Hi!

I'm struggling with English language so NHF for mistakes


Car is intended to be a daily driver
Coupe 20VT from 1997. Accralite pistons, Cunnigham rods, Stilo 2.4 head with Supertech Inconel exhaust valves (ordered and coming). Head ported and polished from head expert here in Croatia, this man is doing a hell of a job . Intake manifold and TB also ported. To complete the head I'm searching for C&B cams for a reasonable price (maybe someone sells them?)

Vipec V88 ecu tuned by TH Performance, Siemens deka 660cc injectors, BW S200SX turbo .83 (also have 1.22 in stock), Turbosmart Progate 48mm wastegate. Milletech custom exhaust manifold, and 3" custom exhaust. This is the best exhaust I've ever seen! Absolutely quiet until fool thorttle and 5000rpm, but above- thunderstorm Vibratechnics engine mounts, Helix 3 plate clutch...

the coop when I bought it



Then LE/plus Recaro seats bought and upholstered in black leather. Dashboard and central console also upholstered in black leather.



Former owner has done some carbon mods, nice looking



(headlights polished but don't have pics)

Valve cover polished and 20v turbo letters painted in Ita flag



Water radiator, 3 row the biggest I could fit in



Engine


Then something totally exotic! OZ Crono EVO 18", sand blasten and painted



And final look of a coop



engine completed and car is a daily driver




Now about engine, don't have pics with pistons, rods...
The exhaust manifold I talk about, T4 flange



1.22 vs 0.83 turbine housing, 0.83 now on a car. Both port matched to T4 as Fullrace recommend. Housing are twin scroll so I grinded the housing as much as I can to avoid restriction. don't have pics finished



exhaust manifold and both housing ceramic coated



One video on a base map, just that you can hear that hell of a sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv8XfiGDw3g


Car mapped at 1.8 bar (with 2.0 head race ported), didn't dyno it but power is somewhere between 450-500 bhp. Cam variator solenoid broke on a day of mapping so spool is much higher than usual. cc 9 sec 100-200 is quite nice with dead cam solenoid so full boost reached at cc 115kmh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN8sAZvsL-4

Then Stolli racing one plate clutch ripped in 50km of driving.. and I've done something really f***ed up.. I've missed gear, shifted from 3rd to 2nd gear and bend all 10 exhaust valves. But what doesn't kill us makes us stronger so I bought a Stilo 2.4 head
Stolli racing clutch plate after 50km

2.4 head


Intake valves comparison, 2.4 vs 2.0



exhaust valves



Meanwhile I bought something very, very interesting
Helix 3 plate clutch and 4x4 drivetrain



So, the work with 4x4 drivetrain has started.
Rear bushed bought from Ferrarist, Subframe painted and renewed with all new parts. Brake lines, bushes, bearings..



I've mounted a 15/59 final gear ratio from Tempra 4x4.
Coupe gears on a 15 teeth shaft



Gearbox bell housing is from dedra integrale and other housings from coupe 20vt, also the gears and everything is from coupe



I have "dummy" gearbox and center diff to see how it fits on a car.
First I have to grind a engine hooking place (don't know the exact name) to mount a center diff


grinded and mounted in a car



The engine block is 32.5mm longer than 16v. From under a car it looks like that



The engine moved 12mm to the right, I still have to weld engine mount to be rigid, this is just for test



The other mount with dedra gearbox cover and mount fits perfect



And the center diff mount is a bit tricky
so I put a eccentric bushes in it
standard vs eccentric



Mount still has to be grinded so the engine will not hit it when throttle release



Mounted on a car, fits perfect



drivetrain completely fitted and now dealing with oil sump, any advices about that??

The fuel tank is from daewoo matiz (the metal one), fits perfect but in this moment I don't have pics of it. Soon I will update the thread with tank mounted

Cheers people! As I wrote, next update soon

Hi, Year ago I wrote "next update soon", big LOL

So, lets start with an update. I wont upload all pics, as I have almost 1000 pics of build I just take few of them to show you my hobby


Bought some used OMP shocks in very good condition, never heard of OMP for Coupe but will see how they will behave.


Fitted Eibach spring from Dedra Integrale


After few combinations of sump design that didn't satisfied me I bought dry sump system. Pace products 3 stage pump and Peterson oil tank


Saxo electric power steering pump


Finally I find cheap honeycomb grille and carpet extensions


2.4 head completed. Ported, flow matched, racing valve guides. Head chambers, top of pistons ceramic coated. Piston skirts ceramic coated with some type of friction reducer..


After all day struggle with measuring for Aerocatch hood locks


Top sheet is very soft, so I made AL tubes to connect two sheets of hood.


Removed spare wheel bucket


Interior was fully stripped, just to fit everything on it own place and with full attention to details.


Top engine mount in process


Finished, I have to weld it with slope to compensate new engine position


And mounted on a car.


