What have you done to your car today......
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I finally replaced my front whishbone and Anti roll linkage.
Does anyone now how the metal spacers must be placed ?
Also installed my refurbished steering rack with new track rod and track rod end.
Next step will be chasing the fuel smell I have when I start the car (engine compartiment hose were fine, but I changed them anyway).
Think I'll be letting Tofts do mine like the above... Great work!
Today I've been ferrying my Philips CED780 to an indy Auto Audio repairer near me. hopefully he can cure this gremlin as its left a whole in my dash for way to long
Other than that preparing for my Scuttle panel to be chrome wrapped.
Today I've been ferrying my Philips CED780 to an indy Auto Audio repairer near me. hopefully he can cure this gremlin as its left a whole in my dash for way to long
Other than that preparing for my Scuttle panel to be chrome wrapped.
gruffalo said:
Reset the throttle pots.
She wasn't running as she should with a low rpm hesitation and shunting a little so plugged the lap top in and the near side was reading 13.7 while drivers side was 14.4, set both to 14.4 and not all is smooth once more.
Inspired by this post I checked my pots using rs-ajp when my car was running a bit lumpy and TP1 (passenger side) was 17.9 while TP2 was 15.9. Brought TP1 down (a minuscule adjustment) and much smoother now. Although TP1 is a bit noisy generally so may need replacing.She wasn't running as she should with a low rpm hesitation and shunting a little so plugged the lap top in and the near side was reading 13.7 while drivers side was 14.4, set both to 14.4 and not all is smooth once more.
This week I have had a look under the car (been sat for 12 months), I have had an oil leak prior to resting the car which I am now pretty certain is the rear crank oil seal. My chassis has apparently had a bit of a rust since I was last under there. Since owning the car I have also wanted to replace the interior. My business is in the process of moving into some new space and I will have the room to store the cerb, so it's going to be a body off. I'm not entirely sure on chassis condition, it could be fairly superficial, outriggers probably need replacing. The wishbones look sorry for themselves also.
I'll probably do a build thread if there is interest.
Things on my mind time permitting are as follows and in order of likely hood of happening.
A pillars
New uprights machined out of billet 6082.
Brake upgrade.
Wishbones.
Light upgrade.
Foot pedals.
New hoses.
Interior.
Airbox
Supercharger. If so then new internals, new crank. Mines a 96 with 60k on it. If not then I suppose some engine tinkering.
New chassis regardless of condition of existing.
I should get the cerb in the unit on the weekend and hoping to get the body off asap!
I'll probably do a build thread if there is interest.
Things on my mind time permitting are as follows and in order of likely hood of happening.
A pillars
New uprights machined out of billet 6082.
Brake upgrade.
Wishbones.
Light upgrade.
Foot pedals.
New hoses.
Interior.
Airbox
Supercharger. If so then new internals, new crank. Mines a 96 with 60k on it. If not then I suppose some engine tinkering.
New chassis regardless of condition of existing.
I should get the cerb in the unit on the weekend and hoping to get the body off asap!
scerbera said:
This week I have had a look under the car (been sat for 12 months), I have had an oil leak prior to resting the car which I am now pretty certain is the rear crank oil seal. My chassis has apparently had a bit of a rust since I was last under there. Since owning the car I have also wanted to replace the interior. My business is in the process of moving into some new space and I will have the room to store the cerb, so it's going to be a body off. I'm not entirely sure on chassis condition, it could be fairly superficial, outriggers probably need replacing. The wishbones look sorry for themselves also.
I'll probably do a build thread if there is interest.
Things on my mind time permitting are as follows and in order of likely hood of happening.
A pillars
New uprights machined out of billet 6082.
Brake upgrade.
Wishbones.
Light upgrade.
Foot pedals.
New hoses.
Interior.
Airbox
Supercharger. If so then new internals, new crank. Mines a 96 with 60k on it. If not then I suppose some engine tinkering.
