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Does anyone manufacture an extra long nosecone
Arfon |
Hi Kev,
It might be time to think about a Laminova for cooling the oil, they are very efficient and space saving. And/or a air-to-water charge cooler for your turbo. These parts are a bit costy, but very welcome when it is as crowded as in your nose cone ;) Laminova coolers are imported to the UK by Think Automotive. We import them in France from them. Laminova website : http://www.laminova.se/ PWR makes very good water-to-air charge coolers, and other kinds http://www.pwr.com.au/products/intercoolers The factory is in Australia, but they have a company in the UK. I am aware it is a question of cost, but if you can afford one of them, it might be a route to explore. |
Sorry about that Kev. I hadn't noticed you already have a water-to-air charge cooler, and I thought this water radiator for your charge cooler was the new oil cooler as it looks like these very thin plate-and-fins oil cooler. I was completely wrong :o
BTW, I like your installation of the charge cooler :) |
No room for the driver shortly (No Kev not you) :p
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A couple of days ago I hit on a real bargain, off of you know where:D
I had worked out it was going to cost me about £50 for pipes to rig up the oil cooler (uh nee way) so I start searching on my fave auction site and find a BIN oil cooler package, but thinking it was too good to be true (£70 delivered) I asked them a question and they confirmed it was everything in the photo, why I here you ask....well....here is why.... not only were the pipes stainless but it also included a oil filter re-location as part of the kit, needless to say for the sake of £20 it was a steal and last one too and 2 days delivery ![]() |
Started to install my oil cooler stuff, from what was a cavernous engine bay is now looking like a modern car (no space to put any aftermarket goodies) anyway before I got started I decided to anodize the two major alloy bits, then I got to installing the oil filter re-locator and fix the new slightly smaller (2 rows)
oil cooler below my rad then started to route the pipes, hope to finish install tomorrow ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Small disaster.....when fitting up my oil cooler pies I managed to x thread one of them which showed itself as a leak, I would not care but it did not at all feel tight when I was screwing it on, anyways off it came and sure enough x threaded only thing I could try was a re-tap as some of the threads at the bottom were still good but I have no an10/jic10 tap so remembering that I had an ancient scrap ride on in the garden that had hydraulic fittings I checked to see if there was any an10 nuts and there was one... so took this off put it in a vice and using a junior hacksaw cut around 7 slots across the threads, these would provide a cutting action if I can get it square on the damaged fitting.
using it very carefully I managed to get it square on the old threads then proceeded to put it on ...turn a bit take it off, clean it and repeating this action every third of a turn I managed to recover some of the threads that were not damaged. I think there was a modocum of good luck. Right so oil cooler back in and taped up (lots on the rethreaded one) I was able to apply the same torque on both nuts with no sensation of "stripping" That was last night and I have not tested it yet, I was really peeved at that mind BUT joy of joys, my age related number and tax disc turned up this morning K7**BON yep ...tres tres bon indeed. well it would be if it wasn't bluddy raining....will let you lot know how it goes soon :D :D :D :D |
Hi guys....it has taken me ages to get the bluddy engine sorted and finally after changing and checking injectors, cop's, igniters, ecu's I finally discovered what was wrong ....it was disgustingly simple which annoyed the f**k out of me, I was running to low a fuel pressure 28psi when I needed at least 36psi so I whacked it up to 36 and went out a few hours ago and scared myself half to death:eek: the acceleration is effin mind blowing, it has taken me long enough to vindicate my choice of power plant and I have yet to take it up to stage 2 but not yet as I don't think I could cope with another 50 horses on top of what I have without seriously soiling my pants.
So now I can say anyone up this neck of the woods wants to see and feel what a fast roadster is like just drop me a pm, only proviso is it has to be dry with no chance of rain:rolleyes: :rolleyes: will get a vid sorted out soon when I find my camera mount. |
Ooo ooo me me please
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