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Jul 13, 2016 23:53:46 GMT
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This week, got half a chance to crack on a bit. The rather forlorn Austin 7 got moved out (slightly) to aid access and I set about fitting the fusebox. My buddy Ollie what makes bespoke aluminium parts (for McLaren among others, no less) fabbed me up this lovely piece of kit. Being a fellow "Austineer" he knew exactly what was in my head and had it sketched out in two minutes.  That's the passenger footwell and I wanted something to protect and waterproof the wiring. Fits an absolute treat and we were both working off "yea big" hand gestures.  The lid can be fully removed for serious works, or hinges normally, or can be hinged up and slid back as so. Just what I wanted - and couldn't buy. A bit of custom fabrication like that will go a long way in maintaining the "engineers build" profile. To some wiring and I had to lengthen the sidelights wire. I used these new fangled all in one connections I've been using on various for a year - if you haven't come across them, get some, they're great.  Just put a micro blow-torch on them and the solder strip melts, the plastic shrinks and the coloured strips form a seal so air or water can't leech in.  I shrink wrapped it over that too just to hide it further. That amendment made, I could wrap the whole front circuit in loom tape. Did it right up to the bulkhead and incorporated a couple of other wires into it too. Tidied it right up.  I laid some more of the wires I need, but next step is to get some grommets as I can't find my box of them and I need to start threading wires through panels now. Also this box arrived - for the 740i  And this is the latest project. I can't figure out what to do with it, but it's so weird I had to have it. It is a LHD 525tds manual, made in '95, registered in NI in 1998, operational until last October, with heated Sport leather, Sport specific wood trim, a semi decent spec with upgraded hifi with additional roof speakers which is rare, and an LSD, all from factory and completely standard. Paintwork is shoddy but it is black...   I have precisely zero idea what I'll do with it. Needs a bit of work, will probably have a closer look some time soon and decide then. |
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Jul 14, 2016 18:21:20 GMT
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Firstly, the 740i has now had it's 15 minutes (by which I mean two seconds) of fame...  Gotta love an action-packed SS update. If I'm not mistaken, that's from the recent drama starring Jimmy Nesbitt about themuns and that business up the North coast. How did that come about? |
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Gotta love an action-packed SS update. If I'm not mistaken, that's from the recent drama starring Jimmy Nesbitt about themuns and that business up the North coast. How did that come about? Correcto. A mate of mine "in t'sout" that hires and drives filming cars (Merc MLs with camera mounts bolted to them) rang me up looking a big posh early 90s car, saying he had 6 cars already going to the shoot (the SAAB the pastor drove was one of his) but he didn't have anything suitable and knew I would. The "producer" came up and had a choice of yokes and decided the 740 was perfect. It was cast in the late 90s/early 00s scenes so was completely out of place. In a totally random coincidence, I met yer man in HMP Maghaberry. Don't know if you saw that story, I mentioned it a couple of pages back. I won't start again on it - suffice it to say that much of the TV show was lies and even his children said so and they and the victims families wanted the show pulled. |
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Maintaining "productive week", we have here the result of a couple more hours tinkering at the Austin fusebox.  Coming together pretty well now. Grommets in all the holes for safety, just need to employ some relays for the headlights as I'm dubious about just running them straight through the switch, as although the (foot press) switch is up the the job/amps, and it was like that before, it just seems wrong, and now is the time to make it right. I've no better solution right now than using a little relay enclosure I nabbed out of an E34 engine bay with an angled bottom that will sit on the underside of the angled bulkhead quite neatly, but it means loads more back-and-forward wiring which will need to be done upside down with my head in the footwell. That sounds fun. And the new chain and sprockets and also brake pads all arrived for the Trumf. Just in time for the three weeks retest period to run up tomorrow, Oh well.  |
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joeytalent
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ITB Everything.
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Jul 15, 2016 14:21:11 GMT
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First time coming across this thread, fascinating stuff. I struggle with one car!
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Jul 16, 2016 22:39:30 GMT
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I struggle with them all!
