Hemanhead

Just a little comparisson between the engine bay with and without the engine bay boxes, this completes the bay for me, tidies it up and reflects more monochromes back at the polished items.

Well you don't 'need' one, but you know you want one Definitely, requires a built engine though to unlock the turbo's full potential Clutch is silent and doesn't feel much different to any other OEM clutch, a little bit harder but nothing noticeable and easy to pull away on the bite. There isn't really any noticeable lag, its making 300bhp at 4000rpm and pulls all the way to the redline. It's fine to drive on the road, full grip in second on a warm dry day and you can drive it around like a normal car (it is a bit noisier though ) I do have a few yes, I will have to start up a youtube account. I have a couple of start up, dyno runs and incar speedo

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the read

Thanks Chris, not long now until your monster hits the road and eclipse's all the 6870 Supra Looking forward to driving with ya.

Thanks buddy, much appreciated

Real shame about the clutch, such bad luck. Surely cheaper to repair than buy new though? Wish I had a box full of spare suspension parts like that, very nice

Thanks Sheefa, It does get used so I am sure there will be opportunities to see it, hopefully get a couple of runs at Santapod this year too. I wish that was my garage mate, Lee had the car detailed before handing it over Thank you pal Thanks mate, hope you are enjoying yours in this great weather

Thanks Shawn, I'm looking forward to welcoming your beast into the four digit club soon too

Engine Type - Single turbo Engine Spec - Built engine, built head 3.033L (86.5mm pistons)(264 cams) Turbo - Precision GEN II DBB 6870 turbo (1.00 a/r) Fuel Used - Shell Vpower and Ethanol (50% mix) Exhaust - ETS 4" Ti Transmission - V160 ECU - Syvecs S6+ Mapped By - SRD and Devil developments Dyno Used - Devil developments Power figure - 1032 bhp (fly @ 7500rpm) Torque figure - 797 lbs ft Boost Pressure - 2.2 bar

Thanks Mike Thank you, I hope you enjoyed the read. I have tested it on about 30% ethanol so far and it has been fantastic, the parts have come together and on a nice warm day full traction is available from second gear Thanks Chris, it's always good to see the Bailey car out on a run Only used a touch of ethanol on dragonball as the fuel was great out of the pumps for a change, so it will be alot faster when I actually mix it up fully. Happy birthday by the way, I'm sure I can take you out for a spin at some point

Apparently, nerve wracking for most, but I quite enjoyed the experience even though I wasn't there. It really is great seeing graphs coming through, with ever increasingly larger numbers and it was hard to believe what I was seeing. No Dynographs of the Vpower nitro run, but I have a video somewhere. 838.8bhp @ only 6800rpm (2bar) This was a 4th gear pull and was later realised to be spinning the dyno. I may take it in again another day for a 5th gear pull as the graph was still climbing and will likely be higher in reality. Project target achieved It's definitely worth noting that my target of 800bhp on pump fuel has been acheived, something I am really ecstatic about as this is how the car will be used 99% of the time. After lunch the Ethanol mapping started, these are pub bragging numbers but my god when the graphs were coming in . All done in 5th gear, and all coming through every 20 mins or so whilst battling against the cars desire to spin and the dyno overheating or generally being unhappy with what it was being subjected to. '' Just four more hp to find.'' But I had no picture just yet, so I had no idea what that meant nor how high the power levels were reaching, I was laughing when I saw these graphs. ''Done.'' Said the next message The dyno rectifier was hot, it was hitting it's max speed and as you can see, not getting near the cars maximum rev limit. Is it making slighly more power? Who knows and does it really matter, Hemanhead and the Battlecat are in the 1k bhp club! :D I like to think this also validates what i'd said earlier in the build; that we would use tried and tested parts that we felt performed the best and combine them into a single package rather than break any moulds. This has exceeded all my expectations! Many thanks to Lee and the team for making this happen for me, I couldn't have done it myself. It's great being able to discuss fully with someone the parameters, parts and expectations for the build whilst also possesing the ability to visually execute images and ideas locked away in my head. It has and still is a truly surreal experience knowing you own and drive the kind of car you usually only get to see in a youtube video. Hopefully you enjoyed seeing the final outcome as much as me, it doesn't stop here but for now, this is how it stands after recieving the full SRD treatment. -Hemanhead.

