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Hey guys, this will be the G11 story so far.. Its quite a long saga as it stands so I apologise for that in advance. I bought my Charade purely as a stopgap car in 2016 because one of my other cars broke and I needed something to get about and it was cheap.. And it looked like this.  It had no rear springs at all so the rear beam was sat on the boot floor which made for an interesting drive home, but had 60k miles, and an engine that ran like a dream. The day after I took it up to BHPfuelfest in Exeter which is where the above picture was taken.
A set of wheels donated by my Mira and a carbon gearknob, and I just drove it about like that for a while.  And completely fell in love with it, and the car I expected to beat about for a bit until it died has turned into the one I'm never selling. Then a chance to take it to the Nurburgring arose which had me on the hunt for some rear springs, which is when I found out how hard it was to buy ANYTHING for these cars... So the rear springs ended up being taken from a mates scrap pile, which had come off a Daewoo Matiz he'd lowered. Sadly I have lost a lot of the pictures from this era as it was so long ago. But I still have this one of me welding up the rear spring cup 2 days before leaving for the Ring because it was rotten and had completely come away from the beam..  The standard Matiz springs were promptly cut in half, fitted to the charade upside down, and off we popped to Germany. |
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As mentioned the passage of time, multiple dead phones, and old mates sadly grown apart mean I have lost most of the pictures from this time but I still have a few from the Ring trip. I do need to buy more of the photos from the photographers over there as I only bought a few back then as I was pretty skint after that... Perhaps this thread will encourage me to do so. Heres a few of the pictures I have. 
    The car was fantastic. Drove from Torquay to the 'Ring, did 10 laps of the track and drove home without a single issue!! And cost me nigh on nothing in fuel.. Got a pretty good time too, considering it has a 50bhp toaster under the bonnet and was on chopped springs and budget tyres..  And safe to say after that excursion I really was in love with it and it was staying. |
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After that not a lot happened, I just spent all my time enjoying the car.  Living in Devon with all the coastal roads and Dartmoor on the doorstep I could make the most of the tiny 3 pot that loves to rev for days and the fact it weighs next to nothing, and I was excited to go literally anywhere because of how much fun it was to drive. A sidepipe got added, silicone coolant hoses (as I couldnt find genuine replacements mainly), and thats about it.   Oh, and running jokes with a friend with a 1.0td Corsa D came to a head and I took it drag racing in the rain, which was comedy gold.  In the end he won by 0.2 of a second, but I had borrowed the front wheels off a friend who was skidding on the day and forgotten to drop the tyre pressures. 35psi and rain ended up with absolutely zero traction off the line, so I don't think it did badly at all.. Nearly as well as I've done with my racedriver excuses.. haha! A bit of boot floor/seat belt mount welding..  Then after me giving it foot to floor everywhere for about 40,000 miles, it started to make a extremely unpleasant noise, which I thought was a CV joint. And the MOT was due so it was taken off the road while I found a replacement. Which took a while. And then I found one and changed it to find the noise still there. So it lived here for a while and gave my other unfinished project some company.  So looked for a new gearbox. 8 months of searching passed and I found one, or should I say someone else found one for me. A friend from the Club1000 group sourced one in Germany for me, bought it, packaged it and posted it to the UK and only THEN sent me a message saying 'Your gearbox will be delivered Monday. Pay me when it arrives.' I guess they do things differently over there.. So I chucked him the 100 quid it cost all in and it arrived. Complete with inner CV joints still attached, so I now have spares of those, which is ideal! Got the box in..  Noise still there. curse word. So after it being off the road for an incredibly long time, turns out it was this. Top bellend marks for me. But at least I now have a spare gearbox, which has come in very handy, as you will find out soon.  So I took the hub down a mates workshop and pressed the new bearing in. Which of course wasnt without its fair share of dramatics. The bearings on these ARE press in bearings. They are NOT press out bearings. This I found out to my cost when i bent the hub trying to press them out. Got all the new wheel bearing in, went back up to mine, fitted it and.. oh wait. Caliper no longer fits, hub now touches disc. Excellent. Another trip back to my mates garage has the whole thing straightened again and good to go. |
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As you have probably noticed by now I have always had to crawl around in the dirt to work on my cars... And I'm sure you're all aware how much fun that isnt, when you live in a country where the weather consists purely on a scale of curse word to dreadful. But thankfully no more! I now have my own unit in which to build my stuff.. And have left Torquay. Both things equally as fantastic in my book. So the Charade got dug out and went on a little adventure.    And found itself in my new workshop. Hence me finally getting round to working on it again, and starting this thread. And then something really weird happened... It multiplied!!! (at least thats what I told the mrs. Not sure she bought it either..)   So now parts are much less of an issue. The only issue is I bought this to rip it to bits for spares for the original. So of course it arrives with no rust, a pretty much concours clean interior, and 40k miles. Its far too clean to break and scrap. Especially for a car this rare.. So now I have 2 G11 projects. Only downside is its an auto. Queue my epic brainfart from earlier resulting in an unnecessary spare manual box. Not so stupid now!! (Well, it is still stupid on biblical levels, but I'm counting it as a win regardless...) And this is pretty much where I'm at with it now. The green one has just had a new water pump and wheel bearing and is running again. Just need to get it an MOT. But a set of ZX6R bike carbs have just found their way into my possession. So watch this space for that. The silver one is currently surplus to requirements entirely, given I cant use it for its original purpose because its such a nice car, so I'm currently unsure what I'm doing with that. I am currently thinking I may remove the engine and build a fast engine for the green one with the bike carbs and a few other tasty touches, and this will end up stealing the EJVE engine from my old Domino project. Which would in turn get an ED10 chucked back in it, as I have a couple of those lying around still. Green one is the priority though as my Club1000 membership pack came through long ago so I want to get it done and get it back to the Ring to play again. Cheers for reading this long, if anyone was actually interested enough to do so! Updates coming soon. |
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vanpeebles
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I am eastbound in pursuit of a white Lamborghini, this is not a recording.
