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sowen
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Apr 10, 2019 12:42:35 GMT
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You'll want the Ford's EDIS 4 module to power the Ford coilpack It'll run with just the EDIS module, coilpack and crank sensor on a suitable 36-1 trigger wheel but will be running on fixed timing with no advance. You'll need a separate aftermarket ecu to control the spark advance, the two main ones being Megajolt and Nodiz.
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sowen
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Mar 27, 2019 21:51:54 GMT
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Just knew it was going to wind up one colour! Eventually, last part to be painted will be the bulkhead which needs some small repairs in the top corners and bottoms of the footwells. Still can't decide if I should put the black stripes back on? The perfect colour for a landrover Love the fact you’ve kept the ‘battle scar’ too! Flat green always looks good on a utility Land Rover. All battle scars add to it's character and history, and that axe wound is particularly impressive
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sowen
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Mar 26, 2019 21:35:40 GMT
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sowen
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Mar 14, 2019 22:02:46 GMT
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i guess i should know this, but why cant you use a 109 rear tank? is it due the hicap tub ? It already has a rear tank, just not plumbed in yet. And going from 45ltr to 65ltr isn't going to give much of an increase in useable range.
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sowen
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Mar 14, 2019 18:30:49 GMT
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Now I do like the old SJ's! Like an early Land Rover, but with an interior and before they gained weight. Those Patrols are also great, and great at rusting I believe? Maybe more power will come in the future, I don't trust the front axle and transmission to put any more through it, and should really fit a bigger turbo too.... Yeah the SJs do really well, as you say, they don't have any weight in them! I'm enjoying the patrol, it's much more suited to doing a longer journey too, which I would like to take advantage off and go offroading further-afield. I have an update for the Patrol thread regarding that, but yeah, they certainly know how to rust I've got some work to do that was hoping wouldn't require attention until the summer.... Oh well haha! I assume a new axle would be on the cards before more power then? The start of the fuel tank looks great! What sort of range will that give you? I wouldn't mind an old Patrol or Land Cruiser as a daily commuter, but the fuel costs would be too prohibitive! Front axle just needs some uprated internals, 24 spline 4 pin diff and CV joints should be more than man enough for what I could throw at it, with some form of anti-tramp to keep it in check. The new tank I think calculates to approx 65ltr capacity, similar to the rear tank, maybe more if I add some wings to the top to extend above the chassis rails? Should give at least 700 miles range if I was to run both down to almost empty. With the single underseat fuel tank I get only 4 days of commuting before I need to refuel, around 230 miles. Would be nice to not have to make specific detours just for fuel, and just fill up when convenient.
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sowen
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Mar 13, 2019 21:26:56 GMT
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surely vitara owners get the most stick Everyone forgets them because they get stuck at the start and can't get far enough along to get properly stuck or broken it’s at this point I need to hold my hand up and admit I did have an sj, however it gets picked up next week. I’ve replaced it with a swb patrol fitted with a TD42... Do you have plans to go for much more power? Now I do like the old SJ's! Like an early Land Rover, but with an interior and before they gained weight. Those Patrols are also great, and great at rusting I believe? Maybe more power will come in the future, I don't trust the front axle and transmission to put any more through it, and should really fit a bigger turbo too.... I thought it about time I made an effort to plumb the rear fuel tank in, but also wanting to increase the range I discovered a factory fitted fuel tank changeover valve capable of flow and return lines. It's a Pollak 6 port fuel valve for anyone interested, and was fitted to the Australian Perentie military Land Rover's along with numerous American pick-up trucks. And I've bought a pair of fuel filters for each tank and various fuel line fittings to plumb it all in with stainless braided teflon fuel lines I was going to retain the original military underseat fuel tank for a little while longer but decided if I'm going to be plumbing in the fuel changeover valve, I may as well remove the awkward to fill underseat tank and fit another underseat toolbox in it's place and make a new auxiliary fuel tank to fit under the rear loadbed between the chassis rails. I've ordered some sheets of stainless steel and begun folding them up and tacking together to make the larger auxiliary tank The cutout is to clear the propshaft, and I will probably add some 'wings' to the tank to extend over the tops of the chassis rails so it can sit on the chassis rather than be hung underneath, and also for the filler pipe to drop into.
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sowen
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Feb 28, 2019 17:56:23 GMT
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surely vitara owners get the most stick Everyone forgets them because they get stuck at the start and can't get far enough along to get properly stuck or broken
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sowen
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Feb 25, 2019 21:14:14 GMT
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I don't think it's play in the bearing, more of play in the centre diff itself and the output pivoting in the bearing. I could feel a marginal difference in play of the old and new bearings when holding the outer race in the vice and wobbling the output shaft. I think it's improved the grumbling noises on light throttle and overrun, won't know for sure until I next do a long trip and really get the gearboxes upto temperature
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sowen
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Feb 23, 2019 20:34:56 GMT
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Since the transmission is making more noises and re-shimming the rear axle pinion hadn't made much difference the next part to fix was the slight play on the transfer box front output shaft flange. So off with the front propshaft and out came the front output shaft Off with the old bearing And on with the new bearing And knock the shaft back in Of course I needed to take it out for a test drive, and still had the brackets bolted onto the chassis for the GoPro so turned it round and video'd the front axle Some bonus axle tramp at 1:50 and the boost gauge hose blew at 2:04
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sowen
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Everything is too clean.
