bitten off more than I can chew!!!

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:15

totally run out of energy tonight, so cant post all the details but suffice to say I shall never ever ever make my own aeroquip hoses again, my god its incredibly hard and painful work!!! anyway here are a few before and after (well not really after im not remotely finished!)

work done

I've swapped the turbos
installed a pickled throttle body
installed carl davey inlet manifold spacers and header tank isolaters
installed parallel fuel rails with 740cc injectors
re-piped the whole fuel system with aeroquip hoses and fixings
installed a nice shiney fuel filter thingy
installed a samco inlet hose (hard hard work)
shoved on but not plumbed a perrin oil catch tank (not pictured)
replaced 36 engine bolts with titanium equivalents (weight saving dontcha know!)
installed SX fuel reg and inline goodridge pressure gauge

oh other mods recently as well

clifford avant garde 5.5 with smart windows, black jax, boot popper, smart windows
4 new khumo ecsta tyres
defi water temp gauge
some weird and wonderful earthing kit
crappy sti oil cap
samco ancillery and water hoses
induction and throttle body lcd temp sensor

probably a host of other stuff too im just too tired to think about!

work still to do (all the stuff is lying in my garage)

RCM lightened pulley set
hyperflow TMIC oil cooler
folding mirrors
APS wing mounted air filter
defi EGT gauge and sender
new set of 7 (modded to 0.65) plugs
new maf sensor

again probably got more my memory is pants!

piccies
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really lost faith in suppliers tonight, wrong injectors sent, aeroquip t-pieces missing, got ripped off by some little squirt on sccobynet for some STI rears, but I have to give props to ripspeed very good service thus far

Morba · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:20

jesus. good work knuckle shredding on random engine parts fella

that hammer screams 'who cares if its a round hole, this square thing is going in!'

L1J · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:24

Will Gill said:
installed a samco inlet hose (hard hard work)

I still have nightmares about doing that job on my old scooby, what a PITA.

Keep up the good work, it will be worth it

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:24

L1J said:
I still have nightmares about doing that job on my old scooby, what a PITA.

Keep up the good work, it will be worth it

you arent available for home visits are you?

IainB · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:30

Nice one Will

Ever used www.speedflow.co.uk for pipework and fittings? (heard nothing but good things about them)

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:32

IainB said:
Nice one Will
Ever used www.speedflow.co.uk for pipework and fittings? (heard nothing but good things about them)

yep bought 8 of the fittings from them, but he didnt have the -6 Tpiece I needed so I moved to demon tweeks

amazingly enough they are very good - I just thought they sold 100 different exhaust pipe trims

Liverpool-Lad · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:32

All those mods and Kumho tyres

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:35

Liverpool-Lad said:
All those mods and Kumho tyres

I have anoter set of wheels with yoko 888's and to be fair the kumho's are damn damn good, I could buy which ever tyres I like but for the money they are in a league of their own

Rotty · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:42

you're a braver man than me, swapping my wheels was the limits of my technical ability

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:43

Rotty said:
you're a braver man than me, swapping my wheels was the limits of my technical ability

I built 6 EVA5000's in a weekend I figured this was easy, oh how wrong I was

Bunka · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:49

Any idea how much further these currents mods will take you to your aimed bhp figure?

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:52

Bunka said:
Any idea how much further these currents mods will take you to your aimed bhp figure?

400+ easy

few more bits arriving next week too

Bunka · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:54

Guessing a session on the old rolling road will be booked in fairly soon then, or are you comfortable enough/have the tech to tune it yourself?

Phate · 29 Jun 2007 at 01:01

Awesome Will - just simply awesome

Oh - when it's all done learn some cable management

Looking forward to the next RR to see this again!

That car always lights my day up.

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 01:01

Bunka said:
Guessing a session on the old rolling road will be booked in fairly soon then, or are you comfortable enough/have the tech to tune it yourself?

nah not remotely, I have the motec software on my laptop, ive plugged it in but its all japanese to me, will all be done soon by the professionals :cool:

Kreeeee · 29 Jun 2007 at 01:40

Egads, what a horrible engine bay to work on!

Will Gill · 29 Jun 2007 at 08:10

Kreeeee said:
Egads, what a horrible engine bay to work on!

its not that bad, but i must admit there aint much space wasted under the hood!!!

Bear · 29 Jun 2007 at 08:17

Sounds great, good work.

Gutted, you'll be able to leave me for dead now.

Wicksta · 29 Jun 2007 at 08:22

Will Gill said:
yep bought 8 of the fittings from them, but he didnt have the -6 Tpiece I needed so I moved to demon tweeks amazingly enough they are very good - I just thought they sold 100 different exhaust pipe trims

Whatever gave you that impression about Demon Tweeks? I used to buy stuff from them all the time for my old circuit racing car (appearing with Demon Tweeks sticker in Autosport was cool as well as you got £250 credit). If anything I'd have said the same thing about the thing they call Ripspeed these days.

Virdi · 29 Jun 2007 at 08:26

Will Gill said:
400+ easy

few more bits arriving next week too

Can the standard engine internals handle 400BHP?

...or have you modded the engine itself also?