Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Manifold take 3

Alright, third time lucky I'm hoping! It's just come back from repair, and has been re-welded and strengthened so it will hopefully last a few trackdays at least until I decide on what I want to do with my turbo system.

Thanks to John from Provex for welding this up for me, very much appreciated!

Vu at DT Panels painted my Supermade headlight covers up for me, and they came out really well.



We had a slight mishap with my bonnet and roof having an impromptu meeting, so once they're fixed these will complete the front end well I think.
GT500 Project - Sweden

Wowzers! Check out this crazy GT500 project being undetaken by an ambitious Swedish guy. Awesome stuff.




http://www.gt500.se/

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Heat management

Well it would seem that I'm lucky I stopped driving at Winton when I did, as a few things got a bit hot under the collar! The wastegate pipe worked it's way loose, and scorched the sheeth on the wiring harness.

Sam has put some heat shielding in now to combat the problem, so it shouldn't be an issue. Luckily no damage was done as I would have been shattered if my new wiring was destroyed!

The bad news is that we also found a big crack on the underside of the manifold where it had been modified for the external wastegate, so it's off to be repaired, then back on for the final tune.