FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 11/04/15 02:00 PM Author Share Posted 11/04/15 02:00 PM So oh had a bit of a short play around today. Picked up some missing nuts & bolts plus coolant and vac partsThe first & most important thing was to get the whip running. Cracked collector pipe on the coolant return. Crap design, one 440ml cc & dry can with some 5 minute apoxy and hose clamps later and I just saved myself several hundred dollars on a sh*tty ford part. Hasn't spilt a drop since!Got stuck in to the cross over today, heat gun and some pressure reformed the FG pipework to get low enough that I think it'll allow the bonnet to close without rubbing too much. Intercooler is mounted and now the cold side pipes are getting plumbed. Nizpro sent me the wrong pipes (which isn't so bad as I need to muck around with the run under the headlight anyway.) Wanted to run a 32mm bov setup but even the. 25mm pipe is going to be tight to fit in. Ran the engine for a few minutes with coolant again too. Turns out I think the little o ring on the tap had crapped out. Topped up and the thing idles & revs up a dream. Only issue was some accumulated oil on the turbine housing from an earlier issues (I think) started to get hot and smoke a bit. Need to look in to that a bit more. So just some pipework to go and I'm about there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 11/04/15 02:01 PM Author Share Posted 11/04/15 02:01 PM So oh had a bit of a short play around today. Picked up some missing nuts & bolts plus coolant and vac partsThe first & most important thing was to get the whip running. Cracked collector pipe on the coolant return. Crap design, one 440ml cc & dry can with some 5 minute apoxy and hose clamps later and I just saved myself several hundred dollars on a sh*tty ford part. Hasn't spilt a drop since!Got stuck in to the cross over today, heat gun and some pressure reformed the FG pipework to get low enough that I think it'll allow the bonnet to close without rubbing too much. Intercooler is mounted and now the cold side pipes are getting plumbed. Nizpro sent me the wrong pipes (which isn't so bad as I need to muck around with the run under the headlight anyway.) Wanted to run a 32mm bov setup but even the. 25mm pipe is going to be tight to fit in. Ran the engine for a few minutes with coolant again too. Turns out I think the little o ring on the tap had crapped out. Topped up and the thing idles & revs up a dream. Only issue was some accumulated oil on the turbine housing from an earlier issues (I think) started to get hot and smoke a bit. Need to look in to that a bit more. So just some pipework to go and I'm about there! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 12/04/15 10:15 AM Author Share Posted 12/04/15 10:15 AM I'm sitting here quietly stroking my beard wondering about this FG piping I've just mucked around with. Stock it has some thin metal rings (made from 1.6mm wire) that help prevent the ribbed flex in the pipe from collapsing. These have been squashed and hence removed now. I'm still wondering if something is required to stop the pipe collapsing when its warm and there's a mild vacuum in it. I could make up a new set with some pretty robust wire I've got, but again I don't want it to come loose while I'm driving & end up in the compressor :-/ So if I did this I'd probably secure it in somehow to keep it in place.This said, the majority of engine rock will happen while its at speed and in this case the pipe will be wanting to oval out more. Hmmmm, need more beer. Other news of the night, the whip is still running strong beer can & all. I do need to get the coolant swapped. While at clark rubber I asked the fella for a 10L bucket and a scoop of water out of the blowup kids pool in the shop front to fill it. Sure enough to prevent more sh*t happening I'll be swapping it when I can along with the thermostat and I'll eventually swap the top tank on both cars too and the cracked pipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko16 Donating Members 1,672 Member For: 17y 1m 28d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 12/04/15 10:17 AM Share Posted 12/04/15 10:17 AM What piece of FG pipe are talking about ? Do you mean the flex from the crossover to the airbox ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko16 Donating Members 1,672 Member For: 17y 1m 28d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 12/04/15 10:18 AM Share Posted 12/04/15 10:18 AM What piece of FG pipe are talking about ? Do you mean the flex from the crossover to the airbox ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 12/04/15 11:00 AM Author Share Posted 12/04/15 11:00 AM That's the one yup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 17/04/15 11:10 AM Author Share Posted 17/04/15 11:10 AM No updates this week, but here's what's been keeping me up late the last week anyway. Our baton for relay for life. I printed the daffodil & rotary gear, $10 gets you a lot of LEDs on eBay and 8 d cell batteries & you get a baton!https://youtu.be/CkXM0plERtYhttp://youtu.be/2RynpRrHFKYhttps://youtu.be/ZByDFuQ-Zm0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 19/04/15 09:17 AM Author Share Posted 19/04/15 09:17 AM So things are progressing steadily. Got the airbox cut and some bracketry set for the cross over. When I had a second look I can just fit the muffler pipe so for now I'll run that. Crank return is plumbed & the AC line is bent away enough for now. I've got a lead on something I can use to make up a new line if needed.First part of the cold side is plumbed and I'll get the hot done tonight. My only concern at the minute is the lack of room in the front of the bay in this area now. The box is already pretty chopped, when the last part of the cold side is done I'll see how bad the chop needs to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 23/04/15 03:06 PM Author Share Posted 23/04/15 03:06 PM (edited) So Friday night we're going for a drive around the block to see what falls off. Situation at the moment is the last bolt in the manifold got done up & the new tyre is on. Battery is charged and shortly before the drive the fuel will be primed up again. Tyre is a stop gap til I can get some bushes done with an alignment but it will survive until I get some scratch together to splash on a set of rimsMuffler is ridiculously close to the PS pump so for now some sticky foam, I'll probably get on the pipe with the heat gun to create an air pocket later. Little concerned about the crossover isolator too. Far too much misalignment. Again, it'll be ok for the weekend. Need to pickup the last cold side pipes & buy a few last silicon bends to finish the plumb. I've ripped the head off the dipstick by mistake so I'll need to sort something there, but interestingly the plumb back line fits nice between everything as shown in the image. Better than I expected actually. Edited 23/04/15 03:08 PM by FiftyOne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 6m 16d Gender: Male Posted 24/04/15 02:35 PM Author Share Posted 24/04/15 02:35 PM Righto first drive down & things went ok. Heaps of little teething issues to nail, basically will need to drive it & monitor the wear on some parts until I can see it or I can find solutions. Ripping the head off the dipstick wasn't the worst thing in the world, now the BOV line runs right over it. Other things requiring attention in no particular order;- muffler pipe close to the PS pump- I think some sort of grease has dropped on the turbine housing, smoking a bit- zip ties, zip ties everywhere- still a lack of a box for the pod, also the pod pipe isn't the right size (length & width)- BOV line close to thermostat housing- cold side pipe is jammed hard under the headlight, needs a re think- snapped the crank vent hose off, need to get a new one, glued up for now- isolator on rear of cross over is under duress- keep an eye on the turbo inlet joiners- vac lines are a mess!- need to block a vac line- watch rear vac tee fitting- TB joiner is way too tight- cold side pressure sensor line needs a set of P clips - front bar to replace- keep an eye on the hot side pipe work- very minor rubs on the bonnet liner- but wait! there's more!anyway, heres a little "danger to the manifold" pic my housemate took that makes me look tubby A/F and a pic of where we're at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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