Betty Growler - B18C4 build

[ardonfast]

groovy, thank lucky david bowie and spyders from mars you can use it,,
yes dunkeswell true, watching planes lol, been known to sneek out on the runway at 2 am
full of whisky feeling like colin mc,ray lol,
wish i had know you wher around! we could have killed and eaten meet withour bair hands and real fire!
what brought you to dunks ?

[Bennjamini]

Originally Posted by ardonfast

groovy, thank lucky david bowie and spyders from mars you can use it,,
yes dunkeswell true, watching planes lol, been known to sneek out on the runway at 2 am
full of whisky feeling like colin mc,ray lol,
wish i had know you wher around! we could have killed and eaten meet withour bair hands and real fire!
what brought you to dunks ?

I was staying up in ashbrittle near Taunton for a week , and we were on way to a hill climb event you probably know the place, just came across that airfield in middle of no where after gouging my front bumper on a rock in them there narrow lanes..,

I picked up my fibreglass front end from arc angels while I was down there as well

[ardonfast]

hell ashbrittle, you do live dangrasly,, you survived for a whole week too,
did you visit that awfully stupid pub that cooks good food, globe inn @ apply
cant even spell it lol,
yes how was wiscome hill climbe,

[Bennjamini]

Originally Posted by ardonfast

hell ashbrittle, you do live dangrasly,, you survived for a whole week too,
did you visit that awfully stupid pub that cooks good food, globe inn @ apply
cant even spell it lol,
yes how was wiscome hill climbe,

We were 2 min walk from that place , dead nice fish n chips and pint cider but I'd had to have sold a kidney if I wanted pudding as well ha

Wuscombe that's the one , it was a good day I like the look of the track I'd want to give it a go one day

[Bennjamini]

Had the gearbox off a while back to check condition of the clutch, seemed bollocksed to me (engine/box on 80K), so took the opportunity to get a competition stage 2 clutch and lightweight flywheel,





and got the box back on, I'm glad it was all out of the car when I was doing it.
Sticking with doing the bear minimum to get this show on the road, Im not even attempting to clean up the engine, it's going in like this

[Bennjamini]

I have spent a bit of time checking what bits and pieces need doing before first start up, and this has been a lot easier thanks to the 5 door civic MB6 sitting on the drive - with identical B18C4 engine

This is pretty much a standard , running engine so if anyone ever needs me to do a pic/vid on where certain wires/sensors, anything fits to I would be happy to help out

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[Bennjamini]

So I got it running!

First time in almost 10 years

Had a few issues since the over revving, took the intake manifold off and found i'd accidentally sandwiched a couple of washers inbetween the gasket and intake face, so this must have been causing an air leak

Took the time whilst the mani was off to fit the wiring properly , through the bulkhead


Fit up the ECU and fusebox in the place I want them



And made a s/s box out of a some extraction ducting to fill up the bulkhead hole





Had a play around with the time lapse camera on iphone, putting the manifold back on with a new gasket,