bleeding wolf, scholar green thurs 29th august 7pm

 

Remind me on nearer the time...

 

no probs keep your eyes on this thread matey

 

I did mate yeah, sounded lovely!!

 

Haha nice one its just laggy as hell atm got to find out why.

 

How's the car going mate?

 

hi mate, nothing to report as was away on hols all last week, still gotta sort turbo issue and fuelling out, just got no time atm but it will get done at some point

 

Need advise, I'm painting the butt of my snooker cue cause the lacquer had cracked and started to break up. I want to do some bands of different colours but what would you recommend to mask up with? I used masking tape to do the main colour but had to much build up at the mask line.

 

Put two layers of PVC electrical tape with a third layer slightly overhanging. Then when you paint it wont cling to the edge of the tape.

 

Thanks turbomidget ill give it a go.

 

What paint do you think I should use to do the colours? Do you think I could get away with oil paints? And is there a chance it would react with the lacquer?

 

iv not had much time to do anything on the car as i was on my hols all last week, but i managed get a couple of hours last night to do a bit.

firstly i decided i wanted to replace the german ebay 2mm needle valve as iv been told they dont seal well at all and refit the oe solex needle valve which i had drilled out to 2mm.
so i took carb top etc etc off and did this no probs.
But on removal of carb top i noticed the drivers side pin was hardly even pinch tight, so i got it back together and went to refit carb top all went well until getting to the drivers side fitting it wouldnt tighten at all and must be threaded, so this is where some of my boost could of been going?
i now have the required bit ordered off mike and hopefully will have it here saturday.

i also adjusted the actuator to get it sitting more square as the rod didnt look square at all tbh.
iv done a bit more research on billet wheel and my mate tells me there is no increase in size.
im now hoping with the oe needle valve fitted that the fuelling can be sorted and also fingers crossed might of fount the boost/lag issue

 

gaz sorry iv only just seen your post matey, oil paint should be fine do a test area first if possible

 

well yesterday i finally got the 2 required studs off mike so i could refit my carb top etc, got it all on nice and no gaps like before, so i thought lets give it a test now goes to start the car and battery was virtually flat , so iv stuck my battery booster on charge and will hopefully get to fire the car into life either today or tomorrow evening

 

as always looks stunning mate love it

 

thanks alot mate

 

finally got around to getting the car started last night, it fired into life and then died and would not start again, so i decided to take the carb completely off and strip it down/clean out and build back up. I also removed the spark plugs and gave all them a clean and they certainly needed it with how the car has been overfuelling.
refitted carb and plugs and she fired up straight away i just had to reset the idle speed and mixture which iv never known to adjust so easily, so fingers crossed we might have a much better fuelling carb now, i will find out on friday as im using my car to go onto a job as my van is in for m.o.t

 

managed get a few hours after work today to finally give the car a mini detail, first one its had since the restoration

 

managed to get an early finish so dropped my van off at my mates garage ready for mot tomorrow, then got home and put the car up the drive ready for a bit of boosting later on and to use for work tomorrow

hopefully have solved the boost/lag issue as well

 

Looks fantastic mate.

 

thanks matey just had some guy stop in my street talking to me about my car lol

 

Hi mate just come back from my hols up in the Lake District had no Internet so thought is check to see how how you are and if you got the car running right in the end? At least your car is more simple to fix than my mates 2009 E class merc, the garage has had it for nearly two weeks trying to find out why it keeps going in limb mode and coming up with injector issue. Hopefully he has got it bk now but will call him later.

 

That's a superb example a real credit to you

 

Hi mate where about in the lakes did you go? We went there a few weeks back had a great time stayed just near grange over sands. I can defo agree on having no network up there.

Iv been doing bits and bobs here and there had the carb in bits etc still got a couple of issuesthe main one being the turbo situation. Iv got one more thing to try and if no luck ill send it back to the turbo builder as something is defo a miss.

Ah the joys of modern motors I had a mate who had a similar problem on a merc.

 

Thanks alot fella really appreciate the kind words

 

We stayed at whinfell 6 miles from Penrith, we went to centre parcs and had a great time.