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Jul 16, 2016 22:58:00 GMT
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So I mentioned not wanting to run wires straight to the headlights. So relays it was. First up was finding some holders. All out of an E34.  Strip back to what I need, join earths up, lengthen the 50A wire that will go to the live side of the cutoff switch and meet the main battery feed there.  Installed the relay enclosure. No pics, was a mega stretch holding it in the underside of the bulkhead while reaching round to the engine bay side to attach it. Then to start joining wires up. Of course I don't want big loops of wire so that means cutting the wires to a neat length then connecting them in the footwell. I'll have plenty of odd bruises tomorrow from lying in all sorts of weird ways.  All the wires going to the relays need to pass through the rubber seal into it so that means putting stubs of wire through it then trying to get them to stay still while I solder them, with the weight of three relays pulling them one way and wires through the bulkhead refusing to move... Awkward, time consuming, almost frustrating but kept plugging on.  Finally got to the point where I could pop all the relays into place. The wires inside the box I could have taped up, but 1. it's really awkward, 2. they'll not be seen, 3. there are a couple of wires in there unused which I've left as spares for adding stuff. The headlight main beam relay has a second live which I could use for an idiot light on the dash - and nearly did, but then remembered this is a trials car and it doesn't even have indicators or fog lights, it doesn't need a main/dip dash light. There's also a second accessory live, with the first one going to the fusebox to supply for the wipers and horn. That way someone later on could add in more fittings, such as a satnav power feed or laptop charger.  And at last, aching and tired, I wrapped up at least some of the loom under there. I think that's all the bulkhead area bits. The green wires are for the charging circuit so will be connected up later when the dash goes in, and anything else left to do is from the fusebox which is nearly finished as well. Really it's about 60% of the loom done, but the really awkward, hard stuff is done now, the rest is all easy access and fitting plugs and P clips. No more upside down bits until the dash goes in.  Four or five hours went into that. Hard to see where, but it all adds up - and nobody but me and possibly future owners will ever see any of it. |
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Jul 26, 2016 20:05:09 GMT
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I've managed to lose the front brake pads I bought last year for the bike. I struggled to find them aftermarket, so had to fork out for genuine Triumph, and picked them up in Cardiff last year while I was killing some time there. That coupled with the fact the broken peg bracket is impossible to find secondhand, not stocked new any more (and £160+ when it was) and is too far gone to have it tig welded back together (if cast alloy can even be welded..) - I'm stuck on that at the minute. Still just asking every bike breaker I can find although obvs the pegs are the first thing to go, so no luck yet. Next project up is the 740i. I've polybushes bought for it - but on lifting it up, there's not much left where the bushes are bolted to the body. In fact -   Oh. So that's been shelved for a while. There is more. The carpet needs lifted to do the floor, the rear axle needs dropped to fix all the mounting areas. So that's just moved to "long-term". Which is a shame, as I wanted to take it to Retro Rides this year. Nothing else for it, I can either take a 2002 MG, or see if i can fix the M535 up. I expected it to be pretty crusty underneath - it is an E28 after all. To my surprise -   Nothing that would fail an MOT, and just this spot that I'll address for my own satisfaction.  Well, that's good, just have to sort out a hole in the wing and align the headlights and that should pass (due in a couple of weeks sometime). Should pass, apart from rubbing the sidewall on the 10j rears. Out comes the as yet untried roller -  A bit of heatgun to the paint, a bit of tensioning and rolling, a bit of hitting the inner arch with a big beating stick, and... nothing. Absolutely no perceptible difference. Give up on that, refit the wheels, drive it home that night, and there's no scrubbing. Even over ramps. So, somehow, it's done enough to clear. Must have been oh-so-marginal. But what ho, it worked. Inner arch lips were full of underseal as well so glad to report no imminent rusty bits of any kind there. Back to the Austin. The silver one. Had yet to mount the front crank cover. Had issues with bolts. It had been bodged before so we (my dad and I on this one) had to un-bodge then "re-fabricate" - not re-bodge - the cover and the 4 different size/length bolts. I helicoiled one, and made a new bolt for another with a nut welded on, flapdisced smooth then cut a slot in with a grinder. Worked perfect.  All four corners clamped down, gasket in place at second attempt, and could build the front end of the engine back up. Pulleys on, fan on, alternator mounts on and so alternator could be refitted, dizzy could now be fitted...  The reason for all of that was to do away with the badly fitted electric fan and refit a belt fan. So in doing so we had to change the front cover back to a standard one that would take the fan mount. So now to measure up for a new fan belt.  