Magnificent job there Tommy, hope you all raised some good amount for Children in Need mate. Very nice pictures and at least one for next years calendar in my humble opinion.
Tony.
Tony.
Tommy's Z3 Turbo drift car
- Thread starter Tommy Bates
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Top work @Tommy Bates
Rock on Tommy
Great photos and vids
Great photos and vids
Bloody amazing thread thanks Tommy
keep it up to date please
keep it up to date please
Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
Wow it's been a while again guys!!!
Right so I decided afew months back I wanted to stick the old girl on the road and come on some cruises and shows with you lot,
however it wasn't realy show standard and it was getting abit tatty in places so what better excuse to strip it down and refurb it and also upgrade afew things on the way.
First I started making some stainless hard pipes to tidy up all the hoses everywhere.
Il finish them off when I can afford some gas for my tig welder
Next we started stripping the front ready to get the m50 out
I did a little time lapse video of me stripping the engine out
View: https://youtu.be/24G3rriYI4o
Now onto everything else
Stitch welded around the shock turrets for extra stiffness
Primer time
Decided to do all underneath aswell
Didn't think to take a pic before I started building it up , as you can see I freshend up the subframe and rack aswell
And that's where we at so far
Next jobs
Clean engine and repaint
Refit engine
Relocating headlight wiring, already started that
Once the fronts all done il do the same on the rear as that's needed some attention for a long time
And then il work more on my custom body kit (yes I sed it , some of you may not like this part lol)
Right so I decided afew months back I wanted to stick the old girl on the road and come on some cruises and shows with you lot,
however it wasn't realy show standard and it was getting abit tatty in places so what better excuse to strip it down and refurb it and also upgrade afew things on the way.
First I started making some stainless hard pipes to tidy up all the hoses everywhere.
Il finish them off when I can afford some gas for my tig welder
Next we started stripping the front ready to get the m50 out
I did a little time lapse video of me stripping the engine out
Now onto everything else
Stitch welded around the shock turrets for extra stiffness
Primer time
Decided to do all underneath aswell
Didn't think to take a pic before I started building it up , as you can see I freshend up the subframe and rack aswell
And that's where we at so far
Next jobs
Clean engine and repaint
Refit engine
Relocating headlight wiring, already started that
Once the fronts all done il do the same on the rear as that's needed some attention for a long time
And then il work more on my custom body kit (yes I sed it , some of you may not like this part lol)
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Welcome back @Tommy Bates, where have you been hiding?
awesome work do far!
looking forward to how wild you will go on this after seeing your post about the twerkstallion
looking forward to how wild you will go on this after seeing your post about the twerkstallion
Bloody serious work bud
Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
Some of you may not like where I'm going with this
Theirs afew ideas if the style I'm going for
Here's where I'm at so far, personally I've never liked the standard skirts on z3s and the aero skirts are like rocking horse poo so I thought I'd steal some off a 200sx , These are dmax skirts and I'm going to modify the bumper to match
Theirs afew ideas if the style I'm going for
Here's where I'm at so far, personally I've never liked the standard skirts on z3s and the aero skirts are like rocking horse poo so I thought I'd steal some off a 200sx , These are dmax skirts and I'm going to modify the bumper to match
Need to look extreme to be proper drift spec.
Don't mater what you do Tommy, it's your car. Personally I'm looking forwards to see where you go with this. It's so far from a standard car it doesn't really matter any more. Keep up the good work mate.
Tony.
Tony.
Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
Got the brakes arb and wheels back on yesterday and got her back on the floor , now time to start on cleaning this engine up (what a mess I can't believe I let it get this bad
More pictures of the engine strip down to come I ran out of battery
More pictures of the engine strip down to come I ran out of battery
Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
Made a little progress today , striped cleaned and painted the inlet side of the engine and also made a little engine stand because it's such a pain working on a slanted engine on the ground it just wants to fall over
Like your style mate.
Tony.
Tony.
Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
Seem to have a habit of warping manifolds , anyone have any idea what caused this to happen ??? I'm no expert when it comes to metal properties
This was blowing before I removed the engine and it's easy to see why now
This was blowing before I removed the engine and it's easy to see why now
Two main things can cause / exasperate warped flanges
- no relief cuts on cast flange
- flange not thick enough so cant take the heat (that doesn't look very thick)
My best guess would be it could be down to how you tighten the fixings Tommy.i would start at the centre and work outwards. Do you torque these or do it from experience mate?
Tony.
Tony.
Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
Got it back from skimming
The guy who did it found a heat patch where the downpipe has been heating it up , and it's twisted from that patch so I need to remake the downpipe and engine mount so I can go under it
Kinda like this but my turbo is at the front as it's RHD
The guy who did it found a heat patch where the downpipe has been heating it up , and it's twisted from that patch so I need to remake the downpipe and engine mount so I can go under it
Kinda like this but my turbo is at the front as it's RHD
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Tommy Bates
Zorg Guru (I)
I did torque them mate but it warped so bad it has pulled out the threads on the front of the head for the manifold so il have to Helicoil them
Can't moan to much though it was kind of a untested setup and this is the only issue I've had and it not going to be to hard to sort
Better get the tig welder out