Supercharged K20a2 Vtec - Race Spec by cptkirk

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Alternator Plate - Round 1

I know no-one else will have this issue but I thought I would throw it in here to keep things lively....

So as per my previous post I have been having alternator issues, so I have been designing a new mount which as previously stated will cover all three alternator mounting holes and will be held in place by one of the water pump housing bolts.

So in the first picture you will see the newly purchased alternator on the also newly purchased block of billet ali ready for machining, well, wire cutting for a start. then drill holes for mounting, the spacers are also going to get wire cut from the same block so should be a spot on fit and the spacers will be locked in place via a seperate bolt to ensure not movement at all from the spacer set up.

I whipped up a quick 3D of what the initial plate will look like, no mounting holes yet but you get a feel for what it'll end up like, you are veiwing them in roughly the same plane as the block is in the first photo under the alternator, once its all cut and done I will post pictures:

NEW STEERING RACK + BUMP STEER ALLEVIATION

So Saturday saw me attempt to fit my shiny new steering rack and the my really shiny new track rod end replacements. First thing to note is that I didnt get them fitted, the primary reason being that I need to shorten the length of the track rods and add thread by 25mm, to enable the use of my really shiny new bits, so with that in mind yesterday I ordered a 1/2" UNF Die to be able to carry out that task, fortunately the new rack has enough meat on the track rods to allow this. So in the ineterst of keeping people happy I thought I would post some pictures of the new really shiny bits I mentioned earlier. So here they are, LH/RH turnbuckle, LH Rose joint, 45mm spacer (A bit long me thinks but wont know till all together), Cooper S arm with tapered hole reamed out to 1/2" straight hole and a misalignment spacer:





One of the things I did manage to do on Saturday was change the steering arms over to the new Cooper S arms. Now I dont know if its me being too picky about things so I will post up my findings and see what you lot think.

When I removed the steering arms that were on the car as supplied, I found two rather alarming things, one being that the n/s arm was a normal arm (as I thought as this was the side I had recently been working on) and the o/s was a Cooper S arm??? Why would you fit two different types?


The other alarming thing was when I removed the Cooper S arm I found one of the (what I call 'quite critical') dowels to not be an interference fit, in fact it wasnt even a proper dowel, looks like a bit of tube cut to fit (badly), so it wasnt supporting the bolt in any way and as it was slack in the hole wasnt even helping that much with keeping the steering arm in position.

Anyhoo in my moment of disbelief I took a snap of the two arms I removed together and one of the botched dowel against a new proper dowel (new dowel on the left incase you were unsure).



Is it me being too picky??

10-4-2010

I test fitted the rack two weeks ago and realised that I needed some length taken out of the track rods, re-fitted this weekend but again it needs some more off the track rods so that is being done today and I hope to refit on the weekend.

Just got a quote back for the wire erosion of the alternator plate - £350, so I am gonna keep searching as that is too much, worse case scenario is I have to get it all milled out which would leave a lot of waste.

Your right about the weather, it was proper karzi over the weekend so I didnt get to breakfast club @ Goodwood on Sunday, next year....