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First track day of 2022. Turned out to be the wettest track day I've ever done, which upon reflection makes me appreciate the amazing conditions I have had since I started doing track days in 2016 and have only really had the odd wet day here and there with the majority of the ones that started...

Only just catching up on the forum posts. At the time I was using the Compbrake top mount and combining these with a custom machined adaptor perch to fit the Kw Clubsports as well as the V2's. I made a number of these custom sets over a period of about a year with great success. @J90RDN was...

Small update on fuel rail mounting, when I swapped to the Bosch injectors I ran into the small issue that the injectors I am using a much more compact than the standard pink top injectors I was using so I came up with a quick solution which was some deeper aluminium mounts which moved the fuel...

Spring 2022 About time I did a little update now the clocks have sprung forward and the nights are getting lighter, I've done very little on the car, well absolutely nothing on the car since Oulton Park besides start it once to rearrange the drive way and have it on the trickle charger through...

I was going to go down the Brembo or Porsche route but at the moment I’ve not picked up any calipers over winter at a suitable price and I wanted to make my own adaptors to suit my own rotors. So I’ve decided to refresh my current brakes. Replacement calipers and go over the rest. Started the...

Yeah I saw him coming for me on the straights a number of times. 350bhp on waste gate and If I remember correctly mid 400's on high boost. Straight to it with the BBK, you're right, just waiting for calipers to come into stock and I'll be ordering some. Will be a custom set up I'll design and...

Oulton Park Prep. Leading up to Oulton there was a few last minute jobs to get boxed off, I wanted to make sure I had done everything I could think of prior to the track day. Throughout the year I've had an annoying number of vibrations through the car under braking, one of them was from the...

Thanks for the tag, I've not done a set of these for a long time now as demand was small for that specific requirement. I can't help out this time unfortunately.

Good to see you still out using it Ben. I know you're a fan of the cooler winter track days! See how the temps cope in the summer with higher ambient but it seems like a step in the right direction!

Thursday 28th October 2021 - Finally, I didn't think this was going to ever arrive, I couple of milestones reached for the E46. The first big on being to have the car running on stand alone ECU and the second was sorting out the engine issues issues which all resulted in building the new engine...

Weekly round up. Thursday evening was a early finish from work to try and get on with the car before it went dark, these darker nights aren't very good for working on the car unfortunately as well as the colder weather. Now I have got the engine running on the new ECU with the cams timed up in...

Cheers, I’m glad you think so! This recent work has been really interesting, a good learning curve too. Taking on some things I’ve never done before really. I would have preferred to do it a little slower with more time but I have been determined to make Oulton in November.

Another week spending my evenings and any free time working on the car once again. This week has been finishing off the wiring planning and finishing off the engine loom. A lot more time than I thought has gone into the planning of this as well as making of the loom and I was only modifying it...

Good read! Nice to see skme engine building been done properly on these with a lovely tidy engine bay. Sad to see the damage to the charger but look forward to seeing what you do with it from here!

The DSSR is great with my RTD shifter. Wouldn't be without it on one of these boxes. I didn't have time last night to complete the rest of the update so saved it for this evening... Following weekend comes around and it was time for running in. I have booked two slots within two weeks of each...

Back to it again. Since the last post I have sourced another bare engine block which was in the similar condition to my standard block and decided on the Saturday to take them down to a new machine shop to compare blocks. In the end we decided to stick with the original block, it was determined...

Possible? Yes.. However when I checked you're into over £600 for OEM pistons and rings plus machine work. Zero gain except 0.25mm bigger pistons. Anything above that and the liners in the block are to thin. You could go after market and get higher compression pistons but the costs are £1200+ and...

Cheers Sean. I’ve messaged all sellers on eBay with blocks and reasonable engines regarding photos of bores, if they have main caps and timing cases, just see who comes back to me this week. Hopefully some of the breakers pick up the message tomorrow. Not been brought up with the original shop...

Small update from this week and weekend. Got the block dropped off at a new machine shop for them to rehone and have a look at the condition of the bores. The outcome of this was that the current piston to wall clearance is on average 0.06-0.07 but the bores are slightly tapered, not well honed...

Part 2 While I was taking the front timing cover off for the fitting of the new chain tensioner you have to remove 3 small head bolts from the front of the block which is part of the head gasket, I decided while I'm this far in I will pop the head off and have a look at the insides of the...