What did you do in the garage yesterday?
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Pupp said:
Temp channel on the boost gauge is engine coolant - the intercooler in and out temps are crucial to understanding what's going on. The four red buttons are each dedicated to a corresponding gauge and are used to program/retrieve stored data etc. Did consider tucking them out of sight but like how they appear (thankfully)
Here's an unilluminated view
Nice one Gary Here's an unilluminated view
nice accurate gauges a must for your kind of running gear ...... now 
whoosh Just spent 3 hours doing one wishbone, most of it with a bar trying to line up one hole. Started on the other side and found out that there's different sized nuts on it and some washers missing so it will have to wait until next weekend, realised that the top ball joint is a different colour to the other side so someone must have changed it and then lost the nuts and washers 
Spent most of the last week preparing the actual garage for starting rebuild/upgrades on the car from July. Ripped out most of the workbenches I built and replaced with a couple of industrial sized shelving units from Costco, each has a capacity of about 4 tons so should be up to the task of storing parts.
Got the A/C fixed after a broken joint leaked all the coolant out. Should be comfortable in there all year round now. Got the computer fixed up to where it is both out of the way and accessible for when I get stuck and need the help of the pistonheads
Fixed an overheating issue on it with the liberal use of some brake cleaner 
A first in over 25 years of computer support...
On the actual car, as posted in another thread, been playing with a mirror drive recorder that I will fit properly after July.
Got the A/C fixed after a broken joint leaked all the coolant out. Should be comfortable in there all year round now. Got the computer fixed up to where it is both out of the way and accessible for when I get stuck and need the help of the pistonheads
Fixed an overheating issue on it with the liberal use of some brake cleaner A first in over 25 years of computer support...On the actual car, as posted in another thread, been playing with a mirror drive recorder that I will fit properly after July.
Stuck a couple of extra bits of gaffer tape on the front, changed the wheels for my road set (still on 888s from Thursday's sprint), checked the pressures and washed the car ready for 405 faultless miles today.
Drove to London and back, did TiTTs 11, including seeing the new Evans La Ferrari at Dunsfold. Ran the car on standard unleaded all day with no ill effects, apart from not getting pops and bangs on the over-run.
Drove to London and back, did TiTTs 11, including seeing the new Evans La Ferrari at Dunsfold. Ran the car on standard unleaded all day with no ill effects, apart from not getting pops and bangs on the over-run.
Fitted nearside rear drive shaft,fitted refurbished wishbones with new bushes. fitted rear hub. Greased propshaft Ujs and slider. Refitted fuel pump and filter, fitted new fuel pipe. Fitted exhaust, fitted steering rack, fitted front antiroll bar, fitted alternator. Fitted front cross member.
Fired her up whilst still on axle stands and annoyed the neighbours. What a day, long time since I got chance to do this much in 8 hours.
Just the front wishbones and hubs to put back together now then off for a Geo set up.
Fired her up whilst still on axle stands and annoyed the neighbours. What a day, long time since I got chance to do this much in 8 hours.
Just the front wishbones and hubs to put back together now then off for a Geo set up.
Failed miserably to find coolant leak on daily shed - but strongly suspecting QD heater matrix hoses or o-rings as coolant is ponding on top of gearbox. The garage near work can have the pleasure of that one.
On the Tiv, tapped a home for the air temp sensor into dump valve T piece right next to plenum inlet and mounted MAP sensor on throttle linkage cage. Threaded wiring for both but need to work out how to connect and configure MAP sensor on Emerald ECU. Set new gauges up to find intercooler temp one was not quite the Ebay bargain I thought as its a) faulty (backlight colours not selecting properly) and b) an obsolete early model with much reduced functionality. Call to SPA tomorrow to see if the head-unit can be rebuilt/uprated to same spec as other 3
On the Tiv, tapped a home for the air temp sensor into dump valve T piece right next to plenum inlet and mounted MAP sensor on throttle linkage cage. Threaded wiring for both but need to work out how to connect and configure MAP sensor on Emerald ECU. Set new gauges up to find intercooler temp one was not quite the Ebay bargain I thought as its a) faulty (backlight colours not selecting properly) and b) an obsolete early model with much reduced functionality. Call to SPA tomorrow to see if the head-unit can be rebuilt/uprated to same spec as other 3
After popping a driveshaft off on S-Club Tour, and nearly losing the other, I replaced the CV bolts with some new 12.9 allen head bolts and stupid amounts of threadlock.
Also re-filled the CVs with grease as both had spat out their contents into the wheel and arch. Luckily the brakes remained uncontaminated.
Was unable to remove the broken end in the drivers side hub so ended up with only five bolts on that side.
Also found a small leak in the new rear brake pipe work. Nipped up the union and all is well. I thought the pedal felt a bit soft.
Then sorted the boot catch and topped up the oil.
Then went for a quick ragging.
Also re-filled the CVs with grease as both had spat out their contents into the wheel and arch. Luckily the brakes remained uncontaminated.
Was unable to remove the broken end in the drivers side hub so ended up with only five bolts on that side.
Also found a small leak in the new rear brake pipe work. Nipped up the union and all is well. I thought the pedal felt a bit soft.
Then sorted the boot catch and topped up the oil.
Then went for a quick ragging.
Cheers
The screen is a 7" touch screen bought from ebay (samsung panel). Mounted in a carbon dash panel and it connects directly to a laptop (that starts when I turn ignition on) this gives me all my music, satnav, megasquirt software, dual lambda gauges, basically what ever I could possibly want all using touch screen.
The screen is a 7" touch screen bought from ebay (samsung panel). Mounted in a carbon dash panel and it connects directly to a laptop (that starts when I turn ignition on) this gives me all my music, satnav, megasquirt software, dual lambda gauges, basically what ever I could possibly want all using touch screen.
neal1980 said:
Cheers
The screen is a 7" touch screen bought from ebay (samsung panel). Mounted in a carbon dash panel and it connects directly to a laptop (that starts when I turn ignition on) this gives me all my music, satnav, megasquirt software, dual lambda gauges, basically what ever I could possibly want all using touch screen.
The screen is a 7" touch screen bought from ebay (samsung panel). Mounted in a carbon dash panel and it connects directly to a laptop (that starts when I turn ignition on) this gives me all my music, satnav, megasquirt software, dual lambda gauges, basically what ever I could possibly want all using touch screen.
looks nice 
got the case of the lousy annoying v belt squeeek finally resolved..... was to much heat for the regular one so thx. gates for their industrial department
anybody knows what sort of coolant the chim is running ? looks kind of green/yellowish and need to flush the system...
gacksen said:
looks nice got the case of the lousy annoying v belt squeeek finally resolved..... was to much heat for the regular one so thx. gates for their industrial department
anybody knows what sort of coolant the chim is running ? looks kind of green/yellowish and need to flush the system...
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