The car is basically finished. It just needs it rolling road tune now.
so oil cooler setup.
The brand new 3" exhaust with a modified cat to fit the system for mots and a 3" decat.
Baffled sump.
Arias 11:1 compression pistons
3 angle valve job and the supertech valve train with type S cams.
Then the unexpected work. The jrsc jackshaft belt side bearing spun itself and ruined the metal and a new bearing would no longer fit. Rich's machine shop has to custom machine a mini sleeve to fix it.
I'll copy and paste richs words
"I had removed the 70mm throttle body and installed a softer spring again and looked long and hard at options and ways around this throttle problem.
In the end I decided that getting a new adapter made up with IACV ports wasn’t necessarily going to cure the problem. I elected to try just machining a little off the butterfly to allow air bypass at closed throttle and massively reduce the duty cycle on the IACV..........Have road tested a couple of times now – first one short installation type test and the second of around 35 miles. So far so good with the TB and the pedal pressure is much much better…..maybe not as light as modern DBW but it’s as light as it can go now and perfectly drivable."
"where we are at now is the build is done and initial runs, road testing and calibration done – now just need to book some dyno time and get it over for mapping. As a quick side note – the exhaust seems to have freed things off in terms of boost – I’m seeing around 10psi with the same set up that was giving 12psi before so that’s a good sign that things aren’t backing up now."
Great news.
On a side note. We are leaving water and meth injection. It's not benefiting the setup. It reduced intake temperatures. That's it. Maybe add a few horse power.
The engine can handle the higher intake temps so it's not worth the effort and up front weight.
So I'm selling it on.
The oil cooler and baffled sump should massively help on a potential track day.
£150 vs loosing £350. 