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Ed !!! Thats fantastic. end of. 4 x 100 ? World is your oyster wheelwise.  Ha ! Renault espace rims......... I think the originals banded would be the hooters beak. :-D |
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Last Edit: Jul 2, 2009 22:24:25 GMT by Thrasher
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Lex
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How wonderful.. This really needs a set of steels with chrome center caps and steels sprayed the match the bodywork. Maybe with whitewalls.. + drop. Realy love this though  |
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Been off the board for a while.
Good polishing skizz there Edd.
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berendd
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is that ignition only for 2 strokes?
sounds interesting!
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The Doctor
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well, even if it is, you can use it as a wasted spark setup on a 4stroke, but i think the biggest problem you have, that it's a 3 cillinder kit |
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is that ignition only for 2 strokes? sounds interesting! no, the drop down list has many other options for cutter and firing options. they also list a race spec ignition but being mainly bike based stuff they sell, it only uses two coils and wasted spark for a four cylinder 4 stroke. but mine needs 3 coil outputs and the road unit I brought will support four coils. also supports electric power valves too, but thats not on my list just drop them an email as they say they will build any igniton on spec for you, ignitech@ignitech.cz and they take emails in english, czech or german you can also download the software for free first to get an idea of what engine and timing combos it can run, my version is tcip4 and the race version is dccdip2and did someone say drop? it needs it stat! but running repairs first  although espace rims are hardly running repairs  ;D |
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slater
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espace rims ftw!
i want to play with it
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can't wait to hear a video of this with expansion pipes on...
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Excellent.
By the way, a chap I've been talking to on two-stroke matters says that he just pours a litre of two-stroke oil into the fuel tank, then adds 21 litres of unleaded for fast (ie motorway) driving, 25 litres for pottering about. He's got an estate for sale which is why I'm so desperate to shift the Subaru! MUST HAVE!
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I'd just rig up a small leccy pump and covert it to autolube.
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I'd just rig up a small leccy pump and covert it to autolube. Some later ones did have autolube, from a belt-driven pump. Problem is, if the belt snaps, the engine seizes... |
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Boogieman
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[there's the 2 stroke 992cc engine in all its glory. wow!! . . 992cc 2 stroke . . my old KTM 380EXC (368cc) made something like 70hp . . . so this one should be good for around 190hp?? ;D |
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Hitch
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Lovely car! First time ive seen it and ive just read through the thread, very impressive work. Think you need to buy these off me, 4x100 et49 15" nice bit of dish :  |
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I'd just rig up a small leccy pump and covert it to autolube. Some later ones did have autolube, from a belt-driven pump. Problem is, if the belt snaps, the engine seizes...  I have a runner 180 which has it's oil pump AND water pump powered off a tiny little belt, on the plus side when it's snaps you know about it, the rad cap pops off into your face. Theoretically a 992cc two stoke ought to make about 400bhp max... |
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stuey
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might want to get a copy of this months PC fella something familiar on page 12.....
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1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done!
1972 beetle - lawn art
2003 z4 daily-new wheels a comin!
2008 R56 Mini cooper "mental Mickey"
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Nice to meet you the other night. Love this car it's the first one I have seen on the road in years.
Just had a quick scan through your thread and it looks as if you are running your car on WKD Blue, sure confuse people if you started pouring bottle of alcopops into your car, I can see an advertising market there ;D Keep up the good work.
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Haha.....Ed...spotted you in Practical Classics magazine..... |
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well I forgot that I haven't updated this in a very long time, but I'm really good for things like that.... so about 10 months ago! forgive me for quoting from another forum, but I'm damned if I'm typing it all again ;D so tonight, I had to see what the problems I face are. the rear brakes are as expected completely bassakwards  its got late 19mm bore wheel cylinders with early 50mm shoes and 50mm wide rear drums. so I've just ordered wheel cylinders for the moment, I cleaned the shoes with lydian degreaser followed by white spirit and then celly thinner for good measure. this is what it looked like dirty-  had a look at the grille blind as a front mounted radiator is very high on my hit list for this thing, how much space does it take up?!?!-  thats for the chop then!  loads more room!! attention turned to the water pump and there are, of course, 2 different ones  you don't get a "pump" in the traditional sense either, its a kit consiting of sliding bearing membranes and separate impeller etc. right one found, just needs paying for now.  that shaft runs the full lenght of the head, and the impeller etc. sits on it.  theres the diddy impeller! and one of the membrane's  thats the housing, you can see the stain where its been leaking   ooops I broked it! see the state of the inmside of it though  and thats it for tonight. obviously theres a push on as I want to go to santa pod in it next week. whether that happens or not is in the lap of the gods. stay tuned and then it got slammed  in spite of it urinating on me from a great height often, I'm glad I kept it too the rims are mk1 espace, 5.5Jx14" et39 with 165/65 14s on. I only have two of those, so the back is getting 175/65s. i wasn't happy with the springs in that shot they fell out the seats and thats almost on the bumpstops. the springs are peugeot 307 rear springs (they snap often) with the pigtails cut off. thing is, the wart springs have a flat end to locate them in the front spring pans, cut 307 ones don't and fall out after a few bounces!  