Cooling is something that I've been very aware of since the start of this project. That V12 is hopefully going to get a regular workout and it's going to produce some heat.As with quite a lot on this project cooling is really an unknown variable. I know some out there would say I could sit down and do some crazy mathematics...
Welcome back.In this episode I'm going to cover mounting of the power steering, ride height control and ABS pumps. To be honest when I started this process I didn't really have a strict plan so there was a lot of standing around looking important and trying to figure out the best use of the space whilst still thinking about...
First of all I have to start with apologies for the lack of articles over the last 6 weeks or so. Unfortunately real life took over from car life and I simply wasn't able to post progress, but I'm back now and ready to report !We're getting close to having the "mechanical" side of the build done. There will of course be...
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...
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