Fantastic story...are you going back for the original sport llook?
Fantastic story...are you going back for the original sport llook?
Excellent Story Jon, Glad you have been re-united with the Sport! Looking forward to seeing the progress with this.
So interesting, this going back to standard?
"marc69 Fantastic story...are you going back for the original sport llook?
I'm still deciding on exactly what to do, but which ever way it's goes it will be modified to some degree
Thanks AndyandybishopExcellent Story Jon, Glad you have been re-united with the Sport! Looking forward to seeing the progress with this.
Last edited by A11VXL; 05-12-12 at 04:57 PM.
Looking forward to this,still looks spotless and like it does'nt need any work
I remember this article - what month / year was this from again?
Originally Posted by A11VXL
Sorry, but just had to re-post this:
^^ july 2002 i think, look at the top right hand side of the pic
Excellent bit of history/story to go with the Sport.
As the car had not moved for 3 years and the cambelt was past its sell by date on time rather than milage I didnt dare fire it up, so it was pushed onto the trailer and brought back to the workshop. To re commision it so to speak, I checked the bore's with an endoscope and put some oil down the two give it some lubrication for when we first turned it over (without the plugs) I replaced the cambelt which actually looked quite good, better safe than sorry though.
I gave the oil a long over night drain and replaced with a new filter and fresh oil. I also cleaned the air filters through and removed all the electrical connections to cleaned and lubricated them with contact cleaner. The car actually looked like it had been stage dressed for Halloween as there were cobwebs every where complete with a fair few spiders and snails, one month on and I think they've just about gone now!
It was then a filled with fresh Super unleaded and it burst into life. This snail got properly fed up when the engine fired up and was trying to flee! It was a good job I put some cardboard against the wall behind the car as the exhaust fired out a load of water more snails, spiders and gravel!
It was great to have the car running again but the only gauge that worked was the rev counter , I removed the dash and found the damp had really got into the circuit board and all the auxhiliary gauge connections.
However a good strip down and clean had all but the rev counter working again. Thanks to Mark (Novacabrio) who sent me a down a couple of dash's to play around with, I quickly found the the circiut board was shorting out. So now everything works, the brakes have been checked some light connections sorted. You maybe wondering why I'm going to do this just for a drive as I'm going to strip it all down anyway, the main reason is because my son who was 2 months old when I sold the car to Simon is desperate to have a go in it before it all come's apart, and I would quite like a drive to remind myself of what the old girl was like. Roll on some good / better weather
Last edited by A11VXL; 31-12-12 at 10:24 PM.
looks cool with the blue on stickers aswell mate
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