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Excellent purchase, remarkably tasteful looking for an early L322 too. There's a few of us lurking in here with these, mines a similar age but V8 on LPG. Are you ready for the hilarious* jokes about them breaking down all the time?

That does seem cheap for a 924 these days, I wonder how ell the welding has been done? I need to update my thread, it's been a bit of 2 steps forward, 1 step back getting it useable. At least it's solid!

Good work! I'd be tempted to wire the oil pressure light to a separate (red!) light elsewhere as, because you're used to Japanese vehicles, you'll be well used to the orange glow of an EML so may well miss the engine shitting itself assuming it's just because the lambda sensor woke up grumpy. Again.

Aye, that's it. Carista or similar apps let's you change the setup on vag stuff to allow you to mess with this sort of thing.

To be fair folk often don't delete their ads and it's not immediately obvious on mobile how old an ad is-"over a month old" is as much as it gives you. No excuse for bothering you though.

Sadly I'll be in that Yorkshire this weekend and I believe a good part of the Scotoshite massiv are off to FOTU. Shame!

Because never, ever, has any conversation that starts straight off with someone sending random fractions of the sale price ended up with the transaction going through. Or even the conversation continuing as the "buyer" mysteriously disappears

Thanks! Yeah, the air strut does have "Do not heat" on it for obvious reasons😬 I had put some heat direct onto the bolt but was cautious about becoming a Darwin award nominee. Speaking of the Rangey, it was on holiday transport duty for a week spend up north. It performed admirably although air con would've been nice. I had been aware of a slight wobble through the front end which I'd put down to a worn bush. A week of driving up and down over Cairn O'Mount and it was a good bit more wobbly under braking. I popped under for a look. One passenger side arm had a lot of play in the bush at the chassis end which was expected. However, the balljoint on the hub end wasn't pretty. Yep, that looks like it's been there a while. The hub nut on this side is also a fossilized version of its former self so I decided to farm this one out. I've ordered up a full set of front arms and balljoints and it's off to may mate Craig to get them replaced. He has access to a ramp and a press so can make a proper job if it. Trying to do that on the drive is just asking for trouble

Seeing as summer had started to arrive and Fife was warming up I thought I'd better get the non functioning electric windows working before driving it. The switches are known to get a bit crusty and cause problems. One of the great things about this car is that nearly everything can be stripped apart, including the window switches I cleaned these up but sadly it didn't fix them. Off with the door card and let's have a look. The motor was getting power but it didn't seem happy. I unbolted the motor from the regulator and lubed it up, lubing the runners and mechanism at the same time. This got it working (temporarily...) so I could take it a drive. Tools in the boot, walking shoes on and a route that left me no more than a couple of miles from home. Oh and one more thing-some colour coded tape to hold the sunroof shit while I waited for my new mechanism to arrive from down south-thanks to@Supernaut Ok, Let's go! And, do you know what, it did well! I stopped here through choice I have to say.... It's loosening up and feels healthy although it did have a bit of hesitation on part throttle. You can get over this by giving it full throttle though which is nice. It feels much like the early 944s I've had. It feels quick but the speedo shows you are still within the limits. Handling feels good although the steering feels a bit stiff-i need to lube the rack and UJs and check out the top mounts. I think with a bit more fettling and some more miles it'll loosen up nicely. I've got a set of new tyres to replace the 20 year old Pirellis which feel rock hard, that should make a difference too. It's interesting the difference between this and the Jag in terms of how they were stored. The Jag was driven into a garage 20 years before I got it but hadn't been touched. This made getting it back on the road fairly straightforward as nothing had been fucked with. This however has been fucked about with over the last 12 years-the exhaust is a good example. There was a blow from the centre section. On inspection the 3 bolts that held the clamp together were loose. And seized! I chopped the bolts off to replace them and then the fucking box fell off! Someone worse at welding then me had been at it. The old back box, rear section. Aye, that'll be fucked. I had the old silencer from the MR2 system which amazingly was just about the right length and a big enough bore that I could chop the front end with the flange off the old back box and fit it inside the box. It was a tight fit so the welding was only done to secure it-it is gas tight. The rear needs a bit of attention. The rear section had been bodged to fix* the old centre section so I'll need to do something there. It's a lot better than it was though. The brakes still don't give much confidence. I had been told the rear drivers side was marginal so had a look. It turned out only one side of the slave cylinder was moving so a new pair of these were ordered up-I fitted one on my lunch break earlier in the week. Final thing that happened was that @juular came over the other night with a pressure gauge to check out the K-Jet system to see how it behaved. Overall it's pretty good-a lumpy cold start and the hesitation on part throttle were the only issues. The emmisions were borderline on the test with it running a bit rich. First off, pull a plug. Fitted new by me these looked OK to me which was good. Then on to the pressure test. This showed some issues which the K-Jet wizard @juular can explain better than me. The warmup regulator was removed and the filter cleaned which brought the pressure back closer to spec. A test drive followed and the part throttle hesitation seemed a lot better. Idle mixture was tweaked and that was about it - it's mostly working so let's not mess with it too much! So, some success but lots still to do but that brings us up to date.

