Pozman'S Ke55 Hard Top

[pozman]

yeah looking at computers now stu, got to suss something out soon

 

got a few things done on the weekend (was long weekend and finally wasnt working all of it lol)

 

got my new second hand tyres fitted, stretched like a bitch, not very confident in there grip yet but maybe they'll run in a bit

 

 

been working on ideas with this engine and its over efficient oil pump, they have a habit of filling the head with oil and running the bottom end dry if held in high revs, not good for me considering it have no mercy and will be 8500rpm limiter

 

so my idea was instead of stuffing around with restrictors like the RB's (there doesn't seem to be any for the CA, and I'm not about to test something out) is making the oil drain faster

 

so there's this hole in the back of the head which had a welsh plug in there, it opens up into the valve spring cavity

 

 

in which ive grinded down a 1/2 brass fitting to fit in there

 

 

and all glued in there, if i had a lathe or was patient i would have done it so it was a press fit sort of thing, but I'm not, so epoxy will do

 

 

this way if the head starts to over fill with oil, i.e. the original drain holes aren't flowing enough, then opil should rise up and drain out this fitting, which will have a hose to a return in the sump

 

fuel rain also needed some work, the original mounts just weren't going to work any more, and the feed line fouled on the #1 throttle body

 

so i removed all the ugly old mounts and feed line and made these mounts, I'm going to run a speed flow fitting in the front end for supply fuel, i just need to make the trip to get them

happy with the way it will turn out, needs a coat of paint yet tho

 

 

started making the new wiring loom, just working on the bits i can without being in the car, so all the injector and cas and temp senors stuff

 

[pozman]

ran out of picture rooms

 

this is with the loom on the motor, fairly happy with how neat it cam up

 

 

and from the front, neat is hard, i hope i can keep it up for the rest of the loom

 

 

that's in for now

 

paul

Edited November 2, 2011 by pozman

[78_7kRolla]

Hells yeh Poz. Loving how neat your work is. I think the brass fitting in the back of the head is a perfect idea and should prove pretty effective at draining excess oil.

 

Can't wait to see the final product!

[Crowie55]

That engine looks sexual poz! High quality induction recordings are a must when the engine is in :y:

[pozman]

hahaha cheers guys, yeah ma can't wait, will be putting the quads on the new motor first, need to get a base tune sorted before in can run the cams in

 

running a new motor in and trying to tune it at the same time would be disastrous

 

 

paul

[Teddy]

f@$k Yeah =D

[pozman]

only small update for tonight, hit the piss way too hard last night, today was written off sadly (i hate wasted days)

 

made a trip to speedpro on Friday night and bought a shite load of speed flow fittings and weld on's so i was able finish off the fuel rail and started working on the the vacuum reservoir,will get pics of it up when its done

 

fuel rail done

 

 

i love speed flow fittings

 

 

paul

[pozman]

alright, little later than promised, but here it is

 

this is the vacuum canister, there is a line from every intake runner, one to the booster and there will be one for the ecu, the silver thing in the end is the idle control valve, its off a n14 pulsar, nice a simple and small, two idle up valves and an idle adjust screw

 

the two idle valves should be good cos i have three different combos to try to get my idle up right, (one on, the other on, or both on)

 

 

speedflow fittings again hahah

 

 

on another note, been nominated for rcoty, awesome :dance:

Edited November 16, 2011 by pozman

[pozman]

hi guys, been a while since ive posted, or had any progress sadly, bought a dirt bike so that's been taking alot of my time

 

Christmas holidays came up and i thought it would be a great time to start doing some much needed work

 

made a bracket to mount the ls2 coils on

 

 

so i thought it might be good time to replace the starter motor as is been dicking up something fierce, like starting to get really hard to start because of it, not to mention embarrassing

considering the manifold had to come off to get the starter out, may as well get the quads on to aye

 

top of manifold off

 

 

bottom half off

 

 

and quads on, shit yeah

 

 

 

sorry havent got that many pics at the moment, will try to get some tomorrow

 

just about all the looms done, just needs some tidying up, didnt want to finish it all off before i knew it ran

 

first tried to start it late last week, had some issues, one had the fuel lines hooked up the wrong way, sadly took a while to figure out that one :bash:

 

then when got the fuel lines worked out, the fuel rail leaked around where i welded the an fitting in the end, i didnt realise it was leaking until i tried to star the the car and it back fired, causing the leaking fuel to catch fire F#@k!!!!!!

 

jumped out the car in massive panic, trying to figure out where the closest fire extinguisher was while trying to blow the fire out like a candle, lucky enough commitment with the blowing and it went out

 

pulled that off and re welded the leaking bit, installed, no leaks, still no start

 

left it for a while, broke my foot, left it longer

 

did a fair bit of playing with settings and stuff in the haltech of the last couple of days and finally got it running today

 

it only starts and idles at the moment, working on getting it to rev, there no good base maps for this thing so ive had to make my own maps, not easy, and

 

there is a vid, I'm uploading as I'm typing this, will post it as soon as it come up

 

paul

[pozman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc5sA23gKgI&context=C3fabd19ADOEgsToPDskIicO4PPqP0WHpiZYY_BBtY

[SLO-030]

Good shit Paul! Love it!

[kickn5k]

This thing is going to be EPIC!!! Paid "Hopalong" Paul a visit today. Was idling perfect until we started playing with base timing.lol.

Had perfect A/R's at idle and you could rest a beer on the top of the engine and it not shake it up.

 

Stu.

[pozman]

hahah hoppalong for sure FML

 

played with the timing a bit after i chraged the battery, all running sweet again, timing is spot on now, even got it to rev up a bit

 

paul

[SLO-030]

That's why Stu wouldn't answer his goddamn phone :lolcry:

[mhmills]

There's no revving in the video! Are you mad Paul!?

 

However, looking good!!!

 

Cheers, Jake.