Recent content by DaveL485

He is this year :)

MOT passed, another year out on the road. Every time I take it out I get people giving waves and thumbs ups out the cars, or from the pavement, which is lovely - however I was on the A46 the other day headed south toward the M40 and I pass a cop car on the inside... carefull at the speed...

Update - I bit the bullet and took the engine out. I just wasnt happy with the clutch at all. Good job, as we were close to a complete failure. In summary, the wrong release bearing was supplied with the clutch. It's way too small, and was jamming in the middle of the spring fingers, or...

I'm in there ALL the time, known Phil and Rob for many years!

I am, born and bred. Done (Tiger seal) Done (Pedal switch) Not done Done Done (By Ian @ Lakeside Service Centre) And: Engine needs to come out again, clutch isnt right. Whoever built the fly/clutch setup has f***ed up somewhere. Its now intermittantly dragging, intermittantly squealing...

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...