Taggy Posted January 25, 2012 Author Posted January 25, 2012 mwhahaha I have just bought a complete working 5E engine for £125 Quote
Taggy Posted January 25, 2012 Author Posted January 25, 2012 The 5e is going to be my next project, I want to forge it and couple it with a TD05 next, its my holy grail objective so to speak, i want to be running 300+bhp in the ep70 lolI plan to learn how to build it my self, i think it will give me more satisfaction that way and i can do it at my own pace as the forged bits are pricey!Thats not to say i am not gonna have fun the ep70 as it is, i just need something to keep me occupied, im married now i need to live in garage more than the house Quote
Amjad Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Now that actually sounds scary Also LOL at "im married now i need to live in garage more than the house" hahahaha Quote
series70boy Posted January 31, 2012 Posted January 31, 2012 Well when you get round to doing the 5e change i will take the 4efte of your hands if i dont have 4age 20v by then!!!!! Sounds like you really do have long term aspirations for this one!!! Quote
Taggy Posted January 31, 2012 Author Posted January 31, 2012 Will be a while yet, decided to get this 5e in as they are pritty rare these days and the ones that do come up people are asking mad money for them, but yeah no worries when the time comes Quote
series70boy Posted January 31, 2012 Posted January 31, 2012 Well when you get round to doing the 5e change i will take the 4efte of your hands if i dont have 4age 20v by then!!!!! Sounds like you really do have long term aspirations for this one!!! Xx Quote
Taggy Posted February 2, 2012 Author Posted February 2, 2012 A couple of people were asking how I braced my manifold and Decat, I got my garage to weld on a bracket to the decat pipe and then its bolted onto the block, there are a few holes with threads on you can use where the old brackets used to go for the Cat.If you dont do this, your exhuast system over time WILL crack and break, or worse still you break your head and shear a section off. Its due to the weight of the whole exhaust system and turbo hanging off your head, quite literally.Here is how mine is done, its a bit difficult to see but its the bracket in the middle on the left.Pretty simple, Quote
Taggy Posted February 2, 2012 Author Posted February 2, 2012 In other news here are some pics of my donor 5e-fe which i plan to forge and then go TD05 into the EP70. Yummy! Quote
Jamie1st Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I wish you didn't bring this 5E up, Starting to regret forging my 4efte Lol!Looking forward to it man! Quote
Taggy Posted February 3, 2012 Author Posted February 3, 2012 yeah i had originally thought about forging the 4e but after reading up on the 5e it became obvious that if your gonna spend all that money why not go down the 5e route I am looking forward to putting a huge turbo on the thing lol Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 MONSTER EP70! really cant wait to see this take place!did the boost gauge help you mate? Quote
Taggy Posted February 3, 2012 Author Posted February 3, 2012 Yeah nice one Josh, turned out mine is working fine, knob in the rolling road gave it back to me some how with the boost set at about 1.6 bar!! Quote
Taggy Posted February 22, 2012 Author Posted February 22, 2012 Been a bit quite on the Starlet scene this month, been bloody skint with having to sort out my work car and the clutch being fucked, having to pay a wank load of money to get it sorted arghhhOnly thing i have got to report is that I am looking to get some kind of decent management for adjusting the boost on my car. The boost levels seem to be rather unpredictable since going TD04 for some reason and i cant get it to stay at a set bloody level just by setting the actuator at a set level, either being to low or to high!!So did a bit of research and decided to go for the Gizzmo MS-2, which doubles up as a turbo timer, FCD, and a nifty EBC which will actively control my boost pressure to a set level So with any luck i can tell it to run at a level and it will adjust my actuator as needed on the fly, bonza!!! Quote
Taggy Posted February 23, 2012 Author Posted February 23, 2012 oh yeah i bought a 5e a week or two ago that's part 2 of the ep70! Quote
triple j Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 nice work man fair play to ya, am fairly sure u will forge that 5e by yourself. Quote
Taggy Posted February 23, 2012 Author Posted February 23, 2012 Yeah building engines seems to the the only thing I havent done now, Quote
Taggy Posted March 6, 2012 Author Posted March 6, 2012 Hello Mr Wolf This is the only thing on my on my car you can see that its turbo charged. Fitted the oil cooler today which you just about see.Whats hiding in there then Was bored this evening so thought it was time to try and figure out how the hell i was going to get my oil cooler to fit in my already rammed engine bay.After alot of head scratching i finally managed to wedge it in and route the piping, i havent got a clue how i have got it all in!! Although you cant see it its in the same place my intercooler is. Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted March 6, 2012 Posted March 6, 2012 looking good always mate! why dont you get some black fittings so it blends in ? Quote
Taggy Posted March 6, 2012 Author Posted March 6, 2012 nah im not that bothered, i quite like the anodised fittings I juts wish the car shows would come around sooner! Quote
Taggy Posted March 7, 2012 Author Posted March 7, 2012 Yay boost controller came today, have had fun wiring the thing in and then setting up. Car goes so much better now i get full 1.1bar straight away only downside is it wheelspins its tits off now, may have to reduce the gain a bit so it doesnt just dump all the power on straight away New out the boxOhhh my M9 spline tool for my 5e build arrived too and the current disco in my cabin, that thing is bright.Good times.... Quote
lew777 Posted March 7, 2012 Posted March 7, 2012 They are bright dude I had to move mine it was doing my head in lol Quote
series70boy Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 looking awesome!!!! one top class sleeper!! getting my bodywork rebuilt on mine over the next 3 months should look brand new after that!! Quote
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