Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

dgt

today I did something to my car, part 2
Original thread here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056307853



The £40 turbo....


Against a GT15


Beside the K03 for a 2.8!!! :eek:


It was off a big hoor of an engine.....


Doesn't take me long to get cracking with this one


It's practically like new


Now what is it off..... I ain't spillin.... Unless someone guesses it right of course :pac:

I have no doubts that unusual wastegate actuator will give it away though

toastedpickles

A car?? :pac:

I had to say it :P

I'm gona guess some form of bmw or another pug?

dgt

toastedpickles wrote: »

A car?? :pac:

I had to say it :P

I'm gona guess some form of bmw or another pug?

No and no.... It is off a car though

Ded_Zebra

dgt wrote: »

No and no.... It is off a car though

Merc?

Nissan?

BUBBLE WRAP

Must be off some 3.0 Turbo or something? Please do tell...

dgt

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Merc?

Nissan?

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Must be off some 3.0 Turbo or something? Please do tell...

There ya go

BUBBLE WRAP

dgt wrote: »

There ya go

\o/

Ded_Zebra

dgt wrote: »

There ya go

First guess:cool::cool:

Katunga

DGT are ya putting it in the 406? If you are would ya not have a problem with the injectors handling the extra heat.

kilianmanning

dgt wrote: »

The £40 turbo....


Against a GT15


Beside the K03 for a 2.8!!! :eek:


It was off a big hoor of an engine.....


Doesn't take me long to get cracking with this one


It's practically like new


Now what is it off..... I ain't spillin.... Unless someone guesses it right of course :pac:

I have no doubts that unusual wastegate actuator will give it away though

I know ;-)

Hal1

Just spent the afternoon changing my rear anti roll bar bushings. It's done now and adjusted the spring seats. Torqued ta fuk so won't be coming loose on me, I hope.

BUBBLE WRAP

Nice, that really suits it dude.

dh0011

A few weeks back it was hard to get her into second gear. Thought the gearbox was gone. Garage gave the bottom of the gearstick a clean and a bit of grease and she is flying again. This made me realise that she could do with a good clean. I took a few panels off and cleaned behind them. Changed the pollen filter too. Noticed the cable that is attached to the handbrake had come loose put that back in. Hadnt noticed the light not coming on when the handbrake was on.

166man

OSI wrote: »

Finally got around to painting the lip on the GTI. I think it looks much better.

Looks like a clean job, but I can't say I like it... Should the two colours not match?


Sorry!

166man

OSI wrote: »

I was going for the Alfa look with mismatched panels :pac:

Nah, they do actually match. I checked. The strip around the grill is a lot brighter than it looks in pictures for some reason.

No mismatched panels to be seen here.....yet.....:D

Ah right, I'd say it's a case of it looks better and more aggressive in person. T'would stand out from the rest of GTI's too!

Killinator

OSI wrote: »

Finally got around to painting the lip on the GTI. I think it looks much better.

Very nice, eye catching and more aggressive.

Bit more subtle then my Gulf stripes!

Black_Knight

Today I wasted my time driving to Traynors in Armagh to look at a leather interior for my VW CC.

Firstly, the interior was caked in dirt and dust (amongst other things) so it was near impossible to tell how good a condition it was in. Though from what I could see, the leather was in pretty good condition.
It only got worse after this though. Only 1 window was open on the car, but the entire interior was a swimming pool. Footwells, seats, underseat padding, seat electronics. All under water. It was a joke, and a waste of my time. Why the dont keep car interiors (seating especially) inside, I dont know!

I wringed out the back seat, but water kept flowing. It must of been soaking for months, all the metals were rusty looking also. I checked it out in my back seat, and it fit, but really that was just so I would know for other potential purchases.

IMO, seat sponges need replacing, and the entire drivers side electronics need replacing. Me estimate is about 500 quid for that alone. I walked away.

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dgt

Katunga wrote: »

DGT are ya putting it in the 406? If you are would ya not have a problem with the injectors handling the extra heat.

Precombustion chambers, this is low tech remember

Spent the rest of the evening fitting it to the manifold just some adapting needed


Clocked to the correct position


Housing cleaned


That'll do for now

Bpmull

Gave the focus a serious clean yesterday. My uncle brought down his DA and the car was waxed and polished. The results were very good I thought. The car is so shiny now and the paint is so smooth.

toastedpickles

Rather large post incoming

So today at chateaux de pickles I set about putting in motion a plan for the car, until I hand it over to the brother in September, as some of you seen in the motors chat, I seen the car had previously been crashed, or dinged whichever you want to put it, this was going to cause problems down the line in changing the bumper as it wouldn't sit properly, so I got a new bumper reinforcement courtesy of Whelans scrappy in Portlaoise for 30 quid

Off with the old,along with 5 minutes of cursing it to the ground trying to get it off



I also found where the connection for the outside temp is and the horns! So woo

The old black one, new red one and the bumper that is to be no more very soon


Fitted it on the car to see how it looked as it was, didn't really like it, even though it wont be seen, it bugged me



Plus the rubber bits were coming off, nothing a bit of superglue cant fix

Next on the agenda, I toddled over to halfords to get paint made up, big thanks to tallon for helping out there, got this can for 15 quid made there and then while the motor factors wanted double and wouldn't have it till tomorrow



Nice and clean!



