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Mar 14, 2021 14:19:53 GMT
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Back in the day I fitted an electric fuel pump to my 136 rapid to cure hot starting issues. Good chance why one was fitted, just used the modern version on the LR and works well. wouldn’t worry about wiring too much, easy to fit a relay / fused supply ? James If I'm honest the real reason for me removing the electric pump was simply because it was wired in without a relay via positive direct from the coil. No doubt further down the line I'd have experienced coil problems, I just made the decision to head back towards stock in that area for simplicitiy's sake, that and I bought a fair bit of other NOS parts at the same time I got the pump which haven't been revealed yet but didn't get any relay paraphernalia because I forgot, another reason for removing it were the fitting sizes, the bottom of the tank is quite a small diameter hose, the fuel pump required a larger diameter hose, larger than my malpassi and larger than the carb inlet etc, I only really put my malpassi on this car to check the fuel pressure from that pump and the mech pump before the FPR goes back on my carbed civic.
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Slow progress, I, for whatever reason (not really sure as it's just prolonging getting an MOT on this thing really) decided I wanted to reinstate the factory fuel pump rather than use the electric one that's currently installed if for nothing more than to have less wiring in the engine bay and I could probably use the fuel pump on my datsun (I just like to fiddle really) I managed to find a NOS one from a fella relatively locally who used to run a skoda dealership and as a result has a good number of genuine parts and spares for reasonable prices, if you think you need something just PM me and I'll give you his email. Once fitted up with new gaskets it was struggling to pull fuel up from the tank then push to the malpassi filter, so as there's no way to prime this pump other than to backfill the line downwards, I cleaned the original pump up because it has a priming handle on it already so just a few pushes of the finger and job done, so given it still seemingly pumps liquids just fine but was dirty inside I'll probably use that until it breaks and then throw on the "new" one afterwards. The below is similar condition and model to the original I just didn't have a photo of it to hand. Aside from that, an idea I have been pondering is about the interior light, currently, given the massive piece of perspex and minimal interior, the car doesn't currently have a light that activates with doors opening. Who thinks this would be a good idea? I know I do. How exactly I'll achieve it isn't all that difficult as its a matter of some red bulbs or bulbs with a red cover, what is ponderable, is the fitting. Realistically I think having the light/lights behind the drivers head line, whether on the roof or on the floor/side somewhere in the back is also a question I'll need to answer, because there isn't all that much interior to hide wires behind, I have already had a lot of fun threading in new wiring for the rear window demister through the copper piping (I just realised I haven't posted that update) imagine..... a beetle demist loom kit from vw heritage but fitted to a skoda and a window that now demists, the image in your head is getting clearer now isn't it The second thing to contemplate other than placement is the fitting itself. Something more simple Or something more complex but looks the part. What do you think?
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walked past this whilst the Audi was in for MOT this past Saturday, not the only old Skoda there.
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More small jobs being ticked off one by one, Weber 32 dgr was treated to a new gasket set and base setting before running upto temperature, I found that with the mixture screw out at the standard 2 turns the car was running pretty rich, enough so that Unburnt fuel and soot was being spat out the exhaust so had to turn in about 3/4 of a turn to get the car well, annoyingly chloes gunson spark plug is at the other garage so can’t go get it - cheers lockdown, on the carbs less that 2 turns out means jets need changing really so will have to look at filling my draw with yet more jets I’ll never use haha. When the car arrived to me I quickly found out that I couldn’t lock it. Following investigation this was a result of a few things, firstly, that the only key I got with it fit the ignition but not the doors, secondly that the drivers door barrel wasn’t even attached to the locking mech in any way so even if I did have a key it would do nothing. The passenger door had no barrel, a bullet cap was pressed in. I’m all for style but I try to live for function, it is a car after all and I intend to drive places and leave it. Step 1 involved searching for an Estelle/rapid lock set. As you can imagine these are thin on the ground and I don’t really fancy waiting too long, Part of the fun of owning old cars, especially ones not that common / liked in the uk is finding and translating foreign forums for information. Fortunately I’m in a good position as google translate exists and I work with a few Czech people who can help me with terms to search, this resulted in me finding out that Felicia locks are close enough to work. The ignition barrel shared the same part number despite the key being vastly different. I managed to score an entire lock set which was composed of two door barrels, petrol cap, glove box and ignition barrel. Step 2 involved getting these things to work, now the rapid doesn’t have a glove box - job done, already has a super cool pop cap for the petrol, not