Great Job there! SPA Dash for mine it is then. :y:

Does the dash run off all the standard engine sensors?

No it's a stand alone dash, you do however wire the standard instrument lights etc to the spa dash. The only ball ache is the fuel tank level sensor

Is it not can/serial to the ecu? I always thought it was.

Its not CAN setup, it's pretty normal but it works and easy to install.

Looks brilliant mate! Cant wait to see/hear it on the nurburg trip

You gonna get it digital dash then? What does your engine rev too?

Cheers mate, we will have good fun on the way to the ring down the autobahn :)

Thanks Andy, I agree it definitely suits the car, I'm really pleased with the outcome and my choice of the SPA :)

Haha, I got them from Htec-elite at a decent price!

Yeah want one when i get the interior loom done. Revs too 8300 at the moment. Will rev a tad higher with the bottom end work.

car looks great josh really like the dash and interior now!

how many laps this year will it be at the ring?.

Cheers Tom, I'm really pleased with the outcome :)

We've got lucky with the opening times, Friday evening, all day Sat + Sun 8am - 7pm it's open, as long as the weathers decent there's no reason why a minimum of 20 across sat+sun, and hopefully get a few in on Friday evening too :)

Ah right cool, I like analogue dials so the SPA was the obvious choice for me, plus not having to add Extra buttons and lights etc to get it road legal! Where does it make peak power?

157bhp was its last dyno figure. But runs a thicker head gasket now so unsure till its in.

Hi josh I'm loving your sax that engine is epic and the mani is a monster lol :y:

Hope to see you down at beaniesport some time :)
Proper nice work moo did on those looms :)

That's not what I asked :p where does it make peak power? At what revs?

Why a thicker head gasket now?


Thanks Gary. Sandy did a great job with the engine & Mike Edwards designed + built the manifold to Sandys spec.

You know the Beaniesport duo do you? I'll probably pop down to there workshop in July when I'm back in the UK. Moo definitely did a cracking job on the loom, very tidy and a proper job :)

Ever so sorry ....

When Sonny had it he put a thicker head gasket it, i'll have to ask him to comment on why.

According to Sonny's old thread it made peak power at 7300rpm.

peak power 130 atw @ 7300rpm but made good power all the way past 8000rpm.
I wished i could've gone hi comp & forged and revved the fucker harder!

The thicker headgasket was a mistake tbh. i didn't realise i used a thinner one when i originally put the engine together, then when i replaced the valves with some sexy ones, i uninetensionally used a thicker gasket.

Yh known them for a while now they built me a loom. I'm now virtually building a hole car with them :) down there next week fitting a roll cage :)
Check out my progress thread if your interested, it's not much yet but hopefully one day... http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...=1#post6248252

Will be interesting to see what difference the lower compression has made to peak power / torque....

Wooooops! Decent power for an 8v! How much thicker are we talking? How did you come to realise it was thicker - if at the time of fitting why didnt you just get it replaced for the same thickness as before?

Had a look at your thread mate, doing a proper job on it I see - Love it :D What spec engine you dropping into it? :y:



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Small update on this - Beanie is poping up to finish the interior loom off this weekend so thats another thing ticked off the list for this winter :A:

I just didn't realise until I'd built it all up. It went on the dyno and it lost 4-5whp.

looking very smart mate, think if i had kept mine would of ended up this way, only the best goes for this. so easy to spend money when working away i know

Haha I think you, Danny & I know all about that lol. It sounds stupid but regardless if im away or not my car is still my toy, my hobby, its what motivates me to get up in the morning, stay an hour hour or 2 extra at night to earn the extra cash, which i can then justify treating myself to something trick over the winter each year :)

Tbh I'm at the stage now where I only get 1 or 2 bits per winter & I make sure they are good quality bits