will see it. Found it best to soak the heat wrap I'm a bucket of water as you use it. Makes it far more useable.
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Unfortunately the rear coolant transfer pipe hit the manifold as they always do when fitting a GTI manifold, so I modified that slightly by removing one of the crappy angles from it, and rotating the 180degree rubber pipe so they both cleared the manifold
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Once that was done, fitted the charger etc and remembered I'd forgotten to allow for an idler pulley to remove some slack as Nial kindly reminded me [emoji13] so off came the fresh paint and out came the welder (again) too make a bracket which would bring the pulley inline with the rest of the belt etc. The idler itself is apparently off a Ford Puma. All I know is it works (for the moment) which I'm happy with.
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I've also got a price from the guys at Megasquirt for a built ECU which if all goes to plan (and if I keep the car) I'll be ordering next month. After that it's a fuel pump and housing to buy and that's pretty much me ready to go [emoji133]
First up I cleaned the engine up, and got it looking all pretty
[attachment=21895]
Then painted it all so it looks ultra awesome to make up for its lack of power [emoji106]
[attachment=21896]
After the engine, mountings and ancillaries were dry i popped it all back together. Also heat wrapped the exhaust manifold. Not 100% happy with how it looks at the collector but it's not like anyone will see it. Found it best to soak the heat wrap I'm a bucket of water as you use it. Makes it far more useable.
[attachment=21897]
Unfortunately the rear coolant transfer pipe hit the manifold as they always do when fitting a GTI manifold, so I modified that slightly by removing one of the crappy angles from it, and rotating the 180degree rubber pipe so they both cleared the manifold
[attachment=21898]
Once that was done, fitted the charger etc and remembered I'd forgotten to allow for an idler pulley to remove some slack as Nial kindly reminded me [emoji13] so off came the fresh paint and out came the welder (again) too make a bracket which would bring the pulley inline with the rest of the belt etc. The idler itself is apparently off a Ford Puma. All I know is it works (for the moment) which I'm happy with.
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I've also got a price from the guys at Megasquirt for a built ECU which if all goes to plan (and if I keep the car) I'll be ordering next month. After that it's a fuel pump and housing to buy and that's pretty much me ready to go [emoji133]