So, the fuel pump had failed mid test but my tester carried on and funnily enough, it failed. Brakes and a bulb (that i swear worked before the test) and obviously he couldn't test the emissions. I'd tried to order front discs but they hadn't arrived in time. I ordered up new shoes and fitting kit for the rear too. And a fuel pump... Of course I'd put about a million pounds worth of super unleaded into the tank before the MOT so changing the pump could be a financial disaster but it had to be done. Luckily I only spilled a few drops so just a couple of grand hit the deck Interestingly/worryingly I found this on the inlet side of the pump. No idea what it is. I drained most of the tank and didn't get anything out of it. It has a prefilter in the tank too and ran it through a mesh filter and no more appeared so I'm not sure where this had came from. i may have missed this when I had the pump off previously. Anyway, new pump fitted and it sprang to life so i could concentrate on the brakes. The front discs have the bearings built in so i had the fun of pressing in and out the old race. Old discs were pumped We go for F1 levels of cleanliness here at Dome towers. I left them in the bag to avoid getting grease everywhere. It was surprisingly easy, I had visions of sticking the races in the oven and discs in the freezer but thankfully didn't have to. Back brakes next-parts accrued. On the rear one of the shoes actually fell apart when removing it so that's not ideal. Again this went together amazingly easily with only 1 part pinging itself across the garden I even found it within half an hour!!1! Back in for a retest and.... Yass! Question is, could it drive further than the 300 meters to the test station? Stay tuned!

At this point I could actually drive it for the first time. Here goes... VID_20220603154243.mp4 Bonus pop up lights! Yeah, they stopped working... And then, before I fucked about any more, an appointment was made with the man from the ministry. And yeah, it failed. In more ways than one. The fuel pump died in the middle of the test🤣 Recovery vehicle ahoy! More to follow!

Brakes up next. I made up a couple of new pipes for some of the crusty ones and fitted them along with the rebuilt front calipers. I'd ordered new discs but they hadn't arrived at this point. Braided hoses because racecar The master cylinder was cleaned up and refitted, I gave it a pressure bleed and gained a pedal. Not a great one, but a pedal nonetheless

Well, it's been a while but things have progressed with the Porsche. First up, some servicing. A new timing belt, water pump and thermostat had arrived. The timing belt looked OK but there was no history of it being changed and they're cheap and easy to do on these. Old parts removed, this gave me a chance to flush the block out New water pump fitted and belt and pulley on And alternator belt on and tensioned up-although not very well as it still squeals-I need to redo that. Here's what I tried to use to tension it... I think the thermostat was due replacing, not only was it broken but it's country of origin hasn't existed for 30 years 🤣

Aye but it's the V6, not the 2.5 4 cylinder Duratec favoured by the mk2 Escort scene these days, along with a certain Gordon Murray for his Mk1 Escort and, err, me(for the Manta)

That looks familiar. If it's the one I think it is then it lives(d) not far from me, right by the seaside. Expect crustiness!

Yeah, I'd never offer on that sort of listing. The whole start price but looking for offers over it doesn't work for me. I'd stick it up for a grand and set it to automatically reject offers below the insulting level.

Ah bugger. I think I've seen that one around, it's a lovely example. You might see me in a baby blue(ish) Porsche but it'll be a while before the Manta sees the road.

Spent an enjoyable afternoon on the couch yesterday watching this. Mansell was on top form and the shootout was ace. Loved the Dakar Toyota too and that crazy Travis Pastrama Family Huckster😁

Excellent. I knew it wouldn't be long before another Jag hoved into view. This looks like a cracker

I haven't updated my thread in a while but, after a lot of fucking about and quite a few long nights, this thing has an MOT on it. I've done a whopping 30 miles in it today and while there's still a long way still to go it's definitely got potential. It's great fun on the twisty roads around mine and 60mph feels like 150-exactly what I hoped for!

I've just shown my dog this, he wants to move to Henfield...

@brownnova has Birkenhead still got the chopped up German U-boat on display somewhere? Saw it years ago, was pretty impressive

Good work man. Think the working 4wd will help at Crail? You'll need another showdown with @rml2345 to find out...

What does this old Porsche think it is, a Peugeot 405?

That C10 looks ace. Right decision in getting rid of the Caddy I'd say, even if @GingerNuttz has to cancel his Carribbean holiday next year.