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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
Nice big rest for yer right foot LOL!
Nice big rest for yer right foot LOL!
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
its only take me about a year to do so, but the head is back together, yay
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
heads back on cams timed in. for years ive used DTI gauges but i treated myself to a digital one recently, i love it
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
real progress
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
Good work graham when’s its debut?Hexham and District MotorclubComment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
i have actually had it running, then it all went a bit pear shaped, the fuel system was plumbed in a strange way, which gave me concern, it then sprang a leak form a fuel pipe in the cabin, so i decided to re plumb it and replace the standard tank with an escort 12 gallon with internal swirl pot, so a spent a small fortune on a tank, new pump filters and various bits of areoquip fittings. At that point my elderly dads health took a turn for the worst, plus i found i was scrutineering just about every weekend, dealing with dad and working 12 hours most days, so a pretty much gave up, then we lost Dad, leaving us more stuff to deal with, work wents nuts, my 12 hour days became 14, and so it went on, so basically the car hasnt been touched for a couple of months, except the other day, one of the employees was at loose end so i got him to drop the exhaust and prop off to remove the standard tank, so although it has run and has got throttle bodies on it, its further away from being complete than when i last posted!
Last edited by Graham; 06-11-2017, 20:40.Comment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
Sorry to hear about you dad graham
Glad the business seems to be doing well though
The car will be waiting for you when you have to the time look forward to seeing the updatesHexham and District MotorclubComment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
thanks.
works ok, in truth its all a bit hand to mouth, acquiring the business next door has had a lot of benefits, but it makes our rent and rate overheads massive in relation to the size of the client base and number of staff, the biggest problem though is there is only one of me, i do the pricing, invoicing, mot testing, diagnostics, and all the major gearbox and engine work, so what tends to happen is the rest of the staff can run out of work, but im always chasing my tail trying to get stuff done so i still do 12 hour days even when on paper we as a company are short of work. i could do a lot more engine work, but there isnt so much its viable to employ someone to do most of what i doComment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
May sound daft but may I suggest sending one of the more intelligent sprogs to MOT inspector training - its a nice source of income stream and you don't necessarily need the distraction in the grand scheme? Is that a Mr Walker adjustable ram pipe I spy - gonna use the whole set? Read impressive results on the Walker blog.Comment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
ive got one that could in time, but he needs to learn a fair bit more, and another that is actually older than me, who is qualified enough to do it, but doesn't really want to, so he makes excuses about having to go up into the loft to find his city and guilds certificates. trouble is now all the training has been farmed out to the private sector, its a costly exercise to put someone through it, especially as you end up paying for hotels whilst the courses are run. to make it worse the pass criteria has been raised a lot, so its not worth putting someone forward unless your sure they are up to it and and they actually want to testComment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
yes that is a walker adjustable ram pipe, i do have 5 more, i have back to back tested even if you forget the adjustable bit the shape works better than supposedly superior full radius pipes in most applicationsComment
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
progress. more than the pic shows actually, i decided to make things simple and use an escort tank with a built in swirl pot, but then i had to weld a well into the boot floor to accommodate the swirl pot! initially i just cut a hole, but MSA regulation does not allow exposed alloy tanks, plus the swirl pot is right over the rear silencer, and also in the firing line if a drive shaft failed.
the pic does look rather like everything is just thrown in, but that partly because i was running very low on fittings and i really really didnt want to buy anymore, so i just had to find a way to make it all connect up, ditching the badly plumbed standard tank set up has cost about £600 with new filters pumps etc, i could of done it cheaper, and in the past i would have but the scrut in me is saying dont take chances with high pressure fuel lines
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
it not race ready yet, but the engine races for sure
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
That sounds sweet.
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Re: A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!
yeah, its still got a bit to much compression, at low revs any real throttle opening it wants to det even with the timing fairly retarded, as the revs go up and the head start to strangle airflow its happy, most we saw on the rollers was 267.5bhp , but that was at the limiter which currently is only at 7K and power was still climbing slowly, it will probably make a bit more power with a few miles, as the first full power run with timing and mixture correct gave 262, but after we did some more work on the mid range mapping and did a further full power run it went up to 267, so it loosened up a fair bit with not a lot of running, so a few more miles will probably show a few more horses.
the main thing is engine wise at least its ready to race.Comment
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