Rocket II

[fai17]

Blood from a stone is easier Dunc!

[andrew_forrest]

Spent a night, removing most of the Time Attack related Stickers,

Oh, I might get one back on there now Welding by AFP

[john_stevenson2]

^^^^ Photo's to follow

Another wee development with the car that should (hopefully) be on and fettled in the next couple of weeks. Rare find on a certain well known Auction site recently.

[johns]

Is that one of those Ikeya sequential gear shifters?

[john_stevenson2]

Yes John, picked it up from from Perth so local too. Chap had it fitted in his GDB rally car. He was kind enough to show me some in-car of in use on the Galloway Hills.

I'm hoping it's Darley Proof

[Robertio]

I'm hoping it's Darley Proof

LOL, no chance, nothing is

Good luck with it. I don't know anyone running one at present, I seem to remember Ant had occasional problems with his ( was upwards of 5 years ago so can't remember what) and James swapped from one to a dog box (he keeps on breaking that instead).

[john_stevenson2]

There is already a Dog box in the car Robbie, I'm hoping to use a microswitch on the selector position Cam (I'll take a pic later) and use the Syvecs (Solaris) ECU to control the flat shift strategy, this way I should be able to clutchless shiftboth up and down the box, and properly flatshift on the way up.

[john_stevenson2]

Oh, I might get one back on there now Welding by AFP

There you go, and I've been so thourgh, your accountants name's also there

Edited March 26, 2010 by John Stevenson

[RA Dunk]

Aha!! So thats how you fund your car through dodgy tax accounts and offshore bank accounts!

Who's that Andy Forrest bloke anyway?

[Maxxed_Ross]

Was this up at Progrip the other day having the wheel alignment done?

my dad was up and said he was talking to a bloke with a crazy looking hill climb classic about front mounted intercoolers! lol

[Phil MC]

I think that may have been Arch's white RA Beast

Crazy looking??? Arch or the car

[arch]

Was me mate yes I told him you should leave your RB320 standard ish

[john_stevenson2]

Been at the fettling again. Shame to butcher the Lateral headers and up pipe, but necessary.

Cut of the Lamda boss on the collector and started fettling with the die grinder to fit a 1 3/4" stub pipe to fit the Tial MVS Wastegate.

This means that once target boost has ben achieved the Wastegate gasses don't need to go up the up pipe meaning a smaller one can be used to aid spool, rather than most conventional installations where the up pipe would have to carry both.

The Lateral uppipe is deceiving in that the bore initially appears HUGE at 63mm, however there's a clever secret inside in that there is a venturi in there throttling the internal diameter down to speed the gasses up as they enter the turbo.

After tacking the tube and Wastegate flange on I bolted a spare up pipe on and the wastegate as well to stop any distortion of either flange during welding.

Learned this the hard way last weekend when making the up-pipe with KennyS and the heat bent a 12mm thick stainless flange like a Banana. Had to start again with another Flange bolted to a GT35 exhaust housing this time to keep straight and soke the heat away into the housing.

Next had to sit and fettle the inside to grind where the tube protruded inside the collector to smooth it back flush.

[colin_ross]

Noice

[hi_jac]

Looks a lot better than Andys welding

[fai17]

Nice work John

[arch]

So who came up and done the welding then

[john_stevenson2]

So who came up and done the welding then

It's usually starting to look alright just as I'm finishing Not daft enough to post pics of the gash bits

[john_stevenson2]

Pics of last weekends Sprint, courtesy of AML Photography

[thefastone]

So your not playing in Time attack this year then? I have to admit that I've not been following such things...

[fai17]

Glad to see your car back and running John.

Good luck for the rest of the season.

[john_stevenson2]

Been having a wee play with the car today, removed that Gash Carbon rear spoiler................ and fitted anotherone

[sparky_sj04]

Jeeeeeeesooooooo....... Lucky you have the powerplant to back that one up!

[ciaranrb5]

Nice. I was looking at ordering the one which is slightly narrower as my car will still be road legal and don't want the spoiler wiping out padestrians as i drive past

[Kosy]

Car looks great in the sprint pics. I prefer the sti 6 spoiler but I dont suppose you changed it for looks!