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Super Sports have arrived!

Just bought some spacers for the front, since it'll be nice to do something to it, which isn't just fixing it...

I've done 62k in the range and spent £2800 on stuff, so, 4p a mile. I've done 480 miles in the Alfa and spent £375 so far... lol

Day 7, Good job I've ordered a new PAS pump, as PAS fluid is pouring out of this thing.... Being lazy last night and tightening up the banjo bolt with the ugga dugga gun has killed it lol

There’s a sweepstake at work for the day I won’t make it in 😂

Day 6, Fitted a new cabin pollen filter, the old one was dated 2013 and was minging. Took the egr valve off to clean it and the fucker was spotless.... weird. Power steering leak is back, looks to be the shaft out of the pump, which isn’t a biggie as pumps are only £80.

This is true, found one for £50 though so may as well!

Aircon update, on the leak test it just pissed out of it haha. Sadly its the largest aircon line thats leaking. Time to lube up...

Day 5: Started ok from cold again! Makes a noise like a boost leak at over 1bar boost though. Saw another guy in a 159, he waved, lol didn’t know people did that with these! It’s currently at Kwik Fit having a £20 air con re charge. Cast your votes whether you think that’ll work...

No....... I still don’t trust the cunning b*****d though.

Only one atm is the bloody parking sensors, I've ordered two new ones, then need to find which of the 8 are dead....

Popped the bar off the actuator and manually held them open. This is a photo of a carbon'd up one with the swirl valve open! So as you can see, even with it open they are basically blocked. No point getting it off to clean with the EGR still active either.

Day 4 update: Locking the swirl flaps open has fixed the cold start issue. So I might put off the £700 cam belt and inlet manifold replacement until the belt is due next year.

Considering it barely starts in the morning I’m taking it as a win. I’ve locked the swirl flaps open tonight, it’ll be interesting to see how it handle cold starts now!

Pretty good. Not as good as a 3 series though. The 2.4 5 cylinder doesn’t sound too bad either when pushing on, has a bit of warble to it!

Can’t argue with the economy atm.

Needs another 70mm off it!

Also doing that left it with: OSR: Pirelli P Zero - 6mm NSR: Pirelli P Zero - 6mm OSF: God Knows - 2.5mm NSF: God Knows - 8mm All that done while spending nearly 5k on other stuff!

Yeah I don't get the logic.... This cars last MOT was £1100... in that was an £71 235/40/19. I mean, you are dropping a grand, another £70 odd for a decent tyre can't hurt...

None as yet..... It better keep working, just ordered some new Michelin's for the fronts! I have no idea what brand the tyres are on the front, they are both different makes and one of them has just got a web address on it lol

Day 3 update. It got me the 26 miles to work. I'm holding hope that it may get home....

The 1.9 is found in Fiats, Saab’s and Vauxhall’s! Same with the latter 2.0. The 2.4 is a 1.9 with literally an extra cylinder, it was too long to fit in the other chassis so only Alfa used it. It’s quite a quick engine once rolling considering mine is leaking boost from the swirl flap spindles!

This is the plan. Saves on driveway space...

Well after the thread I posted about wanting a cheap diesel, this is the outcome... Bit of background, I’ve always loved these. I mean just look at it. I do just over 30k a year, over the last two years over put 62k on my RangeRover so it’s now worth zero, to stop to being worth a negative...

+1 My frustration came from the power delivery, low down it was like a restricted 2.0, high up it got going but always felt muted. Plus on track (Blyton) I was consistently 2 seconds slower than my friends, standard bar a map, Meg 250. 2 seconds round Blyton is loads. So much so I made us swap...

A turbo at 280 would be equally strung and far more entertaining to drive and quicker on track.

It was Cubs old one with 240bhp from a Rotrex. The rotrex seems to have all the down sides of a turbo with none of the peak power.

Turbo or high end NA. Supercharger doesn’t give the performance.

Sold :(

JayEmm Interesting guy. Does all sorts. His ability to talk none stop unscripted it really good.