Xantia of Desires - Farewell xantia!

[beko1987]

 

Old pin

 

 

New pin

 

Danny also backed the fuel out alot apparently. And owns a white van with possibly the cleanest interior I've ever seen!

[beko1987]

Also, went out earlier to get some fuel for tomorrow, and the engine is alot less clattery at idle! Was stone cold too. A good oil change might do it good too.

 

Does the wrong fuel setting make it louder?

[vulgalour]

Glad you got to the bottom of its problems!  Good luck for the new test.

[beko1987]

Thanks! I hope it'll be better. It does smoke still, but nowhere near as bad! The petrol meriva chuffs out more smoke when it's cold than this does at full chat.

 

Will get an mot booked in the week, my boss said I can have a long lunch break to get it done! (mainly because the exhaust fell off his crv the other day and he will want me help to replace it...)

[SiC]

Given its Xmas and your money appears a bit tight (from what you've said previously), it might be worth doing as you said and leaving it alone for a bit. It should be getting many more miles per each gallon by the sounds of the new tune.

[richardmorris]

Nah its properly quick once you get above 3k revs. Will do 85 in 3rd before I fully realise! A few days after I got it I got it to defiantly mot 120 on the m40 quite easily, although it felt a bit unstable, was at the red line and I've never done it again (came across someone doing 75 in L3 on an otherwise empty motorway, but couldn't call him a cocktard because I was being more illegal)

Its always felt less nippy at lower revs than the zx did, but the zx weighed alot less.

 

You're braver than I am -I took my 2.5 cx dtr to 115mph once ( sur Le continent) and that was quite enough.

[beko1987]

Given its Xmas and your money appears a bit tight (from what you've said previously), it might be worth doing as you said and leaving it alone for a bit. It should be getting many more miles per each gallon by the sounds of the new tune.

That's the plan! It's got to be tested by the 23rd,thats all that needs to happen!

[forddeliveryboy]

You're braver than I am -I took my 2.5 cx dtr to 115mph once ( sur Le continent) and that was quite enough.

 

Ah, the old ancient tyres and hard spheres problem like Beko@120 had? 

 

Beko - you're daft for going at that speed with knackered suspension, but it's you're choice. I guess you backed off when it felt dangerous and unstable...

 

If only MoTs checked important things like properly functioning suspension as well as emissions and for cracks in the reg plates.

[Guest Hooli]

Bloody hell that is a modded pin, no wonder it had a no turny turny warning attached.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Why do people dick around with things that already work well? Buggering around with the pump and fuelling on these is equivalent to painting a decent car in Poundland matt black rattle cans. At least you see to be on the home straight and have managed to undo the Barry.

[beko1987]

It is more than a modified pin, it's custom made! I see all your sentiments about the barry, but tbh it was bloody quick! I'm impressed with the power it managed to produce, more so now it hasn't got it and is alot more wafty and slow. The clatter at idle has died down alot too. The fuel pump is still advanced though, but I don't think that's doing much now. I can't say I'll never have a go at flipping the LDA back again next year, although it's alot more frugal now, which given my current financial situation is very handy! Not tested it with a full tank though.

 

The custom pin is sat in the rear footwell still if anyone wants it for a laugh?

 

At least I know I can 'map' it now with a 10mm socket! The LDA it has now is half modified, so one side is ground out a bit, but the other side (the side fitted) is stock.

 

Anyhoo, thanks to someone who I don't know if they want to be mentioned so I won't, a new MOT is booked in for 12.15 tomorrow at a place near to work (as I have no more holiday so can only take an extended lunch break, and will need a morning off to go back to the place in Aylesbury). Possible plus point is to get to the place by home is an 8 mile drive down a road you can do no more than 35mph down due to traffic, to get to this place tomorrow I can tear it down the A404 to warm things up nicely, then come back on myself. May still pull up around the corner and redline it for a few seconds, then go back to hoping. Does accidentally letting a crate of beer fall out of the boot whilst I'm there work?

[forddeliveryboy]

May still pull up around the corner and redline it for a few seconds, then go back to hoping. Does accidentally letting a crate of beer fall out of the boot whilst I'm there work?

