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AWESOME!!!!!!! Love it.
Looks great, great choice of motor, very excited to see more pics (and video?) as well as hearing how she drives. top work that man!
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Loving this project... carry on
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Hopefully this will work. Heres the first ever start of the saab lump. Genuine surprise that it actually worked first time. After spinning it over to get oil pressure put the spark plugs back in and..... imgur.com/a/UtaKaRqWell the video didnt work so heres the link: imgur.com/JLntAPaI thought i'd also show you how ive mounted the speed sensor on the front wheel. I think its a bit exposed where it is but again time will tell I slid the wire down some rubber hose to hopefully give it some more protection I also finished the dash. Can you tell what gauges are new. Fitted the steering wheel and with no other issues i could find, drove it out of the garage for first time. Its starting to worry me actually that i havnt found any major issues. Normally with these sorts of builds something needs re-engineering or fettling to make it happy but havnt come across anything yet. The list of jobs for the mot is getting smaller. Main thing to sort is the passenger seat. Got to swap it out for the other mx5 seat. It requires some grinding and welding but i know what i've got to do now so less head scratching. Turned the car round so the passenger seats nearer the workbench which makes my life easier. Also fixed the wing mirror mount which was annoying me. Once the seats in then seat belts and tidy the wiring. Then a ton of other tiny jobs. Might try and get a mot for this coming sat.
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Last Edit: Jul 8, 2018 21:06:06 GMT by mad
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@quatermass has a great thread about his Scimitar, might be useful to you for some info.
Great progress on the engine swap!
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Whether you believe you can, or you cannot, you're probably right.
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@quatermass has a great thread about his Scimitar, might be useful to you for some info. Great progress on the engine swap! Thats very kind of you, but I suspect this owner is significantly more advanced that myself. I'm actually ashamed of how little progress I've made with my bodges than this car has experienced with proper work in 1/10th of the time.
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I drive my Scim with no servo. The unit is there in the engine bay, but not connected/active. In my case... it made absolutely no difference at all to the car's braking. Not compared to the old OEM servo before it failed, or the new Powertune servo that replaced it last year (and failed 12 months later). I literally cannot detect any difference at all.
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Last Edit: Jul 10, 2018 8:37:23 GMT by Deleted
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excellent just what i wanted to hear many thanks for reply and keep up the good work
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If this... excellent just what i wanted to hear relates to this... I drive my Scim with no servo. I should say (and I'm sure you already know this but I couldn't sit here and not say it, just in case) it's by no means conclusive that all cars will be fine without the servo fitted. It's not even going to be a reliable factor on a model-by-model basis... it will be an individual car-by-car basis. For whatever reason my car doesn't brake any differently under any circumstances without an active servo. This may be that neither servo fitted to my car in my ownership had actually been doing anything and therefore I've never appreciated any servo action on my braking, or it could be that a previous owner has fitted a better master cylinder (?), or just that SE5a Scims had a servo fitted for reasons of compliance or customer reassurance when they never actually needed one. I don't know why my car is no different without it... but don't whip your servo out and go hooning off on the basis of my experience!!!
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thanks for the info quatermass just that my se5a servo is knackered its having a new master cylinder just going to try it without a servo many thanks
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Jul 10, 2018 11:55:22 GMT
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ahhh right. yeah, definitely worth trying.... carefully I don't want to batter this bloke's progress thread so I'm going to post something else in my own thread on servos.
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tristanh
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Jul 10, 2018 22:32:06 GMT
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thanks for the info quatermass just that my se5a servo is knackered its having a new master cylinder just going to try it without a servo many thanks See, there you go, @quatermass again with his technical input!
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Jul 11, 2018 21:13:58 GMT
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I had a good read of your thread Quatermass. Lovely scimitar you've got mines definitely more Frankenstein monster than concours example. The paint work is truly awful, but thats the reason i brought this particular car. I'm not into valeting, more into shoehorning turbo motors into places they shouldn't be. I've had a few old motors without servos. The servo doesnt make the brakes any more effective they just assist with the pushing of the pedal so it can still stop as quick as a servo car just you have to press harder on the brake pedal. On older cars the difference is less noticeable but on new cars you'd notice a massive difference. I foolishly had a little poke around last night and ended up with a right mess Then more poking Ended up taking 2 bin bags of builders foam out of the car. couple of litres of really manky water and some poorly attached fibreglass sheet. Not really sure what the guy was trying to achieve other than maybe make the rear a bit flatter. In the process through he managed to create 4 water traps and a fire hazard. Oh well. Next job is mount the passenger seat and sort out seatbelts. Out of curiosity is anyone familiar with se5 able to tell me if this spare wheel mount in the boot is standard. It looks of dubious quality like the footwell patches and if so i would quite like to take it out as its filling the whole boot up.