The fuel filter was previously inside the cockpit against the bulkhead. Not ideal, but even less so now with me running lots of wires across where it used to mount. So we extended the fuel pipe buy fitting a piece of copper pipe (left over from re-piping an E21 ages ago) and a couple of rubber grommets, pushed it through a new hole I drilled in the bulkhead, and attached a piece of braided fuel pipe on the other side, with us both putting our full strength into it so we got both sides very tight, so the pipe wont move inside the hole and wear through. Grommets also aimed at preventing that. I know there are bolt on connectors for doing that, and there is one fitted at the rear of the car, but this is sort of the same thing.  So the fuel filter can now be mounted to the engine bay side  There we go. Very nice. I gave myself a sore back leaning into the footwell to finish wrapping the wires in loom tape, and riveting loads of clamps in place. I needed the wires to stay away from the foot mounted dip switch, and overall it's OK - could be better if I had countless hours to do it but I'm about 90% satisfied.  And the loom to the rear of the car also clamped in. Needed to use low profile P clips so they didn't cause noticeable bumps in the inner "door"cards, and they're only designed for three wires, not five, so couldn't wrap them in tape as they'd be too bulky. There's five as I've ran separate wires for each light, rather than run them in series, for safety's sake. The card will be fitted soon and these will not be seen, and I'll fit quick release plugs at the rear so the rear frame can be removed if necessary. It wont need to be again by me, but it'll be done right and I'll know that.  That's it for now. |
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Aug 17, 2016 10:46:08 GMT
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Motoring on... Austin got a little bit more done - a lot of little fiddly jobs that took my dad and I three or so hours and could hardly see any difference, apart from the side panels being fitted. First of all a bit of sound deadening, again robbed from an old BMW  And took the rear frame off again, to get it blasted and probably powder coated.  Moving towards the E28, and my previous gloating. My mate Stevie that was going to weld it for me one morning and I had a better poke around, and found a couple of patches that looked well welded, but when we really attacked them, found that they were badly welded. There was a seam alright, but it hadn't penetrated properly so on looking at it, it looked right, but we actually prised the repair panels completely away from the car. Given that they are around the rear axle mounting areas, we decided to shelve the E28 for a few weeks also, and do a proper repair job on it. No point having to go under it again next year, lets do the thing right. Speaking of which, this car was handed around a few members of the 5 series forum prior to my custodianship. Apparently affixing rare M-tech parts with tack screws is acceptable to some people... Including this one straight through the skirt then wabbed over.  The sum total of skirt-affixing hardware:  Revealing a previous "fix" which will also be repaired properly.  If anyone is following, they'll know the M535i was to be my Retro Rides Gathering transport at the end of August. So now there's an obvious lack of vehicular transport, with the sum total of MOTd cars now being my 2001 Alfa and my 2002 MG. Or a 2006 van? Or... buy something!! I missed out on a very rare car at the start of this year, by just hours. I haven't seen one for sale for several years, and for about 10 years it's been on my shortlist, because my dad had one for about a week. Most of my dopey old cars are because my parents had one. They had a couple of Skoda Estelles, so now I do (and the Rapid because coupe version), they had a Favorit estate, so now I do, they had a minivan, so I want one (I've only managed Mini cars so far), my dad had a 1978 Cadillac CDV so now I do as well. This same car came up for sale again a couple of months ago. I missed out again by a couple of hours. The best bit is I mentioned it to my dad and he can't even remember having one so he's stumped as to what it is so far. He still reckons its a Maestro as they had a red one of those for a month once. And then it came up again two weeks ago. So I moved fast this time and now its mine. Then the plan formed. It's in the north of England. It's MOTd. A friend of mine who has an even better collection of awful cars than me lives not terribly far from it. So I dispatched him to go pick it up. It's now sitting outside his house, waiting for me to fly over, jump in it and drive some 300 miles to the Retro Rides show two weekends from now. What could possibly go wrong? Yes, I've purposely not said what it is. Any guesses?  |
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Battenberg
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Time for Cake....
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Aug 17, 2016 11:16:47 GMT
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Nissan Stanza?
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Current Fleet:
1968 Wolseley 1000
2022 BMW 430xd MHT Coupe
2007 L200 Animal - Dog walking transport
1998 318is Coupe
2007 Mini Cooper Supercharged
1989 BMW 530 - in storage
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Aug 17, 2016 12:43:34 GMT
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" I used these new fangled all in one connections I've been using on various for a year - if you haven't come across them, get some, they're great."