 

I cringed a bit the first time you mentioned you did this, it'll achieve nothing other than shaking something loose. GLWTMoT.

[beko1987]

I thought it might help blow some smoke out if there was any to blow.

 

OK, I won't do that then, I have 3 miles of bypass to do, and a long drag up a hill. I'll stay in a low gear with high revs.

[The Moog]

TBF to chompy, he made it fly!  

 

It was like driving a petrol car it was that quick. Plus if you vegged it, you didnt notice that much drop in power.

[conkerman]

Sam. Do you want a set of XUD timing pins? I think I have dome in the garage.

 

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[beko1987]

Moog - Yes, it was bloody amazingly quick! I almost sort of miss it, but it's OK in it's current near stock tune, as in when it gets up to speed it stays there, it just doesn't do it as quickly. Can't say it will never go slightly back now I know what to do, but not this side of spring

 

Conkerman - If you don't want them I'll happily have them, but don't intend to have the cambelt off for a while, I have some rodded bar I cut down when I had to fix the cambelt slippage which is still in my toolbox. Happy to give them a home if you want them out of your way, otherwise keep them for the next person to need to change a cambelt, and I might borrow them when I need to do the waterpump, which probably won't need to be next year as it's not due it yet, and the current one is spotless, no sign of leakage at all and nothing to suggest to me it's about to fail. I'll go touch some wood now, brb

[forddeliveryboy]

I thought it might help blow some smoke out if there was any to blow.

 

OK, I won't do that then, I have 3 miles of bypass to do, and a long drag up a hill. I'll stay in a low gear with high revs.

Best decokes are achieved at sustained max load and high combustion chamber temps. That bypass and long drag should work better than sitting at the kerb with it bouncing against the governor.

 

Attach a heavy caravan for a week for the best results.

[twosmoke300]

So your taking it to another test centre ? This could end badly 

[beko1987]

So your taking it to another test centre ? This could end badly 

It's heavily on my mind I must admit, but I have no more annual leave to use up to get back over to aylesbury, and they won't be open on saturday...

[beko1987]

Best decokes are achieved at sustained max load and high combustion chamber temps. That bypass and long drag should work better than sitting at the kerb with it bouncing against the governor.

 

Attach a heavy caravan for a week for the best results.

I always wondered actually, Bub - did you van always have a filthy front right hand corner when you towed it?!

[conkerman]

No worries. I'm only down the road from you so give me a shout if you need them.

 

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[beko1987]

Are you? Blimey between me, you, Arthur Foxhake and Bramz we can start forming the ASTV Massive! (Autoshite Thames Valley) Someone else is close too but I can't remember who they are.

[bub2006]

No it didn't if I'm honest, only mud usually

[beko1987]

No it didn't if I'm honest, only mud usually

I suppose you didn't really drive it fast and hard with the van on the back. Apart from trying to enter the field of dreams initially...

[bub2006]

Had to put foot down on some Derbyshire hills which was giving it some stick

[conkerman]

Yeah. You parked up about 20 yards away from my gaff the other week (woodville, chinnor)

 

 

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[beko1987]

Yeah. You parked up about 20 yards away from my gaff the other week (woodville, chinnor)

 

 

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Bloody hell Amy's mum lives in Wheeler's End! If I was parked there all day that was the weekend we were decorating her flat. It's easier to just park there than drive down her road, fail to find a parking space and reverse out (hope you didn't mind me parking opposite your house?)

 

A visit to a pub is in order over christmas I feel!

[conkerman]

I'm on Glynswood. No problem for me beer sounds like a plan!

 

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[Lacquer Peel]

Why do people dick around with things that already work well? Buggering around with the pump and fuelling on these is equivalent to painting a decent car in Poundland matt black rattle cans. At least you see to be on the home straight and have managed to undo the Barry.

It's not 'Barry' to adjust these pumps from their quite tame factory settings to improve driveability, loads of people do it.

[Guest Hooli]

^^^ What he said.

 

I tweaked my Disco (same pump) to make it drive better & it improved the MPG.