Winabbey, i was going to say that there wasn`t enough time to stop in for some wagon wheels, but we did walk into the bakery at midnight (after the blues bands were finished) & bought a mexican chilli pie before wandering back to the kombi to go bedy-byes
so i spose i could have bought a dozen or so wagon wheels then
but didn`t , & yes i`m quite ashamed of myself, what was i thinking passing up on a chance like that???
& too-much-boost,,, i`ve cut the inlet manifold off it`s cyl-head mounting flange, welding 4x seperate 90deg alloy pipe bends (pointing upwards) onto that flange, (just back from the injector bosses) , then welding the other ends of those pipes into a plenum chamber, capping one end & welding the throttle body flange plate onto the other end.
effectively just stuffing with the original nissan inlet manifold so it clears everything & make the original throttle body work (Just for now), it`s only until we have the whole car sorted & running before we fit all the turbo crap & Adaptronic injerktion stuff on
Now we have to finish the body (& paint it) , stick both subframes back into the car to get it all back on wheels with steering & brakes & such...then wire it all up, throw all the uppolstery & glass at it & make it go Verooom,,, get our engineer to sign off on all of it.... & after all that we will throw all the turbo injerktion crap at it & try to blow it up
(we have 3x spare power units) so i`m not phazed if one goes POP
at least we can work out where the limit of the std engine is & then fit the proper turbo engine that we have sitting here (decent forged pistons, Tomie cams, lower compression, modified sump for turbo oil return, strong Greddy clutch pack, slight head work etc etc
i`ve been looking for a close ratio box with LSD but do you think i can find a March race box anywhere---? No
, , so i may have to play with a honda or suzuki diff to see if i can make something like that fit into the poor little "thing" of a gearbox
but that`s for another day.