Im glad the lancer register is restricted at work, plus I can't view ads when home as not a paid member, its saving me alot of money! I dont get overtime so don't matter what hours I do, but I do get about 23 quid a day extra for being at sea, so that helps! Not going to be making any changes to mine for a while.

Hello there!
Went up to Leicester today to finish off fitting of the loom into Joshs car.
Thought I'd start off with a picture of the new fusebox with the dash in place



Next up made sure all the wiring was correctly rounted



Then, in with the controversial, heavy carpet



I then fitted the wiring clips to the exposed rear sections of the wiring







Then the obligatory picture of Joshs car



After a lot of thought from myself, I couldn't bring myself to route the feed from the battery where I had initially planned to as it just wasn't going to look very nice, also I wasn't happy with where I had put the earth (all problems caused by not having the car itself when building the loom)
So after some 11th hour adjustments to the loom, it's now finally in and pretty much all working.

Josh's dad had his battery tray but you get the idea



Unfortunately flat bettery prevented me from starting it up, but the fuel pump is priming



Did manage to get a couple of videos of the Spa being alive





Only issue I found of the whole wiring loom is the fog light wiring plug wasn't the one that I thought it would be, so ended up in a female female situation, So I'll arrange getting a plug and your dad said he'd happily fit it for you to save me a journey



Cheers for looking

Moo

Cooorrrrrr... Now that's pretty fecking cool!!

Good work Moo! :y:

AWESOME Beanie :D

Did anyone notice the custom greeting I had programmed into the dash on the first video?!!

Having the 3 original fuseboxes combined into one nice aftermarket fusebox fit in the OE place is so tidy, easy to get to as well!

Also cheers for poping the "controversial carpet" back in mate lol :)

Coming along nicely.

Not so keen on the taped loom though, Convoluted tubing looks much neater and plenty of different fittings to choose from not overly expensive either.

The loom was the longest part of my build, looks 100 times better than factory though.

More progress on the loom is looking awesome fair play beanie! things here are looking fantastic!!

We could have done the loom in the tubing, but as the loom is safely under a carpet and also, I like the idea of trying to make it look as factory standard as possible. So decided to stick to taping it.

Josh I like your welcome on your dash, does look smart, the was the whole idea of making that video to show you. Though not sure if perhaps a Knightrider style, 'Hello how are we?' might have been better lol.

Will post up your fuse designations up when I get a second. you can note them down, and its handy to have them online as you'll always have access to them as long as you have 3g reception on your phone.

Carpet needed to burn not be refitted........

Yeah it's basically taken 2months to do the whole thing, its amazing how long these bits and bobs take & i dont think people really appreciate it until theyve done it thereselves. Obviously beanie has just been doing his normal job and doing this job in the evenings inbetween many other things

Agreed Lee he's done a cracking job. Now time to get the clutch & wheels sorted and all back together for the summer :D

Cheers moo - ill save the fuse diagram info to my phone so I've always got access to it should I need it, I'll print it out and keep it in the glove box too :)

That greeting would have been funny but glad you like the greeting, it's come out nice - I'm happy with that :)

Haha I knew we would get a comment about the carpet lol

Cant believe I havent commented on this thread earlier. I had a good look around the car at Bolton Abbey a couple of years back, Will you be in the country this year? Awesome update with the loom im guessing you cant wait to get it on the road when you fly over.

Also whats the red string for that goes from the rollcage to what I presume is the boot? If it so you can close it from the inside?

Why the change of the clutch? Is it too much for the road.

I would love to have a race dash for mine, they look awesome.

Wow! Yeah a lot has changed since a couple of years ago mate, not least the main part of the car - the engine :)

Yeah I'll be back for about 5 weeks in total from the very end of June (just in time for the silver stone f1 ;) ) until the end of July. Got the ring trip planned and also a couple of track days + maybe a few days in Scotland or Wales if the weathers decent!

Yeah I can't wait to get back and enjoy the new engine as I only just finished it before having to fly back to oz last year, had a quick 20min "shakedown" on track @ trax to make sure everything was working as it should be :)

Main reason is that they supplied us with the wrong one, but by the time the engine was ready I didn't have the "couple of weeks" they wanted to change it. So this year hopefully they can supply the correct one and it will be much easier to drive on the road and not so 'on or off' if that makes sense?

