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yea..its a topic on stus car..comparing it to a vx220..which i think would get pasted by stus mini...
and er no..if i wanted a vx220..id go buy one..but its a vauxhall!..and im not impressed by them!

Cough Cough Thought you might like this



Well done Mate

VERYWELL DONE MATEY TOP CAR.

Well done

cheers fellas, makes all the blood and sweat worth it. much appreciated, just going to enjoy driving it (when its not breaking down) and try and keep it in one piece!

well i have been enjoying it so far! she has got a few mile on her now. had a few problems with batterys and alternators, but new ones solved that problem. shes travel to blackpool and back twice, going strong. snapped the front engine steady bolt, so a new one was used. also fitted a rear engine steady. also oil found a nice way of leaking out the oil cap, dipstick, and out of the breathers. i've fixed this (hopefully) by fitting a oil catch system to the engine. aswell as using both standard breather points, i drilled and tap a point into the rocker cover. the zip ties are only there for a day till i can get some jubliee clips.

bloody hell, cant belive your still finding room under the hood to put stuff lol, congrats on the CW car of the year btw !

congrats on winnin cw car of the year a well deserved award with all the time and hard work been put in and i think so would many others would agree

Yeh get a pic up with the Trophy on the Car

will do! even if it means washing the car in the blistering cold, and polishing it!

still haven't got that pic............oops

right so some progress for you all. 3000miles later and i want more power! so what do i do? fit programable ignition thats what!

what is programable ignition i hear you say? well most modern cars have an ignition map inside the ecu, this caters for all what the enigne needs but is fixed. older cars like mine have the trusty distributor and coil, while good and cheap are very limiting. the good thing about programable ignition is you can adjust it to suit your needs, whether wanting more economy or more power. plus its also cheap at only £100 for the megajolt, and the other bits have only cost me £50 so far.


in order to run megajolt you need some basic early ford bits. edis 4 ignition module, a coil pack (with leads to suit) a trigger wheel (36 - 1 vairant) with vr sensor. one other thing i needed was a distributor blank.

all here



with the programable igntion shown here



first job was to remove the dizzy, and the gear it drives



then fit the trigger wheel anc check for clearance



proposed location of the coil pack, and vr sensor fitted



and here is the edis module




just have the wiring to sort out tomorrow, and she should be running hopefully. i plan on upping the boost to 10psi. testing will be on thursday and if all goes well i should be at the meet later on! i will get a rolling road sesion book for next month and find how many ponies she puts out, and fine tune her.

Thats all im saying, you've been quiet for a while, then you come back with this.


SHEER CLASS

even looking like this i still prefere the old mini

Ive ad a bit of basic hands on experience with the Megajolt stuff through Rhys and his hotrod, and it is the business.

I love this car haha its a beast matey, no wonder it won car of the year... you planning any other mod's, or ye gonna keep em quiet and see what course the future decides to take hehe!

Nice one btw mate

real good stuff there stu, how much extra power you expecting??