180 track car project - Page 3

theboynoz · 26-09-12, 09:13 PM

Nice! Good buy there too, wish i could spare the cash as i am approx. 20 mins up the road from Donny! But don't have the cash, it all goes on the fam and keeping the Zed on the road lol. Though i may strip it for a few months to see if the MPG changes....And i could find the leak....

Noobrider · 26-09-12, 09:17 PM

Not even started on the engine yet, the 50 mile return journey from buying it certainly saw the petrol gauge drop....didn't measure how much though.

Mind you MPG isn't top of our list

Have some friends in Burton on Trent and have done Donny a couple of times.

theboynoz · 26-09-12, 09:25 PM

Yeah good point, i guess tracking it throws MPG out the window lol.

Might have to get to Donny sometime soon, will see.

Noobrider · 26-09-12, 10:56 PM

The track we will be testing on will be Blyton Park. Its a relatively new track based on an airfield. It's fairly quick an not too technical , almost a mini Silverstone. The best thing is its cheap at £99 for a full open pit lane day. Its a bit narrow but overtaking is OK.

Quadcam24 · 27-09-12, 06:39 AM

think i got 14 kilos sound deadening out of my hatch when i did it, i heated it up first so it scrapes off quite easy

stamford · 27-09-12, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Quadcam24

think i got 14 kilos sound deadening out of my hatch when i did it, i heated it up first so it scrapes off quite easy

It does mount up, when I was oval racing I too heated this stuff up and scraped it off, so much easier. Even the inner door skins have it, on hotrods this is not a problem as we de-skin the doors to save more weight and also fabricate the door bars so they enter the door and touch the outer skin.

Noobrider · 27-09-12, 04:53 PM

Yeah, I've been using the heat gun to scrape it, some of it comes off better cold, depends how well its stuck down.

However today the heat gun spat out a few flames and gave up the ghost.....

Plan B...lets decat it..

One decat kit

result...not the best but will do until be buy a new exhaust system

Noobrider · 04-10-12, 07:14 PM

Discovered an odd problem today...... I was continuing with the sound deadening removal, horrid job, when I noticed the gap between the rear passenger wheel and the wheel arch was quite high, so I measured it.

Wheel centre to wheel arch was 15 inches whereas all the other gaps were 13 and a half inches????

A good look at the shocks and springs didn't show anything and looking underneath the car doesn't show anything. I know the car has had a shunt in the rear, more toward that corner but there is no deformity in the shock mount area.... bit of a mystery at the moment.

Noobrider · 15-10-12, 06:23 PM

Not a lot of progress this week, still removing sound deadening but I have bought some expanding foam.....all will be revealed later.

I had planned to spend Saturday on the 180 but had a big job in - MG related.

I had been asked to fit an engine into an MGF...not just any engine though, a 270bhp supercharged 1.9 K Series. This proved a bit trickier than first thought and took until 8pm on Saturday night.....consequently the ZS didn't get touched.

Oh well...there's always next Saturday.

Dan1971 · 15-10-12, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Noobrider

Not a lot of progress this week, still removing sound deadening but I have bought some expanding foam.....all will be revealed later.

I had planned to spend Saturday on the 180 but had a big job in - MG related.

I had been asked to fit an engine into an MGF...not just any engine though, a 270bhp supercharged 1.9 K Series. This proved a bit trickier than first thought and took until 8pm on Saturday night.....consequently the ZS didn't get touched.

Oh well...there's always next Saturday.

Would love a go in that MGF ! How do you get 270 from a 1.9, but only the same from an SC KV6 ?

So what did you do with it then - just fit ? Was the engine all sorted for you or anything on your part in terms of fit or improvements ?