What's happening in your garage this weekend ?

[gmw9666]

Campbell said:

Well its been a productive day getting the garage cleaned out and power washed the floor ready for the walls to get a fresh coat of paint tomorrow...



And I had a friend over last light polishing the car properly for me and this is what he started with, i look the pic lateish losing the light...


I took the spoiler off to get to boot lid done and it needed it badly

And the finished result is...



Cambelt

Seriously got garage envy.......nice!!!

[KKson]

That's not a garage - that's a hanger! Ditto on the envy front.

[Campbell]

Thanks chaps it dose the job, the work shop is be hind it at the same width (36ft by 24ft) of the garage but only 13ish feet deep and full of kit junk and a Taimar...

[adam quantrill]

OK it's not the weekend but my consignment of FRAM oil filters arrived so I went for a quick oil change. 45 minutes later and 12! pints of oil and it's got fresh juice in it.
Actually finished off the 20l carton of Castrol Classic 20W/50 so I'll be ordering a new one soon.

Have stuck the usual paper label onto the filter to remind me when the next one should be.

[superwedge]

thats a lot off oil,your not filling youir bath too are you

[adam quantrill]

No this time I changed the filter and also wondered how much oil was in the oil cooler so I put a pipe on the centre hole of the remote filter thingy and blew down it. I think maybe a pint came out.

The normal amount with no filter change at 3k miles is around 9-10 pints. Using my nice green "Castrol" pouring jug ;^)

[B@man]

Fitting a new torch assembly to my dad's Mig welder to allow using shielding gas in readiness for the weld-a-thon

[marcus1875]

Fitting a new fuel filter, a new pre pump fuel filter, clean up swirl and accumulator.
New thermostat to fit. Have already taken the housing off and cleaned it up so its nice and shiny, going to take all other coolant/water assoc parts off and clean and polish them as well.
Any tips?
Marcus

[KKson]

Nothing. Wife is away weekend seeing some singer guy called Williams so it's full time taxi service for kids for the next 48 hours.

[stevoj]

Already polished the rear boot badge back from chrome to brass.

Are they all brass under the chrome? i bet they're not on the later models!

[mrzigazaga]

stevoj said:

Already polished the rear boot badge back from chrome to brass.

I had mine gold plated...

[Waynester]

After a hard day's driving in the SEAC yesterday..on the way home, the throttle started to stick. If I lifted under the accelerator pedal with my foot, it returned to normal. I think a squirt of lube should do the trick.

Need to investigate the gearbox, again towards the end of the day consisting of hard fwapping for a video.. the gearbox felt peculiar. Gears changed fine..as normal. But if I pulled the stick back whilst in gear, it felt like it was jumping around. Odd, needs investigating.

[mrzigazaga]

Waynester said:

After a hard day's driving in the SEAC yesterday..on the way home, the throttle started to stick. If I lifted under the accelerator pedal with my foot, it returned to normal. I think a squirt of lube should do the trick.

Hi mate...Do you have the 2 x throttle return springs on the linkage??....

[stevoj]

mrzigazaga said:

I had mine gold plated...

Not much difference Zig, could have saved the cost and took your old ones back to brass;)

[Wedg1e]

I can honestly say that cleaning and painting a tube chassis, whilst lying underneath it, has to be one of the most tedious jobs I've ever done, on a car or otherwise.
Still, almost finished:





There's only the box-section errr... section at the rear of the chassis to do; ironically of course that's the scruffiest bit and some of it will be a pain to get at but a good day of flying rust and paint should see it done.
Then I can finally (after more than two years) start bolting bits back into it
Roll on next summer...

[MethylatedSpirit]

Sorting out my throttle cable.


This is how much slack there is:




Resulting in throttle pedal resting 50% down in the footwell.



Yes, my engine bay is boggin. Deal with it.

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Thursday 7th August 00:10

[adam quantrill]

That's how I like mine - a thin film of oil everywhere...

Today I fettled the exhaust olives a bit to remove the agricultural sound but the offside manifold needs a new flange at some point as the old one has rotted away a bit - know anyone who sells "flange" by mail order - let me know....

Just a quick half hour then this weekend.

[SporttiJanne]

Had a spin with my supercharged 350i and made a short video:
http://youtu.be/7IbjsXYGFd8

[mrzigazaga]

Hi mate..Cool video...Your engine bay looks awesome..The installation is very tidy..I take it thats a Rotrex centrifugal blower..Much more compact..What psi is it pushing...Cheers...Ziga

PS: Whats the pink stuff?...

[adam quantrill]

That will need some taming - Zig - where were you with the red cape? ;^)