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End of play for today   So next step is to rebuild the turbo and fit my new return line when it arrives. Then it'll be fluids change, battery charge and fire up. I've already re-wired the igniting circuit and sorted the ECU and chip again. All in all I've had an extremely enjoyable day! |
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It literally looks sorry for itself in that first pic .. looks happy in the last one  Haha, it does indeed! Should've taken more pics, couldn't even see it, it had so much stuff piled on it! |
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PhoenixCapri
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'86 Capri Turbo PhoenixCapri
@phoenixescort
Club Retro Rides Member 91
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Glad to see this is getting close to the road again! Are you coming to the Gathering as would love to have a closer look at your engine install |
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I'd love to be at the Gathering mate! Just fantastic to be spannering again, watching an episode of Fast and Loud with a cuppa before I head back into the garage to take my turbo apart |
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conair
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Dude, just spent the last few days catching up on this and wow, top work absolutely love it dude, mean, moody and purposeful, credit to you dude, hats off. |
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Steve
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Making progress in small, easy to handle chunks of awesome
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This car still looks the sh!t even when surrounded by rubbish and covered in dust&dirt! Would love to see it in the flesh dude....please come to the Gathering with it....will make you a nice cuppa if you do  |
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'86 Capri Turbo Robinxr4i
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Great to see this getting back on track!
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Just sat and read through all the thread, I'd love to see a Capri with the F20C engine in though |
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Jul 14, 2014 19:19:00 GMT
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So I'm attempting to 'finish' my workshop before I strip down the turbo so I don't lose anything! Never rebuilt a turbo before and to be honest, it looks like it's going to be tricky. I'm not going to send it away to get balanced, I'm going to try my best to keep it balanced by very carefully marking it up. I'll take pics of the rebuild and progress on it, I'm thinking it's gonna be a pretty fiddly job.. Anyway, hopefully tomorrow the workshop will be ready Oh, and on the way back from the PPC photoshoot I glanced at the driver's side mirror so I could change lanes on the motorway, and the glass fell out! Not a big problem obviously. However, as much as I love them (they're '66 Mustang mirrors) I've managed to bag some mirrors that I think suit it better. As soon as they land I will lob them on and get some pics. Is it weird to get excited about a pair of mirrors? |
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Jul 14, 2014 22:37:32 GMT
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Next time you have the engine out (for whatever reason), can I implore you to change the coolant hoses under the inlet manifold. I had to do the U shaped hose on my brothers CA silvia, and despite being a trained mechanic with small hands, still found it nearly impossible with the amount of room (or lack thereof) to get the spring clips off and the hose on and off.
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Copey
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Jul 14, 2014 22:44:42 GMT
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nice to see you're gettin some time on this Dave!!
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec
1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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Great to see it coming back to life again !!!
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Ford Capri III 2.3S
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Cheers mate made some good progress over the last week and have some pics but I'm struggling to put them up. Am I on my own not wanting to pay for image hosting? Anyone know if you can put dropbox pics on here? |
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adamb
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Not spotted this before, looks pretty awesome!
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So that's how they do things on the wrong side of the Mersey! Looks very cool, not normally a fan of matt black but it suits this so well. |
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Haha cheers guys well, my mate helped me rebuild the turbo on Friday and went pretty well - He used to work at Holset Turbos, so knows a thing or two about spinning power snails. took about 3 hours, would've been quicker but the circlip pliers were a bit too fat. I took a ton of pics too but I still can't post them. My fuel return line arrived yesterday too I've been spending loads of time in my garage/workshop sorting it out, wanted to tidy up tidy up the bodywork a little bit and got totally carried away on little bits and bobs that have bugged me since I painted it so it's gonna be getting a full respray now! Again, I've been taking loads of pics and will add them if I work it out! |
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jayvoa
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Glad to see progress on this again. Still look at photos of it when I need a bit of inspiration to crack on with mine. For image hosting I use www.flickr.com which doesn't have any bandwidth limits that I know of. You can actually store 1TB of photos and videos on there. Also has a handy "share" button when you're viewing your photo which gives the right "BBCode" needed to post on here. |
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