Noob from melbourne-turbo track toy
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This is how it looked when i bought it about a year and a half ago, the idea was to use it for track days.
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The engine pretty much as bought. It's a 1.6 with a td05h turbo, microtec, with 128 rwkw.
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I relocated the air cleaner by ripping out the headlight assembley.
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washed and put some 16" nb wheels on it. Last time it looked like a nice street car probably.
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The front splitter is made of a sheet of laminated alloy and plastic core they use for signwriting. It's very stiff and light. It goes back to the crossmember.
I would be glad to help out, but i am fairly new to this myself. Only had it for about 1.5 years.
I did have stud problems but fixed now. It has also got some new b.c coilovers, chassis braces, new downpipe, etc. It now has just over 200 hp at the wheels. And the car holds the record at phillip island and sandown tracks. In our club.
I would be glad to help out, but i am fairly new to this myself. Only had it for about 1.5 years.
I did have stud problems but fixed now. It has also got some new b.c coilovers, chassis braces, new downpipe, etc. It now has just over 200 hp at the wheels. And the car holds the record at phillip island and sandown tracks. In our club.
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I have been waiting for this...MICROTECH. Are you running an LT-8? I posted like 2 years ago about Microtech and nobody responded with ****, cause I don't know of anybody running it. A few members are running HalTech, but not Microtech.
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I would just infuse the whole door and the inside would have to be cut out after.
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I did a coolant reroute and made a v mount set up for the intercooler. Went to a track day to see how it goes and the little heater hose that comes from the inlet to the motor popped off as i didn't mount it properly. All the water came out on the 2nd corner, but i didn't know and did 2 laps. The temp was reading high, but it would come down to 92-93c. As the temp sender was inline on the radiator hose it was just reading air temp - as there was no water to read. Now it is blowing smoke out of the rocker cover breather and down on compression on one cylinder.
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Does anyone know what i have done? Head,piston? Do you think it is worth fixing? Or should i go another direction. I am tossing up to pull it apart and rebuild. Or get another complete 1.6 motor to put in for now. Maybe put in an ls1 later, or slowly rebuild my motor.
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Does anyone know what i have done? Head,piston? Do you think it is worth fixing? Or should i go another direction. I am tossing up to pull it apart and rebuild. Or get another complete 1.6 motor to put in for now. Maybe put in an ls1 later, or slowly rebuild my motor.
Last edited by lightyear; 03-28-2010 at 06:53 PM.