Now onto the fun bit, diy paint job...ish



While this was drying I got onto the bonnet lifter supports, while I didn't have any masking tape my date duct tape and that done the job just as good

Before



During



And after



After this I gave the reinforcement bar another coat of paint and a coat of lacquer, I think it turned out ok!



After this dried it went back on the body



Job done!

Gary ITR

Drove mine (albeit slowly) around Mondello yesterday in the ITCC. Had some slight mechanical issues to do with the breather from the oil cooler dumping oil into the intake so I'll need to reroute that into the catch can

dgt

Thanks to 166man, my E34 is slowly starting to look better :D:D






I may get better pics of it in daylight, it looks fantastic!

Oh and while he was working on that, I changed the brake fluid and gearbox oil in his car, hence on ramps huge difference :cool:

So more of "Today I did something to someone else's car" :pac:

dgt

Double post, for different cars and not enough space for pics and smileys :pac:

So I was having a bit of an issue with auld laime: Lack of power

A job I was dreading had to be done.... Clean the sender in the tank

For those that don't know, sender is under the seat, under a riveted cover, followed by a plastic cover :rolleyes: eventually....


Ah, traditional Peugeot. Make the hole for the sender not big enough for the ring.... Whoever designed that should have their ring broke!!!


However


Balls, it's different to my spare one :mad: I may clean it so. Dismantle it...


And we are met by this :eek:


Just look at the colour of the diesel that was in it!!!


Needless to say that wasn't the core problem, the pot on the pump was knackered quick test drive revealed all power was restored and then some :cool:

dgt

Moving onto the E34

166mans excellent work :cool:



So I decided to break out the rotary and finish the bonnet



Bumper will be filled and resprayed don't worry

Yaaaay!


Then I decided to do the rest of that side of the car





It looks absolutely fantastic compared to before and I've been waiting years to see it shine like this

bmstuff

I lost the exterior temperature thermometer on the M50 south bound this Saturday between Sandyford and Dundrum after I finally managed to destroy the ///M tech bumper under cover on the driver side. The lower front part was destroyed by a Mother of speed bump, while the back of the cover was finished by my front tyre.

If you find my thermometer on the M50 please send me a PM. Award waiting

:-)

dgt

And I also began to renovate the interior of this too



So you can see why I had heatstroke More on that tomorrow.... Maybe?

CianRyan

156 estate in the back ground?

renofan

I have a 1997 Laguna that in Nov'11 I could get a smell of coolant inside the car. So I lifted the carpet an it was wet with the stuff. Luckly I also have a 1998 Micra so put it on the road and parked the Laguna up. Joe Mallons quoted me around €400 or so for a new heater matrix kit so I left the car and saved a search on ebay UK for a matrix kit. One came up in April '12 with a starting price of £30. This was an original Valeo Renault part. About a min to go on the auction I put a bid of £35 and was the only bidder so got it for £30! And for bonus points it was free postage to an address in the UK. As we were due to go over in the summer (my wife is from England), and I was busy doing up the house I posted it to the OutLaws.

What with everything and the crap weather the second half of last year etc. I'm only getting round to sorting it now. Plus while I was taking out the dash to get at the matrix I kinda got carried away, one could call it DGT style! So I'm going to strip the car completely and clean everything and do general preventative measures.





and to bring the thread full circle I've decided to redye the rooflining as a smoker used to own it before me and tbh its filthy

166man

Looks good Renofan! Some bargain!

Meanwhile I have been doing my level best with dgts E34 at the moment. A car lying up for 7 years has some amount of sh1t on it! Still a gorgeous car underneath though. I hope to have it looking well over the next few weeks,

Still plenty of parts to go on the 156 for now so I'm saving for that and once that's done the GTV can finally get off the ground.

I'm excited.

dgt

CianRyan wrote: »

156 estate in the back ground?

Maybe.....

CianRyan

dgt wrote: »

Maybe.....

6 cylinder?



Today I took my radio out to see if it had an Aux input somewhere in the back. Despite having the Aux setting, there's no input.

Another thing that seems to be missing is a pollen filter...

dgt

CianRyan wrote: »

6 cylinder?

I wish! A rather small 1.8..... :pac:

A lazy day up here, just trial and error

First, source a suitable silicone pipe and pikey it to suit the oil return


The olde XUD on a pallet....


Glow plugs out, needed to clear the chambers of any fluids....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7XpK1ejxn8

Once that's done, gearbox off!


And a seriously crappy clutch is unveiled :pac:

Glow plugs seemed ok so back they went


Original thermostat gets the bin :rolleyes:


More to do! :cool:

dgt

dgt wrote: »

The olde XUD on a pallet....

Diesel engined shotgun! Nice :pac:

renofan

dgt wrote: »

The olde XUD on a pallet....

I just love the spent cartridges all over the shop. One way to deter unwanted guests!!

dgt

shaaane wrote: »

Diesel engined shotgun! Nice :pac:

renofan wrote: »

I just love the spent cartridges all over the shop. One way to deter unwanted guests!!

