Raunchz: TB Westcoast S - 05/03/2010 (Page 74) - Intake Plenum, it's a big bugger - Page 31 - Saxperience

moxy89 · 31st August 2009, 21:21

there is one is salisbury so not to far you would be in a uber hard class as your is modded with uprated suspension... means standard ISH lol..... its £38 for two runs in qualifing then we progress if we qualife but doubt i would you might!!! yeah i give you a shout next week mate... keep up the good work hope you sort it...

raunchz · 31st August 2009, 21:23

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Originally Posted by moxy89

there is one is salisbury so not to far you would be in a uber hard class as your is modded with uprated suspension... means standard ISH lol..... its £38 for two runs in qualifing then we progress if we qualife but doubt i would you might!!! yeah i give you a shout next week mate... keep up the good work hope you sort it...

Thanks mate, give me a shout with what you want doing and we'll sort something out!!

Olly · 31st August 2009, 21:24

Having alot of ups and downs with this atm!

Valve stem seals shouldnt be any more than £2 each, iirc they were £1.04 from GSF

I know its annoying, but dont rush it too much just to get it to trax, dont want to forget something!

Were the cams mapped to catcams timig specs, or were they altered during mapping?

raunchz · 31st August 2009, 21:29

They were altered during mapping so I'll time them up to pipers spec - will try and get it as close as possible to how it was before.

I'm going to Citroen for all the parts, will be expensive but worth it.

I won't rush rebuilding the head, so will be fine. The only problem I see is that the new flywheel doesn't have a groove to lock the bottom end off at TDC, will have to use timing marks. Fingers crossed!!!!

Olly · 31st August 2009, 21:42

Ahh bummer, Use dial guage with an extension on it To find tdc, Through the sparky plug hole. Gonna be hard to time it up without knowing If ur at TDC!

Good luck with the Build though. Sure itll be at silverstone!

raunchz · 31st August 2009, 22:17

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Originally Posted by sax-oli

Ahh bummer, Use dial guage with an extension on it To find tdc, Through the sparky plug hole. Gonna be hard to time it up without knowing If ur at TDC!

Good luck with the Build though. Sure itll be at silverstone!

It'll be there!! Whether it be in physical presence of spirit!

If it gets closer to the end of the week and it's looking like it's not going to make it - I'll set up a few lights and pull some lates nights !!

Will need to run the head in and make sure it's running okay before Sunday too, which will be a few hours driving around!

Toad · 31st August 2009, 22:18

Geez. What doofus sold you the busted S1 box?

raunchz · 31st August 2009, 22:26

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Originally Posted by Toad

Geez. What doofus sold you the busted S1 box?

Someone on 106rallyeforum - I'm a bit pissed about it as have a useless S1 box now and let the buyer of the S2 down now as I fitted it to mine, but just means I'll get to take the S1 apart, new bearings, seals and synchro's - and depending on money/situation i'll pop a quaife in it.

raunchz · 31st August 2009, 23:25

Update on my previous list of To Do's before Trax::

- new front wheel bearing (doing after trax due to lack of time)
- new rear wheel bearing (doing after trax due to lack of time)
- new droplinks (FITTED)
- new ball joints (S*TTG pressing them in tomorrow)
- S1 gearbox on (S2 put on instead as S1 fubar)
- helix flywheel on (FITTED)
- oil cooler bought (fitting it tomorrow)
- REPAIR ENGINE (head rebuild/new valves etc.) - Valvles lapped in, waiting for parts to rebuild it)
- oil change (to do after engine is back together and oil cooler fitted)
- tracking laser done (after Trax I'll book it in)
- front de-cat section made up (box removed) (I'll book it in and get this done at the same time as laser tracking)
- a good clean (A job for Saturday if weathers good and car's running nice)
- battery relocated (Battery box not come yet so can't do)

Not looking too bad at the mo, just depends on whether it runs or not, and timing it back up/tweaking the map to get it running nice.

TU-Tuning · 1st September 2009, 03:03

Shit, sorry to read all this mate. Right old shitter! These french tins can be such cunts sometimes.

Looks like youve got it all under control though, fair play being so motivated to do it all. Best of luck getting it done in time, the bodied beast cometh!

raunchz · 1st September 2009, 05:41

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Originally Posted by Ben_Saxo

Shit, sorry to read all this mate. Right old shitter! These french tins can be such cunts sometimes.

Looks like youve got it all under control though, fair play being so motivated to do it all. Best of luck getting it done in time, the bodied beast cometh!

Cheers mate, I'm feeling the full wrath of having a French car!!! Hopefully it'll soon get back on the road, just soooooo keen to make Trax, even if I don't push it hard on track

Toad · 1st September 2009, 13:15

Is there any way you can take the crown wheel and pinion from the S1 and put it in the S2?

raunchz · 1st September 2009, 15:52

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Originally Posted by Toad

Is there any way you can take the crown wheel and pinion from the S1 and put it in the S2?

Yeh that might be a good shout - I'm just a bit reluctant to pull apart a good S2.

I think i'll just fully rebuild the S1, as would need to come apart anyway to get the diff/crownwheel out anyway. If i get a quaife, I ca nsend the diff off to quaife and they'll swap the crownwheels over for a small fee/free iirc.

TU-Tuning · 1st September 2009, 20:06

Aye it be free if you buy the diff directly from them

raunchz · 1st September 2009, 20:11

End of day 3, 3 days to go

Hada good day today!!

Went and ordered the parts needed to rebuild the head, will be ready to be picked up at 9am tomorrow - the parts guy give me discount as me and S8TTG are in there getting parts quite often.

Managed to fit the oil cooler but only 2 thirds of it is in the bumper cut-out so might have a little tinker tomorrow id I get any free time; drained oil and fitted a Citroen oil filter ready for some nice OpieOils 5w40 Silkolene Pro S oil.

I waxoiled all my arches, the underside of the boot floor, the front of the car and the front chassis legs - there were patches of rust appearing so thought I'd just patch it up to keep it on the road for another 10 years!

Got the front bumper back on, and wishbones with new ball joints (thanks S8TTG!!) and fixed a little problem I had with the central locking.

Refitted the battery and connected parts up.

Should rebuild the head tomorrow and maybe get the head on tomorrow all torqued down. Got a new drivers side shaft being delivered on Thursday then it's go go go for the weekend!!!

S8TTG · 1st September 2009, 20:17

I didnt mind pushing your ball joints out your wishbones seeing as i did it in work time so in theory i got paid to do it lol!! At least they wont knock as bad as your old ones lol!!! Gota get the beast back on the road!!!!!!

raunchz · 1st September 2009, 20:21

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Originally Posted by S8TTG

I didnt mind pushing your ball joints out your wishbones seeing as i did it in work time so in theory i got paid to do it lol!! At least they wont knock as bad as your old ones lol!!! Gota get the beast back on the road!!!!!!

Thanks mate!! They'll be sweet as a nut !!! Just need to bed them in before Silverstone (got to be positive that the car will run fine when completed!)

AndySAXO^p · 1st September 2009, 22:27

the progress is lookign good on this!!

i hope to see you at track!!!

andy

raunchz · 1st September 2009, 22:35

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Originally Posted by AndySAXOK

the progress is lookign good on this!!

i hope to see you at track!!!

andy

Fingers crossed!! So far so good, just need Citroen to come through tomorrow and then get the head back together, back on the bottom end, torqued down, timed up and then connect everything else up and almost there!

Might need a few tweaks to the map but should be able to do that myself.

jpsaxo · 2nd September 2009, 01:42

Good work mate, at this rate you'll have it done in no time