Grigio moon ph1 r5 progress thread..

little update,

basically was having problems with it starting when hot, bought a new high out put starter, new battery, still the same,

suddenly dawned on me that when me and james rebuilt the engine, I for some reason used the old conrod cap! instead of the matching one,

so Friday I pulled it down ready to swap the cap over, as had a mot booked in for today (sat)

put the new cap on, cleaned the sump when I noticed a crank in the sump!

luckily james had a spare sump, so shot over their Friday night and collected it.

this morning (sat) I started nice and early finishing of the sump ect,

the oil needed priming so I did the old "spin it with a drill" trick,

I must have put the dizzy drive a tooth out when refiting as after this I couldn't get the car to start!

I spent 2-3 hours trying to sort this, even went back and started fresh putting engine at tdc, putting dizzy drive on at the correct postion, still nothing...

then spoke to gtjosh I think his user name one here! top lad!

previsely my dizzy must have been 180 out and my leeds where swapped round to suit,

so when I then put it back to how it was ment to be, my leeds where now 180 out, but I didn't no this lol!!

So missed my m.o.t today :( but booked in for next sat

a few pics of the old girl...

http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps47ffc01e.jpg

http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps075a8e0a.jpg

http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/v...pse8fddab2.jpg

She's looking lovely, and you want to sell because..............

I no lol! Looking at it today I wanna keep it now haha!!


But I'm needing a more every day car now.


Elliott

Passed its mot and now has tax,

I had a buyer lined up but I pulled out last minute :crap: all the effort I put in to build it back up and I couldn't just let it go,

so have done a nice amount of miles with only one problem the idle jet getting blocked,

decided to turn boost up but was shocked to find that was leaning out at 14psi!!

I have checked my carb and its currently at 1.3 second stage, standard main, 1mm a.c, I have got a .9 to put in but im sure this isn't my problem causing it to lean out,

looked under the car at the pump and noticed their was no fuel filter :sad2: so have ordered a new one, also ordered a new fuel pump which I no will be more then enough for 20 psi. after I have fitted these I will check fuel pressure at the carb, hopefully this will make it run abit richer so I can wind the boost up!

will report results when all fitted

Elliott

I think the sale falling through is a sign mate keep you have done so much work to it i would enjoy it for a while first i think it looks great

I pulled out of the sale mate, he still wants it lol.

but yeh that's what I thought, I havnt actually got to enjoy it yet, hopefully soon though!

I pulled out of selling a mint GTT that I loved at the last minute many years ago. The guilt I felt having broken an agreement that I'd made with the buyer was palpable. The guy was gutted. Shan't be doing that again.