Oh Bugger It!....

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

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I know Dom... speachless, right?

[kyliesmith.com 3 2 Vehicles]

Wondered how you were getting on and sorry to hear about your illness??

Anyway glad the car is making good progress. Love the pics keep em coming

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Thanks!..

Luckily for me it is not my illness that has caused delay.... fit as a fiddle B)

I

[Rob 1 1 Vehicles]

Mike - any reason why the transom's off? You could put a GT transom on there and ditch the rear wing.. ;-)

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Mike - any reason why the transom's off? You could put a GT transom on there and ditch the rear wing.. ;-)

Transom has been removed to make sure it doesn

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Latest update:

The engine rebuild was eventually given to Phil at SWLC, who turned the job around very quickly. The engine now awaits collection.......

Once the engine is back with the car, the final assembly of new turbos and chargecoolers will commence. The plan is to schedule a visit of our Motec Guru Fraser MacKellar, so that he can enable the ECU and configure for twin wideband lambda.

Here are some images of the engine post-rebuild.

Mike Haines is also fabricating an alloy main coolant radiator this time around - I wish that this had been on the original worklist.

Hopefully, I

[talon 0 1 Vehicles]

That looks fabulous!

[MGFCrasher 0]

Good News Mike.

[bigsi 0 1 Vehicles]

erm.... can i come and polish that up for you mister?

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Hey BigSi,

I accept that it looks a little

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Latest update:

The engine is now back with Mike Haines and final assembly is underway.

He also opened-up each of the two chargecooler bodies to ensure that no impellor particles were trapped in the cores. These were then ultrasonically cleaned and welded back together. Here are some images:

The new radiator core has been ordered from Pace, so that is expected back within the next 10 days. The size of the core has been maximised for our installation (no a/c).

We

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Another update:

The engine is now mated with the transmission and back in the car. Here are a few images:

Now waiting for the new front radiator core to arrive this week, before being able to fabricate the end-tanks and pipes.

Expect another update soon

[superdavelotus 123]

Hi Mike,

With all this work you've had done, surely, you'll be taking it off sale?

Looks great!

A lot of work on the chargecoolers, wouldn't it have been easier to buy new ones?

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Hi Dave,

My problem is simple - I cannot register the car here in Germany (probably possible if you have the right T

[hasuSan 0]

Re. the chargecoolers, these are not the same as the 150 quid Ebay ones. It would have cost about 1K to replace the chargecoolers vs. a couple of hundred to cut open, clean and weld/polish.

When are you and Alan going to let us see some of your chargecooler work?

Mike's chargecooler are not the Chinese copy. Looks like a real Spearco design. Chinese copied the spearco intercooler and dumped it here in the U.S for a penny (Ebay). I saw the copy and its identical. Same thickness and the workmanship looks fine. I think its good for consumers but bad for business. When you imfringe or hijack someones design, you should go to jail.

I did not use the spearco in my chargecooler design. I used two Garrett intercoolers that came from Syclone/Typhoon. Fitting chargecooler will develop lag if not configured properly. The length of the pipes and the size of intercooler is critical. I'm lucky I choose the Garrett size. The response is instantaneous with no lag. Trial and error but got lucky this time.

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

About 12 months ago, I aquired a pair of charge-cooler bodies off Ebay (Spearco style) as I was considering making kits available. On close comparison, the core was definately inferior in contruction to the Spearco one and the the water channels were smaller.

I am sure there are exceptions to the rule, but I am a firm believer that in essence, you get what you pay for.

Anyone who has been in my car can tell you that I do not suffer from turbo lag. The V8 engine is starting to consume huge volume of air at anything about tick-over and the intercooler pipework doesn

Edited March 25, 2008 by mike_sekinger

[superdavelotus 123]

Hi Mike,

I fully agree about 'you get what you pay for' view in life but if you look at the chargecooler kits availible for

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Hopefully, the fabrication and installation of the front rad. won

[peter_england99 6]

Mike,

I'm sure there are loads of us prepared for the hardship of driving your car in if for you if needed.

Regards,

Peter.

Hopefully, the fabrication and installation of the front rad. won

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

We are getting really close to getting the engine running again now

Fabrication of the new radiator is almost finished and the rest of the parts are all going back together.

The chargecoolers are now rebuilt and polished - some images:

Cheers,

Mike S

[sierra1off 2]

Hi Mike,

do you run the cooling water for the chargecoolers to a seperate rad in the front of the car, or off of the engine system.

Alan

[Günter 27 1 Vehicles]

alan, i think it does not make anny sense to use the engine-water system ?! The return temperature is just to high to cool down the fresh air inlet temp. !!

Edited April 4, 2008 by G

[mike_sekinger 364 2 Vehicles]

Hi Alan,

The chargecooler circuit is a totally separate from the engine coolant circuit. There is a different header tank, pump and radiator.

As G

Edited April 5, 2008 by mike_sekinger

[sierra1off 2]

Exactly what i thought , but the way your coolant pipes go through the bulkhead, looks like they go to the back of the heads.

Alan

[M3S2k 0]

Hey Mike,

Looks really good. On a side note, I appreciate the pics, gives me insight on what it will be to remove the transmission. Doesn't look to bad with the trunk out. Thanks!!