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Lol.... Ok forum discount applies from now on

I will strap a Go-Pro under the car and get footage as well if you like!

I don't fucking know women

Pull Jesus off the cross... Gold

"pull Jesus from the cross"....classic saying.

These are called Bathurst and were made by Globe (now Mullins Wheels) here in Adelaide... I believe Performance Wheels also made a similar wheel as well

I would change the thermostat personally before anything else.....

Mine had 2.77 before if i had to do it all again i would go 3.08.

They use 3.27 in FG Series 1 Egas too as they only have a 4 speed auto.....
In BA/BF they use 3.23 with the 4 speed.... Go Figure

Lol found mine held on with fencing wire when I pulled it out first time

What what what ? A Prius.
 
Dude that can not happen again...ever...ever...ever.

Been a while since i have put an update up here, I finished off the last season well then sort of missed the mark in the finial shootout, still learning the car.
 
I have now just been fine tuning the little things and trying different things as well. We did a couple of test n tunes in dec & jan trying a new gearbox pickup setup and changed the cam sensors from magnetic pickup to hall effect of coarse i had to make some mounts for them and they are different intake to exhaust side. I also deiced to get rid of the original door trims and make up some alloy sheet versions to replace them because race car and all. That was all done before the start of the new season.
 
I ran a 1/8th mile radial race recently and had wanted to try E85 again in this engine. So to do that I changed out the injectors then its all in the keyboard tell the ecu what injectors you have, what the molar mass of the fuel is and a couple of other fuel settings and the ecu will re-tune the petrol map to suit E85. The car performed about the same which was expected but man E85 burns nice, all the tops of the pistons were cleaned and all the plugs were nice and clean. I deiced to leave it for now though and head back to 98 and run my regular season on it though.
 
We have been fine tuning the cam timing particularly the exhaust cam. When changing the sensors to hall we now have a better signal and have found some gains there. I can't wait for some cooler weather as so far it's about a 10th of a second faster then this time last year!! Also willowbank have changed the et cutoff for the series I run from 11.50 to 10.50 so no dramas trying to slow the car down in winter.
 
check out the facebook page as well
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Don't you have a XE to finish?

"On todays episode on Australian Cortina ....."
Ok, work around home has been very busy since starting up Tough Garage. Been doing a heap of work on a MK2 Escort. It pays the bills (for the cortina) so no use complaining.
But I did manage to get some tedious work out of the way and that was to full weld and smooth the turbo merge collector. After Tig welding and MIG welding to fill in small area and then deburring it all, I have a finished product and it looks awesome.
I welded all the inside joins and smooth them off and all the outside also, then made some clearance for the bolts and nuts that go through the flange. Took alot of time, but I'm very happy with how it turned out.





Now, I can move onto full welding of the rest of the turbo manifold. I managed to get a mate who works at Plasmaman, to help out with a custom fuel rail as modding the one I had turned to **** and I wasn't 100% happy with it.

And in the hole. Very happy to see the MSC finally in it's home. Craig gave the wiring a bit of a tidy and from that perspective she is ready to fire. Not going to happen for awhile yet as I decided to move the cab rear wall back while I'm going. The extra room will come in handy. Once that's done and welded in I can reinstall the fuel tank and dash and we will see what happens.
 
Getting closer by the day.

Should do a Video of mine one day, sounds quite different with the 6-3-1 extractors and a 2.5 inch exhaust running a single muffler and hotdog on the rear....

They did it on the XY GT's.....

They did it on the XY GT's.....

They did it on the XY GT's.....

You need a set of 6-3-1 extractors... they are quite big and would suit a nice warm engine to a T
 

I thought the ZL and XF tanks were the same.... Rear fill also.

Getting there. Used a lot of old spare steering parts I had from the race car to make it roadworthy. Rotors and pads off the old burnout ute and shocks off the old pvan skid car. Brake master off the race car. Feels good to be using all these parts and means less money spent all up. Win win.
 
Air con lines will be coming off now and going with the condenser off the white donor ute to be flushed.

battery tray area came up reasonable enough. None of this actually gets seen once the battery tray and plastic surrounds are in.
 

 
I have started re-assembling the engine bay, cleaning and painting as I go. I will take some photos tomorrow and upload them. Soon enough the MSC and T5 will be sitting in here. Getting there slowly - like most of my projects.

EFI have a fuel filter on passenger side under front passenger door or thereabouts

Think thats his name......