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sound cheers fred, wouldnt have known that otherwise :D

i'll send you both mine when im at work 2moro seeing as you both sent me yours :clown: im enjoying being last in this race lol :cool: (ben is waaaaay out in the lead lmao)

Re: My mk1 track car blog basically it lets you adjust the amount of fluid pressure to the rear brakes, meaning depending on track conditions/tyre temp/tyre wear etc you can control amount of rear wheel braking lets say im on track and its quite slick, meaning that the rear wheels are...

yeh im gonna go through the bulkhead somewhere, and then drill through the boot floor just above where the braided flexis sit so i can connect them up did you do as per the tilton instructions and bleed the brakes with the bias set to maximum rear pressure? it says something about going easy...

sounds good fred, come across any problems when fitting/plumbing it in? apart from loosing a wheel lol

Re: My mk1 track car blog yeh the project gods were not smiling down on us last weekend, however i've been doing alot of praying :hail: so hopefully this weekend will be better :D

old fashioned 2 person method for me i do have a self bleeding tube thingy, but i prefer the old method

Re: My mk1 track car blog yeh ive got some of those clamps builders/joiners use to hold stuff in place, gonna take them with me this weekend and see what i can do, space is the major issue, hardly enough room to get my hands in nevermind owt else :(

im thinking somewhere on exhaust tunnel in front of the gear lever maybe, within arms reach but not too close so it can be accidentally knocked

you want to see my total so far? oh and if me and beanie think we are insane, what does that make you ben? :rasp:

Re: My mk1 track car blog right i made the decision to do away with the standard load sensitive valve, it was causing me headaches and there was no gaurantee it was going to work even after all the messing about :rolleyes: so today my new piece of kit arrived, tilton 7 point in car...

did you get round to fitting it on tues fred? mine arrived this morning :D

on its way, brace yourself lol

i wanted a tungy aswell :( maybe when ive hammmered this shell into the ground i can reshell it as a tungy :D has beanie sent you the cost of his yet, he sent it to me the other day cos he wanted to reassure himself he wasnt insane spending the money, from our conversation we basically...

agreed :approve: i still think i'll keep doing stuff to mine even when the main project is finished, little bits here and there, plus repairing the bits i break :rolleyes:

lol @ ben, ive been putting everything i spend on a spreadsheet aswell, those numbers soon add up!! :quiet: however i dread to think how much it would be if i added labour onto that! makes me feel a bit better :rolleyes: i know the feeling of spending alot of money on a car i bought for...

something like this or a specially designed airbox

yeh 3/16ths is standard pipe size so i would assume so

yep :D finally got my head round the different connection/union types, dont know why i didnt learn it earlier, laziness i expect

just ordered mine, and some T piece connectors to plumb it in :D

my answer from the first time you posted this still stands :rolleyes: :approve:

lol sweet vid glad you got the car back safe and sound :clap:

wondered what had happened to you! :eek: sorry to hear about the running problems :dapprove: but hopefully GDI will get it sorted for you

looking funky as ever :cool:

Re: My mk1 track car blog that just shows how i wasnt thinking straight yesterday, why the hell didnt i just use a longer bolt! :mad: common sense prevails once again im that fed up with the whole load sensing valve i think im gonna do away with it now and fit an incar adjustable jobbie...

Re: My mk1 track car blog cheers for the comments guys, sounds like you've had days like mine on the turbo lol its getting left til next weekend, gonna cheer myself up by buying some new goodies :evil: ive also given up trying to keep it under a certain budget, the only thing ive decided...

ah right £60 isnt too bad i was looking on merlin and they are about £100, but i think iv found where your looking i'm sure you can answer this for me aswell, using standard brake pipe unions, which of these 2 options would i need for the ports...

any chance of another at a special price ;) i was gonna mark mine so i knew what setting it was at lol had the same thoughts of some clever sod messing with it while im not looking :nono:

yeh thats basically how i understood it my car originally had abs so 2 of the master cylinder outlets were blocked, all i did was remove the blocking screws and set it up as per the non abs models and removed abs unit all together. then all im going to do now is connect pipes that run to...

if you wanna sell it i might know someone who wants it...............me :D how far on with it are you fred? are you just going to connect the two pipes from the master cylinder using a T piece, run that one pipe to the bias valve, then split the pipe coming out of the valve with another T...