The Never Ending Champion Project

[Kris]

Re: bartrums 16v

the green scotch brite pads give a very nice shine/polish to metal .

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

Its been trial and error really, trying to work out what works best

[astrasteve23]

Re: bartrums 16v

that cam cover looks very nice, and very cheap to do by the sounds of it!

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

£5 for the nitromors, £5 for the autosol and the sandpaper I got from my mate for free

[astrasteve23]

Re: bartrums 16v

bargain!

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

Got my cd player and speakers in today. Nothing fancy kenwood cd/mp3 player, 10cm kenwoods in the dash and a pair of 6/9's on the back shelf one slight hiccup though I slipped with the screwdriver fitting the passenger side dash speaker so make that one 10cm kenwood in the dash

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

had to remove my ally fuel cap with mole grips today as I snapped the (only) key in it luckily I had the original fuel cap that came with the lockset

did almost panic as it didn't want to come off and there was no fuel in the car either (when I did get it off there was a loud hiss from the empty tank)

Under the bonnet I put a new set of plugs in and fitted my battery bag that I "borrowed" from a vectra when I used to sell cars

last jobs left to do before Retro Cars are give it a service, fit the v6 front brakes I bought ages ago and fit the rear strutbrace

I was going to replace the shagged sill but I wont be able to get it painted in time

[richie00boy]

Re: bartrums 16v

If you get a pressure release when taking off the filler cap then look to see if the breather pipe on the tank is blocked. It's a black flexible plastic pipe about 7-8mm diameter. I know 8v ones defo have one and I'd have thought 16v ones did as well.

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

Give the engine bay a bit of a tidy up, fitted the polished rocker and cambelt covers and replaced the induction hoses as both of them had splits in them



while I had the airbox out I gave it a clean underneath and it was pretty solid under there except for a spot of rust as big as a 50p.

only problem fitting polished stuff is makes everything else look muckier so i'm going to polish up the spare fan and surround i've got replace the heat shield then leave it as it is.

while I was doing up the last bolt on the cambelt cover I noticed the car's got goodridge brake hoses already fitted I never even noticed them when I bought the car even though I checked the arches

here it is all put back together



ordered a new exhaust as well, a Piper stainless system that'll de-cat as well with twin 3 inch outwardly rolled pipes, as I plan to keep the car a while thought i'd treat it (and my mate gets a good discount as a piper dealer ) so that should be here by the end of the week

[astrasteve23]

Re: bartrums 16v

looking good. what size bore is the exhaust system do you know?

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

looking good. what size bore is the exhaust system do you know?

i'm not sure tbh, i'm not expecting a massive bhp jump should get a bit though as mines started blowing from the middle so i'll be loosing some power from that

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

treated the car to a full set of toyo proxes t1-r's. I got fed up of having a set of mixed make tyres, the back 2 needed replacing anyway so at £41 quid each I thought I might as well get a set.

The car chalked up it's first kill the other day aswell, I was on my way to work when I saw one of my mates in his Fiesta RS1800i and he decided to have a go at the lights, the next time I saw him he came out with his pre-emptive excuse before I even mentioned it, muttering something about the fse valve making it sluggish

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

Steam cleaned the engine bay, door shuts and arches to get rid of the road shite thats been building up in all the hard to reach places.

fitted a lightly polished up fan and surround, a pain in the arse to fit as there's sod all room. It just needed some brute force, swearing and some cut knuckles.

just got the brakes to swap and the new exhaust should arrive tomorrow. Looks like saturday's gonna be a busy day

[BazW]

Re: bartrums 16v

Exhaust arrived yesterday so had an early finish from work to fit it so i've got one less job tomorrow



noticed the difference straight away. it pulls nice and smooth whereas with the leaky Janspeed that was already fitted seemed jerky when you put your foot down, even before it started blowing but that probably more to do with getting rid of the cat than anything else.

[Sipo]

Re: bartrums 16v

That exhaust looks well tidy matey, im liking it!! Its not too extreme but its noticeably different from the original. Looks the dogs matey