My Mk2 Ibiza GTi 20VT Track Car Project *The end is here*

[rich.h44]

Nice1 mate,is that another engin out job or can you do it with it in!loads of people rave about the blue flames whats so specail about them?im gona go to powerflow coz im gona need a full custom 1 4mine with it being a vario!

 

[Martin M]

Nah the engine can stay in for that. I only went BlueFlame as i wanted an oval tailpipe and i gave ben the downpipe and cat for fitting the engine.

 

[rich.h44]

Arh i see,nice 1

 

[richybigman]

People rave on about blueflame 'cause their cheap

Nice project btw

 

[Martin M]

After looking at the intercooler pipework today, i think it's back to the drawing board

The radiator pipes are sitting right where i want the 'cooler pipework to be, coming from the throttle body. I'm going to hopefully have another look at the weekend when i've got more time and figure something out.

 

[roly]

Copy mine mate been okay for almost 2 years so it's gotta be doing something right

 

[Martin M]

Yeah i know. I don't wanna shed out another £50 for a length of black superflex though. Prob end up spraying it! Haha

 

[ryank]

alright mate cars looking nice,

 

[Martin M]

Got my BlueFlame downpipe and 100cell race cat fitted today. What a pain in the @rse!

Old compared to new:

A bit more bulkhead bashing was required:

Started to chop out the front bumper grille:

It sits VERY close to the bulkhead but seems okay. Going to give it a long drive later to see if it's made any difference.

Oh, and here's one of Roly swinging from my ARB!

Thanks again to Ben for all your hard work!

 

[rich.h44]

looks good mate,the new looks a bit smaller in lenth than the old one,did fit ok?i noticed you said it was a pain!weres the lamber sencers go?

 

[F2 Stu]

I see the bit of scaffold tube got bought into play

 

[roly]

No probs dude

Was a pain to fit due to it touching bulkhead and part of the floor, we'd already modded the bulkhead when we first did the engine conversion but it needed a bit more persuasion to make it fit

Got there in the end tho

 

[roly]

I see the bit of scaffold tube got bought into play

Second time round for this one was deffo easier 1st time with no engine in the way

 

[Martin M]

looks good mate,the new looks a bit smaller in lenth than the old one,did fit ok?i noticed you said it was a pain!weres the lamber sencers go?

The fitting was spot on as it was getting bolted to a blueflame center section anyway. There are threads for the lambda sensors in the new one, we hadn't removed them from the old one for the picture that's all.

I see the bit of scaffold tube got bought into play

Oh yes! That bit of scaffold has saved all of us!

Second time round for this one was deffo easier 1st time with no engine in the way

Why is it always my car that's the pain?

 

[roly]

Because it's a VR chassis if you'd have got a nice XR chassis it would have been plain sailing (and you could have used my catch tank idea aswell

 

[af1]

i really need a project..

looks at the 1.8 16v peugeot engine in garage and thinks of a project!

 

[Martin M]

Because it's a VR chassis if you'd have got a nice XR chassis it would have been plain sailing (and you could have used my catch tank idea aswell

I'm going on the hunt for a clean XR chassis in white!

 

[rich.h44]

Why not?white is the coulor 2 have this year!than you can do it all over again lol!

 

[Martin M]

Haha. Nah i'm happy with what i've got. If i did ever have a prang then i'd look out for a XR shell but touchwood that'll never happen!

 

[roly]

Im throwing mine in a cordy if the worst ever happens

Glad your happy with the way it pulls now mate, i'll have to take it for another spin at some point see how it drives now