Mr Simmonds 3B lite project.

[K Simmonds]

Cheers for the comment's chaps,.

To add insult to injury the screen broke on my laptop the same day I reversed into the wall so I only have limited internet access at the moment.

In a way I was lucky that corner was so rotten as it gave before the indecent helping prevent damage further away from the point of impact, which fortunately was very close to the towing eye. So brutal as it may seem the JCB did a great job of pulling thing's straight again, these cars are so solidly built that I was confident we wouldn't pull it apart. I be interested to see what happened to say a Maestro if given the same treatment,.

I had to remove the tank to get at the damage, the repair I did to the breather outlet wasn't connected to the accident, I happened to noticed it whilst looking at the damage. The main boot floor is fine but I need to remove the tank to get at the rear panel properly, also there were a couple of slight ripple's in the back of the wheel arch tub which I tapped out whilst the car was under tension.


I've gotten the car pretty much straight now and am at the stage where I just have a couple more small but somewhat complicated repair sections to fabricate and weld in before I can give the rear panel a little bit more of a beating.

The damage under the nearside rear light was caused by some sod reversing into me and isn't related, but I'm going to finish of repairing it and get some paint on whilst doing the back end.

[K Simmonds]

Very quick update to thank Kibby for doing me a cracking deal on a recently reconditioned K26/7 hybrid along with a 3B inlet manifold and some Bosch 440 'green giants' injectors. He couldn't have gotten the parts to me quicker, everything is in near mint condition and they arrived very well packaged!

So a HUGE thanks to him, nice one Kibby you couldn't have been more helpful.

Anyway here's my birthday present to myself....











The turbo is like new with no play whatsoever and feels really smooth, it appears to have be built by 'Turbo Dynamics' in Christchurch and has a back cut wheel on the Hot-side.

Has the following numbers on it.....

6326 101 6367, No 6 Hot-side, 56mm exit.
53271015091, Cold-side, 49/50 mm inlet.

As an experiment I used an exhaust flaring tool along with a hot air gun to carefully open up a stock 3B MAF hose, it worked really well.

Am in the process of building up another complete engine so I can rapidly extract the current unit and install the fresh one, exact spec to be finalised.

To get the most out the turbo I will need larger injectors and a custom remap, however I'm understandably keen to try it out. Am in the process of amassing parts, got nearly everything now apart from pistons/rods and a water manifold. I really want to go down the 'Ghetto Stroker' route but finding a local machine shop I trust to get it right for a sane price isn't easy....

Got to leave it there for now, I will be posting up pic's of a mocked up engine soon but currently am busy working on one of Charlie's (cardcrash) car's during the evenings.

[Nj]

nice! sometimes you have to just spoil yourself mate

[LHD_Kid]

Looks fun Kit.... nice one

This is for your daily, right?

[K Simmonds]

Cheers guy's.

Yep, Chris for the daily, I've put my S2 back to stock spec for now so I could use the nearly new K24 7200 currently fitted to the S2 on my leaving me with a spare K26/7 very similar to the one above.

[kibby]

Just glad I was able to help a fellow enthusiast as promised all parts supplied were mint
It's not always about the money just happy to be able to help someone to accomplish their goal

[cardcrash]

That's Kit's NHS sleep apnea machine to keep him breathing whilst he sleeps.

[K Simmonds]

Yep, I hook it up to my oxygen tank and Henry Hoover and it keeps me alive while I'm asleep.

[kibby]

It'll come in handy when you finally hit warp speed

[Michael S2]

Just glad I was able to help a fellow enthusiast as promised all parts supplied were mint
It's not always about the money just happy to be able to help someone to accomplish their goal

This is what makes this forum great. Full of people who like to help others keep these old cars going. In Kit's case old and very fast car

That's Kit's NHS sleep apnea machine to keep him breathing whilst he sleeps.

This cracked me up

[K Simmonds]

It'll come in handy when you finally hit warp speed

[K Simmonds]

I love the performance of the K26/7 fitted to my RS2 which has the same hot-side along with a slightly smaller cold-side and run's very tame software, it's a little laggy, but hey that's what a gearbox is for.

I'm trying to get hold of Hoffer regarding chip sets for a couple of cars, has anyone heard from him at all recently or know if he's still active in the Audi tuning world??

I've dropped him a PM to no avail, he's been on here this year but not for a couple of month's, all I know is he moved abroad sometime ago now.

[cardcrash]

A few pictures left over from Kit's repair to the ding on his S2.

A little rectangular hole at the bottom off-side of the boot:




The missing piece:


Whizzzzzzzzz:


"Welding mask?? F*ck off!! Welding masks are for f*gs":


There:


"Do I have this in the right place, I can't quite see in the centre of my vision"


Always fun to have an awkward Kit in motion pic:

[K Simmonds]

Christ, you always managed to catch me looking like a plonker...PMSL at the captions, I was actually nearly crying with laughter. I dare say there will be some entertaining shot's of me changing the clutch on one of your RS2's soon, picking up the tracking gauges tonight by the way.

Anyway that was the last bit of boot floor going in, I actually did a fair bit more welding after that, extending the rear panel down over that section as well as cutting out more rot at the top. In the end I simply wanted to get it water and rust proof as quickly as I could so any exposed sections with the galvanised coating intact were left uncover. It was going to turn into a complete respray otherwise and the car needs extensive work before I embark on this job. Plus I'm hanging on until a mate who I work with finishes his new workshop complete with spray booth so I can do it properly.

Here's what it looked like after I'd finished welding/hitting it before applying seam sealer then whacked some paint over the exposed steel areas and soaked the inside with Waxoil.











And I only occasionally tack panels in place without a welding mask, which I know is bad practice but sometime you need to be able to see what your doing.

[K Simmonds]

Charlie took some better pic's more detailed photo's of the turbo I recently acquired to forward to VRS so I though I may as well share them on here as well.









Exducer - 76 mm.
Inducer - 48 mm.
Inlet - Approximately 49/50 mm.




For the time being I'm sticking a stock turbo back on the S2 as I want to use K24 7200 on my RS2.