Credit where its due, I was wondering if you would notice your own work, sneaking around the SRD workshop

Thanks, yes its a practical setup that will allow the boot to be used as roof storage Thanks mate, I will update the rest this week

So this is a very late update indeed, I completely forgot but it was pointed out to me by a new member. A good many saw the car on Dragonball but here's a few pictures of the cars finished engine bay minus the engine bay boxes. I think on this day infact the car went out for it's maiden drive to bed the pistonrings and start running up some mileage on the new clutch. Just before Dragonball and mapping I asked Lee to fit one of the SRD sub boxes. I'm not in the car to listen to music but it really needed some bass to compliment the focal speakers. Fitted the music has much greater depth and gave me an excuse to buy a new headunit to change out the old Kenwood. Touch screen Pioneer DA-120 and a slimline 10" Pioneer sub. This is all acompanied by two slim alpine subs that fit underneath the front seats. This setup complements the build in trying to keep the 'OEM look', it isn't intrusive to look at and isn't agressive in it's delivery whilst making use of my redundant spare wheel well and maintaining the use of my boot. This was crucial on such a long Dragonball where an extra days luggage was needed and wet weather clothing for all that rain we were supposed to have This new headunit keeps the dash looking clean (if you can forgive the workshop dust), it has bluetooth connectivety and will goto a reverse camera if you have one fitted. Its an APPradio unit so it will mirror the iphone well apparently. None if this makes it an expensive setup by any means, but it does sound good and serves it's purpose well. Thanks for looking and I will start to get the rest of my photo's in good order to bring this up to date.

Yes I have been a few times. Its not a big place, and I wouldn't say there was a great deal to see, it's just a lovely place to be. The cathedral and its orangery are nice, I did see a tour group walking around on the roof when I walked up the main tower, so might be worth a look. Okay food, nice patisserie's and Gin bars. Id agree with the above sentiment, the Spanish don't really like tourists.

Why did you swap from the Carbonetic clutch ? So another SRD product you might have seen is the engine undertray set, well i've got them and had them all painted black, they look a great product and will go a long way helping keep debris out of the engine bay. A little while back now with another familiar car in recieving the SRD treatment, both using the 6870 gen II

Thanks big guy, appreciated.

it's a great moment, ta mate, will update more this weekend. Yes mate, the new manifold. its has a slight burble at idle, its quite unique from other manifolds i've heard. I dont know what clutch you have ? Mine is a carbon tripple though and wants bedding in correctly to remove any high spots on mating surfaces.

Yes, it should be on Dragonball. Its getting detailed sometime after the bank holiday. It may be case of me just picking the car up and taking it easy this trip, having had no seat time. Haha, it will be nice to have it back. Its actually a little quieter than it used to be!

Removing the battery and fuse box you'd have a showcar engine bay mate, looks great, well done.

I have it on good authority it goes rather well. It sounds quite unique, a bit like a 6 cylinder subaru as I think the manifold runners are unequal It gets a hard break in and an oil change followed by a bit of mileage. This car however after its hard break in needs 500 town driving miles, not motorway to bed the clutch in. That takes a very long time.

First start up video, I don't know how to link it like a youtube video yet, will look into that later. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/59025c0c96d22/VID-20170307-WA0013.mp4

Thanks John, feel free I saw your engine bay in a pic somewhere recently, and it was looking great too. I like the billet diff addition, can't beat a bit of last minute DB prep. Thanks Andrew, I will try and upload it today

Loving the look, it's argueably the best looking Ridox out there, but are you not concearned atall about cracking at panel joins? I'd be paranoid !