Team Orchard

After a month of messign about , and finally finding out what i did wrong when making the megasquirt it runs ! :

ok my last part of the cooling system arrived today , so rad is all plumbed in and full of water (no leaks yet , will see once its got hot )

fitted my turbo oil feed pipe :

not 100% happy with routing , but will do for now to start her up.

plumbed in the clutch resivour :

i used silicon pipe who thinks brake fluid will do nasty things to it ?
i have left a small piece of silicon in some fluid , will have a look in the morning

i bought a res of a bike ,its small .. but only has to feed the clutch ??

I also got the throttle cable in , its all fitted .. just need a nipple of some kind to clamp the cable to the pedal.

also nearly done on the turbo oil outlet pipe to sump … maybe tommorow …

someone took some pics of it on sunday , when i dragged it allong to the london to brighton mini show :

3inch exhaust system 99% done , (percentage might drop later )


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back of car , under floor :

Only a small silencer .. will see how loud it is later up and over the rear beam axle :

and then , splits to go out each side

not sure what people think of it ? wanted to be a bit different .. (waits till someone shows it done before ) you can get a better look on sunday

made some support brackets for the corsa steering column , welded to dash bar :

Column in place :

that took longer than i thought .. and still needs more work , but will do for L2B …. now i got to get on an finish that exhaust ….

nearly got all my radiator hoses , waiting on a few bits , might need to mod the thermostat housing , or find a different bend one day , as its tight on the IC pipe work :

but will do for now … my ebay bucket seat mounts would not really fit in the mini , so had to make my own mounts , not pretty but should work , seat could only really go in one position due to its width , and the rear suspension setup.

you can see that i cut into the box section , will fill that in with some sheet. next is to mount the corsa steering column so i can really pretend to drive ! fitted engine earth strap , fitted some vacum hose up to dump valve and waste gate ( not to the same place ) will try and throw the dash in for the weekend , must do some more welding on rear end as well. not sure if it will be running for L2B , as i still need an adaptor for the oil feed. and still have rear exhaust section to make (which i have done some on , but no pics yet )

this turbo oil feed , causes me so many headaches … could not find a fitting to fit turbo to oil feed, so had to make one out of another fitting :

we shall see if it leaks later … used my TIG on it. Just waiting on fitting to go into the block then it can be connected up :

Clutch master arrived , so modded it with a mini end , and made up a braided hose for it :

Fitted,anyone know what size thread the resivour port would be ? its a little bigger than the outlet …??:

and it connected to slave :

a little messy with fittings , but did not quite have the correct one, will change it one day …lol shocks fitted :

And made one bracket for the header tank :

not all my bits have arrived … see what turns up tommorow…

boost piping all done and clamped up :

there are a few bits i am not quite happy with , but will see how they go , and improve over time , want to replace all silicon with orange one day anyway LOL front end on , just goes over it ,i might tart it up a bit with mesh or somthing but dont car for now

also re-fitted down pipe , and made bracket to mount to rear of block, as its quite heavy Just waiting on radiator pipes to turn up

ok , time to finish off the boost pipes , i made the tool that geehawk posted a like to :

this is what it did to the end of the pipe : ok could be better and cleaner .. but will do the job … and is all hidden under silicon !

overall shot …

my good friend Jim welded up my honda rad , and turned it into a vauxhall rad moved fitting around to the side :

welded in fitting for the vauxhall fan switch :

also i bought his old TIG plant , and did my first ever TIG weld , welded in the O2 bung into the down pipe :

not bad for my first attempt , need to feed in a bit quicker in parts … but should not come off.