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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:19 pm
by joe cavalier sri
Telegram Sam wrote:I might have mentioned somewhere that someone fitted an ex BMW "acoustic weight" to my modified exhaust, which I reckon gives me the best of both worlds. Seems that these are not very common (and I've yet to do a YouTube of the results)
I love the sound of mine very loud and throaty when rev'd ill get a vid up it p1$$es neighbours off
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:21 pm
by joe cavalier sri
And it burbles I like that sound
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:35 pm
by Telegram Sam
With the ac weight it sounds quite law abiding as you are passing the police station, but rather the opposite as you then accelerate away @ north of 4.5 K rpm. I like to think that it fools the Specs gizmos also .. Everyone to their taste (including the neighbours).
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:22 pm
by joe cavalier sri
Telegram Sam wrote:With the ac weight it sounds quite law abiding as you are passing the police station, but rather the opposite as you then accelerate away @ north of 4.5 K rpm. I like to think that it fools the Specs gizmos also .. Everyone to their taste (including the neighbours).
The neighbours didn't appreciate the wonderfull sound of sound of a xe and a straight through exhaust it was funny troy even said you got your neighbours moaning lol
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:56 pm
by Telegram Sam
It's a matter of educating the neighbours into having good tastes.
When the exhaust specialist fitted mine I remember he was rather pooh-hooish about the various bolt-on "downstream" exhaust systems that I had been considering. He reckoned that performance and efficiency were all to to with the manifold attached directly to the cylinder block. I suspect this has an effect on the acoustics also. [the high-lift cam + flywheel don't unfortunately result in a nice low rev burble, the price I have to pay ..
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:05 am
by joe cavalier sri
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:21 am
by Envoy CDX
All too familiar are those areas.
Still, it'll fix.
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:24 am
by joe cavalier sri
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:25 am
by joe cavalier sri
Envoy CDX wrote:All too familiar are those areas.
Still, it'll fix.
Ill be totally honest I was exspecting far worse but got epoxy on way too
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:31 pm
by Telegram Sam
All this brings back painful and expensive memories,
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, hopefully now "fixed". You will no doubt be thinking about how to protect and preserve what you end up with after all the welding (I'd be interested to know)
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:20 pm
by Envoy CDX
Be interested to see how this turns out once you get the work done.
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:25 pm
by joe cavalier sri
Putting a lot of money in I want to give it to my son when he is old enough to drive her but epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed and troy is removing the spare wheel well so I can have twin exhaust coming out od rear
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:28 pm
by Envoy CDX
joe cavalier sri wrote:Putting a lot of money in I want to give it to my son when he is old enough to drive her but epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed and troy is removing the spare wheel well so I can have twin exhaust coming out od rear
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Looking forward to seeing the results.
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:29 pm
by joe cavalier sri
And im getting the rear arched rolled and they will be protected by epoxy mastic as same behind the front wings too and all the front end but is just matter of rubbing down behind the front wings and removing the front bumper no welding needed there
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:13 pm
by joe cavalier sri
And forgot to mention ive bough a pre face lift rear spoiler without the griffin badge in the middle as I cant get a griffin badge anywhere so im going for the debadged look apart from keeping the sri badges on the doors
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:57 pm
by Telegram Sam
joe cavalier sri wrote:epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed
Not a DIY job??
Debadged / pre face lift spoiler / front bonnet / radiator grill all look better IMHO
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:50 am
by joe cavalier sri
Telegram Sam wrote:joe cavalier sri wrote:epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed
Not a DIY job??
Debadged / pre face lift spoiler / front bonnet / radiator grill all look better IMHO
No not a diy job been talking to troy about the welding
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:07 pm
by Telegram Sam
Sounds like he's a useful kinda guy to know!
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:31 pm
by joe cavalier sri
Telegram Sam wrote:Sounds like he's a useful kinda guy to know!
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Not cheap tho but I want it doing properly
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:42 pm
by Robsey
He will much cheaper than someone who does welding as his main job.
You should find that his prices will be VERY competitive.
That is a pretty poorly underside your Cav has there.
May actually be worse than mine
I too will probably be calling on Mr Troy's Wonderous Welding skills in the summer, when I have raised some funds.
But I am hoping to do some simple bits myself around March / Easter time.
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 1:38 am
by joe cavalier sri
Robsey wrote:He will much cheaper than someone who does welding as his main job.
You should find that his prices will be VERY competitive.
That is a pretty poorly underside your Cav has there.
May actually be worse than mine
I too will probably be calling on Mr Troy's Wonderous Welding skills in the summer, when I have raised some funds.
But I am hoping to do some simple bits myself around March / Easter time.
The floor pan is solid its book'd in with troy to have spare wheel well removed and smoothed off to make it lighter and strut brace welded in in boot ill get him to give me quotes on rest when he's there its makes sense as im in no rush to get it back on road and can save up for rest to be welded by troy.
But it looks worse than it actually is its just valance corners and boot floor corners and not much of rear end of cill's but I have a garage so troy can weld it in there and beaing force fed tea and coffee and biscuits
Ive proded most of it with a screwdriver so its not going to get any bigger well not much bigger after its been cut out but that's troys domain
Im thinking about buying next parts for next job polly bush all round refurbed rear axel off troy kunifer brake lines to go with kunifer lines on axel and new petrol tank which I have off chippandan's gsi rep he rolled just need front sub frame and a few other bits I can be getting refurbed in the mean time while its sat in garage waiting to be welded.
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:28 pm
by joe cavalier sri
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:38 pm
by joe cavalier sri
Getting it mostly stripted down to be seam welded so a lot has gone in my loft wife wasn't happy lol.
Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:05 am
by joe cavalier sri
Also going to have to cut this out too
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Re: MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:07 am
by joe cavalier sri
Some body give me posertive news it got me down seeing all this
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