S-Club Reserve Plan

[mk1fan]

Well, as has been elluded to by others, I have taken a punt on a 'Reserve Plan' S3 for the S-Club Tour so that I can 'fit in' properly.

Overall, in good nick and solid.

Done a few little jobs but will set aside a weekend to go over it.

Seatbelt mod done. Punto clip stalks ordered and due to arrive.


Surrey roof fitted.


Micra wiper fitted on the passenger side. From this;


To this;


Bonnet needs some adjusting;



Throttle linkage needs straightening;

[mk1fan]

Fitted LEDs to the rears, side repeaters and front indicators. Also fitted BMW clear indicator covers. Head lights to be altered at a later date.



Also had a go at adjusting the bonnet. Not brilliant but no longer binding above the wheels.

[Niiige]

And it's the fastest colour too. A result !

[Alan461]

Looks great, green ones are best!
Do you want the throttle plate doing?

[Niiige]

And it's the fastest colour too. A result !

[Barry S1]

And I see you're going to give it a good
testing on the 17th

[mk1fan]

Alan461 said:

Looks great, green ones are best!
Do you want the throttle plate doing?

Morning Alan. Thanks for the offer but I have a straight one spare waiting to be fitted.

[mk1fan]

Fitted the wheels this morning.



Interior is fine.


Found a small patch of rusted outrigger which I shall deal with with the body on before the Tour.

[mk1fan]

Went to the TVRCC Surrey meet on Thursday. Reserve ran well there, the tyres are very positive on the dry/damp mixed conditions.

Unfortunately, the rear lights refused to operate properly come home time. Ended up having the fogs on and using hand signals. Current diagnosis is the crappy Ford plugs are at fault, so will swap for narrow spade connectors (as I did on Samy).

Got a TT cabriolet third brake to fit as additional safety measure, again as per Samy.

Will speak with Racetech on Tuesday about a V8S hand brake cable. Assuming in stock the the brakes should be swapped out next weekend.

[magpies]

looking good

I presume the narrow spade mod is a usual one - I did this without knowing others had done the same

[Alan461]

Which tyres did you choose?
They look good but I cant see a badge or a previous reverence to them.
The wheels look great too

[DamianS3]

magpies said:

looking good

I presume the narrow spade mod is a usual one - I did this without knowing others had done the same

That's a a damn fine idea I was about to get the soldering iron out...

Damian s3

[keith-vznby]

can I ask a question about something I have read in this topic.There is mention of bent throttle linkage which just like mine does could someone enlighten a new owner thanks

[Alan461]

keith-vznby said:

can I ask a question about something I have read in this topic.There is mention of bent throttle linkage which just like mine does could someone enlighten a new owner thanks

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=11&t=1461353&i=60&mid=0&nmt=What+I've+been+doing+in+the+garage+today

Second page, half way down.

/unhijack

[mk1fan]

DamianS3 said:

That's a a damn fine idea I was about to get the soldering iron out...

Damian s3

I too thought about soldering fly leads and fitting proper plugs. Priced it up and then thought £2 of spade connectors and heat shrink was better value.

[mk1fan]

Alan461 said:

Which tyres did you choose?
They look good but I cant see a badge or a previous reverence to them.
The wheels look great too

They are the wheels off Samy. Nankang NS-2R in 195/55/15. They were great on the road. Look forward to seeing the track performance on the 17th.

[mk1fan]

So, chopped off the crappy Ford light plugs. Then fitted narrow spade connectors along with some heatshrink.

Didn't totally sort the problem. Helped though. Reverse lights plus brake lights aren't working. The indicators and fogs are now working constantly.

Extended the wiring up to serve the third brake light.

I have all Wednesday to work on it whilst the shutters are being serviced and fixed.

[mk1fan]

Lights fixed. The fuse had blown which I hope was caused by my sausage fingers rather than something else.

Weather looks positive for tomorrow so shall work through some jobs.

Will pencil in the front brake upgrade for Saturday.

[mk1fan]

Spent the day on the cars whilst the shutters were serviced and repaired.

Swapped the seats out of Suni - found €8 - into to Tamy - found £3 - so that I can investegate Suni's intermittent dash and get Tamy's seats repaired.

The onto the Reserve S.

Fixed the intermittent side repeater by putting a proper connector on.

[mk1fan]

Then swapped to the straight throttle plate.