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Post by rtcb65 » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:25 am

This time it is all out on this engine. Out comes the engineering for this engine. Steve is looking at decompressing the chamber by taking some of the alloy out of the head so he can fit a turbo . A basic system. Just the turbo and the ducting for it and the waste gate into the exhaust. That is the plan so far that i know of. Still running a carby , Pre turbo. I myself will be watching this set up closely , more knowledge for me to learn. As the saying goes : The more you learn, the more you should realize that you didnt know .

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Post by last celtic warrior » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:11 pm

Rick's right, I am going all out to make sure this motor is the final one for this car. I was going to build one up over time with a turbo and bigger carby, but that's been brought forward to now, since it appears it the only way I'm going to get a decent motor for my car.

The block I'm using has been sitting around for a while but appears to have less than 5000km on new pistons, cam, bearings, lifters, pushrods etc... I'm putting more fresh bearings in the bottom end and using the brand new heads off my second buggered motor, after increasing the combusion chambers from 45cc to around 52cc. Then mating up an RHB5 turbo with custom manifolds and remote mounted Varijet carby.

The other things I'm doing is cleaning up the motor inside and out, removing mould flashing and blemishes. All the moving internals and their bearing surface edges will be chamfered and linished by hand, making certain every part runs smoothly with all other parts around it.

Here's a couple of pics I took this afternoon. The head is an odd one that is the same casting design as the new heads I have, which I cut into in order to work out material thickness for when I enlarge the chambers.

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Post by last celtic warrior » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:29 pm

Minor progress, she's starting to come together now that the engineering of the whole thing is done and I'm now left with just painting, assembly and fitting/finishing. The blown motor (the one that has a hole in the top from where the conrod left home) is serving as a buck for measuring and fabricating the plumbing and mountings for everything. Blew the first motor, blew the second one too, so now deliberately blowing the third one before it gets bolted in...

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Post by Matatak » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:42 pm

HOLY CRAP mate.


that looks awesome.

nice job on the custom intake.

i feel it wuld be more at home on a Dual port tho.
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Post by riksta » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:42 pm

WOW!!! thats some pipes you got there, I say pipes, blue pipes, love pipes, give me pipes.

Looking good, hope it go's as good as it looks.
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Post by last celtic warrior » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:41 pm

Finished fabricating the main bits now, so I can get on with getting the internals of the final motor just right. Chambering the heads is the biggest thing left to do...

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Post by Gannon » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:59 pm

Wow!.. you have really put some work into that pipework, thats awesome.

Just curious, why did you take such a long route with the turbo header, why not keep it shorter like the factory one?
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Post by last celtic warrior » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:11 pm

I ran the "Y" pipe in the original position for a number of reasons...

1. I determined the best place for the turbo in the engine bay was at the rear keeping most of the heat away from the intake and block.

2. The exhaust gases have had the chance to expand fully by that point and are therefore starting to condense again, thereby lowering back pressure after the turbo and aiding flow.

3. with the turbo not getting so much "still burning" fuel/air right out of the cylinders, there is less heat buildup in the turbo and less transference to the intake end of the turbo.

4. It keeps the main exhaust pipes away from the radiator/plumbing/battery.

5. It looks prettier...
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Post by brumbyrunner » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:47 pm

That looks simply spectacular.
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Post by rtcb65 » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:07 pm

Put a temporary motor in steve's car today to get him mobile until he finishes off his motor.
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Post by last celtic warrior » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:48 pm

The "spare" motor I bought a week ago of Rick (when he replaced it with a rebuilt motor in his car) is going really well in mine, except for damn annoying coolant leaks into the intake thanks to some faulty gasket material. Eradicating the last of that problem tomorrow morning before work (manifold gaskets). Apart from that, and the auto not kicking down properly, it's running great, mind you it's now got a rebuilt carby and my re-manufactured and polished electronic dizzy helping it breathe and ignite those petrol fumes...

Here's the dizzy I went through recently for the new motor. It's looking after the spare motor until the new one is ready for the car.

