In the last couple of months I've put about 350 miles on Rusty, and there have been some highs and lows in that time. That's project car life I guess!I took my wife out in the car for the first time, and it broke down on the way home. Then there was what happened when I got home and put it in the garage. I've had several occasions...
It's been a long time coming, but we're finally able to reliably start, run and rev the engine in the FZ12.I won't keep you in suspense too long, but we did have one change to make to help us get there and that was that the temporary intake plenum we made was way too big. We needed to get the size down to help control the throttle...
In the last episode we finally got our V12 engine running and it didn't sound as I'd expected. I started looking at a few different things including the exhaust design. We did finally find the issue with the cam on one side being out of position, but whilst looking at the exhaust design I found some more information about the...
I'm not going to beat around the bush ! It's finally alive !After what seems like an endless list of little issues I needed to get solved before we could start this engine, Chris from Prestige Tuning and Motorsport came and spent quite a lot of time with us going through wiring, sensors, testing injectors and ignition etc and doing...
So hopefully by looking at the pictures it will become obvious very quickly that this isn't our final airbox design. This airbox is for one reason and one reason only and that is to allow us to be able to start, run and give a basic tune to the FZ12's beating V12 heart.Lets call the design functional shall we, because it...
When I wrote my last update I was about to drop Rusty off at The Toy Shop Wellington, and a couple of days later I was able to get the car there after 6pm when traffic was less busy. The journey was uneventful, which is good as the brakes were pretty poor.I did make a new friend at the petrol station.First on the list...
We've already covered quite a bit on the fuel system for this car and this episode should cover the last part. We've already covered the main tank, the surge tank, soft lines, flex fuel sensors, fuel rail and injectors and this episode is going to cover the hard lines that I decided to run from the back to the front.I am yet to...
We're getting closer and closer to being able to start our mighty 6.0L V12 and something we know isn't going to cut it in factory trim are the injectors. As with most OEM applications the injectors are designed to be pretty close to their maximum duty cycle. I don't know if OEM's do this to make sure people can't do too much to...
Well, in what seems like an endless process, today we're going to continue looking at the main wiring looms for our FZ12 project.I have to admit, this part of the project really surprised me about just how long it would take and how much was involved. I guess in the past my car projects have either been production car...
