Genius

He is a water flow engineer after all!

That he is!
 
I spent a few hours on Sat and Sun working on the car. The head is not ready but is dismantled, parts are all there with machining expected tomorrow. Still not out of the woods, but its gettting there.
Time was spend making changes to the RCA's with a reduction in size from 32 to 25 on the front with the rear still at 32mm. The toe links which were made at Winton were tossed out as they were too long, reverting back to the orginal set purchased from EVO65. The rear toe link settings were adjusted as much as possible yet I could not manage zero bump steer although I did manage zero bump steer up front. So there has been a great step forward in set up but the rear still needs work to find those last few mm's.
No issues with lack of camber with 4 degree's up front and 3.3 on the rear. Way too much but will be set to 3 degrees soon enough.
 
More updates next week 

Im not sure if I have added this before, but its my car before I bought it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrC9RXqnyrg&feature=related
Looks like a 75second lap so I have picked up about 8 seconds a lap with .2 bar lower boost as it was set at 1.4 bar when I picked it up. Suspension,ecu,clutch,brakes were the same with all other mods making the difference.
Tyres would have added 3-4 seconds with brakes, weight reduction, seam welding and cage/chassis stiffening being the big winners.
The broken toe adjustement link slowed it down as did the poor brake bias and poor bump steer settings so there is more in the car but if you were looking at going quicker. This kind of shows the advantage of a tyres,powerful brake package and weight reduction over sheer power upgrades.
 

Yahoo,
Picked up the cylinder head yesterday and its now bolted on the car. Finally I can see the light at the end of this tunnel. Still not out of it just yet. Turns out the idler tensioner is broken. Not sure why, but it is.
It wont slow me down too much  as I can have everything else sorted before I pick it up tomorrow.
Start up this week!

Well, Im putting time in every day to get the car sorted asap. Its ready for start up but need to charge the battery to get some oil pressure before I ignite the beast.
It was turning over today but ran out of battery before the pressure came up so its back under the covers till tomorrow.
Such a relief to finally see the end in sight. Still has a list of things to do before the run in but  its a lot closer now.
Seriously looking at having it appear at the next club meet on the 17th. Trailered of course, but will unload and have it in the carpark if its at Reading Cinema's or the likes.
 

great progress Steve. what is the proposed chain of events between now and the MR2 challenge?

Thanks Pat,
Basically get it running, run in and on the track in the next few weeks. Just working every day I can get out there. Will organise the water injection this week.
IC will stay for the time being.
Will set the suspension myself. Need a afternoon to sort this out.
Fit the door cards.
Repair the front ducting.
Fit undertray
There is a few other things but its close which has me a little pumped up right now.
Im not sure where I will drive the car, just depends on what available the day it leaves the tuner.
Certainly going to go for a drive at least a few days before the MTC 2013.
Are you coming up for a drive or will we meet at Sandown?
 
 

Thanks for the info on the water injection. I bought a unit the other day. Hope to see it next week.
 
After some research, it looks like your unit uses a fair amount of water. I did call Phil Armour who sets up a lot of cars who manages 8 litres for 200km. Said something about having it communicate with the ECU to manage flow so it far more economical in comparision to other set ups out there. Sounds like you could dial your unit in to save running so much water.
 
Cheers

Spent another 6 hrs working the car. Made an air box with high flow filter and flexi high temp line to the turbo. Relocated the intercooler to the boot.
Yes, its needs to be bigger but it will have to 'do' for the time being. Water injection will help more than a bigger IC. Boot will be cut tomorrow.
Relocated the coolant filler with the addition of a flexi hose.
Little bit of painting.
It looks a lot cleaner than it has in the past.

More to come tomorrow