What I love about these threads is your clear attention to detail and meticulous attitude, I wish I had the kind of knowledge to be like this on my own car and soup it up too but I don't even feel confident looking at brakes despite watching people like knighty change them plenty of times.

looking good, plenty done

but what's copper spray ?   I've never heard of it before.... just spray on copper ease ?

I think it is copper-grease in sprayform ?

It's this stuff here:

http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/gasketing/gasket-sealants/permatex-copper-spray-a-gasket-hi-temp-sealant-detail

Quote from: Mark on February 11, 2013, 18:05:53 PM
It's this stuff here:

http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/gasketing/gasket-sealants/permatex-copper-spray-a-gasket-hi-temp-sealant-detail

Nice, coppergrease is good so that must be good

Got less done this weekend than I wanted, as I was bloody sick.

Still got a few things sorted - wiring started, throttle bodles on, timing belt on

where i left it last week


manifold on for throttle bodies


had to take the die grinder to the engine mount to allow manifold to fit


throttle bodies bolted on


home made back plate for the air filter, secured with the trumpets


the tbs fully assembled with linkages


starting the wiring loom for the ECU


before the pulleys and timing cover backplate went on


starting to split looms to decipher the wiring, and work the new ECU into it.


timing cover backplate on, pulleys and timing belt. no tension in the belt yet as waiting on getting a tension gauge for the belt tomorrow before I tighten the tensioners up.


top view of tbs

looking good

what size injectors are you using ?

They're off a Saab turbo of some kind, I'll check out the flow rates and let you know.

I wanted to mount them in the mouth of the trumpets, but don't have the room for it.

Haven't updated this in ages due to the wedding etc, will upload the rest of the build and progress in next post

in the meantime, here's a quick video

few random shots

restoring the paintwork - I think some people call this 'detailing' It's coming up like new though


Rewiring the under-carpet loom


Location of Emerald K3 ECU


Putting interior back together


More interior




Wasted spark conversion, Ford coil


Oxygen sensor bung and sensor for the wideband controller


Oil pressure (Standard one not very accurate) and AFR

Found some BX Headlights and Mirrors at work the other week, not sure if i kept them, currently listing thousands parts onto a new computer system, will let you know if i find anything decent, or you can let me know if your looking for something.

It would be great if you had headlights/mirrors etc as I'm always in need of them!

I did have a good look around for both Headlights and Mirrors but we are all out of them, i assume if i had found some we probably binned them, i still have 1000s more items to sort through, the one and only item i have found so far is a Pug 405 / Citroen BX 1.9 Bosch MAF, i'll keep an eye out for more bits.