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[scaryoldcortina]

^ None of that will make any difference to the test. You will, however get laughed at.

[Tayne]

If I change the fuel filter in my car*, will I have to bleed the injectors.

 

And is bleeding the injectors a major pain or just a case of slackening off a nut and the re-tightening?

 

 

 

 

*1998 Audi A3 Tdi 110bhp.

[Cavcraft]

Who is this LJK Setright (or whatever his name is_ please? I keep seeing mention on here about him but haven't the foggiest what the big deal is.

[Pete-M]

  Cavette said:

Who is this LJK Setright (or whatever his name is_ please? I keep seeing mention on here about him but haven't the foggiest what the big deal is.

 

LJKS was a legendary writer, mainly for CAR magazine from the '60s-'90s. Strange chap, had a fixation for Hondas, Bristols, various motorbikes and tyre construction.

 

LJK Setright Obit.

[Cavcraft]

Fanks, will have a gander at that!

[Guest Len H]

  Tayne said:

If I change the fuel filter in my car*, will I have to bleed the injectors.

 

And is bleeding the injectors a major pain or just a case of slackening off a nut and the re-tightening?

 

 

 

 

*1998 Audi A3 Tdi 110bhp.

 

No. Just fill the filter with diesel to prime it, otherwise the injector pump will prime the filter itself.

[warren t claim]

  Pete-M said:

  Cavette said:

Who is this LJK Setright (or whatever his name is_ please? I keep seeing mention on here about him but haven't the foggiest what the big deal is.

 

LJKS was a legendary writer, mainly for CAR magazine from the '60s-'90s. Strange chap, had a fixation for Hondas, Bristols, various motorbikes and tyre construction.

 

LJK Setright Obit.

I have a fixation with bristols as well but no-one calls me a hero. Only a pervert.

[Guest Len H]

There are some good LJKS articles archived on the Independent website, their motoring section used to be quite good before it was binned off.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 34228.html

 

Just type 'LJK' in the search bar for more. JFGI.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

there's a plastic sheet covering some internal bits of the door on the Accord. It is fixed on the metal using a disgusting goo that's watertight but easy to pull apart by hand. The manual helpfully refers to the goo as 'adhesive'. Does anyone know what it is and where I can get some?

[CreepingJesus]

If it's black Goo, it's mastic of some sort. Either that or you'll have foam like a very long sticky fixer. Mastic should be reusable a couple of times, or scrape it off, and use double sided carpet tape. Ditto for the foam kind.

Both are obtainable from bodyshop suppliers, but B+Q bodges work fine.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

It is the foam kind. Cheers for that.

 

Now I only need a dwarf with long fingers to undo a bolt.

[Andrew353w]

  Cavette said:

Who is this LJK Setright (or whatever his name is_ please? I keep seeing mention on here about him but haven't the foggiest what the big deal is.

 

He wrote an amazing article for the Daf car company explaining in ordinary language how the Daf belt drive system worked. A GREAT article and a MUST for all Daffers! It included something about the actor the late Sir Peter Ustinov, who was a great Daf fan and owner. The story goes that he was invited a party to which Sir Jackie Stewart was also invited. Apparently there was a bad snowstorm near the party, but Peter Ustinov made it the venue successfully, passing Jackie Stewart on the way, who was stuck in the snow! He is said to have wound down the window of his Daf & said to Jackie "I'll tell them you'll be late, shall I?"

[tonedepear]

  warren t claim, AGES ago said:

I have a fixation with bristols as well but no-one calls me a hero. Only a pervert.

 

I just got this.

[scaryoldcortina]

  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:

It is the foam kind. Cheers for that.

 

Now I only need a dwarf with long fingers to undo a bolt.

 

could you hammer a midget over it instead?

[CreepingJesus]

So...Ford Puma. There's quite a few on das 'Bay for not much money, have been for a while. When did they quietly slip into shite-dom, and what are the pitfalls? I don't think the motoring public really took to the glorified FiestaKacoupe, but I recall them being quite pleasant at the time, at least in 1.7 form.

[kinkersaab]

Good to drive, 1.7's seem to have a thirst for oil, have seen one or two dead ones to to lack of it. They all rust round the rear arches, esp up in our neck of the woods. If you cant see rust, chances are you wont have to wait long before it re appears.

[trigger]

I used to have a 1.4 version, it was OK, Quite good fun to drive with a quick gearbox and tight suspension but that is as good as it got, I'm 5ft 11 and kept banging my head every time i got in and out of it due to the low roof line, The A post was shaped just right to be a blind spot when coming up to roundabouts and every time you opened the boot in the wet all the water would just piss straight into the boot in due to a design fault.

