Amongst other upgrades, she now has an alloy radiator (thanks Matty) :)

You can also see some of the "dogs breakfast" wiring that I'm in the process of tidying up :)

Spent some time tonight getting my head around the wiring. The grand plan is to tidy up the engine bay.. here's a pic with some of it ALREADY improved. Scary eh?




This is one of the worst areas of wiring... bit of a shamozzle!




Anyway bit by bit I'm upgrading everything to proper waterproof connectors, heatshrinking everything, and hiding the ugliest parts of the wiring. Certainly no show car, but will be a vast improvement!

New Tial wastegate arrived finally :)

For anyone interseted this is the new model - watercooled, heat shielded, and way more compact than the old ones.

Progress! New manifold is basically finished, needs to be faced & painted but otherwise it's all good.

Dump should be done in the next couple of days.

Pic of manifold. Will upload pic with turbo fitted later when I have one.

Also y'all may be surprised with the amount of of room in the 120Y engine bay, especially 1200 owners!

Oh and this one:

that turbine looks gigantic! what turbo is it?

I think you mean the compressor housing :)

The turbo is a T58, it's rated at 550hp but realistically with that exhaust housing I think it will be limited to more like 450hp... either way it will be good for the 330rwhp I'm after and hopefully provide strong response with the small rear.

Better pics of the manifold, which has been faced and is now being sandblasted & painted:







Apparently old mate can weld :)