SnapdragonGT
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Last Activity: 17-02-2013 18:59
About Me
- About SnapdragonGT
- Where did you hear of this site?
- Other Search Engine
- What make of car do you drive?
- Rover 25(daily), Maestro trackcar with Volvo T5 engine, BMW 535i V8..
- Any modifications to your car?
- Nuffin, it's staying stock!
- Your Country
- United Kingdom
- Location
- Staffordshire
- Biography
- I've learned to let things on here go a little, it would appear one or two members here are sufferers of chronic 'lastworditis', and are also inflicted with the need to draw irrelevant comparisons to completely different scenarios.
- Interests
- Regarding the above people mentioned with almost no contempt, but more mild amusement.
- Occupation
- NHS lab tech
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I've now made a little headway, the clutch and flywheel is fitted, the gearbox is fitted on the engine (I managed to find all of the bolts, christ knows how because my garage is a total 'sheet hoal' right now!
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I've also been experimenting with the Cosworth intercooler position. It's still going to be going low in the front bumper, but the snag is that it's got to sit a hell of a lot further forward than first anticipated, this means the lower slats will have to either be cut...
)I've also been experimenting with the Cosworth intercooler position. It's still going to be going low in the front bumper, but the snag is that it's got to sit a hell of a lot further forward than first anticipated, this means the lower slats will have to either be cut...
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Well it's been a while since I updated here, there's not a lot to report though as I've hardly had chance to do much to the car over the last few months. The bucket seats are now in, though the harnesses aren't as yet fitted, but pictures will follow by next weekend (the mountings for the harnesses are not as straight forward as I hoped, but that's another story). The seats are a perfect height and make the car feel really low slung, my shoulders are barely any higher than the tops of the doors!...
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Well, it's been a while since I've done an update, but here goes.
Since trial fitting the engine I've not really done a lot with the project, I'm still trying to source a welder too, that'll speed things along no end.
I did manage to snag a late type Impreza TMIC (top mount intercooler) from ebay, being the later type it's got a larger capacity and also comes with the standard dump valve and STi 'Y' pipe, not bad for twenty-six of my english pounds! A TMIC will solve...
Since trial fitting the engine I've not really done a lot with the project, I'm still trying to source a welder too, that'll speed things along no end.
I did manage to snag a late type Impreza TMIC (top mount intercooler) from ebay, being the later type it's got a larger capacity and also comes with the standard dump valve and STi 'Y' pipe, not bad for twenty-six of my english pounds! A TMIC will solve...
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Righto all,
I've not had a chance to update this for a bit now, but over the weekend I got on with stripping all the unwanted stuff off the T5, and then got around to trial fitting it in the engine bay yesterday, and it fits far better than I thought it would! I'll let the pics do the talking though:
Prepping the car to whip the M series out:
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I've not had a chance to update this for a bit now, but over the weekend I got on with stripping all the unwanted stuff off the T5, and then got around to trial fitting it in the engine bay yesterday, and it fits far better than I thought it would! I'll let the pics do the talking though:
Prepping the car to whip the M series out:
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Well, after an epic battle to get the engine out of the 850, I finally have my burbling 5 pot to start trial fitting into the car over the next week or two, it looks colossal! Still, the tape measure doesn't lie, and that huge unsightly auto box is coming off in favour of a slimmer manual 'box anyway, and all the aircon/PAS gubbins will be coming off, so it's all blue skies!
I few pics of the oily bits, and some of the engine...
All ready to come out:
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I few pics of the oily bits, and some of the engine...
All ready to come out:
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