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I just replaced the missing fuel door on the 940, I wasn't going to bother but I saw someone breaking a red one on eBay so I did. Colour match is slightly off but it makes the car look more presentable and I did T-cut the fuel door so if I get around to doing the rest of the car might match better.

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4 hours ago, Tamworthbay said:

That quote for the headlining wasn’t silly money by any stretch, You can easily pay £3-400 for a mini if someone does it and yours is a big old motor.

No I guess not, I was just expecting/hoping for it to be around £300. I would rather spend £800 on more important/exciting things to be honest.

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15 hours ago, sickboy said:

Ah you beat me to that 940 ? I was keen, but alas my PM was a day too late.  

Out of curiosity, I gather the NA 2.0 variety of 900 series are truly gutless. Just how much slower does it feel compared to your previous 2.3 turbo manual? I’d really like a 2.3 turbo manual 940....

It's not terribly slow, down about 50BHP so obviously very noticeable but it's livable with. I think coming straight from a 2.0 automatic 405 makes it seem ok, if you drove it back to back with a 2.3 turbo then it would seem glacial.

11 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Is it not old enough to have a sprung steel rod through loops in the material type of headliner? 

Yeah that's what it had, I have the old headlining still but when we tried to fit it at the field of dreams it very quickly became apparent it would no longer fit due to the electric sunroof.

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16 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

If you get stuck with the headliner we'll do a MM tinkering session up here were I have tools.  It looks like it could do with a sheet bigger than 8x4 which could be tricky though.

We just need 'Disco gearbox'* levels of attendance and we're sorted!

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On 8/23/2019 at 1:56 PM, danthecapriman said:

Was it Vulgalor that did one using material with little rabbits on it!? Sure it was one of his cars.

You remember correctly, it was the Renault 6 I did that to.

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Not too bad a job, but it was a screen-out one for the front, usually you have to pull all the glass to get the fabric glued around the window holes, some cars have little rails down the side like the R6, but most don't by the time you get to stuff the age of the Cedric.  A moulded board for the headlining will make life easier if you can do it, that way you don't have to take any glass out.  Plenty of cardboard and tape to build a decent template, transfer to something lightweight that can put up with heat and moisture cycles, and then figure out how you're going to fix it to the roof.  Ideally, making use of grab handles and sunvisor fixing locations should hold it up and save you the peril of glue that might not stay glued.

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I got the 940 up on the ramps today for a spot of servicing. I can't stress how much I love having access to a ramp, it makes you feel like a "proper" mechanic rather than an amateur on your back on the driveway while it's raining. I did an engine oil and filter change, coolant flush and diff oil change. As I was changing the diff oil I also took the opportunity to clean the speed sensor and this actually appears to have fixed the speedometer :) I have an issue with the heater controls I need to rectify as it's sticky and I can't get it to go fully hot but otherwise it's all set for daily driver duties. 

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Today was a fairly unproductive day on Cedric. I decided to investigate the inoperative fuel gauge, when I first got the car it would only read half for a full tank but after a week and 2000 miles worth of fill ups it started working perfectly so I surmised it was a sticky fuel sender. Then I got depressed and didn't drive it for months and the fuel gauge stopped working completely :(

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I lifted the boot carpet and prised the cover of the inspection hole, I think it should have screws but someone had just used some kind of sealant to stick it down. I grounded the sender wire and as expected the gauge went to full deflection so it was definitely the sender at fault.IMG_20190914_144302993.thumb.jpg.4cbabf6ea92e9f8356bf9722aaedec66.jpg

It's rather crusty and trying to tap it undone with a blunt chisel and hammer was showing no signs of it moving so I decided that I will have to drop the tank and get better access but that can wait for another day over winter when I won't be using the car anyway.

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I took a picture of the remains of the opening rear side window, the runners are still in place and the window has just been wedged closed. I still hope to get it functioning one day, the original mechanism was a big motor and steel wire affair and is very rusty. I believe I can make a simpler mechanism possibly using a linear actuator but it's very low on my jobs list so no idea when I will attempt to get it working again.

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This is the most exciting part I have purchased for Cedric so far :) Anyone who has seen it recently would have heard how rorty it sounds due to a huge hole in the exhaust manifold. Hopefully this new one will fit, I had a message exchange with Sean at Zstory who makes them primarily for S30 chassis Z cars and sent a load of pictures and measurements, obviously it will bolt up to the engine fine but it's the clearance with gearbox and chassis rails that may be an issue. I will be getting the whole rest of the exhaust redone in stainless too once I have the manifold on.

I am itching to get it fited and see how it sounds :)

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I started trying to fit my new exhaust manifold today, above was the starting position.

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I started by removing the 02 sensor a step which probably doesn't apply to many 50 year old Datsuns :)

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I soon had the inlet manifold complete with carbs off as one assembly.

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I cut through the old exhaust for easier removal.

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Then the old manifold was off and you can clearly see why it needs to be replaced.

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Then the "fun" started, I knew it wasn't to be a cake walk when I had to remove the thermostat housing which the old exhaust had cleared easily when being removed. And then it wouldn't clear past some bolts which were holding on a what I think is called an idler arm, something to do with the steering anyway so I undid the nuts and pulled the bolts part way out to get it past. I will be able to get the nuts back on afterwards.

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Then the corner of the transmission was in the way of the 2-1 collector pipe fitting but this bit seemed superfluous.....

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So I cut it off.

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Finally I was at a point where it was basically fitting, well the manifold at least but there was still a clearance issue with the 2-1 collector pipe and the transmission oil pan.IMG_20191013_174950846.thumb.jpg.79e3e1ae73f64bbbf869e93031af2c85.jpg

Welcome to the inside of my transmission, I removed the pan to make sure the 2-1 collector would fit if the pan were modified and as far as I can tell it will. That's where I got to today.

My plan of action now is to get the inlet manifold back on and get the engine side of things all back together and also reinstall the transmission oil pan for now and treat it as a partial ATF change. Then I will need to modify the oil pan before I can install the 2-1 collector. I have a few concerns/thoughts I need to mull over. So maybe some transmissions "gurus" (@PhilA) could give some input please. Number one is the depth of a transmission oil pan critical? I will have to make it deeper in another area so I don't lose any volume. Number two, will it matter if the exhaust is close to the pan once modified? I am worried about the extra heat although it does an ATF cooler as part of the radiator. Number three, would anyone near Tamworth be prepared to modify the pan for me? I have a welder which works and has gas but I am not really confident using it. I will have a go if I need to but would rather trust someone else if they were confident of doing it. I know oil pans get modified all the time when people do engine swaps so I am pretty sure it's doable.

I maybe should have bought a different manifold but I am determined to make this work now so here's hoping :)

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13 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Is it not safer and easier to adapt the exhaust, you probably only have one transmission sump ?

Possibly, Sean from Zstory has suggested maybe grinding the flange to angle it away from the sump. My initial thought of modifying the sump is based on it being thinnish steel and easier to cut and weld etc. Also after spending £561 (including shipping from France) on the manifold I am reluctant to start cutting or bashing on it if I can avoid it. I have not modified anything yet though so if a better suggestion comes along I will certainly consider it :) I will be able to get it running as is without the 2-1 collector so it won't be stuck on the ramp.

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