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[Thealastair34]

oil lines fitted





water pump and headbolts ready to go




one head on





alternator and cambelt on

[Thealastair34]

flywheel on with clutch




ready to go in car



off she goes


all in





needed to make new engine mount due to the dry sump, also ford racing block breather blank due to being dry sumped




got another set of wheels, 15x7 image split rims with super soft 888's

Edited by Thealastair34, 30 December 2012 - 10:55 AM.

[Thealastair34]

had clutch issues so engine had to come back out and me made an adaptor to move the hydro unit closer to the plates

while engine was out had the bellhousing powdercoated along with the mount



lump of alloy



made into a spacer



all back in again



bonnet catch fitted



speed sensor fitted


decided that i wanted to have a proper exhaust manifold made so had some 10mm stainless steel flanges water jet cut



also purchased a external wastgate to go with it so i could control boost better

a load a wirewool and exhast packing as i am going to have a big can made too

[Thealastair34]

Turbo time!

work on the same street as AET Turbo's so droped by and purchased a gt2871r garrett ball bearing turbo from them





wastegate too, some may notice that its an internally gated turbo i was going to run it like that but the external came up cheap





had a custom intercooler made too and my rad modified to fit it all together

[Thealastair34]

had to hack at the old bodywork to fit the cooler too


was going for the snorkel look!



more cooler pics before a dusting of paint





got a 3" vband fitting for the housing too



pistons



engine setup before build





dry sump stuff

Edited by Thealastair34, 30 December 2012 - 09:47 PM.

[Thealastair34]

was then time to go have a exhaust made, one of things that i did not want to try and do!

pics of car out







and pic of manifold, a true monster!









home time!!!

[Thealastair34]

next up oil cooler and dry sump tank fitting

required welding, again im not too hot on that yet







had to mod the rad a little



making mounts for rad and cooler



all fitted



mocking up inlet design

[Thealastair34]

made a turbo drain


decided to go for a small alternator, mock up of mounts



bonnet on, sack all room



turbo adaptor for air filter



started refurb of split rims in the front room too

[RalphyBMW]

The amount of work that has gone into this engine installation is phenomenal! Have you been able to benefit from any of the work Ford did with the EcoBoost sigma?

[Mangham54]

Epic work and furthermore a massive :: to your companion in the wheelchair. It must be a pain fabricating and working on car parts with impaired mobility, people like myself struggle without any impairments.

[Thealastair34]

The amount of work that has gone into this engine installation is phenomenal!

Have you been able to benefit from any of the work Ford did with the EcoBoost sigma?

thanks, not finished yet more stuff to go!

yes, in terms on the strength of components etc.... the ecoboost uses stock simga headbolts and water pump and other bits so i know the standard ford parts are good, and as you know working where i do helps alot!

Epic work and furthermore a massive : : to your companion in the wheelchair. It must be a pain fabricating and working on car parts with impaired mobility, people like myself struggle without any impairments.

very true.

chris my friend i met when i was about 19-20 just over 5 years ago i knew nothing really about cars but was mechanical minded running a bike hut at halfords

he single handedly builds and races his own race cars, he has built them from nothing and not "normal" cars either twin hayabusa engined kit car that ran 4wd that he used for sprinting all in a wheel chair,

self taught all his skills by trying and reading about stuff truly inspirational and without chris being able to do this i would have the opinion on life that i do now which is if you want to do something then there is nothing stopping you doing it regardless of how hard it seems and what your up against!

i have learnt alot of my skills by looking at how he does stuff and he has been a great help, only wish more people were more like him

afew pics of his cars

[Thealastair34]

he is currently on with a mk2 escort, 500+ yb cossie motor 6 sped dog box in there

[Thealastair34]

anyway back to my project

Christmas came for me, decided against making a plenum as it was taking to long and i wanted to move things along, again Shawspeed came up with the goods and i had a box delivered to me!



automotive porn inside

set of direct to head jenvey throttle bodies





jenvey fuel rail



finally a vauxhall part! vxr injectors



jenvey air horns



finally a jenvey turbo plenum

[Thealastair34]

will update more tomorrow if i have time

[deano01]

Keep up the good work Would like to see more on the mk2 build

Edited by deano01, 31 December 2012 - 01:11 AM.

[davemate]

Please keep updating, this is a great thread. I really admire the parts that you have bought, and your attention to detail. Do you do this professionally or is this just a hobby?

[hughcam]

Awesome skills Al!

[Thealastair34]

Keep up the good work

Would like to see more on the mk2 build

thanks, i will dig around got some more of the mk2 somewhere

Please keep updating, this is a great thread. I really admire the parts that you have bought, and your attention to detail.

Do you do this professionally or is this just a hobby?

just a hobby, allways liked cars but never been able to afford to pay someone to do stuff so started having a go myself one thing led to another!

[Mike (Cliffie)]

Awesome work there.

[leevx2.2]

Great read you was updating it so quick couldn't keep up lol Lots of goodies and great work gone into project well done . Makes me want to buy a Dax and do something similar. ;-) top job keep up the good work