Couldn't give us a clue what they are called ... could you ?
Great write-up as usual
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Aug 20, 2016 21:22:34 GMT
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Better than that, here's an ebay link for them www.ebay.co.uk/itm/311170323871?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AITAustin 7 rear frame is off, one mount welded up, and has been dropped off for blasting Friday... and picked up Saturday. There's good service. Along with 4 bumpers and a set of wheels. More little jobs ticked off - really getting there. Battery needed a more secure mount. Again pulled one out of an E34, small engined one, they have the battery up front, sliced it in half, and bolted it in. So now I have a tidy and secure battery mount. My dads off making a leather strap to go over it, perfect solution rather than metal clamps.  Wires extended from dizzy to coil, and wrapped in loom tape. Horn mounted and ready to be wired up when I fit the dash in.  Also fitted reinforcement plates for the mirrors, clamped the main alternator feed cable into place, rerouted and clamped the battery positive lead. Removed the front mudguards for repairs. Fiddly little nuisance jobs but all need done. Also, feast your eyes on what I had to pay SIXTY FIVE pounds for, a secondhand peg mount for the triumph. Still haven't found the brand new front pads, but I suppose this means I can get on with fixing it.  |
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Recently I bought and picked up my new, amazing, Fiat Regata, and that story is here: retrorides.proboards.com/thread/191998/collection-roadtrip-rrg-terrible-pictures Earlier this week (or was it last week?) I spent the evening at the workshop. Was intending to do some on the bike but the special bike lift was busy being an engine crane. So what other jobs are waiting? The S110R has a radiator that leaks under pressure. Lets get that out. Now that is a lot easier said than done. There are bolts all round it, in various metric and imperial sizes, and the fan housing has to be unbolted and removed before even going near the rad.  And eventually  So I'll get that refurbished next time I'm passing the radiator place, as it seems to be impossible to find a new one. I like having old parts rebuilt anyway, I'm not part of the throwaway culture. A few nights later I got my chance with the bike. Up she goes on the special bike lift.  Job 1 was to replace the sprockets. Front one, peened back the washer tab. Found a big socket and used the impact.. and it just span everywhere. Even in gear. Oh dear. Did a quick goggle and every forum says to do it with the back wheel on the ground and a tensioned chain. Bit late for that with the rear wheel in bits getting it's sprocket done! So, jammed a wooden hammer handle into the front teeth against the engine, and it gripped just enough and off it span. Now this bike has 12k on it. Although, I might double check that now. Both of the sprockets are not genuine, and you can see the state of the front one here  That doesn't happen in 12k, never mind that it's already been changed as far as I can tell. Put the new one on. Fitted the rear one which was a cinch as expected. And a moment of no return:  While we're in there, the rear brake needs done. Sat under the bike to do this. Retaining pin came out easily, old pads were done but fell out easy, not stuck or anything. Here goes:  First up the piston wouldn't slide back in. No amount of pressing would budge it. Releasing the bleed nipple also didn't help. So, had to let off the fluid feed line and then finally it moved. Not seized, thankfully, but still resistant. That meant my hands were now filthy but due to the contortioning required to extract myself from my seating under the bike between the frame and the engine crane, I wasn't for getting out in a hurry.  So I carefully tried to fit the pads without getting anything on the pad surface itself. And found that the hole for the retaining pin was too small. And then one pad fell onto that brake fluid spill on the floor below. To my abject relief it landed braking surface up. As you can see these are not particularly cheap or generic pads. You'd think EBC would be able to make them right.  After that it all went back together easily enough. Wheel in, axle through, and then to fit the new chain.  Just need the tool to sort the rivets on the join link out, and then set the tension, and I'm done - on the back. Still have to find the missing expensive OEM-only front pads... |
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Sept 15, 2016 1:30:51 GMT