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Jul 11, 2018 21:25:43 GMT
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When I say about the servo and braking I mean the pedal feel rather than the actual braking effectiveness... my thinking being that if the pedal was unexpectedly too hard you might go sailing merrily into a wall. Anyway, that spare wheel holder is most definitely not correct as the spare wheel is meant to live in front of the engine, tucked down into the nose. I don't have a proper spare wheel holder, and have never looked at one, but I'm 99.9 sure they don't look like that, so it's not even the right one in the wrong place. It's the wrong one in the wrong place.
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Jul 11, 2018 21:28:14 GMT
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Oh and my paintwork is a shambles too. That's why I chose the one I bought!
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Jul 12, 2018 13:06:09 GMT
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That's what I thought. Think I might rip it out. All the other fiberglass bits that have been added on so far have been so badly done a couple of swings with a hammer and it'll probably part company.
You going to be at retrorides gathering next month? Would love to see a original scimitar
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Jul 12, 2018 13:38:12 GMT
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You going to be at retrorides gathering next month? Would love to see a original scimitar I can't help chuckling at that.... my car is very far from being an original state/condition Scimitar. It's an old beater with a home made interior that has been known to melt in the sun. But aside from that... I don't yet know if I will get there or not, and if I do go it would probably be more sensible to arrive via public transport, or in my wife's Yoda Sketi. Have you ventured into the Scimitar Owner's forum yet? They're a nice bunch of people if not, and very knowledgeable and helpful. They'd be able to point you to a Scimitar gathering local to you, or an owner near you if you wanted to have a look at another car. They call their meet-ups "noggins" which I always found a bit off-putting personally, so I never attended one for fear of coming away from it in a fair isle sweater with a corn cob pipe and nasal-singing English 17th century folk songs through a 'trawlerman' style beard. "Come along to our friendly Noggin!" "Ermmmmmm... I might not. I'm allergic to mead and Lark's tongue pie"
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Couple of things I just noticed.... ( I may have to go back and re-edit this becasue all I can see now is the code for the pics, not the pics...) Your front N/S wheel looks to be perilously close to the front edge of the wheel arch. if so, this does seem to be a feature of SE5as as far as I have ever discovered. My own is like this, and after worrying about it for a long time I found out that many are, and many have all sorts of other weird oddities like this. My best guess is that when the bodies were left out to cure at the factory the curing area was on a hill, and the bodies were draped over a few canoes. Your rear hatch looks like it's coming apart. Would be worth trying to weather-seal that up because water ingress here will rot away the rear section. Also, if your rear hatch only has one hinge left (just guessing), you don't actually need to cut out the entire hinge mechanism from inside the roof. My car only had one hinge and I really couldn't face trying to replace the entire single-piece bracket, so I made a cartridge bracket that slotted into the cavity expecting it to last me a few weeks and three years later it's still doing absolutely great! Sadly, I did it all without taking any pics but I'm sure I can remember if anyone ever wanted to do the same.
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mad
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Only gone and passed!
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Couple of things I just noticed.... ( I may have to go back and re-edit this becasue all I can see now is the code for the pics, not the pics...) Your front N/S wheel looks to be perilously close to the front edge of the wheel arch. if so, this does seem to be a feature of SE5as as far as I have ever discovered. My own is like this, and after worrying about it for a long time I found out that many are, and many have all sorts of other weird oddities like this. My best guess is that when the bodies were left out to cure at the factory the curing area was on a hill, and the bodies were draped over a few canoes. Your rear hatch looks like it's coming apart. Would be worth trying to weather-seal that up because water ingress here will rot away the rear section. Also, if your rear hatch only has one hinge left (just guessing), you don't actually need to cut out the entire hinge mechanism from inside the roof. My car only had one hinge and I really couldn't face trying to replace the entire single-piece bracket, so I made a cartridge bracket that slotted into the cavity expecting it to last me a few weeks and three years later it's still doing absolutely great! Sadly, I did it all without taking any pics but I'm sure I can remember if anyone ever wanted to do the same.
Hadn't even noticed the front wing. It doesn't touch the wheel so that's fine with me. Also the rear hatch has been sorted. New struts, new seal and brass blocks used to replace the rusted old blocky screw thingys. The hatch does move left to right about 2" when open. I'm guessing there was once a clip or something's missing from original that would have stopped this. My paint is garbage so it's not high priority fix tbh. I don't seem to have the neck breaking bhp I was expecting so that's first thing to fix. Probably not boosting so that's first priority should be good for the gathering though. Would be well up for a run up the hill but guessing it's all sold out
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