Oopsie Yeah we like shooting up here :pac:

rizzee

Few minor visual adjustments. Yellow tint's on the reg lights. Got new mats too, good hoover and scrub put carbon around the internal light on the roof. Ordered German plates too. Pics to follow

dgt

Just trial and error..... But the oil feed pipe is on

Standard K14 line and all just bent slightly to fit I also wasn't happy with my return pipe so I pikeyed in a Fiesta thermo hose. Much better fit :cool:


Cleaned up the engine some more


Just the downpipe to sort...!


Almost there.....

Ferris

So I was having massive power lag in the RX8 at around 4 and 7k. So I talked to a dublin based rx8 guru and he said get a decatted midpipe so thats where I was this morning.

So this afternoon i took the midpipe out:



A bit blocked eh...

Anyway heres the old and new against each other:



Only issue was that the clamps and springs supplied with the midpipe don't seem to suit my catback as the springs were too short. The Original springs look spurious to me (in yellow). Also the pitch of the bolts and my original (flanged) nuts were different and I needed those to hold the larger diameter springs:



Anyway a couple of washers sorted that:



Apart from that no issues at all. The car is a different beast. It has a deep rasp and the car is much quicker to rev. It pops and bangs all the time and smells like f**k. Feels more torquey then when I got it too. I'm chuffed with it to be honest.

colm_mcm

Brilliant and you don't even need to do anything for the nct!

CianRyan

No cats!
What kind of back box and resonators do you have?
Please say none.

Ded_Zebra

Nothing very interesting but I took a lot of photos doing it so now you lot have to endure them:P
Thanks again to Toyotafanboi for pointing the ad out to me:)

So I picked up a new left tail light and some floor mats for cheaps



As you can see the drivers mat is a bit worse for wear but I have a Blue Peter plan for that



Needed some cleaning. Had to scrub them out three time to get them as clean as I wanted:o I then dried them with the trusty Lidl wet vac.



Next for the tail light. I needed to replace the one on the car as one of the bolts that holds it on broke off so I had to use tape to hold it on for the last few months. I was hoping to use the lens of my light because it is in much better condition but it is bonded to the back so I'll have to make do with the new one.
You have to be careful with the black lines on the lights as they can be polished off very easily.
Here's a before:






Afters:

colm_mcm

Jaysus, a Black+Decker power driver! Haven't seen one of those since the mid 90s!

Ded_Zebra

colm_mcm wrote: »

Jaysus, a Black+Decker power driver! Haven't seen one of those since the mid 90s!

Shows you how long it's been since the work bench was cleared :P

Just under that there is 2 trackrod ends for a Toyota MR2 that was sold in 1993:eek:

dh0011

changed the pollen filter today - also gave the seats a bit of a clean. There was a few stains on the seats from when my OH was spilling drinks.

dgt

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Shows you how long it's been since the work bench was cleared :P

Just under that there is 2 trackrod ends for a Toyota MR2 that was sold in 1993:eek:

In the turf shed is a corner full of Mk2 Cortina parts, undisturbed since the mid 70s.....

Sure you see our bench in some of the pics, there's a very battered tool chest resting there since the 70s.... In the other turf shed are paints in a cupboard there since the early 50s :pac:

Ded_Zebra

dgt wrote: »

In the turf shed is a corner full of Mk2 Cortina parts, undisturbed since the mid 70s.....

Sure you see our bench in some of the pics, there's a very battered tool chest resting there since the 70s.... In the other turf shed are paints in a cupboard there since the early 50s :pac:

Nothing quite that old here!

We do have one shed with a loft that I've never been in but it's full of things that the previous owner of the house had. From the lower level you can see that there is a few cinema type chairs up there

toastedpickles

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Nothing quite that old here!

We do have one shed with a loft that I've never been in but it's full of things that the previous owner of the house had. From the lower level you can see that there is a few cinema type chairs up there

Few led torches, and get up there, nothing like a good pillage...of your own property :pac:

dgt

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Nothing quite that old here!

We do have one shed with a loft that I've never been in but it's full of things that the previous owner of the house had. From the lower level you can see that there is a few cinema type chairs up there

Last previous owner of this place was in 1940 :pac: no excuses, go investigate! :cool:

Ded_Zebra

toastedpickles wrote: »

Few led torches, and get up there, nothing like a good pillage...of your own property :pac:

The wood is very rotten so I think it'll fall down to me fairly soon

In the same shed there is a tub that's about 25l and it's full of antibiotics of some kind. I think the tub cost £3!!

toastedpickles

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

The wood is very rotten so I think it'll fall down to me fairly soon

In the same shed there is a tub that's about 25l and it's full of antibiotics of some kind. I think the tub cost £3!!

Lads....Ded_Zebra's sellin pills.... :pac:

We have a shed like that too, been here before the house apparently, found an empty bottle from 1850 in it one day, some mechanic owned it, so I'm sure I'll find more fun things!

Ferris

CianRyan wrote: »

No cats!
What kind of back box and resonators do you have?
Please say none.

There's a single resonator on the midpipe and a backbox on each tailpipe. Its plenty loud.