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[e30_Turbo]

Good work guys
been an interesting read. is there a book running on who's will go pop first?
my bet it fozzy he is boost happy

Thanks for the vote of confidence

I don't plan to destroy anything quite yet.

Just enjoying my car at the mo.

[Turbo-Brown]

Ooh, furtherupdatage from me:

the airbox has just left the house with my mate the tig-welder

All that's left to do now is the oil cooler and exhaust!.............plus whatever else I've missed

[Turbo-Brown]

And it seems that one of the things I'd forgotten about was clocking the turbos

Wasn't too bad though taking about an hour and a half to do both of them

Spent best part of an hour in a scrappy this morning trying to wrestle the coil pack from an Omega. The coil pack won though which is a pain

Gonna have a break by phoning around insurance companies now.

[lentec]

alex i spotted a substisute for the vaux coil pack think it was a rover v6 coils were sat on top! can see if its still there if you still need!

those omegas are a right ass to get to the coils!!

think they start with them then build the rest of the car round em.

[Andy335Touring]

What is "clocking the turbos" ?

[Turbo-Brown]

Len that'd be wicked if you can get it. Just need one with the 4pin plug on it I guess. How much they charge for yours?

Andy, clocking the turbos is rotating the turbine housings relative to the bearing section so that the inlet for the oil is at the top and the outlet is as vertically down as possible.

Twas a tense procedure with the exhaust side as the turbines on mine are ceramic and a bloody close fit in the housing. The housings are also firmly wedged onto the bearing section so it takes a lot of force to getthem apart which runs the extreme risk of shattering a turbine

Still, through dumb luck I've managed to avoid disaster.

Just paid for the insurance, Ԛ£738 Do get like for like replacement on parts though which is better than having the car restored to standard.

Sadly the alarm I fitted doesn't count for insurance so I've got someone coming on Thursday to fit one properly. Guess two alarms and two imobilisers is better than one.

[lentec]

i paid Ԛ£15 for mine
this was a steel bracket with 3 coils bolted to it all wired to a 4pin plug
looked prety smart tho!

[Andy335Touring]

Thanks for the info Alex

[Jon_Bmw]

I thought that was what clocking was, but wasn't going to say in case I was wrong-male pride and all. I had to do it on mine, was a scary moment when i had to get the mallet out

[Turbo-Brown]

Len, Sold!

My Cavalier V6 one is all rusty and I'm pretty sure that it's not gonna wrk all that well

[Turbo-Brown]

Right, some long awaited piccies!

Don't get too excited as it's still nowhere finished, but at least it's starting to look more like it should work now!

[Ant]

Lookin awesome Alex.

your mate the Tig artist certainly dont hang about either

I await your first run post with baited breath

[lentec]

Looking good

Lots of blue looks must be nearly time for fire up

[Jon_Bmw]

I think i just made a mess in my pants at those pictures Alex, the throttle bodies look so right, like all m20's should have them. Truely a work of art! And all of those blue charge pipes, must be a small fortune there.

Had some good news of my own, it was MOT time on saturday, and i can tell you that passed MOT certificates have changed since i last got one. Its now printed on a4 paper rather than the old watermarked a5 sized ones.

So chuffed that it went through, the MOT'er even commented on how clean it was for a 17 year old car. Shame it has some surface rust on it, otherwise it would be a very nice car.

Due to changed insurance circumstances(read as lack of money) I can no longer drive it on the road, but the old man can. We(well he) took it for a spin today held 7 psi with no spiking at all in any gear. Happily sat at 100mph(on a private testrack of course) and pulled very nicely up to that point.

So I think the time has come to get it onto the track and give it a bit of abuse. I've been looking around and i think the best thing for me is to go to an airfield type day. I've found one in early december near chippernam(jnt17 m4) and am going to go for that. I think we are going to hire a trailer god forbid we break it! Any of you FI people thinking about trackdays?

