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Good effort Tony up and running for the new season too

Nice machining work you got done there on that bracket.......I bet the machinist had the car for weeks to get that to fit.....

he was a right nightmare to deal with

Coops wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:57 pm

he was a right nightmare to deal with

Yeah....heard he's a right plonker

Rossco wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:57 pm

Coops wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:57 pm

he was a right nightmare to deal with

Yeah....heard he's a right plonker

Coops wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 3:37 pm

can't upload a video for some reason ,
BUT her first fire up today with the procharger fitted etc,
God its noisy compared to the old rotrex charger

Yes, mine is quite noisy at idle - when you give it the beans though it sounds amazing.

Tom.

bit more done while lockdown is going on,
the abs pump is all done and working and the brakes are mental,
most of the pipework is done now and the boost solenoid/valve is awaiting welding,
New catch can and new breather which was made by Ged on this very forum,

ALSO,
we are now playing around with water injection on the engine
Injector boss made on the lathe and recessed to fit boost hose,
Bracket made to mount the water solenoid to the inner wing,
Water tank mounted in the boot,
Pump also now mounted under the boot floor panel,
Boot floor back in hiding the pump and electrics,
Even the parcel shelf still fits,

And a system and leak test,

New idle control set up fitted today.
This will now do away with the stepper motor.

Boost valve pipework welded up. Now and fitted along with the water injector pipe

Dual colour led for the water injection.
Green when powered up. By the ecu and pump is running.
Changes to Red if the water level gets to low and turns the pump relay off if the ecu tries to activate it

And finally got her fired up today and out of the garage,
still a lot to do but the list is getting shorter

Nice smooth idle there Tony

Coops wrote: ↑

Sat May 16, 2020 7:59 pm

Boost valve pipework welded up. Now and fitted along with the water injector pipe

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What's the idea behind the boost valve?
Is it just an electronic dump valve, so when you close the throttle it opens to dump the pressure to save it going back through the supercharger?
or is it actually limiting the max boost pressure? so you can map boost pressure to a certain extent.

SuperV8 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:06 pm

Coops wrote: ↑

Sat May 16, 2020 7:59 pm

Boost valve pipework welded up. Now and fitted along with the water injector pipe

20200514_115844.jpg

20200514_140206.jpg

20200514_140211.jpg

What's the idea behind the boost valve?
Is it just an electronic dump valve, so when you close the throttle it opens to dump the pressure to save it going back through the supercharger?
or is it actually limiting the max boost pressure? so you can map boost pressure to a certain extent.

we are running the charger near max which is too much boost for what we want at present so it bleeds the excess boost off mate
few taps on the laptop in the ecu settings means we can run more or less boost as and when we want instead of changing pulleys