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7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Oil coolers and some other parts for the CX run over to the workshop. Have seen the entire cylinder head resting on a bench there....

Something you don’t really want to see - a bit like heart surgery on nearest and dearest,

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Not been the greatest of days!

SWMBO’s Hyundai Matrix has failed miserably on the MOT. It needs new front and rear subframes, two tyres and a load of brake pipes and a pair of wishbones. Plus the fact the clutch is ready to pop has consigned it to the finish line. SWMBO is devastated (and so am I, truth be told). We are now hunting for a decent MPV size thing for about £1500 budget. It has to be 100000% safe or else she won’t drive it.

So after this shocker, I thought I’d go and tinker with Dudley the Micra and get that ready for it’s MOT. The plan being that when that passes then SWMBO could use it just to get us out of a muddle. I fired it up after being sat for 6 weeks and it sounded a bit lumpy but settled down. I then moved it across the garden onto some hard standing and left it to run for 20 minutes to get everything moving again.

This turned out to be a bad idea. I came back out after a swift cup of tea to find the temp gauge stuck firmly in the red, the fan going batshit crazy and a large quantity of white smoke coming off the engine and exhaust. It’s probably fair to say that it’s toast. So that’s gonna get fragged in the next few days.

Ho-hum. Morale at an all time low.

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9 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Hopefully Dudley isn't kettled.... But if he is what sort of Micra is he, where is he and is he available for donating parts to help others live on.? 

Any chance of pictures please. 

Sorry for your losses ?

I think it’s goosed. 
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It’s all there, even has a mostly full service history. In my rage and upset I took the wheeltrims off but they can go back on no problem. It’s in South Norfolk, Close to the Suffolk border. If anyone wants to offer me money then speak now. I’ll be ringing the scrapman tomorrow morning.

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Is the tempest the "racy" one?, I haven't even looked at my Micra since lockdown, mines only a 1 litre, I can't even remember how many doors ?... 

Micra engines are readily available aren't they, looks too good to scrap. 

If it's going for scrap or to an oval track near you are the wheels, tyres and front and back lights any good, I'm gonna have to go round and see what state my one is in to see if there's any other bits possibly needed. 

Hold fire on the phone call to the scrappy??

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20 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Is the tempest the "racy" one?, I haven't even looked at my Micra since lockdown, mines only a 1 litre, I can't even remember how many doors ?... 

Micra engines are readily available aren't they, looks too good to scrap. 

If it's going for scrap or to an oval track near you are the wheels, tyres and front and back lights any good, I'm gonna have to go round and see what state my one is in to see if there's any other bits possibly needed. 

Hold fire on the phone call to the scrappy??

No, it’s the 1.0 16V jobbie. It doesn’t have an MOT as I was in the process of getting one. It does really need a new CV joint on the O/S but I have a brand new one ready to go on.

Ok I’ll hold fire for the moment, it would need to go whole rather than in parts as I’m not in the mood for breaking it to be fair.

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34 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

I will need to dig the welder out for this purchase,  deposit left and hopefully should be at Rusty towers in a couple of weeks 20200620_123500.thumb.jpg.e07e2124c41fcb6a6f8d9ce9f71994a3.jpg20200620_123512.thumb.jpg.771a132af192ab3947bff3fbcb5a9227.jpg20200620_123525.thumb.jpg.38bc0ad41347c39129b3131995117423.jpg20200620_123540.thumb.jpg.d81c40af2c3eedd1936eb70cb47ef3d0.jpg

1275cc low mileage, not to bad body wise but will need some welding,  paint, oil seals and an M,O,T 

Love the interior, nicely headache inducing! 

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Well I had to do it. Popped to Halfords to get some Millers petrol max additive and at £5 for the Richbrook keyring seemed quite a good deal. I tried my best using Halfords toolbox red touch up pen to fill in the faded ST badge. Wobbly handed as fuck and it's not the greatest of jobs but, even at a couple feet it looks a million times better. A new OE badge is £28 and I don't think I will be buying that any time soon. I will be doing a full service including plugs on this just to keep it sweet. Think I will invest in a k&n panel filter though. 

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Duly noted and deleted from the watch list!
I decided a Malian was what I needed.
Looked nice, YouTube vids sounded ok.

Got it, fitted it.... Found out it sounded like some fucker playing a trombone down a megaphone. The volume on cold starts, Christ you could hear it from a neighbouting town.
The drone inside at a certain speed was horrible. There must be nothing in those silencers.

Plus it never really fitted properly.

I now have a non resonated Milltek, it now actually sounds like a sports car.
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Just now, iainrcz said:

I decided a Malian was what I needed.
Looked nice, YouTube vids sounded ok.

Got it, fitted it.... Found out it sounded like some fucker playing a trombone down a megaphone. The volume on cold starts, Christ you could hear it from a neighbouting town.
The drone inside at a certain speed was horrible. There must be nothing in those silencers.

Plus it never really fitted properly.

I now have a non resonated Milltek, it now actually sounds like a sports car.
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I may just fit a nicer back box, I've seen a good used Janspeed one in eBay. But if I decide against that then I'll go for a local exhaust specialist to just replace it. The exhaust itself is in fantastic condition I'm just wanting to future proof it a little 

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