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| posted on September 9th, 2007 at 06:52 PM |
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Fitted the engine the other day and been doing all the other stuff
Have primed the oil system and have run the fuel pump is all looks good for a start next week
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| posted on September 9th, 2007 at 07:50 PM |
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Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 07:05 AM |
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IT LIVES
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 08:02 AM |
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Well done Dave.
Wish I was as quick as you getting it all together.
How does it run?
Is the tuning finished?
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 08:09 AM |
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its a tight fit with all the tubes n stuff
It fired up pretty easy
now the tuning process begins
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 08:13 AM |
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Wish I was as quick as you getting it all together.
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I wouldnt say quick I started planning about 3 years ago and collecting all the bits n pieces making clamps and replacing the gearbox fitting the
fuel lines etc etc
Ive had the car off the road for nearly 10 months Its the only way to do it
big thanks to Leigh sorting out the Microtech wiring and doing the initial start up and programing on the handset
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 08:16 AM |
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fuel flowing freely back to the tank
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 10:12 AM |
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Can you get the plugs out past the rails??
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 01:59 PM |
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yeah i was surprised how easy it was
thought it may have been a pain in the bum but using a bit of rubber tube pushed on the end of the plug and screwed in by hand then tightened
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| posted on September 12th, 2007 at 02:26 PM |
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Well done mate..
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| posted on September 14th, 2007 at 08:43 AM |
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Now all you need is some boost on that butterfly Dave.
How about a centrifugal blower?
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That's mad Alan.
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| posted on September 15th, 2007 at 08:07 AM |
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Well i wasnt going to but now that you mention it
yes i have set it so it woukld be an easy conversion to fit a small pair pump in behind the back seat and push through the firewall with a 2 inch
tube
I have to re restore my 56 sunroof Oval next thats the next big project after this
opps forgot i have to fit the old school spped stuff to my 65 in between too many jobs
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| posted on November 17th, 2007 at 12:37 PM |
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Dave.. Can you post a photo of the engine bay as it is now?.. Tks
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| posted on November 17th, 2007 at 04:43 PM |
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yeah no probs was going to do that a few weeks ago will do on Mundie when i have time at work LOL no time on the weekend at home
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| posted on November 29th, 2007 at 01:55 PM |
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Rob
heres some of the finished pics for you
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| posted on November 29th, 2007 at 01:56 PM |
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I am using a golf 1 Air filter
Westi made me a nice tube
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| posted on November 29th, 2007 at 01:57 PM |
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the throttle botle is from a 2 litre Nissan with and plenum adaptor made by Westi and myself
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| posted on November 29th, 2007 at 01:59 PM |
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the fuel rails sit well and its been running for about 6 weeks now had to check tighten a few bits
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| posted on November 29th, 2007 at 02:00 PM |
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the air filter / air box sits up against the firewall there about a 15 mm gap around to allow air to be sucked into the filter appears to work
well
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| posted on November 29th, 2007 at 02:21 PM |
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That looks like a sensational job Dave
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| posted on November 30th, 2007 at 06:21 AM |
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yeah i am quite happy with it i will be upgrading to a new ECU in the new year
the engine is running quite good and happy wil no oil leaks, will be fitting an external cooler over xmas with a thermostat I already have the case
drilled for full flow its currently running about 3 meters of hose under the pan of the car
Once again thanks to Boris, Leigh, Brad ( westie) Ian ( Pirtek ) and the many hours with the air grinder from Qantas
anyone interested in the components i used i have a spread sheet with cost and address etc etc
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| posted on December 10th, 2007 at 10:38 AM |
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How quick is it and whats the economy like?
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| posted on December 10th, 2007 at 11:04 AM |
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Its a lot quicker than the origional 1500cc engine, and its getting around 26mpg around town
havent had time to run the 1/4 mile as yet but will be doing so in the new year
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| posted on December 10th, 2007 at 06:32 PM |
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Interesting.. Thanks Dave
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| posted on January 30th, 2008 at 09:03 PM |
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Dave, looks like you have the fuel rails set up in series.... is this better/worse/equal to having them in parallel ? I thought series would mean one
side maybe running slightly lower pressure than the other ??
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| posted on January 30th, 2008 at 11:07 PM |
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Hi
The pressure will be equal, it will attract some heat to the fuel once it gets to the other side, but for the cars intended use they work fine, EFI
bays, Type 3s and T3s and even Subaru's use the same set-up.
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| posted on January 31st, 2008 at 06:07 AM |
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Craig
no problems with any sort of fuel starvation at all
i did make the rail 19mm ID so theres a bit of fuel reserve there i used the stainless flex tubing on the cross over line so theres some heat
protection there and with the raiis and injectors up n away from the mainifolds theres no direct heat only the radiated heat from the engine
Ideally i suspose you should split the line to both sides of the engine and then return to the center and tank so as to make the fuel path all
equal distances from the pump etc etc but the regulator maintains the system at approx 45lb and equals all that out it would be diferent in a
bigger horse powered engine i would imigine
just did a fuel MPG the other week
its running on Unleaded no pinging and getting 25.7 Mpg or 9.1 liter / 100 not bad i think no surge tanks or other complicated multipal throttle
bodies and the like
use the KISS method keep it simple stupid
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| posted on January 31st, 2008 at 09:24 AM |
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Cheers..................I love simple, less to go wrong.
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| posted on January 31st, 2008 at 10:01 AM |
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A nice bit of work there Dave
Keep it up 
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| posted on April 17th, 2009 at 10:23 AM |
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Looks great great Dave, the KISS method is usually the best mate!!!
Was wondering were you tapped ur head for the head temp sensor for the microtech ECU. I notice u've got the MT8.
I have a 10 - the one with the ignition control, and need to mount my bosch head temp sensor into a set of CB performance 044 heads. Just curious as
to how you did it so i don't need to re-invent things!!! 
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