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Few teething problems but made exactly what I wanted and it absolutely flys! The springs on the back are so much stiffer so not been able to really push it properly yet but 3rd gears great! I hope to god its dry on Saturday! It feels really strong. It made just over 370 but after a few hours was...

Back in for mapping on Wednesday at EFI now the new coolers finished and fitted with the C38. Decided on sticking with the 105mm pulley which is making 16 psi and it feels like a different car already. So much more torque. A friend made the bracket and allows a 7 rib belt and 2 idler pulleys so...

I wouldn't bother sleeving the anti rotation links Superpro sell adjustable ones so just get them. and the track roda are perfect yep :-) The bearing kits are an absolute doddle to fit if you have some proper bush tools, not bad at all :grinning:

Few updates to add. The bump steer parts from R-Sport landed so dropped the subframe and fitted them along with the widetrack kit and lower arms with the pure bearings. All pretty straight forward, had to drill the hubs out slightly to accommodate the nuts for the track rod ends and cut /...

I cant honestly remember what the temps were, and I painted the manifold and pipes in VHT crackle black, really nice stuff to use!

I'm at Oulton on the 20th Nov and am not running an oil cooler at the mo but have a temp gauge so will let you know what my temps reach. What oil are you running?

Great work bringing it back to life! And as above the best colour for these :smile: Keep the updates coming!

Oh it's definitely getting fitted unfortunately buddy, sorry! Had bike engined kit cars before this and swore when I bought the clio it would be a cheap toy but these things just escalate don't they and so far maybe not quite as quick it's so much more fun than any of the others! Depending on...

Thank you mate, and yes the cooler was the last thing I expected to of failed tbh, I've been working on 'performance' cars for many years now and have never seen a core fail like this before! Even tho the C38 is capable of much more I don't want want / need more than 350-370bhp with it being a...

Now this is my favourite update by far but totally unexpected by both me and my wallet :tearsofjoy: A really nice chap that had been building a mega spec 197 with a lot of brand new parts decided to call it a day and as these parts are as rare as hens teeth and so hard to find so had to go for...

Fitted the smaller 105mm pulley bigger 830cc injectors and went to efi for mapping. It wouldn't make over 10psi / 290hp which was obviously disappointing but came away with it safe to drive anyway and still went pretty well! Was planning on just getting the next few track days out of the way...

Built the engine up and swapped it over a weekend when I could borrow a ramp. Cranked it over with the plugs out to get oil pressure up, then first start! Didn't even turn over once and it fired up :-) Ran it up to temp varying the revs on some cheap 10/40s dropped it and refilled with some...

After a chat with Opie oil man he advised on the following oils. And a friend conveniently came round with his new pure manifold which was just a work of art in every way and obviously no comparison to the Toyo I was going to re fit so that got wrapped and his got replaced!!! I've had...

It's been a while so thought I'd update the build thread! Pic overload of the engine build!

Ah awesome! I think I was the 4th owner from memory. I bought it from Wigan! Had still only done circa 60k and yes was solid!

Thanks took me back to the Rs turbo days cable tying the dipstick down ‍♂️

Temps were perfect at Donnington yesterday Actually removed the whole scuttle! Just wasn't meant to be tho, after about 15 laps (coolant temps were perfect, around 85-90. Intake temps weren't too bad until the water/meth tank emptied. It's been breathing heavily since Blyton anyway but...

As you chaps mentioned above I moved the filter back - directly to the intake of the charger for now, made some cad (cardboard) templates to fence the rad in and got some ally/plastic sheet used for making signs. Bonded round the rad and some brackets to the crash bar. No pics but I cut the...

Just from ebay can't remember the size now can measure if you like, Just removed the original and tapped the shifter / and wound it on with a bit of loctite.

Quaife every day if you're even thinking about using it on the road wish I had now, tho the grippers awesome on the track, stil a little aggressive sometimes tho. Awesome build keep the updates coming