My MR2 - the dark destroyer

[Steve Horrocks]

Nath, looking gooooooood!

But are you using te water elbow/thermostat housing to lift the engine? Where are your lifting hooks, removed for weight/access?

[Century Motorsport]

No - i put the strap round it to steady the engine whilst the gearbox was put on. After that the strap was put round the gearbox

[Steve Horrocks]

No - i put the strap round it to steady the engine whilst the gearbox was put on. After that the strap was put round the gearbox

[klx_boy]

Wowza! thats awesome, great work.
It looked like that turbo would never fit! :O

[Century Motorsport]

Another slow day today... oil drain was a pain due to lack of space with the manifold design. Then the down pipe was out by some 3" - after lost of cutting and welding it fits like a dream now.

Should be starting her up tomo all things being well!

These turned up today too....





Fuel system finished

[Century Motorsport]

its alive!!!

After bringing oil pressure up i fitted the plugs and on the first turn of the key it fired!

At first idle was rough but after playing with the fuel map it idles like a stock car! Well happy. just need to get some miles on it for the Map next week!!

Will upload photo's soon

[DavidM]

its alive!!!

After bringing oil pressure up i fitted the plugs and on the first turn of the key it fired!

At first idle was rough but after playing with the fuel map it idles like a stock car! Well happy. just need to get some miles on it for the Map next week!!

Will upload photo's soon

Excellent work Nathan

[SW20Paul]

Nice one mate

Bet it sure did feel good when you turned that key

Now you can look forward to wearing out that sticky rubber

congrats on all your hard work paying off

[Century Motorsport]

Cheers guys - David, ill take you for a spin when i see you next

Here is a vid link... this was after the oil pressure was built and the plugs fitted. It was the first time the car was started - you can see from the smoke but it went on the first crank!

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/ ... 2dddd4.flv

[DavidM]

Cheers guys - David, ill take you for a spin when i see you next

Hope that intercooler arrives sooner then

[rossdymond3352]

Cheers guys - David, ill take you for a spin when i see you next

Here is a vid link... this was after the oil pressure was built and the plugs fitted. It was the first time the car was started - you can see from the smoke but it went on the first crank!

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/ ... 2dddd4.flv

OMG, i think i just came!

[EarL]

Nice one Nath. Knew you could do it mate.

Get some miles on on it now ready for TOTB.

[Driftlimits Performance]

Top work as ALWAYS!

[Century Motorsport]

Here is another vid of the car running once up to temp and been run for about 20 mins with a slight play with the fuel map...

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/ ... 56da40.flv

Running sweet already

MOT tomorrow

[michael]

Nathan, are you planning to replace the jubilee clips for something more substantial once it's assembled properly?

I've seen one too many hoses pop off in the first 60ft at TOTB, a few Mikalor clamps would only add a tiny amount of cost onto the overall build budget

Great to see it up and running though, looks like a well planned and executed build with plenty of potential

[Century Motorsport]

Hi Michael,

Yes, the clamps are on order - i've future proofed as much as possible here!

Just drove it for the first time..... lovley! Turbo starts spooling @ 3800rpm

[Quigonjay]

how the mot go?

[EarL]

Hi Michael,

Yes, the clamps are on order - i've future proofed as much as possible here!

Just drove it for the first time..... lovley! Turbo starts spooling @ 3800rpm

Well done Nath.

Roll on TOTB now.

[Century Motorsport]

how the mot go?

Passed with flying colours (ofcourse!)

Had a slight drama though..... an oil leak appeared and seemed to be getting worse - around the std oil cooler. I couldnt believe it! It was dripping onto the exhaust and making a terrible smell (along with a mess!)

Got it back into the workshop and after close inspection i could see spatters of oil coming from what looked like the dipstick tube where it bolts to the thermostat housing

Removal of the dipstick tube revealed a crack just under the bracket weld which was causing the leek! Fitted new tube and hey presto... no more leeks!

[Century Motorsport]

Well it was mapped today.

Things went really well. Was done down @ race shack on their mustang dyno.

Ended up with 390 @ wheels @ 27 psi on pump fuel and 502 @ wheels @ 29 psi on C16.

The figures were Much lower than i had expected but the race shack guys said that their dyno reads REAL HP not you lovely dyno jet corrected ones. We figured that with a dyno jet correcion on race gas your looking between 570-600 @ wheels so its good.

The drive home was fun - the car is insane to drive between 4,5 - 8 k and seems so much quicker than the previous setup. Cant wait to get on race gas and run @ TOTB!!

The guys @ race shack are well into their drag racing and have a program that can calculate a 1/4 miles time of a car and mine came out a 9.84 with everything perfect (which it never will be) so they seemed to think mid 10's should be achievable which would be grand!


Thanks to Race shack & Lyndon for the good work

See you on sunday!

Nathan