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mixer72
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:40 pm 
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Sunny wrote:
Hi,

looks like you have also a optima redtop battery, does i ask you where i can get a battery tray that fit?

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hi mate i made that 1 for the battery :)
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Hi,

nice, which means i also have to made one by myself :lol:

greetz

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Was the cage made with the readily available omp fittings? what was the overall build time cheers...
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mixer72
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it is a Cusco bolt in cage but I then bought 6m of 40mm cds tube and hangers and eye in serts and made the rest up myself :) not to had to do :) thin in all it took me about 1 and a half to do every things :)
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mixer72
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ok done a bit more today:) relocated the batter to the middle of the car and started to fit the fire extinguisher today

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here you can see the nozzle in the drivers foot well
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and here you can see the 1 on the passenger foot well plus the hand held
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will finish the rest of the install when i have dont then engine strip down and rings replace:)
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mixer72
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few more bits done started to paint the old BK racing alloys for track tyres
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and fitted the seat rails and seat
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mixer72
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ok weather has been great :) so go a fair bit done on the car
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started to strip the rad and intercooler piping out
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then turbo and manifold off
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strip every things so that I can get the cam cover off
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then got the head off
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gave the pistons a quick wipe over and there looking fine :)

head and valves look good to :)
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hoping to get the sump off tomorrow and drop pistons out :)
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mixer72
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o can any 1 tell me what the valve is for that has pipe number 4 and 5 going to it :? do i need it?
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on a 205 that would be the turbo vsv gubbins

Looks like the project is starting to come together pretty well. At least the bits that are not coming apart are :lol:
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mixer72
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thought it might ne the vsv thing for turbo waste gate control so i can get rid of it as dont need it :)
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ok done a bit more today :) got all the pistons out
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all read to rehone now

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and all the pistons look good
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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing :)

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just a quick up date i have now started to strip the TVIS valve out and its a pritty easy job to do :)
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ok little update i have just got my new crackshaft pully :)
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and my god it is light :) think the box it came in was heavyer lol

and i have managed to start making turbo clocking bracket and have now clocked the turbo
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all ready now to rehone the block and gap the rings on saturday
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One thing you MUST do when fitting a lightweight or underdrive crank pulley is have the whole crank assembly balanced due to harmonic resonance.
I'm sure someone else will explain the ins and outs of it.

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