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PAUL FISHER

posted on 2/6/20 at 06:44 PM Reply With Quote
A lot of thought and design gone into that, well done, will make a nice drive when you have finished, supercharged 2.3 Merc, 190+ bhp nice &#128526;
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J666AYP

posted on 5/6/20 at 10:23 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by PAUL FISHER
A lot of thought and design gone into that, well done, will make a nice drive when you have finished, supercharged 2.3 Merc, 190+ bhp nice &#128526;


Thanks mate, cant wait to get her finished.

J

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adithorp

posted on 6/6/20 at 12:00 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by J666AYP
quote:
Originally posted by PAUL FISHER
A lot of thought and design gone into that, well done, will make a nice drive when you have finished, supercharged 2.3 Merc, 190+ bhp nice &#128526;


Thanks mate, cant wait to get her finished.

J


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J666AYP

posted on 2/2/23 at 06:50 PM Reply With Quote
Hi all, back after two house moves, covid and a general lack of time. Now motivated to get the project moving again!

Walked into the garage at the new place and see a sad looking dusty mess sitting there on stands and decided a quick freshen up wouldn't cut the mustard. So... much to the annoyance of the wife (locost widow) I made a start...

• Stripped the whole thing down to the chassis and finished all the little bits of welding I was putting off

• cut out the steel floor and replaced with 2mm aluminium

• ditched all of the old interior pannels and replaced with aluminium composite board type stuff

• Completely remade the loom and made it modular so I can remove complete sub looms in one go using aircraft style fittings

• ordered carbon seats and harnesses

• got a pair of rally design front uprights, willwoods all round, new steering rack, bearings, bushes, ball joints ect ect

• started to wire my dash dials

• run fuel/brake lines and clipped in place

• made a battery shelf/holder up to sit above the diff and fitted a pc680 battery

• have started making my rear wishbones to take the mercedes frankenstein hubs

• fuel pump and fitler plumbed in

• pedal box half squeezed into final position and 3 chamber fluid reservoir fitted

Will update some pics later tonight or tomorrow when I get a quiet half hour at work

.... she will be tested this year....

[Edited on 2/2/23 by J666AYP]

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J666AYP

posted on 2/2/23 at 07:52 PM Reply With Quote
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Fingers crossed this works, been ages since I last used photobucket

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J666AYP

posted on 2/2/23 at 10:37 PM Reply With Quote
Well thats strange photobucket seems to have changed and doesn't share the images anymore... anyone care to tell me what I'm doing wrong &#129318;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;
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wrayvon

posted on 3/2/23 at 12:40 PM Reply With Quote


If you wrap the img urls in [img ][/img ] tags (without the space) and remove anything after .jpg it should work like the above image

Looking good by the way! And great choice of speedo - I fitted the very same one to my MK last year.

[Edited on 3/2/23 by wrayvon]

[Edited on 3/2/23 by wrayvon]

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J666AYP

posted on 3/2/23 at 04:11 PM Reply With Quote
Perfect, thanks for the advice... this is why I have a teenage daughter to help me with this computer stuff haha. Well here goes...

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J666AYP

posted on 3/2/23 at 04:12 PM Reply With Quote
Ok I give up
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wrayvon

posted on 3/2/23 at 04:23 PM Reply With Quote
Haha! Allow me:






























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J666AYP

posted on 3/2/23 at 08:39 PM Reply With Quote
Absolute legend, thanks for that!

Just for future reference what did I do wrong?

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wrayvon

posted on 3/2/23 at 11:18 PM Reply With Quote
Not 100% sure without seeing... But it looks like you removed too much of the url. It needs to have the extension on the end - .jpg or .png etc.

But yeah, make sure you have the [img.] tag (without the dot) before the url and [/img.] afterwards (again without the dot)

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PAULD

posted on 4/2/23 at 11:11 AM Reply With Quote
Great update, I thought you had given up, it must be years since I took you out for a spin. Are you still local to me, be good to see your work.
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J666AYP

posted on 4/2/23 at 11:42 AM Reply With Quote
Hi Paul!!

Great to hear from you buddy, hope you are keeping well! And still local-ish, were now in the new build estate between Dunstable and Houghton Regis.... kettle is always on for you if you are pasing

Jay

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J666AYP

posted on 4/2/23 at 11:44 AM Reply With Quote
Wrayvon,

Thanks buddy one day I will learn about these computer things

Jay

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J666AYP

posted on 11/3/23 at 07:39 PM Reply With Quote
Oh screw it, done with this photobucket rubbish just to upload a few progress photos

Pair of carbon bucket seats fitted, now just need to work out the harness mounts

New aluminium inlet started with velocity stacks and a larger throttle body

New aluminium supercharger manifold started (just needs welding)

Sump shortened by 50mm and baffled. Pick up dipstick shortened accordingly

Engine all painted up and prepped

Rear uprights finished and bearings installed (slk merc)

New gaskets/seals on engine

Sorted the "lifetime" seal on the gearbox that is not available (42mm freeze plug hammered into the hole)

And have saved nearly 50kgs in the past couple of months with more to come

[Edited on 11/3/23 by J666AYP]

[Edited on 11/3/23 by J666AYP]

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J666AYP

posted on 4/5/23 at 01:21 PM Reply With Quote
Ok so someone who shall remain nameless was getting abit too preoccupied with weight saving and picked up a set of scales for the gantry crane (big facepalm)

Engine dry
Exhaust manifold
Supercharger
Supercharger mounts, brackets and belt
Supercharger top manifold
Alternator and brackets
Coil packs and plugs
Redesigned sump
10mm inlet flange plate
Both engine mounts
138.35 kgs

Chassis
Front wishbones
Front hubs
Front brake disks and calipers
Steering arms, rack, column, quick release and wheel
1x completed rear corner for suspension, brake caliper, brake disk, bearings
Diff (dry)
Gearbox (dry)
Wiring loom
Fuel tank, pump, filter, intertia switch, lines
Pedal box, master cylinder, brake lines, valves and fittings
Hand brake
Gear selector
2x carbon seats
2x 4 point harnesses
Ignition switch
Battery and tray
Diff mounts
Gearbox mounts
Rad (dry)
Intercooler
Horn
Dash dials
3rd brake light (rollbar)
Fuel tank vent
Rear shafts
Alarm
Battery cut off
Seat runners
Switches
Exhaust mount
273 kgs

Plus 4x bare alloys at 22kgs for the four and starter motor at 3.95kgs

= 437.3kgs and still need fluids, completed inlet, the other rear suspension corner, coilovers, body pannels, tyres, flywheel, clutch and lights &#129318;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039; shes going to be a fatty

[Edited on 4/5/23 by J666AYP]

[Edited on 4/5/23 by J666AYP]

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