Cinquecento my green cinq project.

[ysidfa]

Sounds good
Im also doing Engineering at college as part of my Apprenticeship, Currently studying BTEC3. All bloody maths and physics atm, fair amount of CAD though so its not too bad.

Sorry for thread stealing haha,

any more thoughts on the colour of the bay?


Tom

 

[centoproject]

cool I'm on btec l2 and as for the bay which bay are we talking about lol might just go OEM green

 

[ysidfa]

Either one
I reckon black pearl/flake would look mint

 

[centoproject]

dark bays are far to regular plus this is meant to be somewhat a sleeper style car no loud exhausts well maybe a bit of a scream at 10,000 rpm

 

[ysidfa]

Instead of the bike conversion, why not learn how to weld well and drop a Coupe 16vT in it
It would more than likely be possible as there was a 2.0 C20XE conversion in a sei in progress a few months back.

Tom

 

[centoproject]

lol its all about the sequential gearbox

 

[Honeymonster]

Well I really hope you pull it off mate would be great to see a proper rear bike engined turbocharged car born here.

Just don't get carried away... :





After seeing the price of the Bacci sequential you might just have the right idea.

http://www.bacciromano.com/index.php?p=prodotti&l=eng&cat1=24&cat2=26&mar=38

It would probably be cheaper to machine one from gold (although it would obviously be rather useless).

 

[centoproject]

i will try my best

 

[Honeymonster]

It's been 18 hours since the last update what's going on??

 

[centoproject]

as for modifying the rear trailing arms it will weaken it too much so were going to make a jig of the oem ones and make some custom ones out of round tube and plate steel and i'm most probably going to use bike shocks in the rear i have to wait for the welders to be moved or buy one or rent due to the fact the engineering department are moving to the new build next week

 

[Honeymonster]

Ah well mate, you should have plenty of other stuff to get on with in the mean time. I'd just wait for a bit rather than hire one. Maybe you can just make all the parts up, even temporarily tack them together with a cheap arc. Someones bound to have one of these lying around you can borrow. Have you even started planning what ignition/management you're going to use yet.

Also plenty left to do on the old engine bay and don't forget about me fuel rail.

 

[centoproject]

yep been looking into potential ecus no fully sure how im going to convert it to injection (trigger wheel) ile get round to that yeh im still working on the rail lol and i may go down and get a quote for a fabrication company to make me some not sure other bays still getting done bit by bit

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Megasquirt-2-Microsquirt-V3-ECU-and-loom-/221001035220?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3374b02dd4

maybe this will do ?

these cool kids have managed on a slabside (gsxr my year) but its the 1100

 

[centoproject]

just found this as well

 

[Honeymonster]

I'm no expert on these Squirt things but it certainly seems to tick all the boxes. Should be nice and robust in that case too.

Turbo motorbikes are a bit of a nightmare. If you ever see someone trying to ride one every time the boost kicks in the front wheel goes airbourne and the rider needs to change his underwear. Due to this they actually end up slower than majority of the top end N/A bikes when it comes down to a good race.

Should solve the torque issue in a car though.

 

[centoproject]

i can change sprockets to choose between acceleration and top end speed to hmm w wonder which one i would go for lol

 

[Honeymonster]

i can change sprockets to choose between acceleration and top end speed to

hmm w wonder which one i would go for lol

The one in the middle obviously, then you get both.

 

[ysidfa]

As far as converting your bike engine to EFI, I have a mate at college who runs a GSXR400 on a EFI conversion and with an adjustable powerband (33bhp legal ect). He didnt spend alot on the process but Im not sure how he went about it. When Im back down in Bristol Ill ask him and let you know

Tom

 

[centoproject]

i know most of the ecu conversion just the bit about rpm pickup has thrown me a bit is the trigger wheel that would be great thank you

 

[centoproject]

found a 2" one i may be able to fit

http://www.trigger-wheels.com/store/contents/en-uk/d5.html

 

[Honeymonster]

Damn they sell some cool stuff on that site, not the cheapest but their loom kits, shielded wire and stuff will make wiring tasks a lot simpler. Much more convinient than trying to source it all individualy.

As for the trigger wheel, as long as it is a selectable option within your ecu software anything should work fine as long as you do a good job of fitting it.

Info is here:

http://www.megamanual.com/ms2/wheel.htm

But you probably already found it anyway.