I'd need completely seperated bays for storage of 'nice' vehicles, spares vehicles, spares, two fully kitted workshops both clean and dirty, paintbooth, general working area etc.
That doesn't even touch on the outside storage space and room to 'test and play'.....
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sowen
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Feb 18, 2019 19:18:21 GMT
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I had something similar recently with a dimmer and non-functioning dash lights. I'd have a look to see there isn't a fault in that circuit causing the resistor to get hot?
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sowen
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Feb 18, 2019 17:55:08 GMT
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shes got a bit of poke Nev ! looks fine re: axle tramp too ? i guess 11 leaf stack is quite generous in that department (actually, 8 leaf HD arent they ?) I can make very brisk progress with it I was dead suprised to see there's no perceptible movement in the diff nose under load, and also hard braking where one of the rear wheels momentarily locked during the vid. Heavy duty 8 leaf, not seized but not yet stripped, de-rusted and greased. When I first started driving it the rear was very hard, but after a few days driving to and from work on a broken concrete track it noticeably softened. I can now noticeably compress the springs just climbing in and out of it (I trimmed those bits off the vid) and they bounce well when jumping on the load bed. I expect there to be more 'action' on the front axle driving the same route under load. I have some jobs I want to get on with first but may set the camera up and point it forwards in the next week or two?
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sowen
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Feb 17, 2019 15:59:05 GMT
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My video of the back axle being put under load
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sowen
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Feb 17, 2019 14:38:08 GMT
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sowen
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Jan 27, 2019 19:19:21 GMT
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You've made numerous attempts at getting a regular meet going haven't you ChasR , but there doesn't seem to be the numbers via here to maintain the momentum? There's a few other meets that have popped up recently in the Warwickshire region that are well attended and regularly growing, so it's not that there's nobody in the area interested. Remember the old Blue Lias meet, last one I went to when it was infamously ended I think had about a 1000 cars in the field? Maybe a change of tactic to bolster numbers or some of us try to arrange to gatecrash one of the other regular meets While I've made attempts, I've not done that many in my time at RR : Probably around 7 or 8 since I joined I suspect, which was 2006. But I admit I've also kept them small scale after previous incidents I've encountered years ago (i.e someone doing a burnout in a gravelly car park of the Old Mill in Coventry, chipping my windscreen while showering other cars in gravel/dirt (I didn't dare to see what had happened to theirs! He was on about getting his mates down as well for what was, remember, an informal meet. If his mates were going to be like him, that's not something I really want to deal with. While I don't mind the meets getting more popular it does become harder to control who won't be a dick at them, as other meets have shown. I get why other organisers, some on here, have been stressed out at car meets and am aware of the curse word they have to go through for a thankless task . Gatecrashing another meet mind you does sound good . C&M is a decent location, probably one of the better locations to hold any sort of meet for quite some time. Seeing as we had OKish nos. I'll push for another meet in March, and this time attempt to keep it more regular. As long as the nos. are there, I'll keep it going and maybe nos. will increase in time:). You've made more attempts at setting up meets than most here! I think maybe an invitation only irregular meet, possibly 5-10 cars max so there's plenty of space for regular 'normal' customers could work? I'm sure a small group of regular south-midlanders could be called to action....
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sowen
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Jan 27, 2019 14:18:33 GMT
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You've made numerous attempts at getting a regular meet going haven't you ChasR , but there doesn't seem to be the numbers via here to maintain the momentum? There's a few other meets that have popped up recently in the Warwickshire region that are well attended and regularly growing, so it's not that there's nobody in the area interested. Remember the old Blue Lias meet, last one I went to when it was infamously ended I think had about a 1000 cars in the field? Maybe a change of tactic to bolster numbers or some of us try to arrange to gatecrash one of the other regular meets
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sowen
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Jan 26, 2019 22:48:02 GMT
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Yeah I enjoyed it, very cool place they've got there, and quite a few different cars coming and going I failed to get a pic of the P6 somehow! But got some photos of other things of interest I brought my camera and didn't take any! Wanted one by the entrance, but when we left there were cars parked across it. Maybe next time....
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sowen
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Jan 26, 2019 21:02:50 GMT
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Real nice place, will definitely go again and should make an effort to sample some of the food too
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sowen
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Tuning a car with a turbosowen
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Probably not a huge help to you but I've fitted an early Saab 9000 2.3 lump into my Rover, bought the engine without any wiring loom, throttle body, ecu etc, so just patched my existing Megasquirt onto the engine (everything lined up and plugged in) and got it running like that. The amount of people getting upset and offended because I didn't use Saab's own efi system!
From what I gather the Saab's Trionic fuel injection system is meant to be very very good, and there are ways to re-tune the ecu without too much drama. The older Lucas/Bosch injection systems are quite crude so seem to respond to crude adjustments.
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