tooSavvy Posted October 2, 2021 Author Posted October 2, 2021 I see a Honda, on the eBay thread..... Are/Is this a factory/production line (like part of the body pressings?) or a kind that was avail at Sunroof Fitters?? Neat.... No clearance issues 😎
tooSavvy Posted October 4, 2021 Author Posted October 4, 2021 I will pop the bonnet and check my crucial 'manifold/bonnet skin' clearance.... I have ordered some new screws, for locating the box-lid (some were missing/rusted) 25mm long 👍 Box will be no good if it doesn't squeeze in the gap 😕
tooSavvy Posted October 7, 2021 Author Posted October 7, 2021 Looking Good 👍 Installed height (thickness) of FIAT box is 100mm >> using bloo-tak + a screw, I pressed down to get the bonnet/ITB gap = 125mm 😎. rob88h, privatewire and 500tops 3
tooSavvy Posted October 7, 2021 Author Posted October 7, 2021 Further action...... I have cut off all the mounting bracket/webs from the base box. I have sliced a chunk out of the corner (where the inlet pipe neck would be) so that I clear the fixed EGR vac controller. When I reach the point of 'screwing it into position' I shall cobble up an enclosure to reseal the lopped off section of casing.... re-attach the inlet pipe neck >> somewhere else... and look at reusing the FIAT snorkel 👍 loserone, Jim Bell, privatewire and 2 others 5
tooSavvy Posted October 14, 2021 Author Posted October 14, 2021 After..... Much Fretting 🤔 I have lopped off the 'square end' of the air box >> now it more closely resembles a giant Do-Nut & should settle more easily into my existing engine compartment 👍 Mally, rainagain and privatewire 3
tooSavvy Posted October 18, 2021 Author Posted October 18, 2021 I'm awaiting delivery of a 36MM Bell-mouth trumpet.... To go onto my TB, inside the A/F box. This piece, I happened across, is along my thoughts... https://www.tr-register.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/72556-bellmouth-for-fitting-inside-air-filters/
Jikovron Posted October 18, 2021 Posted October 18, 2021 When's the turbo getting fitted?, you might aswell now there's a oil filter port for the turbo oil feed waiting to be used, just watch out for damp patches on the road with those unequal length driveshafts 😄 500tops and tooSavvy 2
tooSavvy Posted October 20, 2021 Author Posted October 20, 2021 *Fork In Road* ..... FIAT box is simply too massive for space in engine bay ... PlanB I have popped for a much more conservative style enclosure [Allegro 1500 airbox] but with a twist.... As I'm keen to have as much 'open space' around the TB, I have done some Webbie mining and specced an A/F which is the correct thickness & outside dia BUT much thinner walled - making the insides much more roomy. £16, all in.... (No Jam 😜) *Still using the snorkel pipe from FIAT rainagain 1
tooSavvy Posted October 21, 2021 Author Posted October 21, 2021 My 'tin fryingpan' AllAggro air cleaner box has just arrived..... OooooF 😉
tooSavvy Posted October 23, 2021 Author Posted October 23, 2021 The FIAT 127 air cleaner inner has arrived... Ace! Now I can get this screwed together & installed....... Jim Bell, privatewire and 500tops 3
tooSavvy Posted October 24, 2021 Author Posted October 24, 2021 I'm looking to the future.... What colour should I paint the whole box, when it's done 🤔
Mally Posted October 24, 2021 Posted October 24, 2021 Just push the boundaries and paint it black. tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted October 24, 2021 Author Posted October 24, 2021 47 minutes ago, Mally said: Just push the boundaries and paint it black. ...... But Mick!!
