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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:17 pm

As this is a daily dríven car, I have changed my brake pads over to Carbotech 1521 pads. Hopefully they will be much less dusty and noisy than the XP10/XP8 combo I was running.

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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby TieNN89 » Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:13 pm

Sounds like a car now and not a truck? :P
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby MINX » Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:16 pm

saboteur wrote:As this is a daily dríven car, I have changed my brake pads over to Carbotech 1521 pads. Hopefully they will be much less dusty and noisy than the XP10/XP8 combo I was running.


The 1521s are ok, they are very clean.
They just feel a bit 'wooden' if you push them hard on a spirited drive.
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:30 pm

I think I'll leave the 1521s in the rear and swap to XP10 fronts on track days. I tend to trail brake a bit so a bit less rear bias might be a good thing.

Today is the day! The car has been dropped off to MX-5 Plus (Automotive Plus) to go under the knife:

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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby zero00 » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:41 pm

saboteur

Under the knife? Like Pauline Hansen said: 'PLEASE EXPLAIN?'
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:22 pm

They are going to swap the new engine in! 8)
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby zero00 » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:30 pm

OK thanks!!

You and 'justabitrusty' running Monday?
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby jerrah » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:15 am

Complete with snail?
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:56 pm

Went to ChipTorque today and got the ECU modified to suit running in of the new engine:

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New engine is very close to having all accessories swapped on and ready to be put back in:

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Hopefully we will be firing up the engine on Saturday!
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby jerrah » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:24 pm

SE turbo sits in nice and close to the block.

Very clean and shiny, looking forward to seeing it running!

No COPS / coolant reroute?
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:04 am

Trying to keep changes to a minimum at the moment, so I may look at the Toyota coils after everything is in and running. 8)

As for the reroute, I'm using an SE head and SE head gasket so it isn't as critical:
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby TieNN89 » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:34 am

mmm very nice

Can't wait to see that in the car :D
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby jerrah » Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:16 pm

That sounds better, I've never been a fan of having the long pipe around to the back.

Very clean installation, I think it will be great!
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:24 pm

Oil return all sorted:

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Engine is back in the car as of today, so we are on the home stretch now!
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Re: saboteur's NB

Postby timk » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:11 pm

A few finished touches. We used an SE intercooler mounting support and modified it with extra tabs to suit the aftermarket intercooler:

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The engine will be started later this afternoon! :D
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