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Dec 10, 2018 11:16:27 GMT
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Great thread! I had a G11 Turbo Diesel years ago  |
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Dec 10, 2018 11:50:36 GMT
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hi jayk!
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Dec 10, 2018 12:08:10 GMT
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Yay! Having fun with (small) cars  |
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Fun with small cars is the best kind of fun! Apart from when it's stripped threads on a brand new water pump, but that's a different part of this saga..
Hey Jack! Still enjoying your Mazda!
Do you have any pics of your old G11? Would love to see it!
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Cool thread to read
As HoTWire says, fun with small cars.
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Dec 22, 2018 12:14:13 GMT
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Interesting looking project.
Back in 1985 a neighbour bought a brand new light metallic green Charade Diesel, occasionally i'd get a lift to school in it.
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1980 Vauxhall Cavalier MK1
1970 Mobyleete 40T custom
1978 Mobylette 50V
1965 Moulton Standard
1979 Raleigh Grifter custom
1980 Raleigh Grifter
1982 Raleigh Grifter BMX custom
1982 Raleigh Bomber
1987 Strida
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Jan 31, 2019 10:47:50 GMT
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Well got the engine out of the donor car and whipped the water pump off to get the green one going again. Stripped and cleaned the pump to make sure it's good.  The silver car is just too clean to strip and scrap so that's now getting a full rebuild too. Had the Mrs in the engine bay cleaning all the waxoil off it for 6 hours solid the other day and it's coming up a treat!  So more of that cleaning to come... Can't believe how nice it's looking in there..  Lots left to do... But if the rest of it looks half as good as that I'll be happy! |
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Jan 31, 2019 10:49:59 GMT
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Also test fitted one of my wheels that I was going to sell but now can't because they look too good on this...  And yes I'm aware the tyre is backwards, was just a test run.. what do you guys think? |
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Well, it appears like I forgot about this again. So have the annual update. The cars now look like this..   Not a far cry from how they looked before, granted. But they have multiplied again... Here is G11 Charade number 3.  This one being a prefacelift, 1984 1.0 3 cylinder diesel. It runs, but it is super rotten. So the exact opposite of the silver one... (and that big white thing just sneaking into the back of that shot is a 1985 Toyota thats also become part of the collection) One of the reasons there hasnt been updates on the thread is because I did the me thing and got distracted with other things, as well as doing the me thing and ramming so many cars into my little workshop I couldnt actually move or work on any of them. Bit like this..  But I'm pleased to announce that Jayks Broken Car Emporium now has a new premises back in Devon and work has commenced again.  If anyone has any recommendations for a decent rollover jig for the new workshop, I would be super appreciative. Thanks for looking, I will try and update this again soon. |
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May 26, 2020 19:53:32 GMT
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Sad news. After the water pump failure, which took 4 water pumps as it turns out the few things you can find for these being made from weapons grade Cheap, my solve of stealing the water pump of the silver auto car wasnt the magical fix I had hoped for. And now the car looks like this again   It fitted, worked and didnt leak. Sounds like good news? I thought the same... But sadly it seems like the casting is slightly different on the pump body itself. Above and below the pump sits 4 small bits of rubber, which close the slight gaps between the pump body and the head/block castings, I assume to keep curse word out of the cam cover or whatever.. Now it transpires that the casting on the auto pump is slightly different here where these bits of rubber are, and the space the rubber bits filled was a little larger.  The eagle eyed among you will spot the problem with that picture. On the drive from the transporter to the other side of the yard into the workshop, that little curse word wriggled free in its newly found additional space, and you all know where it ended up. If you guessed here, you guessed very much correct. Excuse the terrible shot through the hole in the chassis leg.  And that is why the bay is once again empty, and I'm once again searching for Daihatsu CB23 engines/engine internals, which is a very miserable endevour at the best of times. (if anyone has any lying around, I have cash monies, and she definitely swap those things!) However, currently, and something I definitely shouldnt be doing, the beautiful, super clean 40k mile car is donating its engine to the crusty, roller painted, abused track car. I feel I'm probably mental for doing that. Would you do it?  Realistically thats probably going to happen.. But engine corner has multiple 3 bangers in it, so I have options. But anything other than a CB23 means I cant play with the Club1000 guys anymore. Many dilemmas. This development has distracted me from my Compagno project which is far from ideal, but at least lockdown is over for me and I'm back at work now, so at least I'll have the finances to make some proper progress on things again soon. |
