Trigs new project - Granada Scorpio

[mat_the_cat]

On 9/27/2019 at 8:35 PM, trigger said:

if it's stays up it will be a bonus

That's what happens when you get older.

[trigger]

The new headlight washer pump arrived super fast, the next morning in fact so this morning I quickly chucked the bumper back on and tested the lights and washers.

[500tops]

Powerful! 

[trigger]

Not the most exciting of updates but the wheels now have new boots fitted!

 

 

I also splashed out on a high quality* tyre for the spare too

 

 

Still, £70 for the tyres to be fitted and the ditchfinder for the spare isn't to be sniffed at, ended up costing £185 all in for 5 new tyres, it's smartened the old girl up no end.

 

 

 

 

 

[Schaefft]

I like absolutely everything in this thread. Please do one of my cars next!?

[Cavcraft]

Really has come up a treat that, Trigger, lovely stuff. 

[sierraman]

Don’t remember many being as tidy as that back in the day. I think you’ve done it right with the work that’s done, financially it’s probably not worthwhile a £1000 visit to a body shop to weld some new arches in when some glassfibre will see an effective repair for 3-4 years. You’ve not gone mad with it just spent sensibly to get it back on the road and used and enjoyed as they are supposed to be. Good work there man. 

[xtriple]

Is it for sale yet?

Cash waiting...  

[trigger]

Ha! You're not the first person to ask that! I still need to do the mechanical bits, namely the brakes but I need dad's help for them as I don't want to cock then up and kill myself! The plan is to use it for a bit and then probably move it on but I'm amazed by how well it's come up, I'll try and get some decent photos tomorrow now I've finished it.

As for it's value then I was thinking £1500 once it has its mot?

[omegod]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

Ha! You're not the first person to ask that! I still need to do the mechanical bits, namely the brakes but I need dad's help for them as I don't want to cock then up and kill myself! The plan is to use it for a bit and then probably move it on but I'm amazed by how well it's come up, I'll try and get some decent photos tomorrow now I've finished it.

As for it's value then I was thinking £1500 once it has its mot?

Sold !  ? 

[fordperv]

Fantastic little project trig I do love a nice scorchio

[trigger]

We all like photos right? so here are some photos i took this morning, not too shabby i hope you'll agree!

So there you go, it still needs the brakes looking at and i'm still not sure how it even drives yet until i take it for it's mot but the winter project is almost over, before the winter has even started... ?

[ETCHY]

You should be really proud of that, it looks bloody brilliant

Well done.

[Skizzer]

Holy Mary, you’ve raised the bar again.

Add me to the interested list as well.

Edited October 5, 2019 by Skizzer
(And no I’m not planning to engine rape it for the mk2 estate.)

[trigger]

Yesterday dad came over to help me with the brakes, rather naively I was hoping to strip them down, bit of a clean and they'll be fine again but unsurprisingly a couple of the calipers are a bit buggered, nearside front and offside rear were both seized up and need new seal kits.

So I've ordered new seal kits and pistons from Big Redd which should be here during the week, other than that the cars almost there now, I've even got all the electric rear seats working now too after replacing the isolator switch for the rear windows and cleaning a few switches.

Annoyingly though is that there's a rattle once the engine gets warm, it sounds like it's coming from the middle at the top around the silver centre bit or where the injectors are, should I be panicking now?! It seems to stop once you rev the engine, it's just on tick over?

[somewhatfoolish]

Are these hydraulic or steel tappets? Set the valve clearances if not hydraulic.

[Cavcraft]

I always think if a rattle doesn't rise with the revs, it's probably something minor like an alternator or water pump bearing, or possibly a pulley. Could be completely wrong of course.

 

I reckon you've under priced it slightly too, tbh. Would humbly suggest sticking it up for at least £1995  (perhaps as much as £2395) and seeing what happens. If you can get of the rattle and test the car, it's s rare and original motor that someone would love. £1500 would see a decent queue to buy it, honestly think it's worth more.

[dollywobbler]

I hate white cars normally, but this looks absolutely amazing. 

[sierraman]

42 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

I always think if a rattle doesn't rise with the revs, it's probably something minor like an alternator or water pump bearing, or possibly a pulley. Could be completely wrong of course.

 

I reckon you've under priced it slightly too, tbh. Would humbly suggest sticking it up for at least £1995  (perhaps as much as £2395) and seeing what happens. If you can get of the rattle and test the car, it's s rare and original motor that someone would love. £1500 would see a decent queue to buy it, honestly think it's worth more.

Completely agree there, pricing it low as well will get all the idiots in as well. 

[Skizzer]

35 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

I reckon you've under priced it slightly too, tbh. Would humbly suggest sticking it up for at least £1995  (perhaps as much as £2395) and seeing what happens. If you can get of the rattle and test the car, it's s rare and original motor that someone would love. £1500 would see a decent queue to buy it, honestly think it's worth more.

Damn you Billy!  I could probably have afforded it at £1500...

You’re right though: tested, rattle-free and used a bit for debugging this is surely a £2k+ car, isn’t it?

[Cavcraft]

Sorry, meant to say £2395 to the Hoi polloi, but £1500 to a gent like Martin.

[binhoker668]

I remember when these came out.  Used to drool over the Scorpio in the ‘Cars’ brochure I used to pick up every time it came out - at Wilson’s of Rathkenny in Larne.  Got my Dad to stop there every time we went past.  It’s now a deserted waste ground.  Looks really great Trig!  Loving the thread.

[Wack]

I had one of those in 1989 on a D reg, great cars , mine was a 2.8 Ghia or it might have been a 2.9  can't remember

I took it for a service to a place i'd never used before, couple of days later I pulled out to overtake a car , gave it the kickdown, foot to the floor , got past, took my foot off and it kept going , flat out , fortunately the brakes overrode the engine as they should and I got it slowed enough to turn it off

Lifted the bonnet and the jubilee clip to the air filter box had been put on upside down so the throttle linkage went past it but hit it on the way back and stuck open.

That was a scary 60 seconds, garage got a right bollocking

The one thing that did amaze me about the car is it had ABS brakes but no seatbelts in the back which I thought was odd

 

[Zelandeth]

Time to poke around using a big screwdriver as a stethoscope to try to narrow it down?

Some injectors can tick quite a bit, especially on earlier systems once they've a few miles under them.

Tappets would be a favourite though especially if they're hydraulic given how long the car has been laid up.  Couple of good high speed runs may go a long way to sort it if that's the cause.

[wuvvum]

Wynns do a hydraulic tappet remedy which I have found to be reasonably effective in the past.

So what are you going to do with yourself all winter now Trig?  I think you need to sell the Granada and buy yourself a nice Volvo 164 project to keep you occupied through the months ahead.

[Avensis Verso]

On the issue with the radio Cassette these where made by philips for Ford and the drive belts inside turn to goo, its a pain to clean the black goo off but once you do you can fit a new belt and it will work again

[paulscavalier]

Fantastic thread , but will it make an east coast retro meeting next year or will it be gone.?

[trigger]

We'll see Paul, I was hoping to have it at our meet this Saturday day time but I don't have time to get the work done and moted then, chances are that I will still have it next year, the more I've worked on it the more I like it! (Although I still would sooner have a MK2!)

[somewhatfoolish]

If it is ticking hydraulic tappets an oil change followed by an Italian tune-up or two is worth a go.

[trigger]

I don't think it's a tappet as it's coming from the middle at the top and I've just done a oil change. Listening through a tube makes me think it's inside the inlet manifold so possibly a loose butterfly flap? I'm not sure what the set up is with these.