the short ones are the pug ones  spring compressor routine will be familiar to anyone with a merc....  locate well don't they  but my that is rake-o-licious! ;D ;D  there, much better. thats a bmw e39 528i rear spring with 2 coils lopped off and its top rubber mounting lightly shaved to fit the lower spring cup. went to do the rear springs and my old 2002 ones will fit straight in, top hole! but theres a problem.....  notice something missing? yeah, I took the trailing arm off 'cos the lower rear shock bolt had seized in the bush I twatted it with a copper hammer and it wasn't shifting. it shifted something though......  ... most of the spring pan so I took it off and down the workshop (the 'burg is at home as I needed to see parts and the computer at the same time) and gave it the treatment.  hole cut, ready for the metal. I used decently thick material, marked with a compass and hole sawed the middle to get the shock through. snapped my remaing holesaw arbor in the process and used the grinder to get the rest of it out.  there, that'll do! no its not on the car yet. weather and my back and time have not been my friends tonight. but spacekadett has, he dropped my espace wheels back from being freshly balanced   oh, and I snapped the fecking antiroll bar link too  fixed with an allen key and some welding. and thats it for the moment, expect much more as I continue to break whatever I touch..... WKD-bad; hopefully, crossed fingers, toes and testicles well this evening was productive fitted the rear trailing arm back on, sized up the 2002 springs and they sit pretty much perfect for me! no hacking for once. then it was off to the workshop to get what was left of the original lower front shock mounts off as they were pretty fubar'd. replaced with e30 anti roll bar ounts drilled out to accept m10 bolts.  theres the rear all coming to gether with new wheel cylinders from LDM-tuning in germany. arrived at 8:30 this morning- result! the rear setup is a little bit odd, someones used the early drums and shoes frrom a car with front drums but with disc brake fron model wheel cylinders. that gives you 19mm bore wheel cylinders as opposed to 25.4mm early ones but with monster 50mm wide linings and drums instead of 30mm wide!! no wonder it locks the back end up!  theres the modded e30 mounts on my wart shockers.  also from LDM-tuning came my toy water pump kit. looks like something from a hobby shop FFS! wonder what this might make for white dwarf games  and that will do thankyouplease. I just know some smart ar5e will ask "so when you gonna lower it?" its at least 3-4" lower than stock. leaving tomorrow night to do the water pump and then track it and fit the rims.... needless to say I made it to the retro show. and then some. I've "smoked" it around like this for quite some time now  and now some more recent updates..... |
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so, on the way back from a mates just after chrimbo, the gearbox decided it didn't want to transfer motion anymore. grrr! this was down to the clutch- one of the cushion springs got loose and jammed the pressure plate. after some holiday graft, the clutch felt better but the cover was badly cracked Me and retromat took it to the ace cafe in january to pick up a clutch cover from oldbus as they are very hard to get hold of in mainland europe. So I laid her up for a while, gathering the rest of the bits for the clutch whilst I worked on the taunus for grizz. taunus was at a stop waiting for bits and I wanted to drive the 'burg so I started to strip her out.  doesn't take very long to do, its only got five bellhousing bolts and two of those are the starter. the modular design comes in handy, the front panel and bumper were off before neil youngs southern man had finished ;D  heres the crack. theres six of them in it now and rather deep  unobtanuim. unless you live in greece apparently....  going back together  while there, I decided to finally fit my mapped ignition. so I dialed it up to number one cylinder TDC. number one is the rearmost on wartburgs, typical commies!  ignition housing comes off complete. maybe now you can see why I can't megajolt it. theres no way of fitting an accurate 36-1 trigger on that crank.  new housing I got from germany, had the points cam milled down and drilled/tapped to hold the ignition rotor on (not shown) the back plate and sensor came with the kit.  looks about right! I got the pic from the company that sold it to me, but thats about all the info they have. we'll get to the other bit in a mo....  old VS new. sooo simple looking ;D |
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 I also fitted it with an electric fan, from a ford fiesta of all things! it was free though, so who's complaining rob very generously donated this kenlowe thermo fan switch, cheers buddy  and we have it setup! it will map 3d with a TPS, but I don't have one, so it will interpolate in 2d no worries. I haven't got a serial port extension so I made the unit on a flying lead, its behind the lappie in the pic (which is a totally no skool 1998 toshiba!). I had a fiddle and things seemed to be ok, but then I commited it to program and it went horribly wrong it popped, banged and allsorts. I hadn't accounted for its set up. Its default mode is yamaha r6, and it runs it ok, but no fourth coil connected. when i hit go, i hadn't got anything right, so it tried to run as a single coil with rotor and dizzy setup for a four stroke thankfully, the second thing ignitech give you for a wartburg is a .IGN base map phew! but I think its from a rally car, its rather advanced and it revlimits at 9200rpm!!! seems to drive OK though. need a full roller setup to get it right though, which is a simple procedure. the unit has outputs for a leccy fuel pump whch I will fit, tacho which I will fit, TPS input which I most likely won't and full throttle gearshift which I won't. gearbox doesn't seem right still, think I've bust thrid but it made it to wheels day and back with a bit off double-de-clutching ;D and thats how she is right now. its a nice cruiser and is more tractable even though its not mapped. I did try knocking back the base advance a few degrees but it didn't really do much. until I do something else, thats it |
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although espace rims are hardly running repairs 
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you don't get a "pump" in the traditional sense either, its a kit consiting of sliding bearing membranes and separate impeller etc. right one found, just needs paying for now.
spring compressor routine will be familiar to anyone with a merc....
fixed with an allen key and some welding.