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[grogee]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

The little green Fiesta is looking a lot less green now.

It's remarkable how tidy it was under all that green moss and algae but I've now hit a snag, It won't rev over 3800 rpm and smokes when on the limiter, the ecu comes up with a P132B fault code which is a turbo actuator or boost fault? I'm not sure how deep i want to go into fixing that yet as i have no experience in them? other than a needing a new windscreen it's almost ready for a mot now though.

Don't make the mistake I made on my Espace. I assumed the noisy turbo was the culprit and spent quite a bit of time and money replacing it. Turned out that it was the solenoid valve that directs vacuum to the turbo (VGT?) actuator.

The valve was £30 and ten minutes to fit...

If you like I will see what I can dig out on Ford ETIS for the solenoid, assuming there is one. 

[tom13]

4 hours ago, yes oui si said:

Wow that looks amazing.

[tom13]

22 hours ago, Pete-M said:

This week I finally decided to buy myself an R53 Cooper S.

Spent quite some time looking for one with the spec I wanted, and finally found one with all the bits I was looking for - leather, climate, nav, cruise,  xenon, chili pack, sport suspension, pre-facelift, Cooper S only colour (Electric Blue). 

It is bloody good fun. The R53 Cooper S is 20 years old next year. Don't see many like this anymore. 

Only modifications to it are R56 rear trailing arms (stronger), non-runflat Bridgestones and polybushes. 

 

 

Nice this. I nearly went and had a look at a 2004 copper S convertible on facebook last week. The oil leaks, and MPG put me off getting one this time but I will definitely have one at some point.

[Cord Fourteener]

I thought the Mondeo Hatchback was behaving itself. 

Instead it's been secretly and silently shitting itself. 

[Urko]

19 hours ago, yes oui si said:

Finally got the audi wheels on. 

I liked the steels, these work much better:

 

That looks awful, like some wannabe pineapple dubber - what's next, NATO paint and a roof rack?

[Pete-M]

2 hours ago, tom13 said:

Nice this. I nearly went and had a look at a 2004 copper S convertible on facebook last week. The oil leaks, and MPG put me off getting one this time but I will definitely have one at some point.

My one has had pretty much all the gaskets replaced. 

I noticed last night they've not replaced the PCV valve, which is probably what popped all the old gaskets.

PCV on order. 

[trigger]

4 hours ago, grogee said:

Don't make the mistake I made on my Espace. I assumed the noisy turbo was the culprit and spent quite a bit of time and money replacing it. Turned out that it was the solenoid valve that directs vacuum to the turbo (VGT?) actuator.

The valve was £30 and ten minutes to fit...

If you like I will see what I can dig out on Ford ETIS for the solenoid, assuming there is one. 

Cheers for the offer, I've just managed to fix it... It ended up being a stuck actuator, took the E Clip of the rod and it all spring back into life again, gave it a squirt of WD40 and it now runs perfect, cleared the codes and there's no lights either so happy days!

[grogee]

25 minutes ago, trigger said:

Cheers for the offer, I've just managed to fix it... It ended up being a stick actuator, took the E Clip of the rod and it all spring back into life again, gave it a squirt of WD40 and it now runs perfect, cleared the codes and there's no lights either so happy days!

Reeeee-sult! Good work. Hope the new screen gets done soon. Happy motoring!

[yes oui si]

1 hour ago, Urko said:

That looks awful, like some wannabe pineapple dubber - what's next, NATO paint and a roof rack?

Can you show us on the doll where the nasty car hurt your feelings? 

Shiny paint, nothing on the roof. 

[Asimo]

5 hours ago, grogee said:

They look like mighty 4-pot calipers on fairly small discs (compared to modernz). Bet it stops pretty well, I guess the magic suspension stops it squatting under hard braking?

If you look closely you’ll see that the caliper is not attached to the hub-carrier / steering knuckle it IS the hub carrier!

One part doing two jobs, in this case helping to keep the unsprung weight down as well as engineering for efficient production.
And yes, CX braking is almost dive-free and it is very powerful

[Fumbler]

The first frost I've seen this winter has fallen. Not much but it's there!

[wuvvum]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

The exhaust blow is coming from the downpipe near the manifold, which would explain why I had to drive all the way home with the heating on "recirculate".  It looks like it's been welded before and is blowing on the edge of the welded patch.  It's not a big hole but it does make a bit of noise being so close to the engine so that'll need sorting too - I'm going to Gun Gum it temporarily but it'll eventually need a new pipe

Well this could be more awkward than I expected.  New exhaust down pipes seem to be completely unobtainium.  Which would explain why the existing one has been welded.

