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Few more jobs done. Seats stripped to be cleaned and repaired. Just in the process of rebuilding me now. 

Ove been having a few issues though as my fabricator has gone awol with my exhaust and downpipe which is causing a few issues. 

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A quick fore updates to prove it still lives on. 

 

Coilover refresh and rebuild. These had been on 8 years and the rusty rear arches had corroded the top mounts. But on the down side the standard shielded bearings hadn’t fared to well so these have been replaced with sealed units. The springs have had a lick of paint and 2 new replacement locking collars were orders the anodised ones to replace the front steel locking collars as these were the only ones I had issues removing. A quick lick of paint on the rear top mounts made the best of a bad situation. 

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On 5/31/2019 at 7:35 AM, Kieran Barber said:

They certainly look better now

Definitely looking better now. Hopefully grt

them back on this week. 

 

Here is a few more pics while I’m at it. 

Injectors have been whipped out cleaned and tested, working nearly as good as new. Only 1% between all 4 surprising after 20 years. So they’ve been refitted with a freshly painted fuel rain and new fuel return. 

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Exhaust has had been bolted back together for now. Had a few issues with the work being done to that so it’s going elsewhere once it back running. 

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Fresh lick of paint on the intercooler as it was looking a bit tired and the rocker cover while I was at it.

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And a quick test fit of the spoiler. 

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Turbo kit kit is rebuilt (except for coolant lines) and is back on along with intercooler. Just waiting on coolant lines before I drop the rad back in. 

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Mew fuel filter and the plx wideband has arrived. 

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But t more progress on this. It’s all back in one piece nearly. 

First job was to get the suspension back on. Which all went back on pretty easy and an hour or so of adjustment and the ride heigh my was set. Just need to see how far the tracking is out when it back on the road. 

Next job was to get it running. Had a few issues and niggles getting it started. Sticky starter motors full of gunk and w dead battery. But eventually I got it started. The main problem being i suspected it is it’s massively over fuelling.

so I cracked on with swapping the standard lambda out and getting the plx wideband fitted. I mounted the controller unit in the glove box with the emb. First impressions is this is a great piece of kit, having the narrow band output facility allowed me to use this instead of the factory sensor but still replace the signal to the ecu and be able to see wideband afr’s. This confirmed its massively overfueling so it looks like it’s time for a remap. :( Or :) im not sure yet.

Once this was done i got most of the dash back together and it’s starting to look like a nice place to sit again. 

 

 

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On 7/2/2019 at 12:33 PM, snails ep91 said:

good to see people keeping there long term projects and not breaking them for parts like everyone has been recently

Been tempted to break it on several occasions but it’ll never happen. 😂 

 

ive been a bit busy recently so I haven’t touched it much. Next job, engine temp gauge and spoiler. 

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