At Long Last.... Pistols 1.5 swap

[ceejay]

lovely clean mk1 dude! never seen a white mk1 tubby before!

[craig]

Seats look cool mate! Best stock mk2 seats imo. Nice job

[pistol pete]

lovely clean mk1 dude! never seen a white mk1 tubby before!

Thanks
I did use to be a normal 1.6 na
Until I out this engine in


Cheers Craig I've always liked then and wanted them in a mk1 so chuffed really

[Magic Beans]

Straight fit or did they need tweaking?

They are good and comfy.

[pistol pete]

2 front bolts went straight in..
rear 2 needed tweeking but all good now

[pistol pete]

well not updated for ages..
It did the journey to and from JAE faultlessly
It really was fantastic through all the horrible rain and weathers.. had a lot of fun when i dried up though

and update for today is upped to 14psi... he he lots of fun..
defo need some wider rears though

[donna]

2 front bolts went straight in..
rear 2 needed tweeking but all good now

How much tweeting are we talking? Seen the mk1.5 at jae, looked nice

[pistol pete]

on side i made a small plate
and the other side needed spacing up..

[Lee H]

I've never had an issue with grip on mine when it's dry. Running 1.1 bar on a rev 3 engine with 195 tyres and it doesn't even wheelspin in 1st on hard launches at the drag strip or when having fun on the roads.

[pistol pete]

Redone the rear gearbox mount after it snapped (came with the car)
Was never over happy with it anyway
Made it shallower so now the engine sits more level than before and th annoying rattle I had has gone

[vtecpower]

I've never had an issue with grip on mine when it's dry. Running 1.1 bar on a rev 3 engine with 195 tyres and it doesn't even wheelspin in 1st on hard launches at the drag strip or when having fun on the roads.

A rev3 turbo in a MK1 with 1.1 bar must be mental

[pistol pete]

That my plan for spring is rev3 conversion
But even a rev2 upped boost is stupidly quick

[craig]

That my plan for spring is rev3 conversion
But even a rev2 upped boost is stupidly quick

I will have a ct20b available shortly

[Magic Beans]

That my plan for spring is rev3 conversion
But even a rev2 upped boost is stupidly quick

I will have a ct20b available shortly

I told you you'd need those forged pistons..

[pistol pete]

anyone fancy seeing it in the flesh..
It will be at the NEC this weekend for the Classic show on the mk1 club stand come say
will be parked up next to Ben's SC

Now gonna go through the thread and make a build folder

[pistol pete]

oh and it has its first track day at bedford on the 30th nov

[pistol pete]

compressed the thread to make a build Doc
need to print it now for the NEC

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Itw ... sp=sharing

[DB Mr2]

Awesome work Pete, bet that is fun on the twisties!

[pistol pete]

look what arrived today

a nice Turbo rev1 arb..

and the roof was starting to get a bit faded and under the NEC lights would not look good so took me a couple of hours

[pistol pete]

been busy here...
its been on show at the NEC.. after a day of talking about it all i wanted to do was drive it..
went on show on the thursday eventually got it out sunday eve was a great show and it got loads of attention




after that last weekend
had to get ready for bedford track day this weekend
first was new camcover gasket.. so stripping down

also fitted a "taz"


Tested the DB, came out at 106db, quite a bit more than the 101 allowed
so guy at work made this up for me


fitted and got it down to 101.2db, which to be honest is cutting it a bit fine..
then i find this


okay not a massive deal but defo needs doing before tracking etc.. and it really needs new rear wheel bearings and 2 shocks are leaking, with it all adding up decided i should really wait untill I'm happy as overhauling suspension the week i come back anyway

so for the track day i am gonna use the mk1 na, which will still be a lot of fun.
but wanted to check the brakes on that..
quickly found this on the rear discs (of the na)


so picked up new rear discs and pads all round.
they are already stripped off just refitting tomorrow along with new oil and coolant.. really looking forward to it..
gutted the 1.5 isn't coming but there will be plently of track time for it next year..

on a plus note these were bought for to fit to the 1.5 as well whilst im overhaulling it. that will be getting new discs and pads allround


On a side note when doing the cam cover found 2 small vac leaks, 5th inkector came unplugged and managed to make the IC pipework a bit more solid,
also replaced the rear gearbox mount again for a large chunk of metal so no more bending that..
took it for a quick spin. so much smoother and quicker for getting rid of the 2 vac leaks...

will let ya know how the track day goes