Hi all. I was at our summer house for couple weeks and got some stuff done. Koni's are now installed at the back and they work nicely. Our neighbour there was kind to let me use his brand new workshop with vehicle lift so it was much more pleasant to change shocks in there with good tools than it would have been with jackstands at the ground. I also waxed the car and did some standard maintainance. Distirbutor cap died one morning after the heavy rain and the car wouldn't start. Luckily there's a parts shop nearby. I also found two rust spots from the bottom of the car. Gotta get those welded. Luckily nothing else but the dizzy cap wen't wrong in a +1000km trip. It was +30C allmost everyday.. I need that intercooler. There's a very noticable drop in performance when it's hot.

I took some pics also. There's few sunset pics in there too along with the car pics.. Also note the very high tech cleaning and waxing equipment I used, especially the 50 years old iron pot for cleaning water/shampoo.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/mtn/images/jotain/2005/

Good to see you back, I was only thinking yesterday I'd not read any posts from you or seen you on here much lately! Looks like you've been busy. That car looks fantastic. Nice pictures of the sunsets too.
Pete

Nice pics... friggin new Koni's... mine look a lot worse!

If you want to cool you'r air, here's a liitle trick I found out about the other day from this VW pic posted on another forum, and no, it wasn't a VW forum


There's a box of ice around the air intake. Not sure how effective it is though...

I like his number plate anyway

That has to be the best idea i've ever seen

That is an ideal and CHEAP solution for short races on a drag strip...
Husky could use it for his turbo...

And what is stuff they put into F1 car radiator when it is really hot, carbon ice?

Poor men's water injection does cost around 20-50 euros, depend a bit what parts to use, installation is rather easy too

Do I see it right is that car totally chromed. Must have been an expensive job, but it looks special, but maybe a little to much.

Hans

No, it is a black car. A very well polished black car...

@ Fuse,

Can you tell me how your exhaust system is built? Is it custom made?

I am really wondering what changes you had to make to fit the turbo. I see you still have the original engine mounts.

Yeah, it's black, but well polished. In the same thread as that someone mentioned that ice is used at drag strips and posted this picture



Yes, those are slabs of ice Ready for a hot run at the dragstrip

pictured car runs 10.78's, and supercharged 3800 boys also like to put ice on top of their superchargers between dragstrip runs...

RandomHero wrote:@ Fuse,

Can you tell me how your exhaust system is built? Is it custom made?

I am really wondering what changes you had to make to fit the turbo. I see you still have the original engine mounts.

It's custom made. There's this shop nearby which only makes custom exhaust systems. Didn't cost much. New exhaust beginning at the front muffler cost about ~100 euros. 2.5" pipe. Front muffler is flow-through I guess and back muffler is a little bit more silencing. Back muffler is made by Walker. About front muffler I'm not sure because I haven't got it changed because it was in good shape, could be Simmons or similiar because it is black. (And noisy ) Downpipe is something a bit over 3". Downpipe is a little overkill for 2 litre and T3 but it was like that when I bought the car.. I'm not sure what all have been done because I didn't build the car my self. It was converted when I bought it. But basically minimum you need is of course a turbo, turbo exhaust manifold, new exhaust system, new carb or injection system which can handle boost, new intake piping, new pistons if your engine has over 9 compression ratio stock (well you can run 10 or even higher but then you need _a really good_ engine managment system), for carb models you need a better fuel pump, also you need all kinds of hoses, clamps and stuff like that.. I surely have forgotten something but that's the basics. Nowadays it would be easiest to buy a complete turbo engine from 200, 700 or 900-series and start to mod that if the stock power isn't enough. This car was built at the late 80's/early 90's so converting the existing engine was the best choice. I guess not too many 700/900 series 2.3l turbo engines were available at cheap price.