Supercharged Sunflower + Forged Engine + Brembos + Recaros + 16" F1s

[Craig.]

Thanks lads

 

[vecbtb]

Stunning.

 

[Silent_Scone]

WOW. nice rad btw

Lost for words mate, you've really gone to town on this car

 

[Ash']

Stunning! Some effort there fairplay . Please more pics, and a vid of how it sounds etc

 

[Korky]

Looks like you need to get my pictures up Craig, and the video!

What an epic past few days, countless ups and downs and some crazy late nights but it was worth it!

 

[BenMc]

That looks amazing now bud! Just been reading from where I left off last time ! And from other day you've done s**t loads!!

 

[GodSpeed]

Re: Supercharged Sunflower

Hopefully I'll be fitting the calipers today so I'll get you a picture.

Build looks great, are you able to post an image showing the airfilter location as well

 

[Stu.]

wowser! Needs a new coolant bottle though!!

 

[Craig.]

WOW. nice rad btw

Lost for words mate, you've really gone to town on this car

Custom Pro Alloy job I went past the point of no return so thought f**k it I'm going all out lol.

Stunning! Some effort there fairplay . Please more pics, and a vid of how it sounds etc

Thanks mate, I'll get more pics up & make some videos I've got one of its first start just need to upload it to YouTube. There a couple of it on YouTube now though from when it was stage 1.

Looks like you need to get my pictures up Craig, and the video!

What an epic past few days, countless ups and downs and some crazy late nights but it was worth it!

Haha I'll get more of your pics up mate, massive help from you over the last few days :approve:

That looks amazing now bud! Just been reading from where I left off last time ! And from other day you've done s**t loads!!

Plenty has been done since you were last round Ben

Build looks great, are you able to post an image showing the airfilter location as well

ill get you a picture mate, but it's just a flat ITG thats straight off the charger, Ill try & route it further to the gearbox side in the future.

wowser! Needs a new coolant bottle though!!

A new one is on order just waiting for it to turn up.

 

[Nafoff]

very nice mate, good that it started first time too, fair play to you.
mine won't be on the road for a fair while, not helped that i am 100+ miles away from it now either

 

[Gray]

Woah, awesome progress, Craig!

Glad it starte up first time too

 

[Slammed172]

WOWZER, looking good bud.

 

[Craig.]

very nice mate, good that it started first time too, fair play to you.
mine won't be on the road for a fair while, not helped that i am 100+ miles away from it now either

Thanks Neil, that's not good you just going to try get as much done as possible everytime your with the car? Good to see your sticking at the project though & finishing it.

Woah, awesome progress, Craig!

Glad it starte up first time too

Thanks dude its getting there.

WOWZER, looking good bud.

Cheers mate





Havnt updated the thread in a couple of days been so busy, anyway took the car for its MOT on Wednesday & it's failed on my private plate being spaced incorrectly so got a new set made up to sort that problem & the headlights wouldn't adjust that turned out just t be the adjusters wernt sat in the knuckle joint (my fault lol) so another easy fix, taxed the car & it's back on the road.

However yesterday the car started running rough so I checked everything over & traced the fault to a dodgy lambda sensor so fitted a spare one that a friend had & it's fine again :-D

Thats it for now just going to put some more miles on before mapping & enjoy driving it.


Ohh & the new coolant bottle turned up. Just for you Stu ;-)

 

[Ash']

^^^ Surprising what a difference that will make to the look of your already brand new engine bay!

 

[Stu.]

Ohh & the new coolant bottle turned up. Just for you Stu ;-)

Good man!

 

[ianpettifer]

Awesome thread dude!

Brembo and wheel combination is the sex!

P.s first thread ive subscribed too, so feel honoured ahha

 

[Craig.]

Hahaha cheers dude

 

[Addicted]

Only just seen this car, this is one of the best on here for sure!!

 

[Wayne-G]

Just browsed through the whole thread, looks superb ! Cant wait to see it down FCS, will definatley be having a look around it

 

[JParker]

so jel!

 

[Paul172sport]

sunflower envy :hail:

 

[Craig.]

Update

Car won't be attending FCS this weekend

Ran the new forged engine in for 500mile & as promised Paul fitted me in for mapping today even though he is mega busy. Anyway running the car up putting the new map on & the charger decides to give up & it looks like the seals have gone, no damage to the new engine just the charger. Will be coming off tomorrow & sending it away to Rotrex so it's in their hands.
Gutted it won't be at FCS but it's just one of them things with modifying cars s**t happens. I'm still attending the show just going to jump in kris's 197 turbo. Speccy was trying to get me to go turbo but it's just not happening I love the supercharger too much & it's good to be different.

Craig

 

[George182]

Gutted for you mate. Car looks amazing!

 

[marinemackay2003]

Ahh bad luck on the charger

did you buy the charger new?
Have rotrex gave a price to fix it?

 

[.GAZ.]

Jeeeeez!! Unlucky mate, would've been car of the show for sure!

 

[DannyR]

One I sold did the same thing to a lad on Paul's rollers too. I'm worried about mine now!

 

[Silent_Scone]

Rotten luck Like you say though dude it's just one of those things.

 

[Nafoff]

pretty sure adeyspec had a problem with his charger too

 

[Russ_16v]

Ah poo


Though chargers are really starting to tempt me......

 

[Jon.G]

Gutted

 

[Chris205]

Bad luck mate, its always the same when you're taking on a big project, something always ends up biting you on the arse when you least expect it.

Did you get a power figure before the charger let go?

 

[Harpham]

Oh noes gutted.

Was looking forward to seeing your 'flower again.

 

[Stu.]

Disaster mate was looking forward to seeing it.

 

[bomber]

yea this happened to Adey too, his had done about 15k miles i think, all harddddd use. the repair cost from rotrex was what made adey decide to strip his sadly

 

[Chip-mk1]

Fingers crossed Rotrex can help you out as I know they describe their chargers as not suitable for aftermarket rebuilds.

 

[Paul172sport]

Arh mate gutted for you. Keep positive tho your cars stunningt

 

[Slammed172]

Gutted ! Bet your heart sank.

 

[Craig.]

Cars back home now, so will get the charger off first thing Monday & sent away, it's just a minor set back it'll be back on the road again, just gutted i won't be at fcs in it

 

[.GAZ.]

 

[Craig.]

Well as much as I'm gutted my car didn't make it to FCS I spoke to Davy Lewis of Performance French Cars while I was there & soon as I get a new charger sorted he's going to do a mag feature on it so I'm over the moon with that as that was my aim.