'80 13BT Series 1

[Chud]

Yeah it's like decorating your living room then moving all your stuff back in lol.

[chc]

got a good sound system then ?

[Chud]

This week saw me have to get all sherlock holmes. For what feels like forever ( or at least for as long as I've had this setup in Nev, then the S1) the water has always fallen in level overnight with no signs of leaks, no sign of water seal failure, anything whatsoever. But enough was enough and on a fresh keg my sense of humour had run out so out I went on the hunt to solve the mystery. Annoyingly it was blaringly obvious once I actually opened my eyes



There it bloody well is. In my defence, I'd not spotted it before because this is directly below the filler neck so kinda assumed it was overspill - turns out it wasn't. Anyway, after a little more expertly placed squeezes of pipework I also noticed this little bugger...



That'll be another leak from the overflow pipe of the radiator. Yay!

FML

[Chud]

Not a lot has been happening for the last couple of weeks due to wedding based tomfoolery apart from sorting the water leaks but this week saw a shift in priorities now thats all settled down. So back to rotors! First off, I've spent a couple of evenings in the company of uncle Timmy moving some cars from his old premises to new - one of which was this rather splendid bit of kit.



Bit squeaky bum time strapping her down as I wasn't keen on spreading an iconic car around the Dorset countryside but we made it safe and is now at its new home.



So on to the S1, now I've got over the initial awe at of how brutal it is my attention now needs to shift onto bringing that brutality a bit lower down the RPM range as it's all a bit hectic. First port of call is some form of boost control as 7psi doesn't really cut it plus the waste gate so big that when it's cracking at 4-5psi, you can start to imagine that building any sort of boost is hard work. Initially I was just going to just put an inline bleed valve in but it looks like Tim is sorting me a Blitz boost controller which apparently is what grown up people use so thats exciting. Upshot is that'll give me the snap open and shut action of the gate I desire. The other item on my setup that is being binned is the eBay intercooler. Now we all now that it rarely ends well when we buy shite off eBay and this scenario is no different, and apparently an intercooler that is embarrassingly thin and has casting quality inside rougher that a stubbly scrotum is not a lot of good for transporting the boost that my poor turbo is trying to build whilst its having an asthma attack trying to push it through what amounts to no more than a metaphorical bottleneck.

Enter stage left, a manly intercooler for manly boost and a pleasurable flow rate.




A rather lovely Trust IC which is nigh on 120mm thick. That should do it.

Also to go on will be another radiator (I like swapping rads me), but back into stock upright position to end my life of airlock misery, and in no particular order...

FD coils
New HT leads
HKS Twin power ignition amp for leading
4x SARD 1000cc injectors

Then back to the rollers.

That's enough for now. Especially considering I'd foolishly convinced myself that the engine side of things was nearing completion.

[re japi]

Um, it looks abit Mazdatrix old drag car... anyways, looks serious and cool

[Chud]

Um, it looks abit Mazdatrix old drag car... anyways, looks serious and cool

That's precisely what it is my man.

[re japi]

Really??? How did your get her??? Awesome!

[Chud]

It's not mine, it's Tim White's (RXMotors), he bought it and had it shipped over a while back. Wish it was mine though.

Nowt to report on the S1 front, just been doing a lot of driving and the occasional photo.




Gotta sort one out for the calendar.

[codge]

Top pic looks like a black street cat out on the prowl Tim.

[Chud]

Yeah it just looks like its up to no good lol.