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Sad news. After the water pump failure, which took 4 water pumps as it turns out the few things you can find for these being made from weapons grade Cheap, my solve of stealing the water pump of the silver auto car wasnt the magical fix I had hoped for. And now the car looks like this again It fitted, worked and didnt leak. Sounds like good news? I thought the same... But sadly it seems like the casting is slightly different on the pump body itself. Above and below the pump sits 4 small bits of rubber, which close the slight gaps between the pump body and the head/block castings, I assume to keep curse word out of the cam cover or whatever.. Now it transpires that the casting on the auto pump is slightly different here where these bits of rubber are, and the space the rubber bits filled was a little larger. The eagle eyed among you will spot the problem with that picture. On the drive from the transporter to the other side of the yard into the workshop, that little curse word wriggled free in its newly found additional space, and you all know where it ended up. If you guessed here, you guessed very much correct. Excuse the terrible shot through the hole in the chassis leg. And that is why the bay is once again empty, and I'm once again searching for Daihatsu CB23 engines/engine internals, which is a very miserable endevour at the best of times. (if anyone has any lying around, I have cash monies, and she definitely swap those things!) However, currently, and something I definitely shouldnt be doing, the beautiful, super clean 40k mile car is donating its engine to the crusty, roller painted, abused track car. I feel I'm probably mental for doing that. Would you do it? Realistically thats probably going to happen.. But engine corner has multiple 3 bangers in it, so I have options. But anything other than a CB23 means I cant play with the Club1000 guys anymore. Many dilemmas. This development has distracted me from my Compagno project which is far from ideal, but at least lockdown is over for me and I'm back at work now, so at least I'll have the finances to make some proper progress on things again soon. |
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Hey guys, this will be the G11 story so far.. Its quite a long saga as it stands so I apologise for that in advance. I bought my Charade purely as a stopgap car in 2016 because one of my other cars broke and I needed something to get about and it was cheap.. And it looked like this. It had no rear springs at all so the rear beam was sat on the boot floor which made for an interesting drive home, but had 60k miles, and an engine that ran like a dream. The day after I took it up to BHPfuelfest in Exeter which is where the above picture was taken.
A set of wheels donated by my Mira and a carbon gearknob, and I just drove it about like that for a while. And completely fell in love with it, and the car I expected to beat about for a bit until it died has turned into the one I'm never selling. Then a chance to take it to the Nurburgring arose which had me on the hunt for some rear springs, which is when I found out how hard it was to buy ANYTHING for these cars... So the rear springs ended up being taken from a mates scrap pile, which had come off a Daewoo Matiz he'd lowered. Sadly I have lost a lot of the pictures from this era as it was so long ago. But I still have this one of me welding up the rear spring cup 2 days before leaving for the Ring because it was rotten and had completely come away from the beam.. The standard Matiz springs were promptly cut in half, fitted to the charade upside down, and off we popped to Germany. Hiya Is this car are available |
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Dec 30, 2020 23:51:10 GMT
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[quote author=" kami567" Hiya Is this car are available [/quote][/quote] If you are asking if the green car is for sale, the answer is most definitely not. Unless you are offering Sultan of Brunei style insane person numbers, I will not be parting with it 😂 |
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Dec 31, 2020 12:37:30 GMT
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I think that is what he means! Any updates?
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Last Edit: Dec 31, 2020 12:38:05 GMT by jasellan
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I think that is what he means! Any updates? Oh good lord I haven't updated this since May.. 😂 Yeah, I'll get some pictures off my phone onto the computer and do an update soon.. |
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Apr 13, 2021 16:20:30 GMT
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Hi mate,
Nice projects on daihatsu charade i have 2 of these both turbo diesels but turbos are broken do u knw any place wher i can find. Cars still run without turbo.
Cheers
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