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Cheers for the kind words there John!Quote:
Originally Posted by John H
vaughanmc - I'm not sure Vaughan but it has a curved rev counter, not the tick :confused:
Lee - Does sound like a good plan dude, but how about we get the MR2 finished and then turbo the corsa :cool: Trackday and everyday turbo fun then!
LMAO @ turbo red top! lol
Well theres good and bad news on the update this weekend:
First of all the good news is that after a trip to the local motorfactors on saturday morning to get antifreeze, transmission fluid etc etc and sorting the last little bits of wiring on the car, the old girl fired into life wooooooooo! Thanks to Lee H for the advice of actually plugging in the switch live mwahaha! 'Maybe thats why it wont start' but all was good, only left it running for about 5 seconds though as theres no exhaust on the car and it was quite late last night!
Now onto the bad news, i put a jerry can full of petrol into the car first of all, at this point the car wouldnt start (hadnt yet plugged in the dwitch live), so it was suggested to me to try putting a bit more fuel into the car, so off to the petrol station, another full jerry can into the car, looks under the car and oh joy of joys, drip drip drip of fuel! So upon further investigation the fuel seemed to be coming from underneath one of the tank straps, really not happy at this point but whipped the tank of this evening to try and find the offending hole and after some screw driver poking found this:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11007.jpg
The tank is one i havent used before and i scrapped my old tank on my mk2, a**e, so a trip to see sparkie off here, cheers fella, and i have this:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11008.jpg
Only sanded it down and put one coat of matt black on and then ran out so i'll get some tommorow and finish painting it tommorow night, so for tonight i've left the car up in the air with no tank on for now!
Now onto more of the weekends mincing, this arrived in the post a couple of days ago,
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10999.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10998.jpg
I also bought a distribution block from the local motorfactors so the battery will be going into the boot quite shortly, as soon as i've sorted out the tank!
Also a job i've really wanting to do for ages was to make up a scuttle cover for my car to hide all the s***e in the scuttle, so cheers to Lee for lending me his cardboard template,
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10984.jpg
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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10986.jpg
Only needed a little bit of trimming to suit my car, and then after a trip to Rickardo's house, he cut out the template for me! Cheers pal. My engine bay is now looking like this:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11001.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11002.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11004.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11005.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC11006.jpg
Its a really good fit and doesnt require any screwing in or brackets or anything, i've got some edging coming off ebay, so the plan is to offer it upto the car with the edging on when it arrives to check that the fit is still ok and then send it off to have it powdercoated black and job should be a goodun! Really impressed with how this has come out, cheers Lee and Rick!
And lastly a couple of sneaky pics of the ride height at the rear of the car with the car down on the floor, i dont know whether it will be a bit low at this height but the only real way to find out is too drive it i suppose!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10989.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10992.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10995.jpg
Ignore the dodgy pink and red paint, its because the light in the garage is utter pap and so the flash on the camera seems to make red cars look weird colours!
Thats it for now anyway, ringing GAZ in the morning to see if i can sort out my wrong topmounts, updates to follow!
gutted about the tank but not the end of the world keep up the work on this great car.
I'll try josh,it is a shame about the tank but meh these things happen!
top stuff andy , not long now :thumb:
Looks good that low.
Nice work. Lets hope the snow stops coming down or you'll never get it up the driveway!!!!
Cheers riggy,it's getting somewere now hehe!
Cheers benn that's what I thought!
I know rick tell me about it,I'm scared of putting my daily on the drive for that reason!
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Originally Posted by andy_017
haha , ive been driving lou's punto all weekend as its one of the only cars that can get off the street haha , golf has no chance
and your drive is about 5 times worse then the hill from our street , youd never get out haha
Great work mate, looking real good.