Paul
11-11-03, 12:34 AM
On Saturday night me and a few mates 5 cars in total, went down to the Essexboyz cruise at Thurrock. It was good down there and suddenly we moved on to the local Tesco's which was pretty shite.
Apart from seeing a 2.0 Nova rip it about spinnin up in like every gear, and everyone just like, "what the fuck mate, it's a Nova."
Anyway as usual, down come the meatheads to spoil the night, and so we all decide to cruise up to Enfield. Don't know why just did.
On the M25 on the way down there, I know its nothing special but for the engine sizes the cars weren't doing too bad.
My mate in his Corsa 1.2i got 95mph, 1.25 Zetec Fiesta got 110mph could have gone more, mate in a 206 1.4 8V got 110mph, could of had more, mate in his 1.2 8V punto got 112 which is a new record, and doing the Nova boys proud, a 1.2 carbed Nova was showing 117mph on the clocks, and it was definitely going the quickest because it overtook all my mates. It has a 4 speed box, so as you could imagine the engine was probably under immense strain.
Anyway we cruised into London, through some ghetto where there was an unbeleivable amount of road rage, lol! And we got a phone call,
"Lee, pull over mate. Your car is steaming like a bitch!!!"
We didnt even realise but the engine was pouring out with smoke. So we pulled down a side road, this was approximately around 2 a.m. so it was pitch black, and we pop the bonnet to discover what we thought was the radiator had sprung a leak. All the coolant was going on to the manifold and steaming everywhere! So we're stuck in London with no-where open.
My mate drives his car back to the garage to re-fill his coolant system so he can see exactly where the leak had sprung from. He pops his bonnet and you just see a split in the rubber pipe hosing that links the cylinder head to the radiator. The split was about 8cm's long. So we think to ourselves,
Option A, Call the AA and try and describe where we are, not got the foggiest, and pay a fee for them to come out.
or
Option B, Try and bodge the pipe to not drip too much to allow us to the 60 mile journey back to Southend.
Being genius' we decide Option B it is.
Ok so we go to the garage and ask for gaffa (sp.) tae, first option, he produces electrical tape, it was through that bloody hole thing you speak to them through so we gave up.
We went on a little walk to try and find an open shop, no such luck, but i find;
-Crisp packet
-Elastic Band
This gave us a good tactic.
We missioned it back to the car with the possiblepipe bodgery items. Then we had a better idea, a johnny to hold the crisp packet in place.
So the pipe was about 1cm or so thick and we choose to repair it with a crisp packet wrapped tightly around the split, a johnny over the crisp packet to try and seal off the water flow too much. And then 3 carrier bags to close the joint up and try and make it cope with the pressure.
We the used all the bottles we had in the car and a few we found on the floor to fill up with water so we could refill his coolant system. We refilled them all few without lids which were sealed with the bag and elastic band. about 30 litres of water to get him home on.
We then had it home refilling coolant every now n then, still bloody doing 100mph, nutcase that kid is.
And drove round for over a day with the bodge job coolant hose.
It was the funniest thing I've seen in bloody ages. the bags, condom n crisp packet all held well, part from the condom got a huge fuck off water bubble which eventually split. :? Mind you what can you expect, it wasn't a Durex. :lol:
Paul
Apart from seeing a 2.0 Nova rip it about spinnin up in like every gear, and everyone just like, "what the fuck mate, it's a Nova."
Anyway as usual, down come the meatheads to spoil the night, and so we all decide to cruise up to Enfield. Don't know why just did.
On the M25 on the way down there, I know its nothing special but for the engine sizes the cars weren't doing too bad.
My mate in his Corsa 1.2i got 95mph, 1.25 Zetec Fiesta got 110mph could have gone more, mate in a 206 1.4 8V got 110mph, could of had more, mate in his 1.2 8V punto got 112 which is a new record, and doing the Nova boys proud, a 1.2 carbed Nova was showing 117mph on the clocks, and it was definitely going the quickest because it overtook all my mates. It has a 4 speed box, so as you could imagine the engine was probably under immense strain.
Anyway we cruised into London, through some ghetto where there was an unbeleivable amount of road rage, lol! And we got a phone call,
"Lee, pull over mate. Your car is steaming like a bitch!!!"
We didnt even realise but the engine was pouring out with smoke. So we pulled down a side road, this was approximately around 2 a.m. so it was pitch black, and we pop the bonnet to discover what we thought was the radiator had sprung a leak. All the coolant was going on to the manifold and steaming everywhere! So we're stuck in London with no-where open.
My mate drives his car back to the garage to re-fill his coolant system so he can see exactly where the leak had sprung from. He pops his bonnet and you just see a split in the rubber pipe hosing that links the cylinder head to the radiator. The split was about 8cm's long. So we think to ourselves,
Option A, Call the AA and try and describe where we are, not got the foggiest, and pay a fee for them to come out.
or
Option B, Try and bodge the pipe to not drip too much to allow us to the 60 mile journey back to Southend.
Being genius' we decide Option B it is.
Ok so we go to the garage and ask for gaffa (sp.) tae, first option, he produces electrical tape, it was through that bloody hole thing you speak to them through so we gave up.
We went on a little walk to try and find an open shop, no such luck, but i find;
-Crisp packet
-Elastic Band
This gave us a good tactic.
We missioned it back to the car with the possiblepipe bodgery items. Then we had a better idea, a johnny to hold the crisp packet in place.
So the pipe was about 1cm or so thick and we choose to repair it with a crisp packet wrapped tightly around the split, a johnny over the crisp packet to try and seal off the water flow too much. And then 3 carrier bags to close the joint up and try and make it cope with the pressure.
We the used all the bottles we had in the car and a few we found on the floor to fill up with water so we could refill his coolant system. We refilled them all few without lids which were sealed with the bag and elastic band. about 30 litres of water to get him home on.
We then had it home refilling coolant every now n then, still bloody doing 100mph, nutcase that kid is.
And drove round for over a day with the bodge job coolant hose.
It was the funniest thing I've seen in bloody ages. the bags, condom n crisp packet all held well, part from the condom got a huge fuck off water bubble which eventually split. :? Mind you what can you expect, it wasn't a Durex. :lol:
Paul