My Piazza 2 - UK edition

[twocan]

This brings me to the next thing, i'm not sure i'll do a good enough job of this but i was hoping to use the forum as a bit of a list of what i've done so i can look back on it when the modification inevitably breaks and i'm not sure what i've done or how to fix it. The intent here was to be as soft touch as possible but to modernize the car as much as possible and keep the ability for it to be returned to standard if need be. After many months assembling parts from all over the world, Australia, the US, UK (IPTOC FTW) and Europe i have decided to have a go at it.



at the moment this of things is

• MAXX ECU Race engine control unit

• MAXX ecu relay box and ebay special 80 relay box for power steering

• Will Welding Manifolds (inlet and exhuast)

• IS12 Turbo with egate (from a 1.8t ea888 polo)

• custom made H-bridge controller to drive the VW electric Waste-gate

• New dizzy with AEM trigger wheel and 3d printer short cap

• Generic 36-1 Crank trigger wheel and Vauxhaul sensor

• Bosch drive by wire throttle

• ASNU 550cc injectors with spacers made to fit the manifold

• Continental flex fuel sensor

• Bosch knock sensor

• Honda CRV independent accel pedal sensor

• BMW periburg water pump

• vw auxiliary water pump for turbo and heater

• Volvo Electric power steering

• New allow radiator from st205 celica, jury is out if it will fit yet

• Jaguar Transmission cooler

• twin electric fans and speed controllers from ecu

• Fuel pump PWM controller from a Volvo

• EMAP sensors installed in a generic Fuel filter housing and x4 egt sensors

• can checked steering wheel switch board (so i can keep cruise control working)

• Generic Intercooler 450x300x76

• BMW exhaust flap motors to allow me to swap the eyelid motor to fit the intercooler and a second one to drive the TV valve of transmission so its shifts and doesnt slip etc

the poor old girl is now slowly having pieces removed and stored and pictures taken so i can put it all back together


After this its making a plan to get the physical stuff installed in the car and mounted and then i will have to start on wiring to get it running again. which in itself will be a big task and i am going to guess will take me 3 times longer than i expect. I know things like sensor mounts, piping and fan shrouds etc will also be quite time consuming but hopefully i will remember to take photos as i go along.

Once this is complete it will need to be wired up and the ecu setup to try make it run agian, hopefully the aus spec wiring diagrams are enough for this. but this is a long way off at this point. I will update as much as possible fingers crossed i can keep steady progress.

[Piazza_man]

Quite a list you have there. Keep posting updates, but if I can impart one takeaway from personal experience is that you complete one task at a time, especially the rewiring. Complete, test and validate each task in smaller sequences before moving on to your next task. Multiple tasks at the same time will cause frustration when trouble shooting and then having to work backwards to isolate which task caused the issue.