Nightmare S2

[newsh]

Tidy!

[S2 EDS]

Downpipe in shot

This is becoming epic!!!!
Danny from DNA offered for me to have the use of his garage as I have no room at work with customers cars etc.
So transported my car to Nottingham yesterday afternoon. And spent the whole day working on my own car with no customers coming to the counter and no customers ringing my phone it was great

So job number 1 yesterday was to quickly swap the front subframe for the newly galvanised one.

How wrong could I be! The old subframe was off in the blink of an eye.

I am fitting solid subframe mounts on the front to match the rear. I have had these aluminium bushes sat on my shelf for over a year waiting to go on. The packet clearly says 10mm which is the bolt size for the front subframe on a 3B car.
However on removal from the bag found them to be 12mm , so after finding some later ABY front bolts. I proceeded to drill out and re tap the chassis legs at the front where the subframe mounts. This was a little awkward to do as 3 of the inserts move around to allow for minor differences in subframes.



Then as I was unable to get my carpet to fit correctly the choice was made to remove the Heaterbox again!!!!!

Once removed I found a little more wiring I could do, a little more tidying and a little more re routing of the looms to make it as tidy as possible. Also run the loom for wideband Lambda which is for VEMS

The heater box and carpet was then fitted followed by the dash....


Meanwhile Danny carried on doing plumbing in the engine and fitted my standard PCV system with all new stainless fittings, my turbo water and oil pipes and the downpipe flexi, alternator, starter motor, water rail etc.

It does not sound like we managed loads but when everything is painted it takes longer as you don't want to scratch anything



Tonks4x4 - The Land Rover Specialist

Hey Brian,

What Downpipe are you using? Where was it fabricated and approx how much did it coist?

[Tonks4x4]

Hey Brian,



What Downpipe are you using? Where was it fabricated and approx how much did it coist?

The downpipe I am using is a 3", I made myself.
It was fabricated in my garage....
I think £60 for bits, some gas for the TIG and several hours of my time...





Tonks4x4 - The Land Rover Specialist

[S2 EDS]

Awesome. Would you be willing to fabricate one for a felliw 'S2 member'. No rush though!

[DNA-S2]

Awesome. Would you be willing to fabricate one for a felliw 'S2 member'. No rush though!

For perfect fit Ed ... Needs to be done on the car mate


Danny
DNA Autocare Ltd

[Tonks4x4]

A little update, burning the midnight oil, got hacked off with the noisy exhaust, neighbours complaining and not being able to go on the track.
So made a new back box....

I made a rough template by drawing around an original back box so I could work out maximum dimensions of a rear silencer I could fit with 3" pipe.



Then from this ordered a magna flow box and made this...




All fitted on the car and tested tonight.
Using a crude db meter on my iPhone it registered a maximum of 99db and that was increasing the revs right through the rev range. So all being well I will be able to go on the track this year at ADI

[quattrostyle]

Would be good to trash it round the track

[Error404]

Looking good Was it just straight through before? Was ****ing loud anyway

[hiloran]

What fuel line connectors you used on tank end?