Sublime Panda-monium II

[Steve33]

My aim was to have the puma on the road by end of may but insurance at 600 is a major stunble and diesel for the daily is killing me
I could not afford two on road so am having second thoughts

[Relentless Rob]

Duct-Tape the Puma through it's M.O.T and ditch the diesel. It's false economy anyway unless you run a chip shop.

Using a £999 car as a daily worked out pretty well my E36. Apart from being asked not to park anywhere near the front at work that is.

[Steve33]

Its moted till later in year its not considerd classic so no cheap insurance hence 600 I might try temp for a month as for the leon It does me 66 mpg on work duties up n down m4 and its good for wafting past lorries . I get 540 off a tank .
So what of the red pandas suspension do the cinq bits fit?

[tooSavvy]

Its moted till later in year its not considerd classic so no cheap insurance hence 600 I might try temp for a month as for the leon It does me 66 mpg on work duties up n down m4 and its good for wafting past lorries . I get 540 off a tank .
So what of the red pandas suspension do the cinq bits fit?

Hmm.... I am 100% with you on 'wafting', M8

People talk about 'fast cars'.... and why not! However, some people don't quite grasp that a FAST CAR is good, in mixed traffic, for maintaining a 'not intergalactic rate of knots' over the journey overall.

My works 105HP Doblo Van blows the door off quite a bit of fancy kit..... but it REALLY does the business simply wizzing past strings of HGV when I'm up the A1, in Northumberland.

PASSING is not SPEEDING... it's "not staining the oncoming traffics' underwear" - or MINE

tooSavvy

[Relentless Rob]

So I bought these...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200738721374? ... 720wt_1363

...originally designed for a post millennium Neon the inner diameter of sleeves are 50mm. The have various sized locking screws and easily fit the 47.5mm roll cage tube. So if they are to big for the Panda shocks I can use some of the off cut roll cage tube to make them fit. Springs designed for a car that weighs 1.5 Ton in a car that weighs 700Kg should be nice a firm. Plan "B" involves a Neon that being fitted with a V6 at the moment.

[Relentless Rob]

I welded base plates to the front hoop of the cage yesterday and took the head off the 16V engine. I was told it was a 1.4 (1368cc) engine when I bought it but when I checked the part numbers on the head, loom, ac pump and alternator they suggested it was a 1242cc engine. Now I have the head off I measured the bore and stroke to find it is a 1368cc block with a 1242 head.

After a little more investigation the water pump was held in with silicone and the even though the gasket between the head and the cam's was new and the bolts were also the old head gasket had been reused and there was radweld type stuff blocking one of the water channels.

So it looks like the 1368cc block had a 1242cc head fitted after the water pump failed. The water pump and head were bodged into place.

So do I continue with the 1108cc engine in the shed that has the distributor ready to go or do I fit the 1108cc head on to the 1368cc block with distributor and x/1-9 carb'?

The 1.5 carb' would need very little adjustment to suit the set up and if I clean the ports of the head before fitting it and fit the Punto 75 cam' it probably wouldn't need adjusting at all.

What do you guys think?

[Relentless Rob]

The blue paint arrived today and I've had an idea for the supercharger.

Using the actuated pulley from the air conditioning pump and the old heater matrix controls to operate a flap in the air intake to go from n/a to charged. I can even use the heater switch. Stealthy eh?

[mjslonergan]

Would that flap be up to the job if you generate a reasonable boost pressure?

[Relentless Rob]

If the flap is in internal and the same direction as air flow the boost should hold it shut.

At least in theory.

[mjslonergan]

I was more thinking it might break up, as Fiat were not really known for overengineering a lot of bits

[Renrut]

I was more thinking it might break up, as Fiat were not really known for overengineering a lot of bits

This.

Heater flaps tend to be very cheap plastic. I'd not really trust that to stand up to much boost. Old throttle off something should do the job nicely though. Don't some superchargers have built in bypass valves anyway?

[Relentless Rob]

Ohhhh, I see where the wires have been crossed here.

Using the levers, cables and making my own flap, not the plastic flap from the matrix itself. That would be silly.

I'll M.S Paintshop it later.

[Steve33]

So how did that guy have his leafblower setup was it blowing air into inlet ?

[Relentless Rob]

Duct-Tape I think.

[Relentless Rob]

Okay I took three sleeping tablets last night and woke up to to find my laptop had this on the screen (and I've bid on a knackered SAAB Aero Estate, bloody eBay).

[url]|http://thumbsnap.com/CfeWFEAE[/url]

So with the actuated pulley from the air con' unit wired to a switch on the dash, and a cable from the old heater matrix to open and close the flap to go from N/A to charged. Looks fairly simple and may even work.