As the Pointer Sisters said...

[mike202]

top work on the propex /charger install, lovely van as well.

 

[jonboylaw]

So a little update, I dropped the bus off at Laurie's last weekend and then drove down in the car today to give him a hand building up the engine and getting it in the bus. This is a 1955cc waterboxer cranked T1. New case, 90.5 B&Ps, new heads, C35 cam, 215mm forged flywheel, BMD pulleys with MDS bolts, twin 36 dells and am fitting a Magajolt ignition. The crank pulley is machined at the back and a 36-1 triggerwheel is bonded in place. Crank sensor is totally hidden. The red thingy you can see is the vac plenum to stop pulsing signals. We built it up today and fitted it. Tomorrow we will finish the fitting of the full flow filter and VS exhaust and get it running !

More tomorrow.

Jon


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[gninnam]

Very nice. 8)
Bet you can't wait to get this bad boy running :mrgreen:

Whats the Magajolt ignition set-up then??

 

[68_early_bay]

Definately got engine envy 8) and the trigger wheel ignition is cool 8)

 

[jonboylaw]

Engine in and running... Lovely, pulls up hills in 4th and sounds great.

Megajolt is the crank fired ignition, not running it yet though.


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[Myvanway]

YER!!.........Awesome! 8)

Any video clips?!? 8)

 

[jonboylaw]

As requested....



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Jon


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[Myvanway]

8) Nuff said!

 

[jonboylaw]

Running a whole lot sweeter now. Will do another video tomorrow.


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[jonboylaw]

And here it is..

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I running the standard dizzy for now, got to re-do my trigger wheel as it was not secured well enough. Will update with a full how to guide.

Jon


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[Myvanway]

Badass!

8)

 

[jonboylaw]

Well 1st oil change done, wiring all tidied up and front wheel bearings replaced.
Been using it today

Kids enjoyed the day out.




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[Myvanway]

Nice one. 8)

 

[jonboylaw]

Today I finished off farting about with the Megajolt ignition system.
I had a bit of a set back previously as I had bonded the trigger wheel to the front pulley, but this came lose and was damaged beyond repair (luckily not taking my new engine with it!). I spoke to Mario at "thedubshop.net" and he told me how to fix the trigger wheel on with some small screws, which I did today, and also bonded on with epoxy for good measure.

I bolted the pulley on and then swapped the plug lads over onto the Megajolt and fired him up, but it ran like a sack of fire crackers. the problem was the VW firing order is different to Ford, so I had to swap a couple of leads to get the 1-4-3-2 order, then I needed to load a new ignition map that is a bit softer.

When he was running smooth I decided it was time to whip out the old dizzy and replace it with my blank, so I am no longer running a dizzy or coil on my bus.
We went for a drive and I have to say it has a load more torque at the low end and pulls oh so smooth. I'll but playing with the map in a few days to get a little more advance and see where we get. At this time I am a happy chap, the bus pulls like a train up the hills in 3rd and 4th, 1st gear is almost useless now though

Here are a couple of vids for you, please excuse the quality, it was a cracking day here and the iPhone does not cope with contrast too well.

This shows the engine bay layout, no dizzy or coil, a Ford Fiesta Coil pack, EDIS and the Red thing is my vacuum balance plenum to stop the vac signal pulsing.
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In this one you can see the ignition map and the Advance point moving around as I rev the engine
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If anyone is interested in fitting a Megajolt, PM me for details if you get stuck. You can get more info on autosportlabs.com

Cheers,

 

[lard]

Outstanding :mrgreen: - sounds lovely and enjoyed the vids

Particularly jealous of your readout - you'll be needing a car computer install now to display it all

http://forum.earlybay.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17492&hilit=carputer

in fact just seeing the dials has me inspired to putting mine back in now the interior has been re-vamped .....

 

[jonboylaw]

Lard,
That looks a fun project, but not something I would want to take on at this time, unless I could just buy a pre sorted system.
Would be cool to have the mega jolt tuning SW running from a front display though

Will you do any updates, interested to see where you got to buddy.


The van is running sweet, not sure the neighbours will be too impressed with the noise though, the vs exhaust rumbles nicely


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[jonboylaw]

Well, first weekend away with the girls. New engine running very well. Carbs need setting up better but not to bad. Clutch is dragging a bit, may be a bent fork. 1st is tough to get when warmed up, good job it will pull away in 2nd fully loaded...

I put together an 043 SVDA map for the megajolt. It is pretty close, may need a little tweaking on a rolling road but has huge midrange torque, pulls up motorway hills in 4th and some very steep hills in 3rd.

Next is Biggar!




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[jonboylaw]

Spend a bit if time today setting up the idle on the van. I recently swapped the 58 idle jets for 60s and then set about getting a nice steady idle using the bypass screws and finally setting the ignition advance on the megajolt to get me to around 900 rpm.

Next I finished installing the light bars so I can have some funky mood lighting:

Finally put a few stickers on the engine lid...

Next will be polishing the wheels and maybe some new shocks later in the summer.


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[jonboylaw]

Shit, I have not up dated this for ages. Life just gets too busy to sit at the 'puter.

So, ignition is all running sweet now. If anyone needs help or advice on a mega jolt let me know.

Since then I added a Huco 2.5 psi fuel pump from eurocarb (thanks Matt). I did take the precaution of adding an inertia cutout switch from a Rover (£10 from eBay) and this feeds the pump and the fuel cut out solenoid so all fuel stops if I have a bump.

Then next on the agenda was fitting one of Gadgets tow bars, a substantial but if kit but needed a little fettling to fit my van.

I was running a hidden pipe Vintagespeed Superflow, but this will not work.

So I sold that and ordered a standard pipe Superflow system from Dan the man.

And fitted:

The tow bar is wired with 7 core cable, terminated with piggy back spade connectors to make it easy to instal and remove if needed.

All this because I bought this little gem :

I'll be lobbing on a set of EB rear lights to match mine and then a coat of L90D.

And to finish this post off a few photos of us using Bart this year. Will be away next weekend for the final weekend out before winter upgrade time.

One from when the idler wheel bearing failed...

The recovery chap only had one arm and was a star, absolutely amazing and did a proper recovery job.

Bearings and bolt replaced now, thanks to eBay !

And a few of the other toy:

Caterham is for sale now

Well that us it for now. Winter projects include painting the tin wear, engine bay, wiring in a stereo, new internal panels and rust proofing cavity waxing..




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[jonboylaw]

Trailer resto started..
Get stripping:

Removed the old paint and rust to find this :

And

So will strip it down and build a new frame, keeping the axle and leaf spring mounts.

Then onto the box...




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