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In the spring of 2014 I blew about £2.5k on a 2007 E92 325i in bright red. A Cat C with a dead engine, decent spec, but no good reason for buying it really. Apart from that was cheap at the time, they were £9k at the time for a good one in the same spec/colour/miles. An engine was £1500 though and I simply couldn't be bothered, so shoved it in the corner, where it lay until this summer when I realised the ship had sailed and that 9k car was now worth 5k. So, what to do with it?  Well, the obvious answer when you have a big engine bay and a dead engine to take out... V8. I had a spare V8 M62 engine and manual gearbox "in stock" and Vincent needed a project to get stuck into after having fixed everything else that was ready to be fixed. Put the E92 inside, cleared the lift, put the engine in front of it and left him to it.   This is more his project than mine, I will drive the thing but don't really care for it that much. So it'll get the odd mention, but not a full build documenting. By the way, is anyone else incredibly sickened of seeing "yeah, that's my build" or "what do you think of my build m8" in relation to an E36 with JOM coilovers and some dishy wheels, or a Jetta with 19" AVAs and tints? Not even a bit of custom paint or adapted to fit Bentley seats or performance mods? Sod right aff. Anyway first off we were going to drop it in the middle, mid mounted, as the E92 mounts weren't far off in width but very far back, and all the V8s have a front bowl sump so wouldnt fit over the E92 subframe.  So bulkhead came out. The only other V8 converted E92 we can find on goggle seems to be in Russia and a bit butchered. It too was mid mounted.  Then it kept going back and back and the driver was going to have to sit in the back seat. I love the way Vinny works. We'd already cut the bulkhead out and were looking at welding mounts etc on, dash and carpet and wiring all gutted, and he says, can I take this wiring out too? I'm not sure I can get the central locking to work again if we do. ...And then I come back an hour later and he's ripped the whole subframe and suspension out and has an E39 V8 one mounted (surprisingly the rear bolts fitted exactly and the front rails line up to the chassis rails!) and the engine and box in. This is better, he says, everything fits now. Well, OK then. Have to weld subframe in (my choice, I think drilling holes wouldn't be strong enough). The gearbox mount from E39 V8 is only 10mm out from matching the E92 thread holes. With the engine at the front, the bulkhead can go back in, although I've requested a space be made behind the engine big enough for a turbo, as there is zero front gap now. Will have no airbox space, radiator is very tight but just doable. The big worry, for me, was the suspension geometry. But, it lines up pretty well. Have to use smaller top mounts as E39 V8 ones are too large, but will be getting coilovers anyway. Might have to use spacers to run the 19"s I have earmarked for the front end. Brakes can be any choice of E39 ones, to match the E39 hubs, so 535i, 540i or M5 choice, all on the shelf. Will get the geometry all set up once its on the ground. Amm what else... oh well this week has been exciting in the new purchases dept. Not for me so much, as ones for work to turn round, but I like them, and we like pics, right?  E46 318i M Sport. Will sell rep wheels and add a little paint. Very tidy car, can see it's been looked after.  E36 323i M3 rep, also well looked after but getting tired bodywise, should be simple to make it 100% again and drop a fresh MOT on it. Drives very nice (for a 36!) And the important one. Played roulette with my Alfa for thousands of miles, no cam belt history, always said I'd give it one if it hit 100k, well, today, halfway to work...  So that was that. Time for it to be fixed. Funnily I'm kind of disappointed that it's now in the 6 figure area. It's lost a little of it's charm - it's not a "low miler" any more. If I remember rightly, I bought at the end of August in 2011. So five years, 17.5k and a lot of wishbones later it's still going as well as ever. All that talk of roulette was forgotten this evening when I had a sudden place to be sharpish. Up the backroads, covered 15 miles in 15 minutes and had a delightful smell of cooked brakes after only 6 miles. Still takes a good hammering. There'll be more developments on the car buying front later this week too I fear. Bank account is about to be decimated. |
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Sept 15, 2016 8:17:32 GMT
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Brave project! Seen a few 325s for sale with dead engines recently. Not cheap fix.
