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[Johann]

[JoshV70]

Johann, on 30 October 2009 - 10:25 AM, said:

[T5shortblock]

SD5 looks amazing Johann!!

[Johann]

T5shortblock, on 31 October 2009 - 03:47 AM, said:

SD5 looks amazing Johann!!

Thanks!

In the mean time another week has passed without an engine for the SD7 project.

Collected another part for the rebuild, a passenger side driveshaft. Still drive the car on a nearly daily basis and although only 100 crank HP the car is great fun.
Took the SDM for a ride last week because it had been standing for nearly 3 months,



Battery was low but other than that it started without a sigh.

Of course there was the usual Saturday quad training with the kids,

[Emiel]

Before;



After;

Johann, on 19 October 2009 - 08:35 PM, said:

[Johann]

Nice find Emiel..

Area 55 update....

Not much going at the moment.

First of all there was the personal stage eleventy tuning.. A couple of visits to a technician, a tooth technician that is. I became the happy owner of a piece of titanium in my upper jaw..
November 8th we had a "Nordicturbo" meeting planned at the same race track we have visited earlier this year but because the placing of the implant was scheduled 3 days before I decided not to enter my car for the track session. Fortunately all went pretty well so November 8th I went to the meeting just to take look.. Glad I didn't enter for the session because the whole track was fogged up and it stayed that way for the remainder of the day. The track session was cancelled after waiting a couple of hours.




Visited the city of Assen afterward,



It was nice to take SD4 out on the road again. Have been driving SD7 most of the time.

Still driving SD7 on a near daily basis.. Didn't start the rebuild yet simply because there is no engine..
After lots of promises the engine should have been shipped from the UK on October 28th but to date I didn't receive anything, not even shipping papers or a tracking number.
As long as there is no engine I also don't know which extra parts are needed to fit the engine.

So far I have sourced the MTX75 gearbox and bought the C30 1.8 shifter cables and cable bracket, it's a Ford C-max gearbox which had a slightly different cable bracket but all other is the same as the FordVolvo.



There's the Cosworth intake manifold, the Miltek 4-2-1 header manifold and a passenger side driveshaft.

If nothing is clear about the engine halfway next week I'm going to cancel the whole thing. Pretty fed up with the way this is going. Didn't look for other engine's yet because each time new promises were made and each time delivery was postponed by another week. This coming Monday delivery time will reach 3 month. I guess each country has it's VMS..

The project plans are still the same.

The C30 has been partially stripped but some more interior parts need to go. The Sparco seats will go in and maybe a GT3 style rollbar will go in at a later point. Together with the 2.3 engine the total weight will probably be below 2425 lb.

The engine, if it ever arrives, is a Ranger Duratec HE which is a simplified version of the 2.3 Duratec as used in the Euro Mondeo and some other Ford models. It comes without a balance shaft, slightly lesser weight crank and no VVT. It should be capable of doing 170 crank HP out of the box. If the engine is delivered the way I was told it was put together there might be a HP or 20 more in there, this is if the EMS plays nice of course. Together with the reasonable short gearbox it should make a nice performing setup between ~60 and 125 mph. Some added topspeed would be nice but not a must.

Two other future upgrades for this car, larger front brakes and wider rims with wider track. Currently using 18x7.5 ET50 rims with 215/45-18 tires but at some point this will be changed to 18x8 ET40 rims with 225/40-18 tires simply because they have proven to be a huge improvement on the C30.

So, I hope I can post a couple of pics of the engine soon..

[T5shortblock]

Great updates. Looking forward to the progress of SD7

And what a change for SD5!! Amazing

The front end looks perfect.

Does the R bumper bold right up the S60? And what is that lip?

[Johann]

T5shortblock, on 14 November 2009 - 07:00 AM, said:

Does the R bumper bold right up the S60? And what is that lip?

It bolts straight up to an '03 S60 but I believe he '04 is slightly different under the skin. The lip is from the S60R's body kit.

[Johann]

Some progress,

[gdizzle]

Awesome Johann!

[dmelviØØ7]

I'm moving to "not near Amsterdam"!!

[Emiel]

Hulp nodig?

[Johann]

Emiel, on 20 November 2009 - 05:33 PM, said:

Hulp nodig?

Altijd!

Auto vasthouden als ik de wielmoeren aandraai.. Hij zal maar om slaan.

[Johann]

Well.. at least there is some momentum back in the SD7 project..

Ordered a lot of parts last Friday, most of them came in this morning. Downside is that it's only 10 minutes worth of work on the engine..

First of all there's a dipstick,


C30 2.0 engine mount, studs and nuts,


C30 2.0 water pump plus pulley, thermostat housing and idler pulley (Is that the correct word?)


C30 2.0 exhaust gasket,


EGR channel is blocked on the exhaust side also, round alloy plug on the left.

And using the gasket as a template I made an EGR blocking plate,

[Mesoam]

yes idler pulley (or idler wheel) is correct, did you ever get heat in the new shop?

[Johann]

Mesoam, on 23 November 2009 - 04:35 PM, said:

did you ever get heat in the new shop?

The shed you mean?

It's not heated, only has single layer metal plate as walls.

[Johann]

Some more parts came in today.

Coolant divider plus temperature sender housing at the rear of the engine,


On top the coil can be mounted.

Bypass hose bewteen thermostat housing and the housing at the rear,


Sourced a fuel rail from a wreckyard,


Plus two hinges for lifting the engine,


I couldn't find part numbers for the hinges in VADIS, in fact they weren't even displayed in the pictures. At the dealership it turned out they were displayed in VIDA but not orderable..
Wreckyard had a damaged engine with the hinges still on.

Measured the engine and the 2.3 engine mount sits almost an inch higher compared to a 2.0 engine. Need to raise the motormount on the chassis.

[JCviggen]

At least you're keeping busy

[Johann]

Added some more parts,

Coil,


Driveshaft support,


Studs and nuts for the exhaust manifold


Alternator and startermotor,


Also ordered a custom single mass flywheel as a replacement for the normally used dual mass flywheel.

No choice on clutch yet but I think it will be a Sachs sport version.

[Johann]

Sourced a nice aftermarket single mass flywheel with the same mounting sizes as the original dual mass flywheel.





Decided to install a stock 2.0 clutch kit for the time being. See how it goes.
Reason for doing so is because I couldn't find proper info about which clutch would fit.



Depending on how the car performs I will probably install an LSD anyway sometime next year in which case the box needs to come out again.


Also mounted the gearbox.




Engine is basically ready for install but before doing so I need to strip the SD-C since it is still on the auto lift.

Removed the engine management plus loom and Zeitronix Wideband,Front K-Sport brakes, iPD sways, exhaust and the engine with the gearbox.


Had to remove the brakes and sways because they are sold.
Already sold the machined R manifold, GT30 turbo with it's external wastegated downpipe a while ago.