Hope it's something really silly and not a turbo issue. Is your boost controlled by a controller or a inline? Have you checked for leaks

 

ah we used stop off at penrith on our way back from glasgow a few years ago.

i have been over the whole system time and again and cant find anything to suggest its a leak.
i have a bleed valve on there which has always been perfect

 

car looks awesome

 

cheers fella appreciate that.

off to a wedding fayre with the future wife today then ill be heading home to remove my turbo to send it back to the builder

 

Don't talk to me about weddings, It about time I got married to my mrs lol
Any joy with how she is running yet?

 

You need to put your foot down, my misses planned our wedding for 2 years... Never went a wedding fayre...
Stay away from the organising, the less you do the less is your fault...
We got married in May... To top it off were now thinking of moving lol

 

hi mate sorry its taken me so long to reply.

just under 7 months left now until we get married, most of the stuff is sorted and i think were going be living on beans on toast for the next few months pmsl

 

anyway a long overdue update

i was seriously toying with the idea of selling the car and having a break from the whole car scene for a while, but i have decided to keep it an hopefully get some good use out of it this year.

first job is to renew the wiring for the fuel pump as its gone dodgy and as a result the car wont start, iv still not got to the bottom of the turbo boost issue i cant find any leaks or anything so i will be sending the turbo back to my mate for a check over just incase something is a miss there.

 

hello mate, first off did you have a nice xmas and happy new year.

glad you came to your senses and did sell the car, i saw a nice raider with a rtoc sticker saying no 11 what ever that means driving in enfield today

 

It'll soon be over, my misses did my head in talking about it for 2 years!!!
But she did well in the end with the organising...
You'll wonder where the day went, it soon goes... All that money for one day...

Stick with the 5, there going up in value... Wish I'd had the money to buy my sister' old one...

 

hi mate yeah it wasnt bad at all absolutely skint now though how was yours?

that sticker would be an rtoc national day one from 2011. iv hopefully got my mojo back for the car now

 

haha my mrs is sending herself nuts i think, i manage to just turn off now as iv got all the bits i was required to sort done
tell me about it mate it crazy how much you can spend.

ill be keeping the car for the forseeable future unless i end up in financial probs which shouldnt happen as were getting a rather big rise at work this year.

 

It was good mate but like you skint lol.

Had some good news got some money from my shares so looking at buying the mrs a brand new car this year and ill should have around £10k+ to buy myself a new car maybe another evo but will see what I fancy at the time and put a few quid in the bank for a rainy day.

That raider did look nice, side exit exhaust and your wheels in standard silver finish and sounded nice.

 

what are you thinking of getting for the mrs? 10k do you not fancy something like a mk1 frs? i think these have future classic all over them.

 

well guys after a a long overdue delay i can now say the car is finally back alive

first off i have to say a huge thanks to ex RTOC member GT Josh (josh reeves) for taking time on a saturday to head upto Stoke from Oldham and spend a good 2-3 hours sorting the starting problem and then having a good old fettle with carb and a general check over things.
The problem turned out to be a temperamental fuel relay so i now know what to go to if it decides to play up again.
fitted new carb top which obviously got rid of the air leak from there as it was only sealing on 2/3 studs.
once started josh picked up that the carb needs new throttle shaft seals and possibly a couple of base gaskets, he also advised me to get a new dizzy and rotor as it wasnt firing as well as could be.
Honestly must say josh's knowledge on the little c1j is amazing and i do hope he comes back to the scene in the future.
i was also told that i could move my radiator over a few inches so that i can run the intercooler pipe directly down the front and give it a bit more space than it has now, josh proceeded to give me the piece of piping that would be required to fit to modify the top rad hose

after all this he wouldnt take a penny off me, so he had a beer then was forced to take £20 and i gave him a couple of never used bodybuilding powders that he could sell and make £30-40 as i know hes big into the bodybuilding and surely someone would take them.

anyways i know mike at GT Turbo spares is having a few issues lately so i decided to make an order from CGB Motorsport as i need stuff asap.

i ordered the following
full carb rebuild kit
new mixture screw
new dizzy and rotor arm
new carb base mounting gaskets
new ngk b8eg spark plugs

all that lot with delivery come to £81.53 which is not bad at all.

i also got a pair of throttle shaft green seals from the RTOC club shop. im off out today to get a new battery from GSF as mine is defo past its best.

so my job will be to do all the above and also reduce 1st stage on carb down to 0.8 to start and go from there as its too rich off boost.

also got to send turbo back to wilky for a check over so going to remove it today and get it sent off

heres a brief video of it running