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Another month brings another update, this time with some interesting developments after the Covid restrictions are lifting. Brakes We'll start with a brake update. I mentioned in the last post that I had returned the faulty Tilton valve after a refund after they finally admitted it was a...

It's been a month since the last update with not a lot going on until yesterday so I've been saving the update till today. As usual there is always some 3D printing on the go. This time it's some mounts to hold an air dam under the radiator to close off the large 50 mm gap under there to keep...

Weekend was here again which gave me a few hours each day to get on with the engine build. First job before starting to think about putting the engine in was to get the engine bay cleaned and a few jobs in their tidied up. A good jet wash and degreaser with a scrubbing brush brought off the 17...

This was just a simple 3d printed mount which clipped into the CD slot on the centre console to hold the phone I had at the time. Bit off a one of I designed to hold the phone at the time.

Just because I've taken some decent photographs of the porting on the head here's the comparison. Standard inlet side Ported inlet side Standard exhaust side Ported exhaust side (to match the S50 exhaust i'm running) Engine building continues this weekend, I will be cracking on with...

Engine building continues. I was waiting for the mains bolts to arrive so I was able to start to put the crank in and assemble the bottom end. While doing this I checked the bearing clearances on the mains and the big end bearings. all of these were right in the middle of the factory tolerances...

Looking fantastic. Going to be the best built Mk3 in the UK i’d imagine.

First few parcels with engine parts started to arrive a the end of last week. First ones being the Vanos rebuild kit Stripped the unit open and pulled out the seals Cleaned the pistons in the parts washer and refitted the new seals Time for reassembly Done... Bit of paint to tidy up...

I was going to save this for one but update but with the amount of photographs and steps I thought I would break it up a little bit and write down some of the progress so far. This obviously isn't every step I've gone through so far just some of the stages I've taken photos of. Engine strip...

Lock down update. Only small things but I thought it was a good chance to sit down on a Friday evening and pass some time writing down a few things i've found and been messing with along the way. Carrying on from the last update were I was adding in additional sensors, one of the sensors I...

Cheers, keep trying to develop it step by step, not changing too much all in one go and learning new things as I progress. Will be adding a couple of bar graphs with the brake pressure in PSI to the overlays. Similar to what I use for brake and throttle now. Was supposed to be going to...

Another month brings another update. This time, very little in the way of modifications and actually some use of the car. Wanted to try and get some miles on the car as it's not been out since the beginning of December. Wanting to find a weekend track day due to the start of the racing season...

Progress to finish off the last few jobs... Waiting for it to stop raining between storms has meant for slow progress but slow progress is better than no progress. Got the splitter mounted up to the chassis mounts and bolted to the subframe. Little bit bigger than the previous version...

5 Year since my first post on here when I started this build thread. It's been very quiet over christmas with slow progress. Motivation to work on the car hasn't been very high so I've only been chipping away at jobs slowly. Also trying to decide what to do with the car from here. Probably...

Little additions to the car continue. If you've followed the build thread this far you probably know i'm a sucker for 3D Printing. Due to the change of fuel rail to be more flexible with injectors and have a valve on the end of the rail for checking FP I needed a way to bolt down the rail...

Slightly late update after Oulton Pack at the beginning of November. I've been waiting for a little bit more content to post in an update. I've been productive this weekend so thought I should write an update about Oulton and what I've been doing since. So as usual I set off about 6am to...

Arrived at EFI tuning around 12:00 The plan for the day was to first of all run the car on the Dyno and just see what it ran like with all the changes and get a feel for the new manifold. I have spent a lot of time adjusting the maps on the MS43 ECU to run the car without the idle control...

I have also replaced the fuel set up and the plumbing for the swirl pot under the car but didn't take any photos of this now. I'm now running an E36 fuel filter with the M50 rail with built in regulator which then returns directly to the swirl pot in the engine bay. Finally was the last job to...

While i was at it I've also designed the plate that will adapt the standard electric throttle body onto the m50 manifold. Both of these can be 3D printed as a final test before being sent for CNC machining. Last job I was on with this afternoon between showers was the test fitting of...

Sooo... After being asked by a few people if i was going to keep this updated, I've popped back to throw some updated in the thread from the end of summer and update it to this weekends track days... So September 2019... Following on from Cadwell Park... First job was to do some double checking...