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[Mike (Cliffie)]

How exciting, coming on great guns now.

[JG]

two SC cars running within 2h of each other

[rcvaughan]

Like these bits


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If only the bolts were new as well!

No Seb, like THESE bits!








Oooh... yellow SC VX! The best kind! I miss mine

[CocoPops]

Jusrt removed the EGR valve and fitted the blanking plate. Awaiting the EGR cheater from z22se.co.uk, should be here soon hopefully.

[CocoPops]

Air filter secured with a "MangoMotorsport" air filter bracket!
Much better than cable ties etc.

[JG]

ooo thats nice!

[techieboy]

What on earth does that attach to?

[JG]

the original mounting point for the air box (three taps)

[techieboy]

Ah, cool. Never managed to work out how the standard airbox is fitted in the car as TMS removed my original to fit the ITG and have had silly cone filter ever since. Trying to refit an airbox is one of the jobs for the winter.

[CocoPops]

Oh and I need to bond 2 of the fixing points back onto my rear light Such quality units they made.

Finally got round to this, the light has been sat on the dining room unit for too long, so sat down with some araldite and coffee stirrers and rebonded the two middle bolts back onto the light. Now it can sit on the dining room unit for another few weeks til we put the car back together

[Nev]

Got a remap booked yet ? What are you expecting, approx 100 BHP more than OEM ?

[CocoPops]

Hoping for 250. Should be attainable. All new SC parts. Larger Throttle Body (instead of reusing the smaller standard one with an adaptor plate). 2.5inch Piper Cat section 2.5inch 2Bular Rear Box 12k miles on the NA engine Mapping not booked yet, as the car is still in bits Still a few jobs to be done, I reckon New Year for mapping at this rate.

[JG]

I can guarranty next year for mapping

[CocoPops]

I can guarranty next year for mapping

JG works too sllooooowwww

Not to mention the busy weekends between now and Xmas... having twins that are almost a year old etc etc

[JG]

Not to mention a load guards to make. I'm getting there though.

[CocoPops]

Couple of updates:
First up, the mesh over the heater box intakes. Should help cut down the crap that comes through, whilst being far more efficient than the "Tights Mod"


Next up, some "Griffin" domed badges for the Team Dynamics wheels:


£6 a set of 4, 45mm Domed Resin badges that stick in place of the standard Team Dynamics logo. (slightly poor pic for this one I'm afraid)


I managed to negotiate a discount on these badges, as normally they have £3.95 postage attached.
If you enter "vx220" into the discount box, you get the postage free.
Available from here:
http://www.zonemotor...productid=20474

[CocoPops]

So JG attacked my poor defenceless car today with his new Dremel







Only test fitted so far, on passenger side, drivers side still to do.
Took an hour to get to where we are now.
Need to paint the inside of the sill black (where the old part bonded on), so that when its seen through the sill doesn't stand out.

[JG]

I guess its the turn of the other side today.

[CocoPops]

Bit more fitting today.

Ran out of light to cut drivers side.... so put jacknuts in place on pax side.




Need to lift it slightly to close the gap at the top.
How neat does it all fit together on a tubby?

[CocoPops]

Progress halted as my Jacknuts didn't arrive this week.

Got some black bolts for the ears, so that'll look neater than the alloy socket heads fitted currently.
Also managed to close the gap at the top of the ear, so looks a lot neater.

Bought some "Bigheads" for fastening the rear of the ears to the sill upright, far nicer than loads of tiger seal splodge.

Stainless steel with M6 threads. So I can bond them to the sill upright and have removable ears rather than permanently fixed ones.

Jacknuts will hopefully arrive asap and work can continue. Wanna drive it now!