 

Most of them now are suffering from badly rusted rear arches, my neighbour has a 2000 1.7 version which he says drinks like a fish and he can't even get £500 for it as the arches are being held together with black gaffer tape.

[Pete-M]

  CreepingJesus said:

So...Ford Puma. There's quite a few on das 'Bay for not much money, have been for a while. When did they quietly slip into shite-dom, and what are the pitfalls? I don't think the motoring public really took to the glorified FiestaKacoupe, but I recall them being quite pleasant at the time, at least in 1.7 form.

 

The 1.7 is a proper grin, and detuned somewhat in standard form from what they were designed to produce. The one in the FordRacingPuma thing had enough poke to make them a fair bit quicker than the Focus RS - so they knocked the power down to 150 bhp.

 

They handle brilliantly, don't ride badly, sound great (acoustically tuned inlet and exhaust systems), and were basically fiddled with to get the best possible from the already pretty good Fiesta chassis. Steering isn't perfect but it's close enough to not be annoying.

 

The Racing Puma was a great car, just insanely priced new. I think they were £22k, but that's what happens when you get Tickford to do body mods.

[warren t claim]

An ex girlfriend had a Puma as a company car. Ace to drive imho.

[CreepingJesus]

I see! So that's why most of the pics in the ads have been a bit coy about showing the rear arches in much detail!

I did wonder about the 1.7 lump: the 1.4 was a Ford one, but the 1.25 and 1.7 were a joint venture with Yamaha iirc. They were supposed to have been a whole new line of engines, according to the grapevine, but they've kinda sunk without trace.

I never did get my grubby mitts on a Racing version, but one of those in blue with the white OZ's on, was how it should've looked in the first place. Funnily enough, they're still worth a bob or two. I take it Tickford built them a little better.

The only impressive thing I ever saw in M*x P***r ever, was a 2L turbo Zetec converted Puma. Very tidy, looked almost factory; I wonder if Ford had that in mind?

[pompei]

I rememberTiff Needell flying round in one with Clarkson & Wilson on board on an old TG. I think they voted it their car of the year, or best handling/most fun car etc. It's on Youtube somewhere I think.

[myglaren]

Workmate of mine is just divesting himself of one that he's had about a year.

I've driven it a few times and enjoyed it but wouldn't like it for everyday use.

I thought my daughter might have been interested and while she found it fun to drive she liked her SAAB better, then went for the Rover 75 that she loves.

Wise choice in the long run, IMO.

[kinkersaab]

is the whole GR1 - Gr9.9999999 thing only used on here? I think it's gr8, and have started pissing friends off by using it in a piss take manner, no one else i have ever spoken to has heard of it, surely its too good to have been invented on here?

[eddyramrod]

Easily the best part of the Puma was the Bullitt ad.....

[Father Ted]

Induction kits....

 

Any good? I want to try and squeeze a bit more power out of the Micra. Short of trying to find a 1.3 to fit, I thought about replacing the air filter with an induction kit. Might look pretty and make me think its going a bit faster.

But are they just so much snake oil?

[pompei]

I have me doubts FT. When I had my CRX, there were all sorts of mods being done with cold air intakes and washable filters and the like and then gradually people started re-fitting the original spec units because they were better. I can't help thinking if it were that easy to get a few more horses then the manufacturers would have done it.

[scaryoldcortina]

I'd agree, and go further and say that flat paper filters are probably better at flowing air into your engne than a max power branded K&N filter. For pov-spec improvements in flow/noise you should be drilling holes in the bottom of the standard air box

[CreepingJesus]

The better brands, K+N, Ramair etc, are worth a couple of horse, tops. They do sound nice, and will save you a bob or two in the very long run.

All this M*x P***r tosh about mega gains was, and is exactly that. Tosh.

[andrew e]

My fatherinlaw was working in Fords at dunton, and confirmed the best all round cvh/VV carb aircleaner was the one it left the factory with apparently. His personal theory was a new VV was better than a new webber...

[scaryoldcortina]

  andrew e said:

My fatherinlaw was working in Fords at dunton, and confirmed the best all round cvh/VV carb aircleaner was the one it left the factory with apparently. His personal theory was a new VV was better than a new webber...

 

Maybe, but the weber stayed in tune for 15 years where the VV fucked up within 15 miles......