great at stopping a thief from siphoning petrol but in this instance it’s staying, ignition barrel, I removed the one from the rapid, drilled out the pin and prepared the Felicia one by removing the immobiliser ring and again drilling it out. As you can see this was going to be a direct replacement. Refit of the ignition was simple, push it in, ensure the whole assembly is aligned with the steering lock aperture and bolt it all down. Check the key turns and everything’s good to go. Next up were the doors, now I noticed initially the Felicia barrels were longer than the assumed rapid one that was in the car, this wasn’t supposed to be a problem. I was missing the component that went between the arm on the end of the lock and the locking mechanism anyway so had assumed drilling it out to make/fit up a bolt or pin would fix my problem. Like so - the above is the factory pin as shown by a member on one of the Facebook groups. I - cautiously drilled out the ball joint from the end of the arm (Felicia lock mechs use an rc car steering like arm to pivot the mech) and put in a bolt of enough length to bridge the gap. Tightened it down, fit into the door expecting it to work exactly the same way as the factory pin. Key in, turn, lock doesn’t move but I head a clink in the bottom of the door. The little arm on the end of the barrel had snapped off. Which essentially meant. I’d need yet another barrel to get an arm off. Or that I’m going to fit electric door poppers. Not it was at this point I noticed quite how much thicker the arm on the end of the lock of the rapid barrel was compared to the Felicia one. Cause of it snapping? Either my rapid lock mech is stiffer than necessary, I had already lubed it up and greased the mech where possible but was still a little stiff, nothing crazy, or the arm was already stress fractured from years of being a Felicia, ooooor I wasn’t as careful as I could have been when drilling but seriously I wasn’t putting mark henrys weight into it because this is a small and delicate thing. Anyway all this combined resulted in me still not being able to lock the car. I thought hey... that ball joint thing is like an rc car steering, the barrel is like the servo... I have a few things that might work. After drilling, sanding to the right thickness and shaping so it only had one arm then fitting up the bolt to the end. Left me with a lock barrel that flexes but still doesn’t move the mech. I have some metal I could cut down to shape for a metal version buuuut. My dremel is kaput and I have no metal files so might have to invest somewhere.
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If youtube has taught me anything, can we skip e15, e20 etc and start getting e85 please?
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Feb 20, 2021 23:11:32 GMT
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Feb 19, 2021 12:42:36 GMT
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Debbie Evans - Stunt driver/rider
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Feb 19, 2021 12:36:50 GMT
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Arisa Mizuhara, drifter and rally driver in Japan.
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I'd be buying a Jaguar S type R, crying about how rusty or broken it is in between leering round like timothy dalton in Hot Fuzz at who my next victim on the road would be and laughing like Mr Toad. Went to the nurburgring a good 10 years ago in one. ooo yes.
EDIT - I'm sure you could find a turbo honda civic for this price if you look hard enough.
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Feb 11, 2021 17:15:09 GMT
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Feb 11, 2021 13:24:06 GMT
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As above, Adey appears pretty happy with his diesel heater, I was going to go the same way as lowstandards using a computer cpu as a mini heater but upon adding up costs for my application I have ended up buying an old heater matrix/fan and shroud from a london taxi, which I'm going to put in the frunk once it has arrived.
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Feb 11, 2021 11:58:31 GMT
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These are bloody ace, if only I didn't melt a piston in my hyper 7 and decide to EV convert it haha, I'll have to put a few trucks on my Christmas list.
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Feb 10, 2021 15:36:44 GMT
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Courtesy of @clavetdesign on instagram... yes please
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Feb 10, 2021 15:07:36 GMT
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A weekend of forecasted snow but nothing settling saw more fettling, I used the late brake shows discount (15%) to get some EBC pads at a very reasonable price for the skoda, yes I was surprised they had them too. Fitted, revealing a need to fix something on the pass front caliper that will definitely present an issue down the line, we'll get to that when the time comes. If you are reading this and happen to have a serviceable 4 pot front left caliper, DM me Besides that, I braved the cold to finish the fog lights for good, all working as per the factory switch intended with the toggle light on the dash too. I think I'm finally at where I thought the car was when I bought it haha.
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I'm in, 6 rotor is way more gucci than a lambo v12
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Still holding up, though I caveat that with, we haven’t really driven the car anywhere so haven’t had a need to wash the car heavily, next time round I think we’d try chrome vinyl. More fiddly but probably way longer lasting
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