1984 Granada BOA; small progress & Civic 25/10/24

Well, last Saturdays wiring journey was fun!
No matter how many times I looked at the wiring for the remote central locking module, and the cars central locking relay I still couldn't master how to get the systems working together!

Even broke out my Power Probe to see what did what, and when, Jerry rigged the remote locking module up to the central locking relay and even had it working!

But all with the drivers door disconnected. As soon as the drivers door was connected up, I'd get a clunk from the central locking relay, and nothing more. No locking or unlocking
Much more testing and muttering later I was still none the wiser and gave up til another day (probably tomorrow!).


Over the past week, I have been messaging my friend little Rob, who knows far more about mk2 Granadas than myself, and straight away he said "the drivers door is just a switch, you need to fit an actuator to it for the remote to operate" , or something along those lines.

So central locking actuator has been ordered, and arrived yesterday for trying to work out how I'm going to add an extra pair of wires through the door post rubber trunking thing




Also ordered some more coilover springs and rod ends for the rear ARB droplinks, and need to order up some new CV joints before the track day in August

The yellow crayon of doom

Rightyho then!
Meant to update last night, and fell asleep instead

So yesterday was again spent at the workshop, to get the drivers door reassembled at least, and try and get the remote central locking working

Started of by sorting out the front components crossover, so it is no longer just stuffed in the speaker hole in the door




So that hole at the top was filled with the bracket I made ages ago, and the crossover screwed to it




The wires were trimmed, or replaced as necessary and the door card refitted (and there is currently no weather strip or sound deadening on the door, as it needs the outer skin replacing anyway)

And then on to sorting out the wiring for this little treasure from Amazon




Of all those wires, there are 3 currently not wired up (indicator for each side, and boot release) and I think 3 cut short as surplus to requirements for me
The boot release wire just supplies an earth, and the car dash mounted switch for the boot release supplies a 12v feed to the solenoid, so that's a relay wiring job for another day

Box is mounted up out of the way with a strip of double sided tape, so shall see how well that holds up

After excelling myself and getting the remote central locking to work (and still working, although I've still to plumb in the indicator circuit) last weekend was almost full on with being out with some friends on the Sunday, including a spirited cross county drive, and Saturday was spent at Betteshanger Park for the Late Brake Show On Tour

The show was most enjoyable, even if some of the pub quiz questions were stinkers!
And I even managed to help 64impala with the use of my jump pack on an electric car

This weekend, I thought it best to get some of the jobs done on my car before the track session on the 19th
So the 1300lb front springs have now been fitted on the coilovers




1300 on the left, 1100 on the right. And a coilover with its brackets to fit where I was told it wouldn't...







The wheels all got a clean up, and balanced. As on the drive last Sunday it was discovered there was quite a vibration at a certain speed
And all 4 driveshaft CV joints have been replaced at 202,348miles, so I shall see how they last this time around!
The shafts themselves got a poly disc session, and a quick aerosol paint job to tart them up as well













I did also measure the shafts length whilst they were apart, and there was only a difference of 1.5mm
So I'm not sure why the manual states the shafts are NOT interchangeable? All the bolts were replaced, lock tight applied and torqued to 35Nm as they all are 12.9 hardness and I don't want these coming undone by themselves again!

🙂

Best keep the cat off the original or that’ll shrink too….😳

Nick

I was foolish enough to only film the last session of 3 I managed at Brands Hatch indy circuit.
And I will apologise for some of the bad language in advance, as I was getting rather frustrated with the 3 GR Yaris that were on track

The autobox has no kickdown cable facility at the moment, so the 2nd to 3rd change is very sluggish compared to how it should be

Thats an ongoing "just" job tho, along with the modified inlet manifold

The passenger is a friend from school days, and he was there in his series 2 Exige. Although that was black flagged due to being 4dB over the drive by noise limit

Been busy then.good work👍

I shall update after todays fun and games and when I get home.
But the Granny passed her MOT yesterday!

And it wasn't even done by myself

I've also cured my battery drain issues at last!