We set off about 6.40am this morning and got to Emerald about 9.40, so we were there early, which was nice.

Firstly we unloaded car from trailer and the young lad working there (John, I think) got it onto the rollers, strapped down and wired up.

Dave Walker introduced himself to me and friend Paul, then he ran through some simple checks to ensure all was well with ecu connections, noticing there was no water temp signal. That turned out to be a dodgy sender connector.

Then we got to the subject of fuel pressure reg and me mentioning that it was in the boot, and him mentioning what a dumb idea that was (job number one!!).

Anyway, the short of it is, it's been mapped to a point and best guessed beyond that and can be driven, but I need to investigate air leaks as he couldn't get tickover below about 1400rpm, we think the turbos were smoking when engine got to about 3500rpm (either that or it was spinning the wheels with two of us sitting on the boot.

So, I'm going to finish getting the cosmetic jobs, front roll bar in and painted etc etc and carry out Dave's recommendations while driving it around. I wanted to run engine last night, but couldn't get it started, so we had the exhaust wrap smoking away for a couple of minutes (which Dave photographed - for his amusement I suspect), then 10 mins after that, it blew a hot water hose off..............

To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed, but as Dave said, I've not had it running enough to start mapping so couldn't hope to find any teething troubles. I did take it up the road and it's a hell of a lot quicker than it used to be, and that was with 2 psi of boost and I want 10!!!

As a result the day ended early, I got sad and didn't take any vid or pics.

Anyway, it should be ok for me to drive there next time, so I'm going to start sorting the jobs out.

Will keep you updated.

What a day...

We had friends over last weekend and I had had the car running (to check for water leaks and cos friend wanted to see it) and he noticed a burning smell. "Oil" I asked, "No, plastic" was the reply. "That'll be the plastic wiring convulted tubing then." I replied. So today I decided I ought to sought that out, which took most of the day.

I managed to get the bonnet partially sprayed yesterday (in white) and it looks awful, so I'm going to redo that part in matt black. The nosecone part will be red. Also managed to get bonnet/nosecone fixed to car at the front (hinges) and one of the rear overcentre catches. I'll do the other one evening this week.

Had another friend over this evening and we now appear to have brakes, which is helpful.

The engine side panels are fixed at the top, but I need to raise car to get the underside fixings done, and while I'm at it, I'll modify the sump guard and fix that back on.

Anyway, I'll be off for now and hopefully next weekend the car will be back on the road with a few minor jobs needing to be done, but I'll do those as and when. It's two years since I started this little conversion and I'm kind of losing patience with it:D

Till then and hopefully with dyno chart, and car on road vid:D

Later, as they say.....