The attempt was to upgrade a later style single plenum hotwire manifold with the trumpets and plenum chamber from a limited edition flapper twin plenum efi system,
The end result fingers crossed should be a twin plenum hotwire manifold with a fully mappable ecu,
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The
hybrid manifold and trumpets fitted to the 3.9 block |
The
twin pleum top fitted and intake pipes fitted for a guide for silicone
inlet pipes |
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Bare manifold with no hoses. |
The vacuum hoses started to be plumbed in for
the ecu. |
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Vems
ECU and silicone hose for map sensor |
The
new Capri/vems ecu wiring loom, Thanks to sponsor Richard Barrington for the loom and Vems Ecu |
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| The VEMS display on my laptop, | New Silicone intake hoses
made by Roose Motorsport for me, these will need triming for a perfect fit, |
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| Hoses installed, and very smart looking too, thanks to Roose Motorsport for the hoses. |
Down pipe passengers side drilled and O2 boss welded in place, complete with O2 sensor now fitted |
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| A couple of engine shots showing the near finished efi instalation | All thats left to do
now is fit the new silicone hose for the filter, and start mapping, |
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| The finished article | Second view of the engine bay |
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| From This .............. | To this......note the heat shield around filter and the new power steering res fitted, no strut brace as of yet need to make a new one to fit the twin plenum. :-) |
The
car running sick on 6 cylinders after wrong map was set up on the
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have a few things left to do with the car now, but after a good weekend on the laptop round the garage we should be ready for a run by the 2nd week of April 06, |
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next i hear you say,???? Well, i have 150 bhp of nitrous here to possibly run in 2007, Im after apair of stg3 cylinder heads, and a crower solid race camshaft Searching for a bigger RV8 engine after my sponsor pulled out. possibly after this lot we may add a bit of forced induction :-) |
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