FCS prep phase win sigma gearbox mounted

[Craigus]

Turbo turbo turbo axle looks good!

[Grant]

Nice progress Axel looks sweet all painted up.

Was it a tough job to get the bearing out etc?

[mikey b]

Nice progress Axel looks sweet all painted up.

Was it a tough job to get the bearing out etc?

Thanks I didn't use new bearings I found a drum axel that was mint so I pressed the tubes out and put them in my disc arms bit of work but makes a good axel and used my torsion bars and arb them just used new seals at the ends and a shit load of grease and cooper slip

[mikey b]

Got the most important bit today looks ok hope it blows the same lol





It's a gt2256v of a merc ml270

[Jimbo]

Fair blower there
Crack on and make manifold now

[mr_fish]

She'll blow mate

Have you got to do much in the engine bay? Painting, etc?

All coming on though. Axle is looking nice. Did you not unseal the boot though??

[mikey b]

She'll blow mate

Have you got to do much in the engine bay? Painting, etc?

All coming on though. Axle is looking nice. Did you not unseal the boot though??

Na boot floor was ok yep axle looks good bit pointless as no one sees it but I think it looks better engine bay is pretty clean underseal the inner arches front and front panel that's bout it

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Got a couple more bits in he post today a nice big twin pass and a oil sandwitch plate for my gauges

[Frosty]

Great collection of goodies coming along Mike

[mikey b]

Been a while since I put much on here a few things have happend
Had to mock my engine back together so I can start on my manifold so I know were the gear linkages go bloody things so I started collecting exhaust bits and got to work with the plasma cutter and the welder



Made it breath a bit bigger as the t2 manifold hole is a bit small
Then I made a mid steel plate same size welded that on with dismiler rods so I can mig the 90 on nice and proper



After this I made up all the rest of the system wasn't to bad bit of a pain with the pipe coming out the back of the head got a bit technical with the broom stick to hold the turbo while mocking up



Then removed engine again so I can make up all the mounts for the gearbox and turbo







Now time to take it all apart and put me rods in as we are doing jimbos HDi to xud conversion next week then things will start going together not always coming apart ?

[zx_volcane]

Good progress there, not far off

[Tom]

Have you got the access to get at the inlet manifold studs there? Might be the angle, looks like it'll be close!

Looks fapping awesome though, how bigs that pipe looks monstrous!

[mikey b]

Have you got the access to get at the inlet manifold studs there? Might be the angle, looks like it'll be close!

Looks fapping awesome though, how bigs that pipe looks monstrous!

Mine didn't have studs got bolts as standard so should be ok apart from my xantia manifold bloody close to master cylinder the pipe coming out is 2.5 then drops down to 2 to make a funnel sort of thing and gives me more room for the bolts on the turbo and the boost can

[Tom]

Ah right on, would really recommend studs if you can get some, way less lethal than those bloody bolts... Cant you adjust the gearbox mount for that to pull it over? Or something along those lines

[mikey b]

Ah right on, would really recommend studs if you can get some, way less lethal than those bloody bolts... Cant you adjust the gearbox mount for that to pull it over? Or something along those lines

Will try and put studs on the rest and not that end one and will try and move it over a bit on gearbox when she goes back in should be ok if not back out with the grinder lol

[Tom]

Yeah grinders fix everything hammers cant!

[mikey b]

Tiny update been doing jimbos xud conversion so have spent much time down garage but now I finally have his old HDi rods now I can get my engine back together and in the car

[Jimbo]

Cheers for the help mike, hope the.rods are ok

[Piggy]

Can't wait..love the work so far

[mikey b]

Can't wait..love the work so far

Thanks hope after all this work so far it goes well

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Cheers for the help mike, hope the.rods are ok

That's k jimbo no probs the rods are good and the bearings are pretty mint so saves me some money

[turkish]

This is epic, just read the whole lot and considering I could hop to your house I'm going to have to have a look at this for some inspiration.

Why didn't I become a mechanic?? :/

Oh well I'll just have to pay you to do it all haha

[mikey b]

Small update managed to sort out my oil line with some nice aero quick fittings and some hellish braided hose looks pretty good . And I have pulled every thing I had on the engine for mocking up back of and striped back to block and managed to get my rods in at the weekend so she will finally be going back together this's week









Side by side shot of HDi vs normal

[mr_fish]

Pressures on now the focus is dead mike....

few more evenings right?

[mikey b]

Pressures on now the focus is dead mike....

few more evenings right?

Yep bit of a bugger but don't want to rush this as will prob forget somet

[Frosty]

Cracking on Mike. Yours will be running before mine i reckon

[mikey b]

Cracking on Mike. Yours will be running before mine i reckon

Try to get a fair bit done this week you will ave to pop over and get your bits of that engine

[Frosty]

Cracking on Mike. Yours will be running before mine i reckon

Try to get a fair bit done this week you will ave to pop over and get your bits of that engine

Yeah need to come over this week really but fair busy this week. Maybe on the weekend be over but will talk to you

[mr_fish]

Well went over to mike's last night, as I haven't seen his setup before. Quiet surprising what he has in his little man caves.

The 306 is starting to get buried now but the shiny pile is growing so shouldn't be too long before it get uncovered and back under the hammer.

Crack on Mike! Only 10 weeks to go to FCS!

[Uberderv]

Good stuff :-) Did you heat the cast before welding it? Quite interested in the dissimilar rod details if you have any?

[mikey b]

Good stuff :-) Did you heat the cast before welding it? Quite interested in the dissimilar rod details if you have any?

No didn't heat the cast the rods will weld almost anything together apart from alloy but any type on steel and the weld comes out like chrome really good things you can weld cast with a mig but it just sticks on the top it does not penetrate into it very well the the rods are a better option pm me if ya want any other info

[mikey b]

Well haven't done an update for a while fair bit has happend since last time I was on here the engine is all back together HDi rods arp head studs victor head gasket and so on got my oil line all sorted and put the engine back in the car had a cheeky test run and fired straight up now to put every thing back on sort the wiring and make a down pipe fun when using 3 inch lol while waiting for every thing from eBay to arrive I fitted so ta,s and some braided lines and while I was there replaced pretty much all the brake pipes good old ph's 1 getting old now









Boot floor really need bit of paint at some point
And few shiny bits turned up in the post today