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[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

nice i love that mini turbo its flies reminds me of my old fezza 2.0 on the a59

[Tommyboy12]

Like you will never crank up the psi! I bet it goes to 14psi a few times before you decide it would be better for your pocket if you didnt!

[apbellamy]

The colling system is plumbed up and wired in.
With a good few turns on the mixture screw it runs nicely.
We've put a new relay in for the starter, so now we have control of when the starter runs
Some of the interior is back in and we've made a start butchering the dash for the gauges.

Starting to look like a propper engine bay again



Feels like we're nearly there now.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

sorry to be a beach but the clutch isnt plumbed yet hahaha looks immense
this car combines all the things i love about modified cars well engineered engines in a rat look car that wipes the smile of bmws face

i know thats what i just achieved threw the leeds tunnels

[Racer_Pete]

well done guys, liking the intercooler set up very tidy.
Pete.

[John H]

On tuesday we put new fluid through the brakes and bled them up. While we had the van on axle stands and the from wheels off we thought it would be a good idea to test the brakes & turbo.

With a little 'loading' from the brakes we managed to produce 0.6bar of boost (8.7psi) before I bottled it as we haven't properly set the mixture.

The dump valve works too!

[apbellamy]

Had a custom braided hose made up for the clutch last week. We trimmed 7mm of the master cylinder's banjo bolt and fitted it.



With some fluid through it and a lot of adjustment the clutch works and it moves under it's own power again.

It's not good enough to drive yet, so we need to look into longer/adjustable rods for the slave cylinder to clutch arm.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

nice

[John H]

Clutch now works. Had to get a bend put in the arm and disassemble, clean, reassemble and spend about 2 hours bleeding slave cylinder!

[Jacques124]

read it all the way through and i love this project!

[Joloke08]

Great thread i notice from this photo you have an unused Coil Pack in place

and in this one the crank position sensor


im guesing your going to connect all this up later and then Remove the Coil and Dizzy?

Just wondering are you using a kit or have you canabalised the whole system from another car?
If so id be interested to see how its done as the price for magajolt/storm type systems are soo expensive

Nice to see somebody keeping a Metro on the road
Yes they are a good source of goodies for our minis but if we keep canabilising them there will be non left on our roads anymore

Great Project

[apbellamy]

It's been a long time since we've done anything post worthy on the van. I put most of the interia back in the other week (Wifey is very pleased that there are no metro seats in the conservatory now).

Today we've been out and done my least favorite job - soldering. I was pleased to see that everything worked first time, which makes a change for me.

The result of this was the megajolt in, working and mapped. Good bye crappy distributor!






I had thought it would be a pain to get the mgajolt wired up and working, but it wasn't it was litteraly join the wires and fire it up.

It's pretty much sorted now, just a few PITA jobs and then it can go for test at the end of the month and all being well be taxed on April 1st. I've typed it now, so I'm commited....

[1275 SPRITE]

Brilliant progress! Love the video, that dump valve...lol

Was it hard to map the MJ, or did you load up a map from a similar spec engine?

[apbellamy]

Thanks

It's a standard metro turbo map of the internet. Just a nice safe one to start with until we can get it on the rollers

[John H]

Just a stock turbo MAP from turbominis