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Hi RobboMC , i hear you on the heat topic ! Are you adding any air ducts to increase engine bay cooling? not yet Are you replacing fuel lines with stainless steel ones, both the supply and return lines to the fuel rail? replaced only the oil line in stainless steel , yep As i intendet the car as a s...

Aaaand here i am again ! :D a blink of an eye and a year is gone and i betcha you never thought that this is finaly getting near to an end, right ? ... :lol: In the meantime life strikes back , means : got divorced , a bunch of underpaid jobs , need to find an appartement etc. bla, bla , bla ... but...

hi , short update ... yes , it took me some time , but i´m nearly finished ... It gave me a hard time to elemininate the dings and dongs in the harness wiring , and in the end , i made the motor harness somewhat complete new ... i even bought an new emerald connector and rearranged the the pins into...

Thanks , Adi !

Hi , i want to share some pics and want to say , that im thankful to be alive ... After the accident , i had trouble with my knee , and after a look into my knee via MRT , ok , i found myself again in the hospital ... regardless , i made some progress ... : Engine is in , attached the water ways to ...

Adi , no oilcooler installed on the BlueT !

Thats why i went without, too ...

@Adi : as you dont already have fabricated the manifold, Adi , why dont you put it , where you want it to be ? For an non equal lenght log type one , it should be easy to do ... And if i look in my engine bay now , there would be also enough space to get it away from the engine block. If you want it...

Yeah, your are right Adi ... i think the bbr guys put it there , to fit it straight lined to the exhaust underneath ... its an assumption , right ... At this point i´m not going to put such an oilcooler sandwich plate in , maybe later, if its necessary, i will react to this ... i would angle the oil...

Hi folks, excuse me , but i have to say , that i cant come to the MGFIM , after my accident i missed so many students ( means money and also time ) , that i cant afford it anymore ... As my turbo conversion always been a backbook money conversion , now i see clearly that i dont get together the fund...

Here i am , again , finally i made it out of the bed and jumped right under the car ... 8-) i ve hung the chassis under the carport and put the subframe under again ... im really happy to get it done , cause i´m certainly not running on 100% ... i´m back in the bed ... to recover ... a bit too much ...

Yeah, in theory in know what to do ... in theory :lol: Emerald told me its Pin 17 and 21 for the selenoids on the HCU ... Great support, by the way ... At the end of the week i should be strong enough, to get back to the build, then i should get the subframe under the car , as the harness has alread...

Thanks !

its gettin better day by day !

now i can walk and breathe somewhta normally and give me two weeks i´m hopefully back in the game ...

ive had a lot of luck ... thats for sure ...

as i now have a lot of time to think .... hehe ... has anyone of you contact or to a member who has fiddled it out to have a turbo with vvc Mechs and emerald ? this is my quest : i have an emerald harness for an mpi , but an vvc head with mechs, so far so good ... As i wanted to put the harness on t...

thanks , Colin !

i do ! errrr, i would ... but a car hit me from my bike and as im lucky that no bones broke miracly and im still alive, i´m out for a unknown time ... now i know , that that every millimeter counts ... would ive been 10 centimeter more to the left, otherwise id be more likely in , äh , hell ... :lol...

ask the doctors again ... ;) i was told that the block of an 1.4 k series has already much bigger liners in there, block is more stable , capable of 300ish hp ... huh , is that true ? or has the block to be filled with the some ingredients as ductile liners , shorter rods and/or custom pistons ? as ...

Oh, Oh, MGFIM wird allerdings ne ganz knappe Kiste , Steffi !

Ich geb mein Bestes !

Allright , a small update on my build from today. Two dear friends helped me out and discussed the next steps under really harsh conditions under my carport , it nearly snowed ... freakin cold ... :| emerald harness from mems2 to mems3 done , yet untested ... :D Magician at work.jpg red stripe injec...

Da wünsch ich Dir viel Spass bei , Steffi !

talking about the BBR down pipe aren't you?

Yes ! T25 with elbow and bbr downpipe ...

downpipe on the 2052 has to be made.

The rover part cant be used for the mgf...

i saw one made by Kostas on the rover org forum recently ...