The 'R'
 

Well it was going to happen...

As most know i had to sell my project to fund 'growing up' and buying a house,
So after selling the race car or should i say some of the race car parts it soon came that i could keep my poorly V5 type R.

The R lost compression and got laid up until i sorted house stuff out, Iv recently pulled her down in to the workshop for some TCL, The week it went bang the car was meant to go the body shop to have a re-spray (so shes looking a bit rough around the edges)

iv had the K-sport brakes kicking around, I said to myself if they fit under the gold wheels i am running i will fit them.......

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yer they fit!! a lot more clearance that the O.Z P1 wheels,I really didn't want to run bright orange wheels on it, after trying i could be persuaded ;)

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So i set to the task of removing the engine which all went smoothly , which was a surprise as normally anything i do on my own cars is a struggle!

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And its out

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And so it begins! Good luck. What you doing engine wise?

Alright Tone, good to see you about and hope the house purchase goes/went smoothly!

What size discs have you got on those ksports?

haha this will 100% wont end up like the last!! :D

Hey Steve, yer all smoothly Ish aiming to move in on the 29th so got a couple of weeks to sort something out with this
The brakes are 330mm

Engine wise i didnt know what i was going to do until i stripped down to find the cause, i had in the back of my head that it would be ring gland and something terminal.

Pulled off head this morning to find this...

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so the plan is as follows
fit replacement valves cut in new seat ect re-shim heads and reassemble with new gaskets ect.

iv hopefully just brought a simtek ecu with anti lag and launch control+ sti8 top mount and i am looking for a vf35
I am going to port and wrap headers and up pipe, other than that throw it together and enjoy :)


saying all of that iv still got a 6 speed box some big injectors and been offered a MD321t cheep ;) haha

Good luck Tone!!! :ok:

Fingers crossed you get it sorted easily, and I like the Jaffa wheels on the blue R!

Nice one Tone. Looking forward to following this.

my plan is to have a tidy up in the engine bay, nothing too mad just neat and clean, when i was removing the radiator it was looking abit poorly,
iv cleaned up an alloy one which i was gunna use on the white car swaped fans over etc
so that little job done :)

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wheres the best place to buy paint (crinkle) for the inlet manafold?

I get mine from frosts but the VHT red is too pink/bright these days... I went for the black

Good to see you doing the type r :)
Get it sorted for totb and have play on Saturday :)

Can't believe I nearly sold it:doh:

The plan is to get it done as soon as, so if its done in time I would be up for a play defo, still got loads of suspension stuff to go on which was left over from the white one roll bars ALK bushes throughout:)


Cj if u hear of any one selling a simtek/alcatek cause there going syvecs let me know, funds aren't going to stretch to syvecs Unfortunately

Will do but your be better asking Simon direct with how much you want to spend.

500-550? Dunno the going rate tbh, i missed one on 22b that was 500 with AL+ LC :(

Tony looking good i.like the orange wheels i was thinking of doing the milliniums that bright shade

im gonna go alcatek on my r3 with jgm!

You may as well buy new as by the time you add roller time & mapping it'll work out the same

Car builder solutions in Staplehurst : http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/W..._Aerosol_PNWRR

What sort of money's is a new one? Thought the ecu would be 800ish:S


Cheers Scott is this what you used on yours? Couple of coats? 1 can enough?

Today I striped down the heads started the clean up, Iv manage to get hold of some supertech +1mm oversized valves, double valve springs and retainers at a good price soon as they arrive I cut get them cut in and heads refaced, I brought some cosworth headgaskets and new bolts.

Looking for some steel cam pulleys today (which Iv got somwhere) I found some grp N engines mounts and new pulleys/Idelers for the cambelt, so there all on :)

Couple of pic of some progress


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IV now removed and striped both heads, they are now ready for valves to be cut in and seated.

took a trip to London yesterday to pick up another set of cylinder heads up these have damaged castings but have 1 piece valves/double valve springs titanium retainers, so ive now stripped these for there goodies to be fitted to my heads :)

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i have got the crinkle paint for the inlet manafold so i thought i give painting ago.......

here's the mess

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stripped and ready for a clean up

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should have it painted tomorrow all being well :)


Iv finally made a choice on turbo, iv got for a VF36 twin scroll (witch iv brought) , just in the process of finding all the relevant parts to make it fit :)

Nice, I shall be watching this thread very close now. :smile:

the turbo turned up this morning :)


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i now realise Why i dont do painting....after the most boaring job ever of cleaning up/keying the surfaces for paint iv managed to get some paint to stick to the intlet manifold

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Looking good Jaffa . If that is your first time painting the inlet manifold hats off to you that is a good job .

Thats come out really well, That's one of my must do jobs !! Is it tricky taking it off?

Yep looking good mate, soon be up and running :doubleup:

Put it this way the only reson its getting done is because it was off the car.
The worse part it the turbo intake hose (if running standard) pita to get back on without damaging.


I am waiting on heads to come back, cossy headgaskets should be here tomoz :)

I am still on the hunt for some twinscroll stuff aswell (headers/up pipe,down pipe)

Is the sump different for a twin scroll set up too?

yes sump is different,hopfully sourced evreything i need for it, you need pick up pipe, dip stick and baffle tray aswell.

Nice!!!

Even thou I haven't moved in yet and been spending all my time DIYing, I dug the heads out and started shimming them up, I've got all the parts to finish off just lacking the time, hoping to see some progress on this :)

Nice one Tone :nod:

It was good to see you today :five:

Will be down myself next Saturday for an MOT, will be good to see how she's coming along.

Shane

Really thought you sold this Tony, glad to see you didnt..

Sorry for the poor updates, as most know its all back together mapped and just had a full respray.

I had some issues on the dyno, The fuel pump couldn't keep up with the demand at high revs, so fitted a RCM jobbie.
Iam now changing back to an TD05 18G, i dont reqally get on with the twinscroll, the power deliverly is so smooth also I dont like the noise of equal length headers.


couple of pics will try and get some better pics up soon

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Very nice! :smile:

Who did the paintwork?

lovely looking car

Looks the B*****ks Tone, even better in the flesh tho! Top effort, top looking car, top bloke! :ok:

Nice, looks perfect with the new paint job mate :ok:

Very nice looking car!

You people and your poxy 2Door's....

Only jealous. very good looking example. awesome stuff :D

very nice indeed!!!:ok:

Absolutely stunning paint !!! :ok:

What a lovely looking example :ok:

Thanks for your kind comment's :)