I had to get exhausts on the car. The easiest way was just to take the car to someone who builds custom exhaust. I loaded the car onto the trailer and took it through to Bosson exhaust. They were an outfit that specialized in performance bike exhausts. As we made custom water-cooled exhaust for the […]
My boss told me that we were getting the Porsche 917 replica from a company Bailey & Edwards Cars. This company was based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Within the same week, a truck arrived with boxes and boxes of parts. At this stage, I didn’t even know how a Porsche 917 looked. I went onto […]
Now that we have the engine it is time to sort out all the other parts of the car. It is like a child at Christmas with all the toys around the tree. This is going to be one serious build so all the best parts have to go into it. What gearbox to use? […]
At work, we were busy with a project that would marinize a naturally aspirated Nissan VK45DE engine. The project was going well. One day my boss called me in. He told me that there is a present waiting in the delivery area at work. He got Cosworth to develop a supercharger package for marine use. […]
The Polo build is complete, at least I think it was. The car really ran well, allot better than I expected. There were some tweaks I still wanted to do but it was good enough for now. I took the Polo to the dyno shop I usually make use off. They strapped the polo done […]
Till now most of the small issues have been sorted out and the car was running good. The car was still running on its base map. The Polo was running well, but I just expected more of the setup. It didn’t feel as aggressive as I thought it would be. The Polo has also not […]
The mounting holes on my SC14 Supercharger were oval and damaged. I decided to go buy myself another SC14 supercharger. They were dirt cheap, this will also allow me to have spares if something does go wrong with the supercharger. I did not want to make the same mistake I made the last time mounting […]
I have been throwing a lot of thoughts around on what my next step was going to be. I thought maybe I must just build the same setup and make it as strong as possible. Then again what is the fun in that? I was looking for a challenge. The first step was to decide […]
It is now been a few months since the bigger crank pulley was fitted to the Polo. I started hearing some funny sounds. It was mainly when I got to the point that the supercharger kicks in. You would hear like a knocking sound. It started as a faint sound but as time went by […]
When you buy a car that is fitted with a turbo or even when you build a project car with a turbo you always know that there is so much more potential than what the car is currently giving. Well, this is the case if you are a petrol head. When you have a turbo […]