Purple People Eater - Turbocharged Project

See, this is what happens when a couple of guys sit around one afternoon discussing what car parts they have in the collective bin.

The original idea started over a year ago, a spare parts car, a spare good 2L, a spare turbo from a GSR Lancer and an itch to play around with fuel injection.

Although as it sometimes happens the time and patience didn't really front up and so the idea stayed dead in the water (not after I had started to amass various parts I might add, megasquirt, intercooler, surge tank). Now I've decided that since the car has been on my driveway for almost two years it is now mine and that the only otherthing I didn't have from the original list was the turbo, I'm going to finish this beast as a an all too welcome distraction from a really busy schedule of uni and work.

So I've finally got my "round toit" (thanks Ben)

Spent this week chopping out unneeded bits like the battery tray and rad support upright and then did a truly fantastic job of painting the engine bay, with a pressure pack and not a whole lot of prep-work ... watch out Rhys!

Got the suspension in yesterday which is a mix from my previous three cars... struts from my green granny banger, brakes and swaybars from the RS and a mix and match of bushes and ball joints choosing the best of everything I had.

I appologise for the poor quality of the photos but I wanted to get a few before I got too stuck in and had no "Before" pics at all... as you can probably tell I'm not going to be too concerned with asthetics on this one

Car Will be:

2L injected and turbocharged Mk1 4-door
-Megasquirt Computer
-Custom Exhaust Manifold
-Falcon six-cyl inlet manifold cut down with an adaptor to fit the pinto
-Motor for the moment will be fairly standard just freshened up, new bearings, pistons etc. If it all goes to plan I'll build a better bottom end further down the track
-Will be used for hill-climbs and super sprints so I've got a harness and tracking down a seat now

I'll keep you posted as it progresses

Alastair

Sounds great man.. Go hard and take heaps of pics.

Looking good man. Interested in seeing how you rigged up your inlet manifold. I had a look at my AU falcon six inlet manifold and it looked a little tricky to cut down.. You may have the EA-EB type..

she should be a little screamer..

Cortina is still there... it's got to be one of those projects that I now just want to leave until I have the means to rebuild properly. Has progressed though, got a GT dashtop and gauges for it and made a start on the rust. The escort I'm just throwing together to have a bit of fun, you never know the motor from this may end up in the cortina.

The inlet manifold I'm still keeping my fingers crossed on. It is the EA-EB type with the plenum underneath. From what I've measured up and played around with so far, it should just fit snugly including the 20mm adapter it'll need.

Hillclimbs are the main target for this, as well mallala super sprints... but may include a little bit of hills bashing til it gets defected

Alastair

are you still going to use a dizzy ? the ea's throttle body will be awfully close to where it wants to be.

Megasquirt is DONE!!... two days of soldering and a serious amount of mucking about with my laptop and I've finally got it all finished. Really can't wait to get it in the car now, spent all day today fiddling with the stimulator knobs (hmm that sounds a bit dodgy) and can't wait to get it set up.

Also have to send out a massive thank you to blackrs2k (Jase) who welded the oil return onto my sump for me... cheers mate ... did and awesome job too, so now the bottom end can finally be put into the car

Will take a bunch of pics as soon as I can

Alastair

Stairsy, where'd you get too????[x2x][(#)][:x)][:x)][:x)][^]

hey stairsy have u stared work on the inlet manifold yet... im curious to see how it comes up.

Glenn