Balls.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well this could be more awkward than I expected.  New exhaust down pipes seem to be completely unobtainium.  Which would explain why the existing one has been welded.

Balls.

I'm guessing a custom stainless one goes completely against the ethos of AS.

[wuvvum]

It'd also probably cost more than I paid for the car...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

50 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

It'd also probably cost more than I paid for the car...

Is there a similar pipe from another car that could be adapted*?

[wuvvum]

It would appear not.  I assumed the Kia Pride down pipe would be the same, given that they're the same car, but nope - completely different.  The bubble shape 121 is closer, but still not the same - that used a 16v version of the same basic engine.  I've only found one place online that even lists the correct part, and they're out of stock.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

46 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

It would appear not.  I assumed the Kia Pride down pipe would be the same, given that they're the same car, but nope - completely different.  The bubble shape 121 is closer, but still not the same - that used a 16v version of the same basic engine.  I've only found one place online that even lists the correct part, and they're out of stock.

You've probably already seen this used one....

[wuvvum]

I hadn't actually - I'd not ventured into overseas breakers yet, a lot of them don't want to post to the UK anymore as I found when I was trying to get Innocenti bits.  I'll bookmark that one though - can't see it selling particularly quickly...

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

It would appear not.  I assumed the Kia Pride down pipe would be the same, given that they're the same car, but nope - completely different.  The bubble shape 121 is closer, but still not the same - that used a 16v version of the same basic engine.  I've only found one place online that even lists the correct part, and they're out of stock.

Is it the same engine used as in the Kia?  If so could the whole system from a Kia be used, even if the individual bits are different?

[loserone]

Or do the right thing and find an MX-5 which has the same family of engine but a bit bigger holes inside

[tom13]

22 hours ago, yes oui si said:

What steels were these and were they 5x112? You still got them?

[wuvvum]

9 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Is it the same engine used as in the Kia?  If so could the whole system from a Kia be used, even if the individual bits are different?

Possibly, yes, although the vast majority of Prides were fuel injected so not sure if the Pride manifold would fit the Mazda head.

[Pete-M]

20 hours ago, Sigmund Fraud said:

Is it time for some ironic "100% BMC FREE" stickers ?

I'm considering one of these. 

[yes oui si]

1 hour ago, tom13 said:

What steels were these and were they 5x112? You still got them?

Banded 16" 5x100 skoda ones, sold them at the weekend. 

[Datsuncog]

Cat Piss Tarp Challenge for today.

Answer to come later!!

[Isopon]

13 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Cat Piss Tarp Challenge for today.

My best guess for this is a Silver Shadow (series 1 because of the chrome bumpers.) The bumper looks like the same shape with the wheel arch, and the crease in the wings looks the same aswell.

[High Jetter]

I don't think the bonnet is high enough for a Shadow - more something like an XJ I'd have thought, though I'm not sure the tail is long enough for that.

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, Isopon said:

My best guess for this is a Silver Shadow (series 1 because of the chrome bumpers.) The bumper looks like the same shape with the wheel arch, and the crease in the wings looks the same aswell.

We have a winner.

I thought the bonnet line looked a little low too, but apparently not.

I didn't start pulling at the cover though; looks like it's been parked up for a while, and oddly the tax is shown as expired (but not SORNed).

It's also parked up in a student area, but hopefully no-one will go fiddling with it after a few sherbets too many.

[wuvvum]

I took the Charade for a drive at lunchtime with the laptop plugged in to the OBD port to get a live coolant temp readout.  It's sitting at 88 degrees.  Which means that the poor heater would appear to be down to a blocked matrix.  New matrices for these don't appear to be available so I'm going to have to hope I can get the existing one cleaned out OK.

I also noticed a "feature" I hadn't spotted before.  When you get in the car the milometer displays a scrolling message saying "Hello Happy".  When you switch off it says "See you Good-by" [sic].  How very Japanese...

I plugged the laptop into the Scénic as well to see if I could get the wipers to work using the "ping" function in the Delphi software, but that didn't work.  I'm going to take the wiper arms and scuttle panel cover off at the weekend and clean up the connections to the motors to see if that helps (although it looks pretty clean and dry in there from what I can see).  The second rear spring is apparently now on its way, so I've got to try and fit those at the weekend too - the weather is supposed to be utterly shite though so I can see it being a fun* task...

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

When you get in the car the milometer displays a scrolling message saying "Hello Happy". 

That's brilliant... and isn't there someone on here who has those very words set as their signature?

At least I know where it's from now!