Looking good Trev.........but.............


It appears there's one obvious gauge you dont yet have..........

 

at least its reading correctly for my car!

 

right a few more bits for the car,

Some new followers and gaskets for the top end.



-6 fuel rail needs a polish or mabe even chrome plating.



92 spec dash



Busy weekend ahead!!

 

Some nice parts there mate!

 

looks really lush,sum nice new parts too

 

havnt done very much at all this weekend car wise due to starting the refurb of my bathroom Did manage to get out and buy some more heat shield materials to protect the breather pipes and the brake resovoir and abs pump.



Also managed to get my new stack installed into the binacle and the binacle back into the dash! unfortunately the dash is on my dining room table.



hopefully it will match in ok with the carbon on my secs and spa's

 

Nice carbon

 

yes thankyou and thanks to Paul who it origionaly came from

 

Eventually

 

perfect timing for me

 

Good thread, got a soft spot for this car, one of, if not the first cossy i've driven!

 

Dash looks sweet Trev, should think it will look spot on with the rest of the carbon!

 

Nice car

Good mods too

Glad to see you moved the three gauges in the console up into the top radio slot,looks better

Just needs some tiger stripes now I reckon to keep up with your bumchum!!!!!!

 

Loving the rev counter Trev...

Wish i got he red needle version now than white.

 

yes you where right gauges look better up there, tiger stripes no thankyou! I dont need tiger stripes to keep up with him!!! I need a miracle



Paul I didnt even know it wasnt going to be white, the last stack I bought was I think! looks good though I'm pleased with it.

 

had another nice little parcel in the post my RS500 splitter (non genuine of course)


Thanks to Moose 130

Also thanks to some decent weather I managed to fit my dash and rev counter today

 

dash looks sweet trev

 

Looks well smart mate nice one


Brian

 

dash looks sweet copycat

 

another little update, I had a day off last week to cure my oil leaks, change the cam followers, add some much needed heat proofing to my breather pipes and around the brake master cylinder, accumulator and abs pump. I also was planning to fit my rs500 style splitter but unfortunately it was damaged in the post and uppon closer inspection I dont think im going to be able to fix it so I didnt fit it.

Rocker cover off


Cams out


Old cams and new followers


All back together with some nice fresh heatproofing, it no longer leaks oil but still bloody taps so it wasnt the followers




Also my exhaust had started hitting the front prop again so I re adjusted it to give pleanty of room only to end up with it vibrating against the stainless exhaust heat shield on the back bumper so I took that off and threw it away and have replaced it with some patented B9KOS aluminium sticky back tape to stop the bumper burning and to make the big cuts in it look a bit less obvious



Thats all for now, next will be fit my adjustable tca's and have a good hard look at the splitter and mabe fit some vernier pullys

 

What size drill did you use for the idiot lights above the secs monitor trev ?

 

the idiot lights are infact the push buttons that control the spa gauges and I dont know what size drill I used. just whatever was big enough

 

Aaahh right cheers trev,cars looking good m8.

 

No probs and thanks for the kind comments

 

Nightmare new lifters didn't stop the tappin
What do you think it is???????

Get some Autosol on that tailpipe,thought you were Mr.Bufty!!!!!

 

Looking good trev

Just a thought if you haven't an idea as to how to solve that 'tape' business, I had some sheet aluminium that was about 0.5mm thick, its easy enough to cut with scissors but flexible enough to shape too, plus you can make a neat template off the car with some cardboard then cut that out in the Alu and press it into the shape on the bumper........
Would look better than the tape IMO.

 

Think mabe its a slightly worn cam cap or something, its not a heavy noise and perfectly ignorable, I just like it to be as good as it can be.

As for Mr Bufty you must have me confused with someone else

 

looking good mate!

 

Nice job Trev , mine next then hey!

 

Top work there Trev...

Whats next on the list???

 

Break it for spares

 

yes some days it feels like that should be next

For todays mods me and rich swopped ps tanks, he wanted my round 909 style one and I wanted his bufty cap



also got some poly exhaust mounts as my rubber ones have seen better days and the exhaust is always on the move



Havnt fitted them yet as I need to take the rear bumper off to make it a bit easier and I cant be bothered today

Next on the list is fit the adjustable TCA's and get them set up, also some vernier pullys and some solid rear beam mounts are on the cards very soon.

 

Looks good Trev, I like your engine bay!

 

Looking good Trev!

Where did you get the exhaust mounts from bud?

 

from Matt Lewis

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Powerflex-Exha...em160095260988

 

Whats the advantage of these Trev? I was looking at Matt's Ebay shop earlier today!

 

Cheers Trev

 

just holds the exhaust a bit more precicely, I have some clearance issues on my downpipe and the rubber mounts tend to give the exhaust to much fredom to move about and end up in a position where it either, hits front prop, hits bodywork, or hits and burns rear bumper.

 

Mine hits my rear bumper but doesn't burn it at the moment so I guess i'll count myself lucky! lol

 

well we have not had an update for a while so I thought I better do one, an update that is. I have actually been using the car quite a lot recently, I had to rebuild the turbo as that died on me and I was most dissapointed to find that it didnt have a 360 thrust it does now though I have done another few hunderd miles since this but seeing as the tax ran out yesterday I have decided to take a month of the road to freshen a few bits up and fit some of the parts I have collected and not fitted.

first of all I did some bufftying before I took it apart.







Next I have to take it apart to fit all this lot, Starting with Collins engine mounts



2WD oil feed pipe



Still havnt fitted these yet either



or these



or this



I also recently took delivery of a turbo cooler



So I wipped the rad and intercooler out this evening, The turbo cooler is a nice fit on the rad,



however the rad has never been a very good fit with the intercooler so Im going to take the opportunity to get them modded to sit together a bit better. Hopefully I should also get the chance to do some cleaning under the arches etc when im fitting the tca's After this lot the plan is to do the Cornwall RSOC show and then rip the engine out