Thats all for now
 

Bought a T piece pipe for the coolant system off ebay, but i was less than impressed considering it was quite expensive.




The pipe was all bent and the smaller pipe wasnt drilled out properly.

Connected the laptop up last night and started updating the basic map info to match my engine and i want to test the fans work etc.

Well done Ben ! That is one of my favourite engines, only 2nd to the honda vtec. That rocker cover looks kick ass ! Has anybody tested the boundaries of the haynes roadster chassis ? For example, how much power you can put through it before you get flexing or stress of the chassis ? How are you planning on keeping the front end down at speed Ben ? I have seen some Caterhams with tiny little fins on the nose cone, but they seem to be a little inadequate for the job. You continue to be one of the bench setters on this forum, I am watching your thread with great interest ! Well done. :cool:

Thanks Jason,

I think I'll be testing the limits of the gearbox before the chassis starts flexing.

The cars going to be a bit of a handful so I'll keep the power between 250-300bhp just to stop the gearbox spitting it's innards out. I've got a place that can supply t5 gearbox's but I don't want to go down that route till I have no choice.

I'm going to have the suspension setup at procomp once all the bits are fitted. The caterham canards will do very little for us as they are designed for the caterham and even then they were for aero around the wishbones.
There's a few aero drawings on the equinox Facebook page that's quite interesting and they look at lift etc.

Is it just me or is it starting to get silly, it's all well and good people putting these rather powerful engines in but do we have the ability to keep these highly powered, yet very light cars sunny side up.
don't get me wrong i admire people who take on the engineering challenges and over come them, good on you but these cars do have a limit as to what they can safely absorb in punishment without bitting back.
Each time I see this improvements in power, bigger engines moreB.H.P. but I never see anyone uprating their brakes, it's easy to make them go its an art to stopping them in a straight line

ah well rant over, good luck with the mods

Arfon

I know many cars with more power than I've got. I thought I was being conversative with my choice of engine lol

I didn't find my last engine had enough go in it, it was only 160bhp ;)

Brakes, Tyres etc are already suitable for the power upgrade. :)

Good luck with that, you're doing well.
Great engine, I had an astra coupe with that engine and was great.
That problem with the exhaust manifold studs must be common as I also had that. Other than that I don't think I had any problems with it.

Bit More of an Update......
 

Hopefully it'll be a fairly bullet proof engine !

Modified the Rally Design pedal box to take a Vauxhall accelerator cable, had to add a small box to space up the cable sleeve and bend the back of the pedal up so the cable pulls further.


Decided while i was waiting for funds for more parts i'd flared the side panels to get some of the heat out!




Not much left i can do currently

If cooling becomes an issue, would there be space to lye the inter cooler flat across the top of the engine bay somewhere, & put a kia sedona style scoop & use their inter cooler set up, this freeing up the rad to get some fresh air. Just an idea, as this is the set up in my kia sedona 2.9 crdi. Might be an option ? If there is space of course. :D

I did try the intercooler above the radiator in front of the engine but I just couldn't get it fitted in that space :(

Widetrack Roadster time:eek: