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  1. My goodness! I like the 205 wheels on that 924! Suits it! Glad you've made some progress with the 309. Giving it a follow as I want to see at least one of them live!
  2. Phwoar! What a lovely little car @SEATMad. Really liked the MK1 Ibiza's. Been watching promo videos about the development of these cars.
  3. Body shop time!! This turned out to be a harder job than I thought. Transport had to bail on me today due to unexpected issues with the tow vehicle. I tried everyone I knew with a trailer. Couldn't help, which is fair dos far too short notice. Then wondered up to a neighbouring shed on the off chance someone could help me. They could! Car loaded. Panels loaded in a another vehicle and delivered. I knocked the exhaust off with the edge of the trailer! But quickly tied up and we're done. Couldn't believe my luck today. Could of easily been a shit show. However thanks to the helpfulness of others it's made it. Sadly there was a high price pay for the gentleman's help.... 4 bottles of pinot grigio 😆😆.
  4. Did a little more last night. Tidied out the Corsa ready for moving. This weekend should see the car going to the spray shop. Here is a video of this Corsa running. Do like the fact it starts and runs. I will look at reusing a standard Corsa air box to keep it looking factory done. Slight howl coming from the charging whirler, think the bearings are suspect.
  5. Can't quote sizes ATM. M10 rings a bell, but for the length of said bolts, I'm struggling there. But I'd say if you found a Small block engined Vauxhall in the scrappies, I'd say you'd be pretty safe with taking them for the Astra. Again they didn't change much. Maybe at worse it'll be a torx head instead of a hex. I do have a 1600 8V on a stand. I could have a ganders this week and give you idea of what ones to look for?
  6. May I suggest getting the brakes from a Corsa B. Anything other a Sport or GSi will provide what you need. As they will be 236mm as your car. The ATE calipers are much better than the Delco ones. Bolt on swap. As they never changed the hub mount spacing for a very long time. These can be had in ventilated flavour too. But I reckon solid discs will do fine. Edit - Saw your last post. My bad. If your stuck for caliper mount bolts. I might have a set of four in my stash if you need some?
  7. Nicely bought. Without me checking. Is it the 1.2 OHV engine or a 1.3?
  8. Nice day here. Corsa came out. Fixed a leaky exhaust joiner. Readjusted the rear wheel bearings and handbrake. Ordered the paint last week. It's now with me to drop off with the car. I'm on with getting some transport sorted out. Fire me up! Can't wait to see this one colour again!
  9. So far, no rainwater has gotten in. Does leak in a different way. Those fucking metal heater matrix pipes have another pin hole in them. It's enough to dampen the pipes and no more. More epoxy required before it becomes a proper issue.
  10. That's another good point. I did check the rubber pipes to the pump and saw no cracks or weird flaking. However it could of played a part? As the diaphragm would be made from a different type of rubber I have been running this car on E10 fuel. That said, I do think it's more age and mileage being the cause of this failure. The one I took off look like the original pump and the car has done over 190K KM's in 24 years. Not dismissing the fuel though. As the MK2 Polo I owned did two pumps. The original and then the new replacement didn't last. Potentially that was down to me not using the car much and newer fuel.
  11. Good point. Plus I don't want to guddle about with wiring ATM. So this evening's farting about. With vidjas!! The fuel pipes were bone dry. Yep buggered pump. Not a terrible job to replace. Just awkward in a mildly annoying way. Once fitted, I just sent it with winding it over on the starter with a jump from a friend's Volvo. Not even 30 seconds later we had this! Was happy to hear the A-Series thrumming away again.
  12. Thank you. What will happen is, I'll fit the pump. Car will still not start. Go around in circles, bang my head and cause various injuries to myself. Break something. Then stomp home like a toddler.
  13. New fuel pump turned up for the Maestro. Might be a job for this evening. Could do with the car running again sooner than later.
  14. Yeah, it was a grainy copy and paste job. The fact certain Golf suspension parts do fit with a little modification is telling. Think the prototypes/mules just worked good enough to abandon any ideas of developing their own in house gearbag. Must of cut a good bit of guesswork out as well. BL/Spen King totally played it safe with the Maestro and Montego in the engineering side. It was all proven gear that would work and cause little bother. Though I hope the gear shift quality is better on the PG gearboxes. It's not fantastic on the VAG ones.
  15. Hands up moment here. Already knew it was a VAG gearbox. I just was surprised that BL didn't BL the driveshaft flanges to make it awkward for no reason. There wasn't much thought put into the post. I tend to post and edit afterwards. #stunnedasfuck 🤣
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