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lol at the whine would drive you mental, road car yeh? its fkin awesome!

fresh pics

swapped the fuel filter - hopefully no more fuel starvation issues New rocker cover gasket, rocker cover, HT leads and cam belt covers, new dipstick fitted to the spare 1800 engine - Complete HO Inlet manifold with 2.0 TB and injectors, 2.0 MAF, inlet/induction hose set up with ERST...

Few pics from the other night with my mate and his Audi A4 which is now back on its standard wheels since these pics cos some tw*t's nicked them - Fitted the RS1800 cams into my spare 1800 engine last week and also Nitro-Morsed, etch primered, painted...

Greased up the sliders on the brakes and put copper grease behind the pads where they sit in the calipers, also re-bled the system too, got aload of air out so hopefully they'll feel better :) also i hadnt mentioned it, on track at oulton park with 1/2 tank a fuel in it was suffering from...

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well car failed MOT again yesturday on handbrake, so when i got home, took the wheel bearings and drums off, caked all the handbrake mechanism/bracket in wd40, made sure it was all compressing spot on before i re-fitted the bearings and drums, sound now, all back together, had the re-test...

Steering feels a million times better now! awesome pic Christopher took at the weekend at a meet - Handbrake cable arrived yesturday so changed that today, quite a fiddley job got there in the end, problem tho as per... it feels almost exactly the same apart form obviously the slack...

awesome meet today and the pics are mint chris!

yeh the actual coloum mount moves quite abit and the bush is fked at the top of the coloum just behind the boss

Picked the steering coloum up... all ive changed is the tube above thats bent, steerings even now doesnt go tight then loose etc etc just still abit of play in the coloum mount itself but cant remove that without taking the dash out really so if he still fails me for that then will probs just...

cheers! well it Failed MOT yesturday on handbrake cable and steering as the it goes heavy then light etc and excess play in the coloum mounts... this morning ive made this mess to remove the coloum - heres the bush thats been knackard since owning the car - and noticed this part...

just noticed this thread awesome pics! standard 2.0 zetec revving to 7500rpm on jenvey 45s, 177bhp, 146lbs ft, around 240bhp/tonne cheers mate! sick

Got the day off work today as work was quiet and so i could get the car sorted... had the hole in sill welded up and had the thread drilled and tapped to M12, sorted! First time ive drove the car since fitting the new ball joints on monday, the tracking was quite a way out, so ive done that...

Cars booked in for Friday to get the thread drilled and tapped to M12 instead of welding a plate and drilling out the threads out etc etc also going to get the hole on the sill patched over too with some 1mm steel Lockable Aerocatches arrived today too, will fit them sometime in the...

win, get some silicone hoses defo!

well drove the car last night and the brake servo brace bar has made one hell of a difference, locks up so easy now its scary, going to bleed the brakes again this weekend. Ordered a pair of Lockable Aerocatches last night for the top/rear of the bonnet, should be here towards the end of the...

Single skinned Fibreglass Carbon fibre wrapped bonnet fitted, only took about an hour in all to line it all up drill for the pins etc etc - looks pretty mean imo lol, with the bonnet off - if you didnt notice, brake servo brace bar ive made, illsee how it is, i thought...

few more pics from oulton -

New mk2 xr2 rack and track rod ends - All fitted and had the tracking done and alignment checked so its spot on again, still got creaking tho after drving the car, so ill be going to get some new ball joints in the very near future hose for the washer bottle came too so plumbed that all...

yeh pics are awesome and sorted now ;) exhaust before - removed all the heatwrap off the secondries to check all the welds, still spot on... so could only mean one thing, the heat of the manifold and the weight of the exhaust system has caused it to sagg, so randomly came to my...

had ;) What a day... Car lasted all day which left me with a big smile on my face... the last trackday the oil shot upto 140degrees after one hard lap and threw out 1/2 litre of oil out the breather after one lap too... yesturday i managed 3-4 hard laps before my oil reached 120degrees so...

cheers and yeh i love this colour! fuel tank almost full, 2 jerry cans full, 70quids worth of fuel only 53litres, probs wont last me all day tmoz if all goes well lol Ive put the spare pots with the R888s on ready as the weathers looking promising and just gave the car a quick wash...

tested the stat last night, works spot on, so then did this lol - 3 4mm holes, coolant is mint now, sits at around 1/4ish on the gauge meaning the oils cooler too, ive also plumbed the heater matrix back in too as warm air is better than freezing air lol relocated the windscreen...

fan switch fitted - cuts in at the perfect time so win... but when driving the temp is still the same must be a problem with thermostat or the block itself, so im going to test the thermostat later if its fine im just going to drill 4 5mm holes init then see how the temp is, if it...

with the bypass in the temp was the same and still heater matrix only blowing out luke warm air, unless in stand still traffic it got really hot, when on the move its basically cold/luke warm... so, i've taken out the bypass hose for good now... and ive re-piped the hose from the rear of the...

thanks and yeh, if i bought an average one or a s**tter itd need money spending on sorting the rust etc, theres VERY LITTLE rust on mine which im chuft to say :)

pic of bypass re-fitted - removed the hose leading from the heater matrix to the wather pump/lower rad hose, the waters gushing through there, maybe/hopefully thats bled it a little tho with taking that off then re-fitting it, so will see how the temp is now, later. now know the...

just bought a brand new Fiat 127 fan switch off ebay, it cuts in at 92degrees and closes at 87degrees so it operates 10degrees less than the escort switch... im also going to plumb the bypass hose back in too when the fan switch arrives and also back fill the heater matrix as i think its air...