DPJ's GTRS Eliminator Install and Development
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Saturday 23/06/07
Well the heavens have just opened with a huge thunderstorm overhead. Call me brave, but I'm not staying out under this
Photo of the manifold before tidying up.
ATP shifter bracket on the left - our fabrication on the right. If it's correct, we'll remake it in 3mm plate.
Well the heavens have just opened with a huge thunderstorm overhead. Call me brave, but I'm not staying out under this
Photo of the manifold before tidying up.
ATP shifter bracket on the left - our fabrication on the right. If it's correct, we'll remake it in 3mm plate.
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DPJ, Its looking good.
Get your skates on or else i'll have no option but to take you up the stripe.
Get your skates on or else i'll have no option but to take you up the stripe.
nice! i would like to see it done today!
Give me until tommorow.
I want to get it right without rushing.
Here's the manifold finished. It's smoother than it looks, I couldn't get a decent shot.
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DPJ, Its looking good.
Get your skates on or else i'll have no option but to take you up the stripe.
Haha, yes I remember the prepubescent who threatened m0rk with that. I was just lopping a chunk off the bottom of the compressor inlet on the turbo and the gearbox went in my B&Q pro 'dremel'
Now off on a 1hr round trip to B&Q for another
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Yes Phil I have, but thanks for the reminder.
Borrowed young Miss Daisy's car to go to B&Q...... (Dad - it hasn't got any petrol in.....)
£39 odd for a Dremel, £42 odd for petrol. The pleasures of parenthood
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Been a bit held up this afternoon because I couldn't find the new turbo>DP gasket I bought a couple of weeks ago. Why I didn't put it with the other gaskets.. An hour and a half turning corners of the house upside down, blaming everyone else . Still, it wouldn't be a DPJ project if it didn't involve losing a tool / object for an indeterminable period of time.
Got it now. Looking good for tomorrow.
Here's the custom mounting plate the ATP big bore sits on. There's a forward mounting point to drill and it has a downturn at the back corner that will take a bolt through the gearbox lug there.
Then, the Big bore will bolt to the mounting plate
I also went back to the transmission to block gasket and spent a while grinding that back a bit further so that the turbo isn't touching.
An hour and a half turning corners of the house upside down, blaming everyone else . Still, it wouldn't be a DPJ project if it didn't involve losing a tool / object for an indeterminable period of time. Got it now. Looking good for tomorrow.
Here's the custom mounting plate the ATP big bore sits on. There's a forward mounting point to drill and it has a downturn at the back corner that will take a bolt through the gearbox lug there.
Then, the Big bore will bolt to the mounting plate
I also went back to the transmission to block gasket and spent a while grinding that back a bit further so that the turbo isn't touching.
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Wakey, wakey, rise and shine DPJ , no sleeping in this morning, youve got a busy day a head of you.
Consider me your project manager...... no slacking on the job
, no sleeping in this morning, youve got a busy day a head of you.Consider me your project manager...... no slacking on the job
Wakey, wakey, rise and shine DPJ
Consider me your project manager...... no slacking on the job
Please can I just finish this bowl of cereal?
Give me until tommorow.
I want to get it right without rushing.
Here's the manifold finished. It's smoother than it looks, I couldn't get a decent shot.
bet it cracks again in short time. welding cast and it staying stuck is nigh on impossible.
not that you will see its crack when its all back on again.
out of sight...
bet it cracks again in short time. welding cast and it staying stuck is nigh on impossible.
not that you will see its crack when its all back on again.
out of sight...
I'm sure you're right Bill. Long term, need another solution.
Sunday 24/06/07
at the time on Feel's post.
Sorry chaps, getting the bracket mounted right so it can carry the big bore has taken longer than I thought it would.
Here's it all trial fitted (no turbo in) and the shifter cables work.
I appear to be able to get all the gears, but not necessarily at the same time. The cable lengths need a little adjustment. It's difficult to work it out when you're working on your own.
Right, you must've finished by now...
Where's the first pics?
at the time on Feel's post.Sorry chaps, getting the bracket mounted right so it can carry the big bore has taken longer than I thought it would.
Here's it all trial fitted (no turbo in) and the shifter cables work.
I appear to be able to get all the gears, but not necessarily at the same time.
The cable lengths need a little adjustment. It's difficult to work it out when you're working on your own.
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Take your time matey, the little things can take the longest.
you just need to reset the linkage measurements. Follow the guides for installing a short shifter.
you just need to reset the linkage measurements. Follow the guides for installing a short shifter.
Cheers Willy, you're right there! I've just spent close to two hours trying to remove the existing oil feed pipe for the turbo. It runs off the oil filter housing, round the side under all the coolant pipes and then round the back. I used up 18 rapist gloves and all the ***** out of my swearword box.
It's not looking good for finishing today. But hey, I'm off tomorrow.
Sunday 24/06/07
I didn't get the full day in I'd like to have done.
Everything's double checked over now - I'm ready to throw it all on tomorrow.
Some of you may not have seen ATP's solution to drilling a hole in the wrong place on the big bore....... This is serious
Here's my solution - Plumbers Mait repair putty. I also took the opportunity to grind off some of ATP's bad casting....
Big Bore with its custom mounting bracket and the shifter cable bracket.
Big Bore with Big Inlet and ATP TIP
(in a Big Brother Announcer voice) Elegant? You decide.....
I'll have an 8:30 call tomorrow, please.
I didn't get the full day in I'd like to have done.
Everything's double checked over now - I'm ready to throw it all on tomorrow.
Some of you may not have seen ATP's solution to drilling a hole in the wrong place on the big bore....... This is serious
Here's my solution - Plumbers Mait repair putty. I also took the opportunity to grind off some of ATP's bad casting....
Big Bore with its custom mounting bracket and the shifter cable bracket.
Big Bore with Big Inlet and ATP TIP
(in a Big Brother Announcer voice) Elegant? You decide.....
I'll have an 8:30 call tomorrow, please.
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