New chassis regardless of condition of existing.
I should get the cerb in the unit on the weekend and hoping to get the body off asap!
I wouldn't mind a build thread, be good to see the progress.I'll probably do a build thread if there is interest.
Things on my mind time permitting are as follows and in order of likely hood of happening.
A pillars
New uprights machined out of billet 6082.
Brake upgrade.
Wishbones.
Light upgrade.
Foot pedals.
New hoses.
Interior.
Airbox
Supercharger. If so then new internals, new crank. Mines a 96 with 60k on it. If not then I suppose some engine tinkering.
New chassis regardless of condition of existing.
I should get the cerb in the unit on the weekend and hoping to get the body off asap!
Can I ask, what are your plans for the pedals?
m3coupe said:
I wouldn't mind a build thread, be good to see the progress.
Can I ask, what are your plans for the pedals?
Sure, my pedals wobble, and look crap, and I cant stand the length of travel on the throttle, plus for me it should pivot from the bottom. So I'm going to make new pedals, clutch and brake pivot above, throttle from below. It's what I prefer.Can I ask, what are your plans for the pedals?
All Cerb owners will probably endure the annoyance of the panel of the dashboard on the passengers footwell that always drops down exposing framework and wiring etc (mine DID anyway)... Well thats now neatly sorted. just drilled a very fine hole then screwed in a mini hook (normally for having the wire/cable for tiny curtains). Pushed back into position and the problem is now cured. Annoyance over... until the next one.
Spent the early part of the day applying a chrome vinyl wrap to my scuttle panel. Only after fitting I realised it was supplied with a clear protective laminate(Thats why it was so hard to stretch and form doh).
The most aggressive of recesses needed a patch which I decided to do in textured Carbon. All in all I'm happy. in pics it looks good but imperfections are there
Happy with result as its primarily for heat reflection.
The most aggressive of recesses needed a patch which I decided to do in textured Carbon. All in all I'm happy. in pics it looks good but imperfections are there
Happy with result as its primarily for heat reflection.
Last night rather in Covent Garden. Had a round trip of close to 200miles all ran wonderfully and new stereo set up proved spot on. Now after getting in West End constant waves, flashes and thumbs up so I made sure popping and banging was on point. Then parking up a young guy stops so he can video. I'm on an incline so revving like a monster. A great journey today I'll just make sure oil level is where it needs to be.
FUBAR said:
Pretty much the same situation in the East End on Monday. One lad chasing me down the road videoing on his phone lol. 250 miles in to my running in period since Friday. Old engine would have used 1 ltr of oil in that distance. My new APM engine hasn't moved off the full mark 
FarmyardPants said:
Not today but last week, loaded it onto a flatbed to take for repair after some tw@t rear ended me in a traffic jam.
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t. I know all to well what that's like.
On the upside, the maserati quattroporte courtesy car from Adrian at central was a nice bit of fun while worked on my car.
aide said:
FarmyardPants said:
Not today but last week, loaded it onto a flatbed to take for repair after some tw@t rear ended me in a traffic jam.
st. I know all to well what that's like.
On the upside, the maserati quattroporte courtesy car from Adrian at central was a nice bit of fun while worked on my car.
I had another lovely drive... This time up to Dom at Power for a real good chat ahead of Decembers service.While there the lads kindly lifted my instrument cowell so I could run my the mic to my new head unit so the other person on a phone call can now actually hear something.
In addition to this we were talking about what I'd like done and OMG Power are in a great place with a great big new blasting machine arriving!
Oh and maybe this is better in another thread but the knock MBE I'll be also going for is bluetooth module compatible, now to look for the unit/app I want as it doesn't run Aides
In addition to this we were talking about what I'd like done and OMG Power are in a great place with a great big new blasting machine arriving!
Oh and maybe this is better in another thread but the knock MBE I'll be also going for is bluetooth module compatible, now to look for the unit/app I want as it doesn't run Aides
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