Johnnytempest's 850.

[JT]

If I drop the boost to 1bar will a standard engine cope with that???

[p fandango]

If I drop the boost to 1bar will a standard engine cope with that???

the way your thing boosts i wouldn't guarantee it

[JT]

the way your thing boosts i wouldn't guarantee it

well we're gonna find out!!

picked up another bare engine this morning,3 hour round trip,got it back and started on it straight away.
T5 Stealth to the rescue yet again! thanks mate! stealth put all the cams back together for me as that sort of stuff is way over my head!! lol
then I proceeded to bolt on as many things as could before I ran out of energy!
Sam took the opportunity to bolt on some shiny bits too!!
tomorrow,i'm hoping to get the box fitted and get it back in the car,so maybe Monday will be start up day!

so fingers crossed, if it runs,It will be at trax! We might only get a few laps before something bends,but it'll be fun trying!!

[Volvostorm]

Fingers crossed for you mate.

If you get it running, you still coming to Trax?

[JT]

Fingers crossed for you mate.

If you get it running, you still coming to Trax?

I'll be at Trax,whatever happens, with or without my car

[T5RPete]

Hope it all works out for you!

Lots of hard work gone into this!

[smithy]

I'm going to trax in a n/a 1.8 s40 lol

[JT]

I'm going to trax in a n/a 1.8 s40 lol

well I raced last weekend with a 3cylinder T5!!!
hoping to have all 5 for trax! lmao

[Jamest5r]

Good to see mate Nice shiny bits

[JT]

well the new engine is in and running!!!!
but i have had enough for now, will tidy up later...................

big thanks again go to T5 Stealth!! top bloke!!

[M-R-P]

what - no startup video?

tsk, tsk!

Glad youre all sorted mate.

[JT]

it started!

thats all that matters! lol

[M-R-P]

it started!

thats all that matters! lol

very true mate

[JT]

well Its catch up time

as its been over a year since my last update................

Ok, Trax 2012, the car sat in the garage doing nothing, for quite a while
The opportunity to run the GP circuit at Silverstone in 2013( little did I know at the time ), was too good to miss!

So, I brought an engine stand and set to work



Fit these in was the first job



then start to rebuild,
I fitted a ported head and modified cams and
Painted a couple of bits, tidy things up



put all this back in the race car, to find it wouldn't start. so I take it all back out again and try again.

whilst the engine was out, I was trying to think of a way I could run this engine in, should I get it started
Then someone came up with the question" shame you don't have something road legal you could put the engine in???!!"
what a cracking idea!!!

so I put the engine in Black, it still wouldn't start at this point, but it was in....
I went back to standard cams......no joy
I went back to a standard head and standard cams and it started first time

I will take a look at the ported head when I get chance, but for now its running and I needed to get some miles on the engine.

500 miles later, at a painfully slow speed, the weekend came to swap it back to the racecar.
I'm getting quite good at this now,4 hours from floor to car and running!!



so at this point the idea, was to go to Trax, via a rolling road on the Saturday.
but, the pc would not talk to the ecu
Sam spent many hours trying to get it work, and with Adams help, it finally worked at 11:21am Saturday morning, 9 mins before we were due to leave!! phew

load it all up and drive to Dartford.
at this point I'm starting to get really nervous, after all, I've never built an engine before and it was about to be given a shake down..............



well after a few problems and technical hitches, 3 hours later, we finally managed this:



its not perfect, but at the time, it will do! lol

I think we all know what happened at Trax, except what actually went wrong, so I wont go into that.

anyway a list of the mods on my car to date:


344bhp
358 lb/ft

19t turbo
billet compressor wheel
Forge motorsport actuator (red spring)
Forge motorsport recirc valve (red spring )
JT 3" exhaust with decat
S60R exhaust manifold
3" RIP kit
3" Volvo 960 throttle body
3" air intake & MAF
K&N cone filter
ported inlet manifold
10mm thermal manifold spacer
TTV billet flywheel
850R Clutch
ARD lightweight crank pulley
Gates racing performance timing belt
60mm KL racing aluminium intercooler
forged con-rods
Turbo-Tuner ecu & custom map
adjustable fuel pressure regulator
green fuel injectors
silicone coolant pipes
MPRE extra crank case breather
oil breather catch tank
MSD master blaster coil
twin fuel pump system with 2litre swirl pot

IPD anti-roll bars
custom front droplinks
custom aluminium subframe bushes
Gaz coilovers with custom rated springs
Powerflex upper engine & bulkhead mount
Powerflex wishbone bushes & gear box tie-bar
30mm wheel spacers on rear
10mm wheel spacers on front
3.5 degree rear camber plates
adjustable front camber bolts
adjustable front suspension top plates
Volvo strut brace

M56H gearbox with 4.45 fdr
Quaife limited slip diff
short-shift gear linkage plate with custom side throw lever
solid gear linkage bushes
sequential shift light

T-5R front bumper
TopCat front bumper splitter
single windscreen wiper conversion
headlight wipers removed
1995 BTCC decals (with sponsors adapted)
aero bonnet catches & boot hooks

AP racing front discs & calipers
braided brake hoses all round



that'll do for now, I'll update more often and as soon as I know whats wrong with it now

cheers

JT

[Jamest5r]

Anyway how was the new box? forgot to ask with everything else going on

[Biff]

Tidy project you have jt. My mate has been banging on about the btcc volvo's at trax. Lol

[martybelfastt5]

awsome!!

[JT]

Anyway how was the new box? forgot to ask with everything else going on

box was good, quite different from standard,I would like to get the car back to brands for a proper comparison

[smithy]

box was good, quite different from standard,I would like to get the car back to brands for a proper comparison

Keep us informed of what went wrong mate nice car though.

[martybelfastt5]

what box you using now ?