Progress on mine (as of SATURDAY! Night) - is this the most 'busy' A-series engine bay???
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Jobs to do:
Fit intercooler pipework
Get oil pressure
Compression measure
Fill cooling system (going to try 'water wetter' this time)
Change OS driveshaft (pot joint noisy)
Plumb & wire in AMAL valve
Fit new spark plugs

Rolling road next week!

Edited by turbodave16v on 11th Jul, 2004.

Looking good!

Wish my engine was even in the car yet!!

Well all I have to do is:

Wash out engine (bearing material everywhere)
Change cam drive
Build new gearbox
Fit new flywheel and clutch
Install engine and box
Fit new down pipe

Destroy at Avon Park!!!




alex

AlexF

Less than me then

We have one thing in common, destroying at avon park!! Im not going to be running saturday i dont think as ill still be tweaking in the camp site!! you never know though may have it all finished for the saturday morning! Not going to bed the friday before though!

my carb will still be in bits(lots of them)lol

TD i read your post on turbo sport about the AMAL valve, did you figure out a way to controol it ??

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

Any chance of a link to that post, sounds like interesting reading

You wimping out on Avon Park Sauber?

Looking nice btw Dave. You've got even more pipes than me I think.

wil

Edited by wil_h on 6th Jul, 2004.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Yeah, the nicest spagetti junction ive ever seen

End of the day though they're there for a good reason!

Be good to see it in action, cant say i ever have yet.

wil-h you come and get it running and i will be there

What's the problem?

It was running when you bought it, right?

You don't live to far from me I don't think (I live in Crewe) I might be able to spare an evening.

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

TD - you still have the Carb Balance pipe i see ,,,,,

TurboLessTosser

I'm controlling the AMAL from my DTA ecu... Seems DTA has had problems with this setting in the past, but luckilly has just released it's latest ECU upgrade which controls it without feedback, so a free Eprom is in the post and will be here tomorrow!

Can't believe i spent 4 hours on it yesterday, and it looks like all i've done is fitted the intercooler pipes!
I'm just taking my time to make sure everything is routed properly, and even spent around 30 minutes just replacing the pressure sensing hose from plenum to regulator (it takes a fair bit of work getting a 6mm pipe onto the 8mm regulator unions (spot the tapered bar i use for this job in the pic!)

So, the AMAL is mounted (took ages to make a suitable 'rubber mount' for it) & connected and I'm hoping it'll work as its meant to... I've got a bleed valve on the outlet so I can adjust the sensitivity of the 'bleed' during the operation, so it is best at all rpm / boost settings. Think i'll still need a switch on my gearstick for 1st and 2nd, but after that, the boost pressure will vary wrt RPM, making it a much easier drive, and giving an even flatter torque curve...


I'll tell you about the balance pipe at Avon...

Edited by turbodave16v on 7th Jul, 2004.

nice one dave , got an amal vsalve but not tried to fit it

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

Looking very good Dave :)

Did you make up the Steel pipes yourself?

Alex

AlexF

of course!!!
The only thing in that engine bay not done by myself was the TIG on the intercooler...



Even the Kronenbourg was consumed by me...

Edited by turbodave16v on 7th Jul, 2004.

intercooler looks trick mate

Team Racing

It's coming on then mate, looks nice and neat as normal:)

I would want to be running up again you this year at avon park............come to think about it last year or the year before or before or before LOL

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

Did someone say friday night? Is avonpark on the saturday?? I was hoping of setting off after work saturday, and getting there late, then i was hoping on a full day sunday! I didnt know it was a saturday it was on!

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

Avon is a two day event.
Most peaople get there Friday afternoon / evening / night so are ready for racing from 10am on the saturday...

some of us have to work.

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

Looks superb Dave, hope your Rollin road goes ok, just remember to remove the screw driver under the intercooler

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

Where's me f**king violin for Mark?

Edited by turbodave16v on 11th Jul, 2004.

Saturday Night!



Have fired her up, filled up cooling system (incl water wetter!)
and changed the sloppy driveshaft...
Driving tomorrow morning!

Incidentally, the sloppy shaft was caused by the 'spider' splined onto the end of the shaft that the six balls contact (pot joint inboards) actually being loose on the shaft!
I've Never seen that before!!!!

blimy that looks busy in there....!

Hows long does it take you to get the engine out?

alex

AlexF