froggy
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As long as your close to 180 deg wrap on the charger I don't see an issue . I couldn't package an intercooler on my rod and put a water meth spray kit on using a spare output on the micro squirt so it injects based on a combination of throttle position boost and inlet temp
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pork
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Cool, something I've never played with, but certainly keep it in mind
A mate of mine is about to start using a meth inject kit.....same thing right?
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froggy
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Yes , I'm using it as I'm only going to run modest boost on my turbo v8 but it's 10-1 compression so a bit of spray will keep it knock free . Spray nozzle is after the inlet temp sensor so I can't monitor inlet temps with the spray but I've set it to come on above 60c and the last time I used it I had the spray pre inlet temp sensor and it got inlet temps a few Deg above ambient on a blazing 32c track day so I know it does the job
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pork
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Feb 20, 2016 14:41:52 GMT
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Alternator mount sorted Hole for charger, jigsaw kept hitting the bend of the tube and snapping so had to drill it out, thick stuff! Exhaust finally done New water pump pulley made to be in line with the rest of the pulleys, alternator acts as belt tensioner......just need belt
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stevietuck
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Feb 20, 2016 15:22:08 GMT
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Good progress mate. when do you hope to have it on the road?
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pork
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Feb 20, 2016 15:23:10 GMT
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This year lol
Still a ton of problems to get round
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stevietuck
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Feb 20, 2016 15:25:36 GMT
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Ha ha fair play mate Is the car ready to go once engine is in?
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pork
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Feb 20, 2016 16:07:41 GMT
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Needs brakes, gear linkage, radiator, wiring..........lots
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Feb 20, 2016 16:35:48 GMT
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Great project and great fabrication work! I have a supercharged project on the go and have been reading up a lot about water/meth injection. Apparently (I do use caution as this is written by a company selling the product) there are great benefits when spraying through the charger, the below info is taken from: www.alcoholinjectionsystems.com/Positive Displacement Applications 1. Pre-Throttle Body/Carburetor Injection On EFI/carbureted positive displacement applications, pre-throttle body/carburetor water methanol injection evolves positioning the nozzle or nozzles just before the throttle body or carburetor. This is by far the most common location for EFI positive displacement applications. While carburetor applications commonly injected under the carburetor. See post-carburetor injection below for details. A common question that often comes up from customers, "Is it safe to inject into the inlet of my supercharger?". Absolutely. In fact, by injecting a water methanol mixture into the inlet of your positive displacement roots or screw style supercharger, not only can we lower discharge air temperatures, we can also lower internal supercharger temperatures and improve supercharger efficiency. The water methanol injection works to help seal the tight clearances between the rotors and the housing improving supercharger efficiency. As many times the supercharger are operating in dry conditions such as EFI applications which have the injectors placed after the supercharger. This is one advantage of having a carburetor mounted above the roots or screw style supercharger as the gasoline has a similar effect. Another advantage to pre-throttle body/carburetor injection is there is no need for running multiple smaller nozzles to increase atomization on larger output engines. Since the fluid has to physically pass through the superchargers rotors, a single larger nozzle will work just as well as two smaller nozzles compressing of the same output as the one larger nozzle. The result is the same coming out the bottom of the supercharger.
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pork
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Feb 20, 2016 16:37:38 GMT
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Cool, nice article
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pork
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Mar 13, 2016 19:16:03 GMT
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stevietuck
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Looks like you had fun and made some good progress.
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pork
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Yeah, looks more car like now lol
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Mar 16, 2016 20:52:02 GMT
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Anyone who knows about minis, can you suggest how to operate my brakes, withe the charger, the master cylinder can't be used in its original position.
Have seen some people move this to the passenger side, but keep pedals in same place.......how! Lol
I don't wanna buy an expensive pedal box, I'm using a cable clutch so it's just the brakes need sorting
Unless i can mount the m/c to the pedal itself
Suggestions / inspiration needed
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Mar 16, 2016 21:49:32 GMT
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Hello from a fellow micra mini owner What you have seen is a servo and brake assembly moved across but it's not moving the master cylinder as such more the pivot before the mc Have you actually cut the bulkhead at all? As in are the mounting point still there? Lawrence
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Mar 16, 2016 21:52:44 GMT
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Oh and also you may want to buy some lock limiters depending on how close the wheels are the the alternator.
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pork
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Mar 16, 2016 21:56:34 GMT
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Hi Lawrence
Pork from the msc here
Havnt cut the bulk head, but the charger covers the brake/ clutch mounting points
Also the wheels on lock ate clear, took a bit of chopping and welding to clear them.
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Mar 16, 2016 22:04:30 GMT
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I've noticed you on the msc too. I am mildly jealous of your builds and loved the k10! I keep an eye on the micra build threads around most of the Internet it seems haha!
So bulkhead being out of the question have you got space behind the dash? At one time I contemplated getting a willwood master for the brakes and mounting it horizontally with a welded bracket to the brake pedal
If not you could go pedalbox floor mounted and convert the clutch to hydraulic?
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gazz81
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Mar 16, 2016 22:22:27 GMT
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Last Edit: Mar 16, 2016 22:23:29 GMT by gazz81
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pork
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I've noticed you on the msc too. I am mildly jealous of your builds and loved the k10! I keep an eye on the micra build threads around most of the Internet it seems haha! So bulkhead being out of the question have you got space behind the dash? At one time I contemplated getting a willwood master for the brakes and mounting it horizontally with a welded bracket to the brake pedal If not you could go pedalbox floor mounted and convert the clutch to hydraulic? Was considering mounting the m/c to the brake pedal I don't always have access to the car so hard to look at parts and visualise how it'll all fit Would love the will wood pedal box......but that's silly money
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