The Old XUD DervBus Thread!

[darrenjlobb]

Right ok, its been a while since ive really updated this, or come to it, really done anything significant with the car...purly because ive just been stacked with other work, and its been put to one side, and because its not really been working...and ive tried everything in my power to make the piper cam benefit it...but its just not happening, and im stuffing it...so !!**** to piper!!

So I decided i was going to change the head, as the current one has a nitemare leak, as well as a scored bearing, and valve clearancse all set for the piper cam, so decided id fix all the problems at once, and put the head from the sigma on it, as i recently had it skimmed and tested, and did the valve clearances...

So as normal, my car is back in the workshop, took the head off this afternoon, but cant re assemble as waiting on a friends torque wrench tomorrow....

So this is how it stands atm...




So i had some free time, and as people know, ive been looking at turbos alot recently, as my tiddy hybrid cant keep up for crap!

So ive built up a bit of a collection of turbos, of which ive chosen what ill be using, but im wanting to do a proper job of converting to that, and obviously it wont fit behind the engine...but I thought id proove im doing the right thing, but fitting another one I had behind the engine, So i spent this evening modifying it to fit the XUD....this involved welding a new flange on it (so its still boltable to stock manifold), and welding a new downpipe connector on it (so it fits 306 exhaust as normal) as well as stripping it to ajust angles or exhaust and compressor, as well as modifying the wastegate and oil lines... So this is basically a tester, to see how the engine responds....

So please no abuse about welding, im not a welder...I can weld, but not to any amazing standard, so given it was cast its not a bad job lol....how it will hold up i have no idea...but only one way to find out!

Anyway some pics of what i created...



















Just a comparison to the k14 at the end there..

So yes, I am still working on this car.. I've just not had time recently!

That is all