TNTRacing - XRCosworth

[Bart]

DAY 2
another early morning start at 5.30 Am for a great open road drive over to leicester.
started off taking off, the fuel metering unit, header tank, coil, plenum and fuel lines.


then fitted the engine mounts and also fitted the new fuel pump on


fitted bling header tank and group A coil


while gordon was starting on the engine i cleaned and painted the engine brackets, gordon has fitted the pistons and rods, crank oil pump and a couple of other things i carnt quite remember







as stu instucted, i have also painted the fuel tank


ooo stu what wheels you got, send me a pic mate.

[Rob S]

Stu, you're not thinking of those Alessios are you?

[pablo]

Stu.

Alan says sorry for not getting in touch, but as you can imagine he is a bit busy this week. So what ever the wheels are as long as they fit and are 7x17 we'll gladly have them.

[Stuart]

Alessios??

I will send you some pics Bart.

[Bart]

DAY 3

started off today jet washing, cleaning and painting the following items, head, water pump, pullys, engine brackets, oil pipe

when working on the engine gordon realised we had fitted the wrong engine mounts to block so that got sorted and while i was changing them
gordon fitted the head. also fitted the sump on.



fitted power steering pump, water pump and oil pipe to filter


then i fitted the alternator bracket, alternater, front diff, manifold and trouser piece for waste gate


after this gordon had a aston martin vantage come in that he needed to
work on some little extra toys on that i helped work on a bit;)

[Stuart]

Did you nick the throttle body? Or just swap the whole thing mate, no one will notice

[pablo]

Alan would have had the engine all together today but when he started putting it together he noticed that the inlet manifold, throttle body and rocker cover gasket were all missing. After a couple of emails and a phone call the company that we bought them from were very appologetic and said they would post them out to me first class today.

It's really hard to have sit here and not be able to be a part of the engine build and to have to wait for Alan's reports just to see how the car is coming together.......

[Bart]

DAY 4
as paul said yesterday noticed 3 inlet manifold gaskets were missing but thankfully paul text me this morning saying they had arrived.
today has been a progresive day the aston martin was still there with problems so as gordon was doing that i got on with a few other things


cleaned the inner wings





then i drilled new holes and fitted the power steering reserviour bottle and
relocated the window wash wipe bottle as in its current possition it would
get in the way of the air filter




next job was to change the xr4x4 clocks for cosworth ones, as soon i get
ones out the car i noticed a problem that the connector plugs were
different so had to swop the rev counter and speedo over and then
fitted them back into the car




gordon called a mate up in the morning to collect the RS500 intercooler
for him so that i could fit it into the car, had to drill and make a few
ajustments to it so it sat as forward as possable, also fitted the radiator as well




by now gordon had finished with the aston so it was back onto the engine
cams all torqured down
cam belt and tensioner fitted



while gordon was fitting the rocker cover i fitted the turbo on:sifone:
having seen the size of it and how high it is im not to sure if the bonnet will now close
the size of the front housing is 102mm, now thats going to suck up squirals:drool5:



then fitted the T piece for the oil for the turbo and oil pressure switch for
the diles, oil filter and also fitted the water pipes onto the engine as well



front the engine





when fitting the turbo we realised the bracket on the exhuast down pipe
would not fit onto the turbo so gordon went out to a mates place who is
going to make us up the bracket we need.

[Stuart]

That's a GT35? That looks bloody massive Booooooooooooooooooooossssssssssstttt!!

Coming on leaps and bounds now, I am delighted for you both.

[Daniel]

Epic thread, cant wait to see this in action!