Johann Posted October 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 100 hp just became faster.. Removed the C30's rear seats and trunk stuff, Also sourced another MTX75 gearbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted October 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 SD5 received it's Ring debut today. A total of 4 laps together with my oldest son. Weather was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mesoam Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 http://www.nordicturbo.nl/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/IMGP0141.JPG did you post this over on Swede Speed? I bet the R boys will spooge in their pants! love the passenger grabbing the holy shit handle :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted October 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 did you post this over on Swede Speed? I bet the R boys will spooge in their pants! Some know this isn't an R. love the passenger grabbing the holy shit handle It's my son. He is 12 years old and not the largest person. He's near 5' tall. There isn't that much to hold on to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted October 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshV70 Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 :wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5shortblock Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 SD5 looks amazing Johann!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted November 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 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, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emiel Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 Before; After; B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted November 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 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.. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5shortblock Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted November 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted November 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Some progress, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdizzle Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Awesome Johann! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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