The Autoshite Bodge thread

[fatharris]

[Guest Hooli]

^^^^ Genius, so much better than waiting for a pipe to spilt so you can hear it boost.

[Pillock]

Except, won't that do chuff all? The round bit needs to be lower pressure than the blowy-in bit, and that looks like it's entirely on the atmospheric side.

 

*edit* aaaah, turbo. Yeah. Sucky sucky through the airbox right?

 

Could replace the wastegate with one of those party blower things that unravel. Stick it out the scuttle panel.

[Guest Hooli]

Normal engines suck through the airbox too.

 

Although if you ask a physicist, the air is pushed from the outside due to lower pressure.

[Slartibartfast]

Normal engines suck through the airbox too.

 

Although if you ask a physicist, the air is pushed from the outside due to lower pressure.

 

That'll be the same physicist who told me that there was no such thing as centrifugal force. No qualifying explanation about centripetal force vs centrifugal effect or similar, just "there's no such thing as centrifugal force" when he asked us what made the ball bearing travel outwards on the spinning disc - a question he clearly set up as a trap so that he could feel superior to a 13 year old. To this day I wish ill on that bastard. I want to print out the XKCD on the subject and force feed it to him in front of a laughing class of thirteen year olds.

[nebuchenezer]

Sounds familiar except mine was a Mk1 scrote.

 

Had a pug 305 with a set of mole grips as a gear stick

 

Uno 70's gear linkage fell apart while out for a run - repaired with a bit of twig (and re repaired with twig every month until I killed it)

 

 

Was driving from Gosport to Bristol to visit my mum in a Wolseley 16/60, and at Fareham (ie about 6 miles into it) the throttle cable snapped. I had a replacement back at home but instead got a bit of wire and lead it into the engine bay via the quarterlight and the bonnet gap onto the throttle. 

[oldford]

Had a 4 year old car in for MOT today, phoned the customer (another garage) and told them that was going to fail on a sharp edge, do you want me to stick some tape over it?

 

 

 

[sierraman]

Did that on a Passat a few months ago to get a pass.

[Tamworthbay]

My Dolomite has tape on both wing corners where they meet the balance. Next on my welding to do list.

[beko1987]

It's how the Xantia is going to be presented for its test (on the rear arch), I may go all out and get matching white tape too!

 

I really should fit the replacement dummy foglight I have for the Meriva too before its test, otherwise it might end up with tape too...

[Split_Pin]

I may* have drilled a small rust hole on my old Vectra's rear crossmember bigger and rounder to mimic a nearby drain hole.

[FakeConcern]

Spotted in Bristol recently

 

 

 

[bramz7]

Used some velcro to stop the warped passenger sun visor flopping down on the ZX.

Worked great* until the adhesive failed in the heat, or an over enthusiastic passenger tore them off moving the visor. 

 

 

There may or may not be a MK4 Fiesta outside having its rear arches treated with copious amounts of filler. I'm not involved in that though, I'd have scrapped it before that stage.

[Split_Pin]

In the days before welded repairs had to consist of a continuous seam, I worked with someone who would attach Hadrian sills with just a few blebs of weld and then use silicone sealant covered in underseal to emulate the rest.

[fordperv]

Mrs fps 3 door sierra project had silicone sealer covered in underseal doing an impression of a weld from floor to sill area on the drivers side by the outer seat mount roughly 18" long, the previous owner had paid a "mechanic" to repair it's m.o.t failure, I don't know how his arse wasn't dragging along the floor due to the weakness as he was a big lad

[sierraman]

I once was charged with selling a Micra for the now wife. The patches on the sills were starting to come away as they'd been badly welded. Short on time before the prospective buyer turned up, I twatted the patches flat and Sikaflexed them back on.

[mercrocker]

In the days before welded repairs had to consist of a continuous seam, I worked with someone who would attach Hadrian sills with just a few blebs of weld and then use silicone sealant covered in underseal to emulate the rust.

 

EFA

[andy18s]

In the days before welded repairs had to consist of a continuous seam, I worked with someone who would attach Hadrian sills with just a few blebs of weld and then use silicone sealant covered in underseal to emulate the rest.

I used to know a lad who had perfected the technique of apply just the right amount of filler to the edges of his patch,and then applying just enough pressure for it to squeeze out the sides

It then would need minimal work to look like a roughly ground down weld.....

Once undersealed it did look fairly convincing.....

[sierraman]

My uncle used to weld old road signs in if he didn't have enough metal when plating cars up. There's loads of stories like this, chucking tins of STP in to cover up bollocksed engines etc.

[mercrocker]

My Minor had parts of a filing cabinet drawer in one inner wing.  The previous restorer* didn't even bother to trim off the little slotted edge where the hanging files located...

[Tamworthbay]

My uncle used to weld old road signs in if he didn't have enough metal when plating cars up. There's loads of stories like this, chucking tins of STP in to cover up bollocksed engines etc.

I think a lot of people just used what they had. There is a shed/ lean to in a little village called Clifton Campville near me with a roof that is made of tin plate advertising signs, sadly all cut and riveted/ sealed. Intact they would be worth a good few quid but were scrap when stuck up there in the 70s. The guy used to take them down all over the place and most ended up in the skip but he used to do up old cars so I bet some found their way into various motors.

[cros]

Fixing my oil leak today I was confronted with a sin I committed last year. Too lazy to find a longer choke cable (carb is on opposite side of later engine) I lengthened the existing one with a terminal connector and the chopped off bit still attached to the Weber. They'll not have me in the Rover P4 Drivers Guild now, but the choke does its stuff.

[Sigmund Fraud]

They'll not have me in the Rover P4 Drivers Guild now, but the choke does its stuff.

 

[D Spares & Tyres]

Nissan Terrano ( not mine but a friends car that was coaxed through severely mots by a friendly tester )

 

Front inner wing rotten. Not actually attached to the chassis mounting

What a mess! But if you can't see the rot then you can't fail it.

[MikeR]

would that not count as too dirty to test ?

[cros]

I bought a set of vauxhall 16 inch rims for my Bedford van for be more modern. The gentleman selling them said he'd had them refurbished and they could be mine for the price of the paint job, around £175. Since these are not too thick on the ground I set off to Milton Keynes to collect them.

Four of them are OK, but why waste paint on the fifth?

[DodgeRover]

Have welded up tractor rims before, not sure if I would trust somebody I didn't know doing one though.

[cobblers]

Yeah I've happily run banded steel wheels before. 

I'm not proud about the steel wheel I had shot blasted, which blew pinholes in it.

Instead of scrapping it (they were £30 a piece!) I painted it as I did the rest, then stuck some bitumen flashband over the hole from the inside to stop the air leak.

[Mally]

Was driving from Gosport to Bristol to visit my mum in a Wolseley 16/60, and at Fareham (ie about 6 miles into it) the throttle cable snapped. I had a replacement back at home but instead got a bit of wire and lead it into the engine bay via the quarterlight and the bonnet gap onto the throttle. Wrapped the end round a spanner and drove it like that.

Then drove it back after the weekend and carried on like that for a couple of weeks

 

 

 

I thought everyone had done that.

[fordperv]

I thought everyone had done that.

Yep and me, done it more than once, a funny one, my dad's throttle cable went in a pinto sierra, it snapped at the carb end and he didn't have any bodging stuff in the car, I had the bright idea that Because we weren't far from home about a mile or so, I would get comfortable in the engine bay on the carb side, hold the bonnet down against me and operate the throttle via the linkage while he steered and did the brakes, we got back no bother dad did say we got some funny looks as we passed folks coming the opposite way