[glenn]

found this site earlier, might be of intrest to you f/i guys
www.boostjunkies.com

[E30BeemerLad]

reckon you could do with a reiger front spoiler to hide the big venturis for your intercooler air flow

Plenum and Silicon set up for the inlet looks pure sex mate

[Turbo-Brown]

Hooray!

Brand new Bosch coil pack on it's way

for a mere Ԛ£85

Nuts to it, at least I can be reasonably sure it's gonna work!

[Jhonno]

Been doing a bit of turning myself!

8" new pulley!
cant physically fit anything bigger on my lathe!

dont you need a smaller one to run bigger boost with a supercharger? or am i missing something (yes i didnt read the run up posts to it..)

[chip-3door]

Been doing a bit of turning myself!

8" new pulley!
cant physically fit anything bigger on my lathe!

dont you need a smaller one to run bigger boost with a supercharger? or am i missing something (yes i didnt read the run up posts to it..)

smaller at the charger end, or larger at the crank end does the same thing mate!

[Jhonno]

amazingly good point!!

shows what posting and watchin tv at the same time do for you..

[chip-3door]

We all wrong sometimes mate.

I was even wrong once myself, i thought i had made a mistake but it turned out i hadnt

[Jhonno]

We all wrong sometimes mate.

I was even wrong once myself, i thought i had made a mistake but it turned out i hadnt

PMSL

[kam-325i]

We all wrong sometimes mate.

I was even wrong once myself, i thought i had made a mistake but it turned out i hadnt

same here.
Im not allways right, but im never wrong !!!!

[Jhonno]

Mind you... i will maintain i wasnt technically wrong as such.. just opened my mouth before thinking it through

[lentec]

Been doing a bit of turning myself!

8" new pulley!
cant physically fit anything bigger on my lathe!

dont you need a smaller one to run bigger boost with a supercharger? or am i missing something (yes i didnt read the run up posts to it..)

smaller at the charger end, or larger at the crank end does the same thing mate!

Spot on
Had to go bigger on the crank end as there is a electomagnetic clutch on the charger end!
So a smaller pulley was not an option.

Gonna have a test fit of the new one this weekend

[chip-3door]

That pulley is porn mate

[lentec]

Its getting there

[chip-3door]

Can i have your address please?

I need to send you an invoice for a pair of DKNY boxer shorts you just ruined.

[E30BeemerLad]

Len, an engineering tour de force

[Turbo-Brown]

Wow, that really is a nice pulley!

Got my down pipes tacked together today, they run bloody close to the steering column on BOTH sides, but were pretty easy to make considering

As a bonus, also have pretty much sorted the problem with my exhaust fouling the rear suspension so have taken a big leap forward I think!

[Andy335Touring]

Alex, that first test drive doesn't sound to far away now mate, nice progress !

Len, that pulley looks ace !

[H35-IAN]

We all wrong sometimes mate.

I was even wrong once myself, i thought i had made a mistake but it turned out i hadnt

thats fukkin awsome m8 im in stitches here lol

[Turbo-Brown]

Check out our efforts this weekend!

We have a pair of down pipes (up at the front with me holding one up) and have also sorted my lame attempt at the exhaust system so that it now fits and clears the suspension etc!

Still a million and one little bits to do though before it's ready

[lentec]

Alex getting home brew exhausts lined up are enough to drive you
Unless you have a lift.

What are you gonna use for packing your back box?
I didnt want to attempt welding with fiberglass in one. would be a nightmare if you get a blob of glass rattling round in there!

[Turbo-Brown]

Tell me about it! Was made easier by having a level headed mate there who kept telling me the obvious: "it's better to take it apart and get it right than to fudge it and have to try sorting it later" and now it fits!

Not sure about the packing. I had though about glass, but as you say it'd probably rattle. Thought about wire wool, but it's pretty flamable! Mabey all the aluminium swarf I've got on the lathe, although it's probably not dense enough.

Thinking about it though, I bought a couple of cans for the GT6 last year and they're fully welded stainless with glass packing so perhaps that is an option.