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Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:21 pm
by Envoy CDX
Well, reached 150k this week. Who'd have thought.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 12:23 am
by humbucker
Milestone! Literally!
It doesn't matter how many times I look at this thread, I always read the title and think, 'oh, Gary's bought a Mini'
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:33 am
by Robsey
A good milestone -
The Corsa will just be run in now.
Plenty more miles ahead of her yet
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 2:25 am
by Envoy CDX
Robsey wrote:A good milestone -
The Corsa will just be run in now.
Plenty more miles ahead of her yet
Aye, either in this guise, or with some tweaks
deffo need to pull my finger out and get a new belt thrown on her though 55k on this one.
humbucker wrote:Milestone! Literally!
It doesn't matter how many times I look at this thread, I always read the title and think, 'oh, Gary's bought a Mini'
Aye, maybe I will rename the thread sometime
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 2:29 am
by Robsey
55k on a belt is a lot...
I thought 36k was the recommended change schedule.
I do mine every 32k.
It is so easy on those small 8v engines.
45 minutes tops....
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:31 am
by Envoy CDX
Robsey wrote:55k on a belt is a lot...
I thought 36k was the recommended change schedule.
I do mine every 32k.
It is so easy on those small 8v engines.
45 minutes tops....
Aye 40k is generally where I change them. been putting it off whilst I sort out the other head (still no further forward).
however, that said - I now have light in the shed.
And as that - the corsa got a really good scrubbing at the weekend too.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:36 am
by Envoy CDX
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:46 am
by Robsey
Mmmmm - clean dry man shed!!
Need to sort mine out - I miss tinkering about with oily car parts
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:54 am
by Envoy CDX
Well, got a replacement rear door at the weekend, chucked that on.
So, I have to wonder - do I need to do anything dvla wise due to the number of colourd my car now is?
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:23 am
by humbucker
Envoy CDX wrote:Well, got a replacement rear door at the weekend, chucked that on.
So, I have to wonder - do I need to do anything dvla wise due to the number of colourd my car now is?
'Harlequin' edition
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:15 pm
by Robsey
That's what I said last week...
I think that most panels are red - so dvla will be fine for now.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:28 am
by Envoy CDX
Aye, all fun and games.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 1:47 am
by Envoy CDX
Well Friday saw me turning my attention to a squeak and squeal I'd been dismissing for months as a "I'll get round to it.." job.
I' previously bought:
Shocks, springs, discs, pads and various mounts.
Stripped the front end down, pissing about with spring compressors and could I hell get things to line up. So after 3 hours of swearing I bought this:
Clarke 1 Tonne Spring compressor
Really didn't have many other options, so now I need to find a home for it.. Hurrah..
Anyhow, that all flew back together.
However the pads, well they worried me - there was maybe 2mm of material left on them, discs new last July were now scrap! Literally - replaced in the nick of time I say!
If I'd thought about it, I'd have taken pictures - but I didn't
Anyhow, no more squeaks or groans, so something got fixed!
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 10:43 am
by Robsey
Woohoo -
You'll be pleased you'd got them bits done.
I have noticed this a lot really - brake pads and discs appear to be made from crumbly Lancashire cheese.
They don't seem to last half as long as they used to "when I was a lad"!!
Ah well it's all done now - until next year.. (runs away)
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 12:55 pm
by Envoy CDX
Robsey wrote:Woohoo -
You'll be pleased you'd got them bits done.
I have noticed this a lot really - brake pads and discs appear to be made from crumbly Lancashire cheese.
They don't seem to last half as long as they used to "when I was a lad"!!
Ah well it's all done now - until next year.. (runs away)
Well, next on the list is the rebuilding of the SE head (though, seriously considering getting my hands on an x18xe1 lump and just dropping that in instead).
Got the head back from CAS Engineering, was going to have the valves re-cut and ports fettled, but just settled for a good skimmed face (however more than few thou had to come off, so compression maybe a bit screwy..)
Shed is stupidly full now though.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 12:30 am
by Envoy CDX
Well today, I got annoyed looking at rust spots on the bodywork, so in a fit of rage I took the whizzy tool to some of them, gave them a quick red oxide coat and slapped some paint over them.
Doesn't look much better unfortunately, but at least its not rust!
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 1:09 am
by Robsey
Aahhh - Rust is the devil's spawn
It can always be rubbed down and tidied up at a later date.
Better than getting to the stage of cutting out rotted metal and welding in fresh steel.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 12:49 am
by Envoy CDX
Robsey wrote:Aahhh - Rust is the devil's spawn
It can always be rubbed down and tidied up at a later date.
Better than getting to the stage of cutting out rotted metal and welding in fresh steel.
Yeah, bit of pitted metal, but can sort that with little to know work really.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 1:30 am
by Robsey
Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 1:40 am
by Envoy CDX
Robsey wrote:Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.
Red / Blue / whatever is in the shed to hand really
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:46 am
by humbucker
Envoy CDX wrote:Robsey wrote:Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.
Red / Blue / whatever is in the shed to hand really
Didn't VW use that as a selling point for the Polo at one stage or another?!
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:49 am
by humbucker
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:50 am
by humbucker
You could even get a matching pair of Nike Air!
Re: Mini project aka The Winter Car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:42 pm
by Envoy CDX
humbucker wrote:Envoy CDX wrote:Robsey wrote:Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.
Red / Blue / whatever is in the shed to hand really
Didn't VW use that as a selling point on the Polo at one stage?!
Yeah, but that was a mass production model - mines a one off surely
Re: Cursa B - Was supposed to be a mini project but here we
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:31 pm
by Envoy CDX
So the bitch has bitten again, this time in the form of a groan / creak on left to right lock - but doesn't do it on right to left!
Trying to work out why. Apparently there is a knocking from the passenger side - but I can't see anything obvious - fun and games ensue.
however, 157k now!