hill_bill10 Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 hey guys, went up to mintex proving grounds today near leeds to test my uni project that we built pretty much from scratch, got it at begging of the year and it was just chassis with engine in. and it was a big day for us as the car hasnt been out or even run since about 2001/2002.so thought i would share this moment with you all and show you some pics. things were going well up until the engine started runnning like a bag of shit, after bringing it in and inspecting the engine turns out one of the cam followers has either broke or dropped outso packed up n went home to fix ithere are some of the picsthe car is a Formula Ford Jamun and it running a 1600 kent engine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Liam_D Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Awesome dude! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
N80Jamie Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Looks like a lot of work has gone into that! Fair play Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Must be doing a similar course to me This was my last years project car, MCR S2000 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hill_bill10 Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 nice sparky, that looks awesome, and yeh a hell of a lot of work lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gaz Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Great projects, they pay for all that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve GT Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 good work man thats a cool looking project. what happens to it at the end of the course then? id want to keep it lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hill_bill10 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 haha yeh unfortuantly it belongs to the college so it stays there hopefully next year they will find a driver for it and it will go racing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Keri-WMS Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Very cool, good old crossflows - I built a pretty mental one for my old Mk1 Escort but never got the car back on the road sadly.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Idrees Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Awesome work from all you guys! ^It makes me wish I chose Motorsport Engineering for next year, I've opted for Automotive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Automotive and Motorsport is all the same course until 3rd year, for us anyway.With Auto you dont get a choice of final modules to sit in the 3rd year whereas you can opt out of doing areo or materials. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hill_bill10 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 dam that engine looks sweet, that would of made our jamun fast as lol, and as we got our engine out because it broke i may need to be pursuading people to make it like that although dont think the regs would allow it lolstripped the engine down this morning and as we turned it over to drain the rest of the oil out a nice m6 bolt fell out in two parts (head and thread) along with some very broken cam follwers ill get the pics up later Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hill_bill10 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 the culpritbroken cam followersand theres still probably more damage been done that we havent found yet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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