Brigsy
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Updates.
Had a few hours on it over the week. Progress pretty slow but moving.
N/s roll correction spherical bearing replaced due to a little bit of play.
Intercooler given a quick coat of vht. The intercooler is genuine garrett bar and plate core rated to 500hp. Works surprisingly well.
Back in one piece. Fresh millers 10/50 and coolant filled with type d.
No spilling here. The sealey filler is awesome.
Aqua blasted parts cleaned and protected with Acf50 and the rest has had a wipe down.
Still a couple of jobs to do before fire up, mainly refit passenger side driveshaft, fill with gear oil, refit the Roll correction lower bearing etc.
Also noted the N/S lower wishbone front powerflex purple bush outer casing was slightly bent as its the crap old type with the thin casing (torque - it breaks stuff!?). Haswell said he had issues with these in the the past and he had the casings spot welded and i noted this one one has broke loose from the wishbone. There is no play or nothing but needs attending to.
Luckily i have a mint set of reinforced/powdercoated 182 cup wishbones in stock with powerflex black bushes fitted so i can swap the full arms over and its done.
A few more pics that might be of interest.
The older purple powerflex bushes and damaged casing/spot welds broken.
New lower arms with newer style Powerflex black bushes that have a shoulder to stop movement/washers to keep them tight.
NDO gearbox in situ, knacker tight. The gap between subframe brace is not very big, engine and box more or less solid mounted on vibratechnics mounts and solid dogbone.
Ac delete on traffic alternator mount for subframe clearance. I planned on changing this for a clio mk3 rs cup racer ac delete but it barely fitted so has to stay as is. Current setup seems OK.
Hot side boost pipe to throttle body. Tight but does not touch rad. Its bumper and boost hose off to change oil filter.
Air temp sensor is a right carry on to access.
The joys of a megane engine and box rammed in the engine bay.
Had a few hours on it over the week. Progress pretty slow but moving.
N/s roll correction spherical bearing replaced due to a little bit of play.
Intercooler given a quick coat of vht. The intercooler is genuine garrett bar and plate core rated to 500hp. Works surprisingly well.
Back in one piece. Fresh millers 10/50 and coolant filled with type d.
No spilling here. The sealey filler is awesome.
Aqua blasted parts cleaned and protected with Acf50 and the rest has had a wipe down.
Still a couple of jobs to do before fire up, mainly refit passenger side driveshaft, fill with gear oil, refit the Roll correction lower bearing etc.
Also noted the N/S lower wishbone front powerflex purple bush outer casing was slightly bent as its the crap old type with the thin casing (torque - it breaks stuff!?). Haswell said he had issues with these in the the past and he had the casings spot welded and i noted this one one has broke loose from the wishbone. There is no play or nothing but needs attending to.
Luckily i have a mint set of reinforced/powdercoated 182 cup wishbones in stock with powerflex black bushes fitted so i can swap the full arms over and its done.
A few more pics that might be of interest.
The older purple powerflex bushes and damaged casing/spot welds broken.
New lower arms with newer style Powerflex black bushes that have a shoulder to stop movement/washers to keep them tight.
NDO gearbox in situ, knacker tight. The gap between subframe brace is not very big, engine and box more or less solid mounted on vibratechnics mounts and solid dogbone.
Ac delete on traffic alternator mount for subframe clearance. I planned on changing this for a clio mk3 rs cup racer ac delete but it barely fitted so has to stay as is. Current setup seems OK.
Hot side boost pipe to throttle body. Tight but does not touch rad. Its bumper and boost hose off to change oil filter.
Air temp sensor is a right carry on to access.
The joys of a megane engine and box rammed in the engine bay.
Some top quality work gone in to it 