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Oh, and because Rick's car is manual and mine is auto, the rear housing on the motor needed changing or modification to suit my car. I decided to machine the appropriate parts of the housing as we didn't have another auto one free at the moment. And it meant I didn't have to take it apart and reseal everything. It was a good test for the burr I made up for chambering the heads on the turbo motor. The machining was all done freehand with the burr in the die grinder... (These burrs are $95 each, which is why I make my own)

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Post by buddah » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:55 pm

man that's one sweet suby. Great work mate :-)

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Post by Alex » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:02 pm

unbelievable. mmmmmmm blue looks nice :)

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Post by last celtic warrior » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:17 pm

A little update on my car. Since the last post a while ago, I've got married to a wonderful woman, moved closer to Maryborough (onto our acreage), been onto a lot of other projects and been using my Subie to commute between home and Ross's place an hour away. She's been doing some miles and getting a fair bit of use including towing stuff and carrying loads.

There's been a few minor additions to it over the last few months, including SatNav, but one thing that's been really getting to me (and stuffing the tyres) was the height of the car. I love the way it looks with the wheels filling the guards and the car's overall chunky appearance, but it meant a lot of tyre scrubbing at highway speeds on really bad roads between home and work. So I decided to compromise and lift the beast a little in order to fix the scrubbing and increase wheel travel and clearance off road, especially since I just fitted a nice set of Simex rubber.

I'll post pics tomorrow, as I didn't have time to take any photos this arvo after finishing the job (with Rick, Ross and Dale doing most of the fitup) in record time (for us). We started after lunch and drove it home at 6pm, after realising a few oversights and making the extra bits and modifying the steering.

I made the lift kit up yesterday and was determined to fit it today before heading home. The big problem with that plan was that I had to attend court this morning, which took up the first half of the day (waiting for my turn). Anyway, it's in now and the car feels great on the road, except for needing a minor wheel alignment and some adjustments to linkages etc tomorrow. Surprisingly the cornering is at least as good as before, but that's due mostly to the extra track width my car has combined with the better camber angle on the front now (the lift kit includes an alteration to the strut angle). Highway running is much more comfortable now and there's no way the tyres can touch any part of the car any more, no matter how hard I push things.

All in all, I'm wrapped. And the cost? A $3 tin of spray enamel, $18 for new longer "grade 8" bolts, and a small bit of welding wire and cold-gal. All the steel is reclaimed scrap from around our yard (left over from other things I've cut up for the steel to build the ramp for my wife's horse truck, a hitching rail, wheel barrow and gates etc). So realistically, it set me back around $30...
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Post by last celtic warrior » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:03 am

All sorts of things happening and not happening with this car now... But that's cars, when you have more ideas than time to implement them.

This is part of yesterday's efforts, with a few things needing a tidy up and some basic maintenance...

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More news as it comes to hand (or mind). :rolleyes:
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Post by last celtic warrior » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:12 pm

Front back together and looking a bit better than it was... bit of bling too...

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Post by riksta » Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:33 pm

looking better then it ever did, good job on the fix up.

Looks like you will have meny more years of MY driving.

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Post by Green_eyed_liberty » Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:33 am

are the headlight surrounds just painted? or are they off a special model? they look chrome :-)

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Post by last celtic warrior » Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:44 am

All twin headlight MY surrounds are chrome underneath the black paint. They chromed the whole thing originally, just so they could produce the thin chrome strip top and bottom. Masking off just the top and bottom strips, the rest was painted out in black. You'll be surprised what treasure you'll find if you're prepared to dig...
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Post by last celtic warrior » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:14 pm

Surprise, surprise... My car is now fully converted to manual. Vowed I'd never do it. But busted the diff in the auto reversing up my girlfriend's driveway, when the car was fully loaded and I gave it a bit extra throttle (very steep driveway). Ripped the pinion to pieces, forced the diff sideways and busted the casing open. No spare autos laying around at the moment so decided to do the conversion to manual.

This all happened about 5 days after shoehorning in an EA82 motor from a very well kept L series with only 125,000 k's on it. Obviously it has a few more herbs than the tired old EA81 and the gearbox admitted defeat...

So now the car has the EA82 with power steering pump added, L series 5 speed dual range box, Liberty gear lever, MY 4WD lever shortened with Liberty knob, Liberty master cylinder and booster, extensive work on new exhaust including a DNA muffler (a copy, by me), and full custom linkages, cross members and associated stuff. It's a totally different car now, with much bigger kahunas, a very deep throb from the stainless tailpipe, nice low-range grunt and fantastic power and fuel economy.

All round, pretty bloody happy, especially considering the whole conversion came in somewhere around $150...
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