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♛ Charlotte's EP70 Turbo- MOT Passed!


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ooh good! i've gone with proxes for a while now but heard good things about the rainsports to thought i'd give them a go. they've just been fitted to the wheels today so once the rear axle is done i'll get the back end completed and get some better pics of them on the car with the back end on the floor


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Been doing some of the boring stuff while waiting for the rear axle. Also, Milton has been hit pretty bad by the flooding recently so not sure when I'll be able to get the engine up to park for machining. That's if they're not underwater :/.

The EP70 has individual relay/fuse boxes on the light loom. They make the bay look untidy so I fitted the loom into place, chopped the plugs off either side and soldered it all back up and mounted the boxes in the wings. Boring job but tidier bay.

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Also started major surgery on the original and turbo engine looms. All the crap that's not needed has been stripped. As the fuse box will be inside the car some wires will need shortening/extending. So it's waiting for the engine to go in now then I'll route wires and insulate as I go along.

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Nothing exciting but progress is progress I suppose!

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Another wee update...

I dropped off 2 blocks, heads and cranks at park engineering in Malton. They machined the engine I built for the advance and 25,000+ miles it's still going strong so hopefully they will do a good job this time too! Everything is getting machined up, but the best block crank and head will be going in this. I'll build the other up as a spare engine. Hoping to get it all back in the next couple of weeks and then I can throw it all together. Just need to order an oil pump to suit whichever block is going in this and then I'm away hopefully. Pretty sure both block have the seal on the pump but I'll wait until they come back to save ordering the wrong type.

Axle is coming along at work. Just needs welding now. The guys have spent a good while dressing it ready so it will all be nice and flat.

The standard car loom is all in place. A lot of soldering to move the fuse box inside the car but it's done! Engine loom will begin once the engine is in. Battery is in the boot now and the power ran to the front of the car and kill switch in just needs mounting up.

I mounted the bumper and headlight surround back on the front to get a look at the space I have to play with for the inter cooler. Reasonable amount of room in there really.

Also got some sneaky pics from Sacha at wepr of the custom top mount ct9 manifold he's making up for me! It's all coming together nicely...

Anyways... Pics!

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The welders at my work are welding the turbo stub axles onto the EP70 beam. I wanted to bolt them on (nuts and bolts i would've gone for i think) but made a bit of a mess trying to grind the ep70 stubs off. plus if you bolt the turbo stubs onto the ep70 axle it would space it out by 10mm at either side...



Once they've welded it up i'll get some pics. They're really good and i trust them to make a great job of it, like i say they've spent ages dressing the surfaces so it's all nice and flat etc. will be done in the next week or so hopefully!


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Update on the engine parts i took to the machine shop;



Both heads and blocks are done, but the two cranks I took were both unserviceable :( big ends were too far gone. they were scored tbf but i had hopes they may regrind.



So i took another 3 cranks up there last friday and two of those were serviceable. one needs a micropolish and the other is being reground and polished.



Managed to get my final spare engine (out of the glanza) stripped this weekend. I was expecting the crank to be obliterated- it started knocking while i was using the glanza as a dailly. wasn't a terribly bad knock so i went for the pikey option of just changing the big end shells. However, i was totally on my own when doing this from start to finish. swapped the shells and built her back up, ran great but knocked when revved so i put it down to my error somewhere along the lines of changing the bearings. i like to have a go at anything and everything but i'm no mechanic.



So got the sump off and pistons/rods out to find the crank and shells all looked really good tbh. there is a stamp on the crank by a company though so hopefully that just means it's previously been ground and knocked because i put standard size bearings in



So all in all i should be picking up the completed components in the next week or so and starting to think about putting it all together. Need to notch the block for the scat rods etc.



I'll get pics of engine parts and the knackered cranks for reference.


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Thanks for the kind words everyone.



I collected the engine parts from the machine shop on saturday, i'll put some photos up tonight.



Both blocks were decked, one rebored to 74.5mm and both rehoned. one crank was perfect and just had a polish, the other was reground on the mains and big ends by 0.25mm and polished, and both heads were skimmed.



I've just this minute put an order in with id-workz for oil pump, timing kit, bearings etc to get one built up for this, the other will get built up a little later.



The axle is back on with new wheel bearings etc, the fuel tank is ready to go back on and i have a lift pump to fit to supply the swirl pot.



The turbo kit arrived from Sacha too and it's gorgeous!



I will put some pics up tonight

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