madmanluke - mk2 VR6

[madmanluke]

Thought id update my main build thread.
Its off for paint in the engine bay! Huge thing to tick off the list - its now just a case of getting all the little bits (and theres a lot!) together, installed then bolting the engine in.
off it goes!  Hoping to have it back for next saturday.

[madmanluke]

Its home

[madmanluke]

[madmanluke]

Things will start ramping up in a little over a week.

[madmanluke]

Well another weekend gone. Things have progressed quickly. Had an issue with the fuel pump I bought where it was just literally pouring fuel out of the casing. So a new fuel pump housing later and job's a good'n



With that sorted and the final banjo bolt for my goodridge lines was nicked from an old brake flexi I had kicking about. That meant I could bleed the brakes and clutch.  That also means it moved under its own power for the first time in 11 months!

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Jeez I was happy! So with that the rest of the dash was whipped in, two fronts seats and 3 point harnesses in, arches on (side skirts to happen later in the week) its starting to look a little more like a car!



The aim now is to have it on the road and road legal for the weekend!!! Things have to happen quickly, but there isn't much left to do.

Finished up tonight with a little bit of experimenting on the audi haha



Until the weekend hopefully......

[madmanluke]

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[madmanluke]

Haven't updated this in a while if any one is still following this. I have had issues with the charger leaking oil massivley so the charger has needed a rebuild long before I got hold of it.

This is how it went down last night after attempted no 2 at getting this rebuilt.


So I started off the Charger rebuild again last night.


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All was going fairly well.


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Now that I had the correct imperial allen socket (3/16th if any one needs to know) the mounting plate came off fine this time. But, there are 10 gearbox casing bolts. As always, one had already been attacked before and was rounded. Tried several different stud extracting methods but nothing was biting. Out came the drill....


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Finally managed to get it off. Had a quick feel of all the bearings. Wow...... These were long shot. As in, so far gone probably another 1k and these would have been eating them selfs alive and throwing sh!t all around the place. Nice to see that vortech have left all bearing info off these so you can't find out what bearings are needed.


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So..good thing I started this at least.  You only need to press the output shaft out. The large input shaft wiggles its self loose since the casing is closed where you would press the input out.

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Pulling the bearings off


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Brick wall......

Once I started pressing bearings and seals back in, it soon came apparent that one bearing one was wrong. The output shaft on the gearbox side just plain didn't fit. It fits on the gear shaft, but not into the gearbox casing. You can see the new bearing sitting onto of the outer casing of the old bearing in this pic. Its pretty sizeable difference!


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So..... This is where my charger ended up and will stay until I can get hold of the correct bearing.... sh!tballs!


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So... i'm gonna email the guy that supplied the bearings, see what he can do to either get me the correct bearing asap, or try and get hold of a part number and source the one bearing here...


The saga continues......

[madmanluke]

So i managed to get the charger rebuilt, but I am being cursed by an ongoing issue with the engine over fueling and/or missing on cylinders. 

Either way, it has come to the end of the road with this shell and I am working on something else quite special now. I just need to find a cure to get this engine running issue.....

[SoundillusioN]

Not supposed to comment in here but you don't update your dub rides thread anymore.. WTF?... what's going to happen to this?  And what are you on with now?

[madmanluke]

I'll reply back in my other thread. I thought I should update this at least once! haha

Yeah ive been a bit sucky with updating my build thread. Lots of things happening. Happening fast. haha