Ian.G's Track/Drift Levin.

[Ian.G]

Small update:

Car looks really bare now as I took out the old rollcage the other day ready for when its new owner collects tomorrow. I have me a 6-point saftey devices cage with diagonal and doorbars designed for a sunroof car that I got off ebay last week

All lot of the bits I've been waiting will 'hopefully' arrive next week so the work can get underway proper at last.

To make it easier to move the engine and gearbox about whilst cutting up the tunnel I decided it made sense to take of the engine wiring harness and the old inlet manifold.

My god there is soooo much emmissions and vaccum crap underneath that manifold I never thought I'd get to the bottom of it. In order to get at all the bolts for the manifold I ended up having to remove the starter motor, top belt tensioner, alternator and a whole load of other crap - but now its off.

So

Before:



After:



Fitting everything back with the Jenvey port adapter in place allows me to figure how much room there is available underneath. This is kind of important as I have to get each port on the new manifold tapped with a vaccum port so I can run a canister to power the brake booster. Also have to have the blank tapped on it so I can get the water temp sensor on it (you can see the housing mounted on the right end of the inlet manifold).

May also end up getting some custom water inlet and outlet pipework made as the existing ones have separate lines to the s2000 heater matrix (wont have a heater - just some electric blowers in the dash) and also other lines as a water jacket of some sort ran through the old inlet manifold.

Temptation was high and I was going to chuck the ITBS and trumpets on - but it is a waste of time as its all got to come back off again anyway. Injectors can stay in the old manifold for now so they dont get all messed up.

TPS sensor (and spare) is on its way from RS components at a bargin price of £18 each.

Now I am trying to get hold of one of these:



Its an intake manifold gasket that is designed to dicipate heat away from the inlet manifold. There have been some quite good results with them (look here on the hondata site)

So its some progress I guess.

Tomorrows fun will be removing the roof lining and a/b/c pillar trim as its no real use anymore.