Recent content by DaveL485

This is why I do all my own work, terrified of what would happen if someone f**ked my car up. I wouldnt react well, especially my 21 :o I go to a very select few personal friends for things I cant do. Fortunate to have built that network over time.

After this car went back to the owner he loved it so much it became his daily driver :) Fast forward to earlier this year, someone reversed into it and broke the headlight and bumper :( cue a massive war with the insurance companies... in the end resolved but with the car not repaired. The...

Its basically an oil cooler thing. I'm not keen, but its not my problem tbh, i'll leave that to the owner to sort :)

Thank you, I'm cursed with a love of these stupid old things it seems. With current labour rates if you can't spanner yourself, its just not realistic to run a 21 (or many other classics) now, for example i'm maybe 80-100 hours into the other black one thats here - at a normal garage thats...

The OE car has 2 intercoolers, a fat one sat low in the OS front wing getting a nice cold air feed from the front bumper. The second one sits above the rad at the front. On this car, the second intercooler has been replaced with a chargecooler.

Seen it - no thanks. I'd be at 1500-2k max for that, given it was sat for so long.

Ah, forgot, I had to trim the rad top down to fit the chargecooler too, it wouldnt quite fit. Not convinced on the chargecooler, it gets hotter then I would expect. More like a chargeheater!

After i'd swapped the fans to the correct side (front) of the rad (lol), in it went. The old air filter box was in the boot, so I used it, the clips were all missing though so I gaffer taped it for now until I can get hold of some Better Brief test drive resulted in a very flat engine...

I got most of it done, then got the car outside to flush the rad, which went well. Ran it with the flush in and no thermostat. FLushed it through a few times and ran it up to temperature, the fans were due to come on, and in gratiture for all my efforts, it decided to burst the radiator...

Now we're on to the recomission items. Oil, oil filter, air filter, PS fluid, brake fluid, gearbox oil, coolant. New discs and pads up front. New tyres. Belts (Cam, Aux and PS) and cambelt tensioner. The torx fittings in the caliper hangers were f**ked as per usual so I modded them with...

Sooooooooooo further digging and poking and listening and I found a missing bolt in the turbine housing, that bolts the core to the turbine housing. Of course, you couldnt get a bolt in there with it fitted because of the position of the castings...OF COURSE. Had to take the turbo core out...

HOWEVER, not wanting to ring Paul up and be like "Yeah you know I spent a shitload of your dosh well now im taking the head off too" I tried to get the tap out with a dremel and diamond tipped bits. Basically, grinding it down from the top. It took A G E S. Over 3 or 4 days I think I must have...

Now on to the exhaust - well the vband turned up and I fitted it. Still blowing - as bad as before. Investigated further and - oh dear. We had 3 broken manifold studs, plus another that was drilled out to M10...but only for about 5mm below the surface. So...manifold off :( You can see the stains...

Bleed nipples with auto-rust function I managed to free off 3 by filling them with GT86 overnight. One snapped. So I had to drill and repair it. Torx screws missing from rear discs - FFS. I have run out of spares so now the car has one in each disc instead of 2. Rear discs...

How many 21's can one person tolerate? Not sure. I dont think I am far off the asylum tbh :ROFLMAO: @Paule78 decided that I didnt have enough on my plate and dumped a black K-Reg on my drive recently, it started and ran but was blowing like a cheap hooker around the turbo and had been sat for...