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Sept 21, 2016 11:52:23 GMT
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A little thing that has bugged me severely on the Alfa since I got it is the lack of a decent jump start point. Sometimes it's left lying up for weeks. Months even. Or I need something else jumped and it's the handiest thing. Thankfully all the cars on my drive start every time, and have good batteries, but I used to have to jump start the bike if I left it more than a couple of weeks, or the E28 if I left the lights on overnight by accident. So, bored out of my tree in work yesterday, I went and gathered up the bits, and set to.  Battery remote terminal from E34  Cut down turbo actuator bracket from E46, mounted with torx bolt I found in big box of spare bolts, through a spare hole in the alfa that was just there waiting for me.  Cut a little bit of plastic out of the way, mounted cable from E34 to main positive feed. There used to be a tiny little tang that popped up here to connect leads to. It was frail, and this one had been used so much it was two twists away from snapping off (so I did) leaving room for the new lead.  And used the rubber mount from the turbo actuator, bolted it all up tight and there we are, an insulated remote battery terminal with a cover and the lead tucked in with the alfa loom. Could be better, if many hours were spent on it, but for something knocked up in an hour with spare bits, hence a cost to me of zero, I'm quite happy. |
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Haven't updated this since my birthday, but on that day, as I was getting even more old, I decided to empty out my paypal buying stuff online. What has arrived so far: From Italy: A set of Vogtland lowering springs for an Impala SS '94-96. That's for the Caddy. Much research over several months went into the suspension parts:  And there will be more to come, when I have another grand spare... From Bulgaria: A set of 4x98 14" Zender Alloys. I love Zenders. They were far too dear, so I put in a cheeky offer and it was taken, and arrived in only a handful of days so well impressed with that seller. These are for the Fiat.  From USA: a new vinyl hood for the Caddy, which has been made for my car and is currently fighting its way through customs. September saw me doing a lot of research into various wheel fitments (and suspension for Caddy as seen above). This is the wheel/tyre summary for the S110R.  All in aid of getting these wheels on  I had Jason fit a couple of tyres on our recently acquired tyre machine so I could trial them on the car for arch gap and steering lock. A 195/45/15 and a 185/45 if I recall right. Yesterday I noticed a stain on my drive under the Fiat and got down for a look   Oh dear. Oil leak. Looks like it's going up on the ramp next time it's free. Which will be about 2018 owing to the amount of projects in the yard right now. Jason and I were in Liverpool, Manchester and Northampton at the end of last week picking up new cars. Here's the only picture I took of that amazing*, interesting*, meticulously planned* trip.  [*none of these are true] And I haven't had any time at all to give over to the silver Austin - that trip, the news my mum is leaving the country with my sister, other stuff - but I will give a day over to it next week and get back on it. My dad did the strap at least  |
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E92:  bracket almost fits!  E36 318is front prop, E92 middle bearing, E30 325i Auto rear half. Put the plates in to move it down a bit to keep the prop straighter, V8 engine sits slightly lower than original 2.5 This is what Jason and I were picking up in englandshire  and then I had to go sort out an E39 I'm getting brought back over, for which the key had been lost while it sat in storage waiting  BAM! hammer and chisel, no more steering lock. We'll see that one back soon. Not sure where I'll put it, mind.  New daily:  late 01 530d auto, 6 months test. Cannot fathom how good a car these are for tiny sums of money. I'm not looking for anything to buy at the minute (reason shown above) but people keep offering you things when you're in the trade... ..like this almost immaculate genuine one owner 535i sport manual in my favourite colour of diamond black.  and Cadillac roof vinyl arrived  |
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Oct 18, 2016 10:51:18 GMT
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My mum is moving to the Scottish Highlands permanently in the next couple of weeks. I think my younger brother is claiming first dibs on her Arosa, which just left her BMW to do something with. Thought we might just keep it as its a super reliable old bus and owes us nothing now really. Then an old friend of ours said he needs a new car as his Golf was borked. Ah hah! How about this lovely example of an E39 then? Rather than deal with all the L8 nyt $$ offers, here's someone who will believe me when I say its been reliable. So I thought this was the "last pic"  But, three days later, he gives me a ring. Too big for him. He's gone Octavia-Mondeo-Golf-BMW, but it is some heft of car so I've been tasked to find him something else. Thankfully no panic really as he's off to Colombia at the end of the week on a two week mission trip. Which is good as panic is on to find a Forester for my mum and service it etc before she goes. Also I'll be taking stuff over in my Ducato van, which is due PSV at the end of the month - the very day we'd be driving over. So, that's booked for Wednesday next week, leaving two days leeway. No worries there... Meanwhile at work the orange E36 brought back recently with scraped quarters has been getting a new bit of shiny shiny  And because all of this has made me flat broke, I decided to pick up another car on the way home from a delivery yesterday. 1994 530i Auto in Maldive Blue with a couple months MOT. It needs some work, but it drives like a peach and is so smooth, everything works perfectly (they usually have some fault by now, but nothing more than a bulb out on this beauty)  Could easily be persuaded to keep it. Must. resist. |
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