My Supercharged V8 Capri Conversion

Post by **Coops** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:41 pm

Harnesses are now fitted,

CastleMGBV8 · Post by **CastleMGBV8** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:01 am

Looking good Tony.

Kevin.

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:50 am

keeping the 3 point belt to keep Mr Plod happy?

chodjinn · Post by **chodjinn** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:09 am

Looking good tony, I spent about 4 hrs fitting my drivers bucket yesterday because the new ones are slightly wider than my old ones, and guess what, they caught on the handbrake lever! SO I had to move them out about 1 inch, which now puts them off the centre of the steering wheel . . . ah well at least they are comfy!

wrt to seatbelts - the plod can't say anything if harnesses are properly installed, no need to keep the originals!

Post by **Coops** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:20 pm

I kept the belts just incase,
like others said keep plod happy,
at least if i get pulled and plod not happy i can say sorry officer i'll put the propper belt on, no point arguing as they may start picking faults in anything, which none of us need do we,

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:17 pm

Plod do not like the quick release catches, not MOT/ SVA EU complient the catch has to be of the same type as that on a normal belt, that is why you have the two types for sale because for motorsport you must have the quick release type catch as Tony has.
Mike

Post by **Coops** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:23 pm

With the help of Jon and Neil at caprisport, we made the brackets for my oil cooler, (only had it for nearly a yr now i think),
the bottom pic shows the cooler sat in the front of the lower air intake rad grill,

Post by **Coops** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:20 pm

slowly gathering parts whiel the engine is in bits after the high rev missfire,

as you know in my other posts on the forum im going over to serp front and wasted spark ignition,

so here for the ecu we have:
2 x Additional VR or Coil interfaces
1 x 8 Bit Addressable Latch (special purpose only) (P259 chip)

the 2 (1 for me one for someone else) chips are to convert mine from hall to vr sensor for the crank trigger,
And the P259 is to replace mine which is not 100% on all channels,

small aint they

and thanks to Kev The Mole,
a pair of coil packs,

not sure if the leads are long enough so going to have to get a set sorted,

ian.stewart · Post by **ian.stewart** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:38 pm

what are the leads off tony, I need a set made for my other coilpacks.

Post by **Coops** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:40 pm

home made by Gavin mate

he crimped the ends from another set onto his mallory ones,

ian.stewart · Post by **ian.stewart** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:49 pm

Oooh, I wonder if he can graft the ford clip on ends to my Magnecours

Post by **Coops** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:13 pm

I have had a boost of enthusiasm to get the car done at last,
I'm now price hunting on parts needed to get her built,
will keep you posted how i get on,

Post by **Coops** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:26 pm

did some more on the ignition side of the ecu this evening,
coil pack loom is now ready to be fitted to the car,
along with the new fuse box for the ecu which is bigger, (not enough fuse slots on present one for coil packs etc)
when the car goes to caprisport to have the engine removed we are going to thin out the wiring loom and remove what is no longer needed, plus it will tidy every thing up under the bonnet.

the shopping list so far for the car to be done for the drag day:

New crower Cam, (price hunting)
new rhoads lifters (price hunting)
Double Valve Springs (price hunting)
Caps for dbl sprgs (price hunting)
Head work for the above springs /caps etc (£50-£100 V8 Dev)
Crank sensor, (price hunting)
Alternator Bracket for serp front (hunting for part)
Trigger Wheel for coil packs, (trigger wheels .com)
Coil Packs, (now have them)
plug leads, (need to speak to dnb

)
Ecu chip replacement (have new chips ecu in with Jago)
Coil Pack Loom from ecu (have now made it)
New bigger fuse box for above (have one now)

v8 jago · Post by **v8 jago** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:05 am

Someones been busy

Tony ! Have you won the lottery

Its looking good and keep up the entusiasum, Wish you could pass some on to me.

Post by **Coops** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:22 am

wish i had won the lotto mate,
as would of bought your engine

i set up a standing order a few months back solely for the car,
i know its only £40 a month but get crimbo out the way i can up the payments,
so far have £260 sat in the account, so the enthusiasm is back as i have some money saved at last