She's been driving my AudiHas Sam nicked the Fiat now then
#ZedShed Project - Vixxen (track car)
- Thread starter GazHyde
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While the guys were outside starting on Vixen I was pulling bits off the engine and generally giving it a clean. Found a very crispy rocker cover gasket that fell apart as I touched it along with so much mud and bits of tree.
Quite dirty needing a clean up.
Not amazing but better.
Good to see she's been serviced well over the years. Very clean top end.
Even gave the diff a clean up.
We only spent a few hours in the garage today as everyone had afternoon plans. I placed the order for the ECU and rocker cover bits along with some racing engine mounts.
Quite dirty needing a clean up.
Not amazing but better.
Good to see she's been serviced well over the years. Very clean top end.
Even gave the diff a clean up.
We only spent a few hours in the garage today as everyone had afternoon plans. I placed the order for the ECU and rocker cover bits along with some racing engine mounts.
The world is a safer place with them stuck in that garage Dave that's for sure!Nice to see the inside is clean.At least it's giving you something to do at the weekend
I guess the same is said about our gatherings . . . . .
Tony.
Tony.
I suspect your right mateI guess the same is said about our gatherings . . . . .
Tony.
wow! what an undertaking. I hope there was some pints involved after all that work!
It's for the wife's Zed so I'm hoping so
If we had a donor car it would be a doddle mate.How keen would you guys be on doing an M engine swap on a regular Zed...just throwing a crazy idea there
What would be the ideal donor car? I guess if it was an S50B32 pre-facelift would be better as they are cable throttle - or if it was a facelift car an S54b32 would be better in terms of electronics and being able to reuse things like drive by wire throttles, ABS modules etc? ...
Engines are around 3 to 4k on eBay..
Engines are around 3 to 4k on eBay..
creating a little sleeper! looks like a1.9 or 2.8,,, but, surprise! M in cognito
I see so many threads with people doing engine swaps with the S50 and S54 so I’m guessing there’s the kit out there to cater for it.
That looks amazing!
If i was at the beginning of deciding what to do I would consider this.That's what I was thinking there's a video of it and a compresión test, looks like a terrific option comes with ecus etc .. I have a donor car, I only need 3k and a slot in the shed
The plan is to see how well this goes, if she likes it I might then mix it up and go down the M62 4.4 V8 route a year or two later.
So far I've found this job very easy so fingers crossed it pans out because this might well be the start of something.