Looking good. Finally seem to have mine running ok now and took the boy out this morning in it. Nice view of the ship in the background!!
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Looking good. Finally seem to have mine running ok now and took the boy out this morning in it. Nice view of the ship in the background!!
Ah good to hear, what was the issue?Quote:
Originally Posted by leggattr
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Well I Changed the dizzy cap as it was alittle worn but doubt it was that. The thing I think it was is I had a fuel return coming off the vapour separator back to the tank (standard set up from the Sr) I just blanked the return and put the fuel line straight from the pump to carb.May have not been feeding the carb enough fuel. Seems to be doing ok for now, short trips currently but first run to work tomorrow!!
Couple of little bits done to the car today, finally got a boss so the small leather wheel went on.
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Also as a base model it had no fag lighter socket, with car shows etc planned I would need a way to charge my phone for the sat nav etc, so I ordered a twin usb one off of eBay, fitted that today once I’d popped the centre panel out to find the wiring
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Tomorrow the exhaust gets done, I’m really tempted to have the tail pipe changed to a slightly downward facing smaller tip.....
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Had a bit of time this eve so finished my rear Lights, stripped the tint of the test one, sanded down the lettering and re-applied the red film.
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Quite happy how it turned out
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Turns out the running issue isn’t sorted [emoji36]
Hesitates and splutters at low revs, flat out or higher up the rev range it’s all fine.
Got the exhaust sorted today at least, guy at Powerflow bromley did a banging job, just need to get this issue sorted and I’ll be happy!
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Sits really well on those slabs :thumb: and the back looks cleaner all red.
Hope you get to the bottom of the spluttering man
Looking good stu keep up the good work
Cheers guys, I’m hoping it’s fuel related so will be checking the fuel pressure soon as I have the gauge, and also new filter on order, before I fit that i plan on pulling the hose off the outlet end of the filter and runnnin the pump to pull the fuel through the filter a few times to see if it pulls more crap out.
I’m convinced it wasn’t doing it prior to the mot so think it’s where it was running for so long and then driven home fuel got low as only started doing it half way back I think
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Slabs are temporary, however it’s now made me think of doing the expressions in Anthracite/grey too rather than silverQuote:
Originally Posted by rickygolf83
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Spluttering all sorted, set fuel pressure back to 2.5 at idle with vacuum hose off, cleaned ICV, ran fuel through the filter and emptied a few times and then stuck new filter on.
All sorted!
Steering wheel was wonky to the right, boss off, put back on, now it sits to the left [emoji849][emoji849]
Choke light wired up to ECU wires too.
Just need to get the tracking done and swap the wheels over ready for BHP show
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Mirrors on and wheels swapped over.....
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First outing yesterday to BHP show in Kent, made the journey without issue and got some appreciation on the way down too!
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Looking clean man, with a nice suprise under the bonnet [emoji106]
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New old stock snap off lockable boss fitted https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6bb5808bbb.jpg
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Few recent pics, few little mods to do.
Throttle Decided on the way home to keep sticking open if I dropped the clutch, not investigated why yet....
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Finally got a cage, it’s a rollcentre one..... plan on adding a removable diagonal or Xbrace then having it powder coated, thinking silver/grey or red
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Also the tint film on the rear lights had gone pink so stripped it off and quite liked the clears
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So fitted the better quality ones with the coloured lenses inside https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8f5ba001d0.jpg
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So we moved house start of August and the car now has it’s own home finally.
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Sourced some SR seats, and the stripes match the stock merit rears.
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Fitted a early SFI box to replace the power cap
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Went to my mates garage to replace CV joints and give the car a once over on the ramp, found out the source of the metal on metal noise I was getting, the CV was pushed against the hub carrier, (wrong cv and no spacer), had worn a groove in the hub carrier!
So new CVs, knocked of the ABS rings and fitted a spacer each side, new bearings etc and it feels faster now too!!!
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Was planning on going to OhSoRetro so dragged her out and gave her a clean but the weather was crap so swerved it.
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Re fitted stock rear lights and will be fitting the amber side repeaters again, along with the 1.2 Merit badges but on magnets so I can remove them too.
Will also be having another box added to the powerflow system to quieten it down a bit and hopefully kill some of the rasp, will be changing the tip to a downward turned one like in this pic https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c55378c5e2.jpg
Final update I’ve got a chipped ECU coming [emoji4][emoji4]
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Looking good man, red is definitely red here. [emoji16]
Didnt know the potential of an xe til recently, what kind of increase will you see with the new ecu?
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Guy I got it off had his dyno’d at 178 which is about what my last one made too but this is Defo a better engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by rickygolf83
Fitted it and took her out, transforms the car!
LSD defo needed now, which funnily I’ve bought ready to go in over the winter with some reprofilled cams from Newman
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Doing a nice job.Quote:
Originally Posted by H15 NVA
Just realised I’ve not updated this for ages.
Few updates, fitted Euro rear lights and removed the rear wiper.
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Still haven’t fitted my LSD, but I’ve bought an Ashley big bore manifold.
Got chatting to my mate about the mod to remove the throttle body wedge.... somehow the conversation ended with me agreeing to take his full Jenvey set up with emerald ecu off his hands.
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Literally everything I need to fit and and go for a dyno apart from shorter trumpets.
Also agreed to buy another mates newman cams as he is also going LET.
So.... over the winter I’ll be locked in the garage fitting the LSD, cams, throttle bodies, then deciding if I stay sleeper with the interior how it is or partially stripping the interior, fitting the 6 point cage, buckets and harnesses.
Also decide whether to run the trooper scoop to feed the bodies or not.....
And should I paint the wheels grey to match the bumpers???
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Definitely fit the trooper scoop, fitted one to mine https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...798414571e.jpgQuote:
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