Fitting all parts to make mounts, plates and to see will it all fit



Plate for fans


AL CHOD in process of build..


Electric water pump. DC EWP 150


Front bumper and grille was real PITA to level it correctly with custom front chassis bracket


Seicento fuel tank


First try of fitting, later moved to the right for a few centimeters


Correct position of fuel tank


Lower view of fuel tank



Front fuel tank mount with chassis support finished and welded to car


Rear fuel tank mount in process of build


Propshaft mounted just to see if the position of everything is good. Have to refurbish it


Two random pics.. car is completely dismantled for new paint job




I cant find all interesting pics, Dropbox is damn slow when have 3000+ pics on it..
But will update the thread daily (hope so )

Cheers!

bad news today...

I left my block to the machine shop to make "block guard" and drill and tap holes for M12 head bolts (from 2.4JTD).
2.4JTD bolts are shorter for cc 4cm. I've submitted him precise scheme of how to drill and tap holes, but he tapped threads at same beginning of thread as on original (M10) bolts... So, now I can't bolt my head because there is no thread where bolt should be... Angry as devil

He is now in search of adequate bolts to fit.. But I don't think he will find something suitable, unless ARP custom made studs..

There's been some work done on the car.. slowely but securely It's really hard to work on this kind of project with monthly sallary under 500GBP, but I really love this and I can't help my self

Sorry for the blurry and light ruined pics, I've taken them with HTC ONE (M7), it have some kind of problem with camera.. pics looks really bad

The oil tank (aerator) with its dimensions is giving me a headache. I almost buy new one (thinner and taller) but I don't have founds for that at the moment, so I had to use what I've got.
The only place to mount it is front left corner of a car (I don't like boot option with 4m hoses)
And tadaaaa, the oil return connection is right at the chassis arm.. So I needed to drill a hole in it
from this:


hole drilled and 4mm steel tube welded to have rigid chasis arm


Tank mounted


The 3mm plate to close the hole in boot


Plate welded


Another hole for fuel pump drilled, and silicone gasket applied to the welds


Damping material applied on the plate to avoid vibration.
Plate is straight sheet, without bends. But it hold's me jumping on it with 100kg's


And the paint job starts,
first the engine area, cleanded and filler coat applied


Painted with matte black industrial color for the machines. Hope it will last and that engine will fit in without damage to the color


And the paint job, I have a friend that works at Porsche. He is a man with OCD , a real maniac so he was the only man for the job.
We trailed the car to it's parents house, this was the only place where he could do it without pressure and with full attention to details. Later we rented the paint chamber to apply the paint and clear coat

The maniac The rounded places were with damage, but I really didn't see the damage, really. That's why I call him a maniac


He tried to sand most of the white paint as it was lousy job with bunch of mistakes






The nano hand, this hand could feel nano imperfections hehe


wtf, he is hammering my car?!


The paint was a real challenge to choose. Almost decided white again, because it really looks stunning. But then decided to go with something stelath, dark grey that will look almost black at night... And one day, Ferrari Italia passed me with some dark grey color, I immediately know that this is the color I want!

So, we find a PPG dealer and looked at the color carts.
The color is Grigio Silverstone


The color on the sun


The same place of picture as above, just turned cards away from the sun. Almost black, perfect!


Back to the paint job,
The maniac is leveling imperfections on the lower/inner side of the doors, respect



We needed to fully strip the paint from the front bumper, on all corners the white paint was falling down.. on last paint job (done by previous owner) they didn't sanded/matted corners before new paint. stupid peoples...


Some pics of the inner side of the boot door. They also didn't sanded the old color, so we needed to strip the paint, AGAIN. Hell of a job
You can see how the dark blue color is shyne.. stupid people


Who will take off the door lock, rubbers.. it's a 5 minute job, too much for some people... again, stupid peoples..





And finnaly, car is ready for new paint



We arrived to the paint shop where we rented chamber


Car in


Maniac at his place




And tadaaaaaaaa, don't have a word. Car looks PERFECT!!!


Maniac with OCD has done it, car is flat like glass. His words were: "It will need polishing". WTF??


Car arrived at my house for a few days, to clean some stuff and to put windshields back on.



White paint everywhere!! Stupid peoples...



Cleaned and mounted, no more white paint, yeaaaaaa!


Then, the carpet was dirty and blue. So i remowed it from the car, cleaned it and painted it with matte black waterbase spray for upholstery, nice results. Shame the pic don't show the color, as I wrote HTC ONE have serious problems with camera..




The door locks was fully dissasembled, cleaned and greased.



Leather on dashboard was cleaned and reconditioned


Polishing carbon fiber parts, I'm really happy with this
Maniac bought Rupes Big Foot 21mm polish maschine, he said "just for your car". Thanks friend




After/before. We didn't manage to level the epoxy resin because of high possibility to ruin the parts, so just polishing was accepted by me.


Mirrors polished, cleaned and assembled



That's it for now.
Cheers!