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dome last won the day on September 20 2023

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  1. Smoll update. 911s engine has been built so it was time to ship the car down to them for installation and fettling. I paid a man to do it, it was actually cheaper than it would have cost me by the time I'd rented a trailer, paid for fuel for the Jeep and Tebay pies I'm kind of a big deal, only personalised trailers for my shite. The Manta is coming on too. @GingerNuttzis busy getting the body ready for the 400 kit. And I decided to sack off the Corsa VXR seats I'd bought for it-they were heavy and were going to be awkward to fit. It's getting more like a rally car so might as well have some proper buckets. I ordered up weld in seat rails which were of course the wrong size. I've got that sorted now so next up is seat fitting. We're moving house in May. Here's what you need to know about the new house. I can't wait to be able to fettle shite indoors
  2. 100% agree. Here's my Kangoo Genuine Momo from an Integrale apparently 😳 It now has the correct Momo horn push.
  3. You lucky sod, it's closer to you now!
  4. My Kangoo is with him just now, hope your Clio doesn't give it a dose👀 Top work on the w(s)124, I do love them.
  5. Nah, they're not that bad. I used to tow an auto test car around behind one. Slowly, but capably.
  6. For those of you who don't get the above reference this man is truly a hero of our times. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/X2Wo22bsbrtC3Gp5/
  7. Some cars can just be a cunt to bleed. The steep slope thing is a good idea. You live on a farm, you have an E36. You're practically Donkey262. Get the front o the hoor lifted right up tae fuck wi the loader and rev the tits clean aff it. Other opinions are available
  8. I've had success before with bleeding things by just fucking driving them and extending them gently through the rev range. But only for a short drive and only as a last resort. I'd try 320tourings ideas first though
  9. dome

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    How very dare you! Clio indeed, pfft. Welcome @Alan G That Volvo is right up my street! I did think about doing something silly/sillier with the Kangoo and a turbo but I love it just the way it is.
  10. Don't worry, it's not like you missed out on seeing a young Glynis Barber wandering about your office. Oh...
  11. OK, time for an update. Manta First off, I started assembling the 2.5 Duratec for the Manta. The block and crank have been checked and polished by an engine builder so I started by installing that along with new bearings. Pakora sauce applied And I'm happy to say it rotates beautifully, as you'd expect. I'll get round to the pistons, the new rings are filed and ready so it's a case of fit them to the existing conrods and get them mounted. Jeep. LPG leak. Bugger. It was definitely leaking from near the tank/solenoid valve. It has copper pipe from the tank to the engine bay. This didn't look too clever And nor did this. Don't worry about the rust, it's surface rust on the spare wheel well, the tank is inside that. I decided to replace the copper pipe with the correct hose for LPG. If that didn't fix it I'd take to A Professional as fuck messing with the scary bits of LPG. I knew that the shutoff solenoid worked and that the leak was downstream of that. I also knew that the tank was pretty much empty as I'd ran it out on the way back up the road. Anyway, it took me a month because 1. I ordered 3m of hose and needed at least 4 2. When I finally got enough hose I discovered that I had the wrong size of fitting for the tank end. Thankfully I managed to get the correct fitting from my local guy who also gave me some confidence in what I was doing and identified where he thought my leak was from the old pipe/fitting 3. The weather here is pish just now. Anyway, I finally got a chance this week and cracked on. Snake! More snake! Got enough hose this time And the compression fitting fitted and ready to go. The hose is routed along the inner chassis rail and runs alongside the brake/fuel lines. I'm pretty happy it's secure but will double check it after a few miles. With this fitted and ready to go it was time to test it. I hoped there would be enough LPG in it to get it switch over and idle so I could check for leaks. Handily we had 30mph winds on the day I was doing this so I drove it on petrol to somewhere remote within walking distance of home and switched it over to LPG. And-it worked! Either that or I've lost my sense of smell... I celebrated by driving it to the local LPG station and filling it up. It's running fine on LPG with no leaks. Win! I even treated it to a wash but it's getting dark so you're out of luck for a pic. It felt strange getting back into it after a month of driving more modern stuff but you soon get back into the way of an old school 4x4, it burbles along very happily and is a nice way to cover distance. Which could come in handy as... 911 After a week or so I got a phone call from Hartech with the results of the strip down. It had spun a main bearing wrecking the crank. They also reported bore wear on the engine and gave me a price for a rebuild. It turns out that the £10k rebuild from the "specialist" pictured a few pages back was essentially a work of fiction. I've thought long and hard about it and have [Pistonheads]pulled the trigger[/Pistonheads] on a full rebuild with an upgrade to their 3.7 conversion. I'm also shipping the car down to them for them to get it running and mapped with the new engine, possibly trailering it down with the Jeep. Because fuck installing it myself with the money I'm spending on it😶 So, the Porsche has gone from scratching an itch and hopefully getting out with my wallet relatively intact to being a long term keeper. At least until 996 values approach what I'll have in it. I'm thinking of it as a long term investment plan. Which will go like fuck and get used as much as possible. Euro trips coming up!
  12. Still at £1400 the grand the seller must have left in the glovebox will come in handy
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