Your thread is bookmarked at work and I've been watching it for a while, that engine is work of art :) Enjoy :)

Very kind words mate :)

Credit Sandy for the engine, Mark for sorting the chassis, Beaniesport for the loom and Sam+Dad & Me for doing all the trick bits & putting it altogether - let alone funding it all lol. But it's my hobby and helps me get up the morning!

With the V8supercars starting the weekend just gone and the F1 on in melbourne next weekend I've been watching a few of my videos to get the enthusiasm going again

8:55 BTG ring lap with old 160bhp engine


http://youtu.be/7o_b1ROiIB8


&

Silverstone Trax having some fun with the new engine (skip the first 4mins of video as they are just installation laps)


http://youtu.be/TWdKnZdMLEw

Lovely work here, do like that fuse box :) getting back together now. What else is there to do josh?

Cheers for those videos, enjoy the ring trip this year. Me and Alanapone are hoping to join the group next year :)

Blimey now your asking mate :P

List is:-

Re-fit non-locking aerocatches
Replace clutch
Change power steering plug on loom
Check power steering working
Fit new SPA engine sensors for dials (Water & oil temp + Oil & fuel pressure)
Powdercoat a couple of other brackets & New wheels ;)
Swap over road tyres to new set of road wheels


Once Im back in the UK I need to iron out any niggles, get the tracking / camber properly set up + adjust the brake bias.... and ENJOY :D


Cheers mate, yep we should be there doing it all again next year mate!!

Way too posh for me but i do like it.

Wont let me view vids whats it say :)

This thing is just so so so clean i have never wanted another car so bad!

If for any reason you ever need to sell which i hope not name your price ill get a loan lol,

Looms shweeet!

Well DEFFO be their next year Sam!! :D

Video looks good mate. Can't wait to see it out again.

haha, flash but also functional :)

Video's you can only watch on a computer mate (certainly not on an iphone anyway!)

I cant see me selling it for a long time yet... if ever. Theres plans in the future to take it even further but ill be happy with its current spec for at least the next few years to come!

YES boys! Thats what im talking about - ring will be epic!!

It will be out and about for July, hopefully get to a few club meets + FCS of course :y:



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Dads finished off the new battery holder and catch tank bracket, alot neater :)

Regarding fitting your walbro josh, what did you do fit it fitting into oe casing as its abit smaller and the bottom filter?

It was a fcuking' nightmare mate, lots of modification and custom fitting but it does work and fit in with a lot of fannying around

Well worth spending the time and effort to fit it into the standard unit to keep things nice and tidy :)

And the original fuel hose being glued onto the plastic joiners at the top of the casing. It just the bottom filter thats the pain!

You have to DIY the filter / bag at the bottom as its clearly way too big, stupidly I didn't get any pics when we did mine as it took pretty much all day to do it & I was due to be down at Sandys in Cornwall @ 9am to tweak the map the following morning

The hose on the top is the simple part, just pull it off (takes a while and make sure you don't break it), then secure it onto the new pump. Also the new pump isn't secured down with the standard clips because of the pick up at the bottom being too 'proud' so you have to come up with a solution to hold the pump down as well

This is the only picture I took doing mine;

It´s so silent here now.... :-) Any updates, mate? ;)

Few bits and bobs but nothing substantial to update with at the moment mate... Ill update once I've got a decent amount / solutions to update with :)

That loom looks lovely. I hate doing them fuel pumps there so fiddly

This things awesome!

Yep completely agree mate, better to have it in-tank though than having untidy fuel lines everywhere

Cheers mate :)

UPDATE:

Its been over a month sooooooo;

Box off for a check over...



And clutch cover off to be changed from the Red springs (current) to the lightest race clutch springs that Helix do to make it more driveable....





And a nice new set of lightweight wheels ;)



p.s. check out in the background the amount of redundant wiring stripped from the interior loom!!!

New wheels looks hot.

New rimms :D

:( i miss those
I want them back

New wheels will be nice and light that's my main concern ;)

Also;

Gearbox casing has cracked :panic::panic:

Is that the clutch lever?
That's where mine cracked if so.

I guess that area is a likely area to fail, what with the massive increase in loading from the uprated clutch, must fatigue the aluminium significantly. At least the rebuild with the softer springs should help a touch.

Yep thats the one Sonny, I've never seen them go there before. Good job I'm making the clutch lighter by the looks of it lol

Woo lucky you took it off in the firstlplace then.

What colour with the wheels jp?

its BE time... ;)