rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by M Sutton
Sounds awsome in the vids..progress looks great, will be sweet when its finished!!
Its been finished twice
[Edited on 06-02-2009 by rickiek123]
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M Sutton
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Thats what its like when modifing cars, they never get finished
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rickiek123
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Small update, started to make my new inlet manifold......
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FruitBooTeR
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Sweeet liking the piks in your garage too
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by FruitBooTeR
Sweeet liking the piks in your garage too
cheers mate
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ly51ohh
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just amazing
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Olsrey
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Car looks amazing in TV mate
[Edited on 11-02-2009 by Olsrey]
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sand-eel
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Just seen this thread now
How are you making the new inlet? Just using the runners left on the head and boxing them in?
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by Olsrey
Car looks amazing in TV mate
[Edited on 11-02-2009 by Olsrey]
Cheers well chuffed with it.
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by sand-eel
Just seen this thread now
How are you making the new inlet? Just using the runners left on the head and boxing them in?
yeah getting some ally plate tonight so will have a little play
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Adamcorsaredtop
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Mate this car is awsome i saw it at PVS last year was the best there tbh fella, it must be a hand full when the boost kicks in lol
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by Adamcorsaredtop
Mate this car is awsome i saw it at PVS last year was the best there tbh fella, it must be a hand full when the boost kicks in lol
cheers fella, it is a bit of a hand full. will be running at pv this year.
couple more inlet pics of tonights work.........
get some more of it made tomorrow.
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Adam C
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Looking sweet mate, great work as usual, looking forward to picking up the new TV and seeing the feature
Makes me want to be abit further with mine, but i need to learn it takes time
My Arden Blue Astra GSi MK4 on BBS LM's Project Thread
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philip2
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id of cut the inlet bck further, and welded some runners in to lengthen instead of haviong it like that, angles arent the best imo!
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by Green Thing
Looking sweet mate, great work as usual, looking forward to picking up the new TV and seeing the feature
Makes me want to be abit further with mine, but i need to learn it takes time
cheers mate. just do it its the only way to learn
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by philip2
id of cut the inlet bck further, and welded some runners in to lengthen instead of haviong it like that, angles arent the best imo!
i thought about cutting it ferther back as it would make it better for clerance but might have issues with the fuel rail then?
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EUROTURBO
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love it mate, just read through the whole thing...good reading...hope to see it in the fless at PV'09....
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Ash_EP3
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Lovely car mate, just wanted to ask how much monies have you spent on the performance side of it? Me and my mate are thinking about turning mine into a stripped LET
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philip2
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get on vauxsport and looking through turbogav's project thread for the nova. you will see what i mean about cutting them shorter then adding say an 1.5/2inch piece to each runner to give you the length
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rickiek123
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Well got some more done, going to see what this one is like then maybe improve on the second one.
heres my progress
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Olsrey
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Looks good
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Nic Barnes
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what sort of throttle body are you going to use with that rick? looks awesome.
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rickiek123
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going to use the cav v6 one, been told they have the same tps so will just extend my wires and hope it works
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philip2
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think theres 2 dif tps's for the v6 body.
pm chip on vauxsport. he's using one on his nova, just remember him saying something when we built it last xmas
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rickiek123
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quote: Originally posted by philip2
think theres 2 dif tps's for the v6 body.
pm chip on vauxsport. he's using one on his nova, just remember him saying something when we built it last xmas
cheers will do bud
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