tooSavvy Posted October 24, 2021 Author Posted October 24, 2021 Holes need to be drilled in base-plate.... For PCV venting & IAT sensor. Should look 'well neat'* when I'm done. *Ari Vatanen induction roar will be - purely coincidental 😎
tooSavvy Posted October 28, 2021 Author Posted October 28, 2021 My 63mm 'throat' velocity stack has just been dropped off. It is greater than 63 as you go up to the mouth. It needs to be large because, although the butterfly inlet is 40mm, the TB is wider directly above (64mm) to allow the injector to sit directly above the throttle plate, allowing air flow..... 🧐
tooSavvy Posted November 1, 2021 Author Posted November 1, 2021 Did my '1st Oil Change' on SuziQ = 7 Nov '20. I have all the stuff + sandwich plate (for wet oil gauge) so .... sometime this week, eh? 👍😎
tooSavvy Posted November 5, 2021 Author Posted November 5, 2021 Right Ho...... Decent dry day, unseasonably warm[ish].... Boooffff 🔨👍 *No Leaks ☔ ..... 😉 rainagain and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted November 8, 2021 Author Posted November 8, 2021 One *seasonal thing that buggs the fcuk out of me..... My HRW switch is iffy 😱 It is a pushhy inny/outty one, with a telltale - directly wired across the HRW output = no glow is NO DEFOG! £3 will see me sorted...... The factory switch is 'dash illuminated' but I'm tapping those wires off... To run the little lamp in my Oil Pressure Gauge ™when fitted 😎
tooSavvy Posted November 10, 2021 Author Posted November 10, 2021 I have a 'slow-burn' mission to find a lip/hatch spoiler.... ...... NOT like this 🤐
tooSavvy Posted November 10, 2021 Author Posted November 10, 2021 HRW switch 'poingged' out.... Gutted and reconfigured to support 60's inspired SwitchToggle..... Photties tmozz, when it goes back in... Jim Bell and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted November 11, 2021 Author Posted November 11, 2021 All soldered up...... Mally, Liggle and privatewire 3
tooSavvy Posted November 11, 2021 Author Posted November 11, 2021 ..... Like the dash in a '70s 1100 😍 brandersnatch, DoctorRetro, rainagain and 2 others 5
Spurious Posted November 11, 2021 Posted November 11, 2021 Top work, where did you get the sandwich plate?
tooSavvy Posted November 11, 2021 Author Posted November 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, Spurious said: Top work, where did you get the sandwich plate? Bay of Flee..... £11 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-Car-Oil-Filter-Cooler-Sandwich-Plate-Adapter-for-Oil-Temperature-/353075303741?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
tooSavvy Posted November 12, 2021 Author Posted November 12, 2021 As reported in 'giffer trinkets...' >> I have some DRL coming from China. My headlights are 'switched earth', so all the wiring is live all the time = fitting a 'lighting ON/DRL OFF' relay would be complicated. Having just rebuilt the HRW switch, which was 'dash illuminated'(when you put any lights on) AND the little lamps all go Direct To Earth 🤔..... We now know how to put a relay in [dashlights ON= DRL OFF]. Another problem blasted away...... 👍 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted November 15, 2021 Author Posted November 15, 2021 I occasionally refer to my past incarnation, as a 'total IMPnutter!' ...... oh, to be [that] young again 🧐 *err, or THIN 🥺 Jim Bell and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted November 16, 2021 Author Posted November 16, 2021 My 'door light' is a 5W5 bulb.... and pretty pathetic. I stuck in a LED (from my LED Brake Light, I had a couple spare...) + a small piece of silvered paper - from a cosmetics set..... OOOFF! 👍 rainagain 1
tooSavvy Posted December 5, 2021 Author Posted December 5, 2021 Christ on a bike 😱 I'm bombing along, near Wingate, going to see the daughter.... I drive around the corner, the road is hedged in, and hear a thwack up through the wheels .... drive around the next bend (opp lock)... HAMMERS >> like the the wheelnuts are coming off!! Hmmmm....... Now all quiet, pulls up at the house >> quick yark on the nuts = OK! Can only be a 'stick', from The Storm, and I have cartwheeled it up onto the drive shaft and out the spokes.... Shitted A Brick. *Need to eyeball CV boot tomozz.....
tooSavvy Posted December 19, 2021 Author Posted December 19, 2021 35k up.... Yesterday 🌠🥰 Garrbollox *not imploded YET! 🤫 privatewire 1
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