I'm strapping down an old GTA lump to a pallet ,bolting on a bellhousing and starter and checking it for comp
It does look like Spring has sprung this morning
I'm strapping down an old GTA lump to a pallet ,bolting on a bellhousing and starter and checking it for comp
It does look like Spring has sprung this morning
Nowt today. Don't like rushing around on Sundays, well any day really. Roast,Beer and PS3. Still off work till the 13th March so plenty of time in the week to do stuff. Making a start on the body work on my other 5 tomorrow. Snow forcast for Thursday... Great!!
well, got no car here to play with at the mo, so guna go buy street fighter for the xbox and get some serious button bashing in. prob find more bits i want for a gt and buy them
It's the first Sunday of the month, so that means it's Farmers Market day
I'm off there shortly to hunt down a nice joint of beef to do for dinner. Then i'm going to sit down and watch two teams I hate, play football.
One day I might get some enthusiasm back to touch my cars. T-Cup hasn't been started since National Day, and I haven't driven the Ghost since last April when the tax ran out
fuel the 5 & go for a blast in the country providing it dont start raining... looks dry at the minute, pub lunch (mixed grill variety) and a bevvy is on the cards
More sleep, clean the Tokyo Taxi, some sleep, watch Beardo's band tonight, have some beers and then sleep.
Beautiful.
Might give the cars a clean, weather looks ok. Food & more sleep will follow
Getting a lift into town to pick my car up (Prelude, not the GTT), after leaving it in there and having a few beers last night.
Taking the jump leads with me as my mate rang me late on to say I've left my interior light on.
Scrapyard mission day. Need to find a five somewhere that i can strip for all sorts of niggly little bits and pieces
Driving to Doncaster to pick up a rollcage for the Raider.
Pop in so I can pick your Turbo brain
Carry on stripping the cup car engine to investigate the knocking
Watch the football and horse racing and sit on william hill all day. not forgetting a nice roast later on
Workingnice day for it though and plenty of new cars going out so cant complain really.
Come 4pm i'll be off home to get myself sorted for a roast carvery at the pub. Then its a day off tomo so down to get the 5 out of storage, fuelled up and go for a nice long drive! Its into renault tomo for the service too. Heres hoping the weather stays the same.
Lee, was that you editing my post by accident?
i have loads to do on the clio and new engine, got new seats for it yesterday so might fit them and order some pipe work for intercooler. possibly lazy about a bit also
Ohhh ****e yeh
I forget my powers and have bog thumbs
I'll pop the kettle on
Removing the 172 lump from the r5 and then re-Timing her up
Missis is at work today so I have my daughter, but...
More sleep, (just woke up)
Lunch
Go wash and hover the 5, might even go for a cruise around the back roads
Originally Posted by James5
uh oh, sounds like someone removed a pulley and didn't know about the lack of woodruff key !
james, you can time it up in the bay you know ? 8mm shaft to lock the crank and a cam tool in the end of the head to lock the cams.
1........95
2........120
3........160
4........50
5........160
6........160
Well that lump will need more than just heads so I thinks it's a full rebuild
Chris your a star matey saved me the hassle of getting it all out
on the front of the block, bottom right as you look at it there is a nut / bung that you can remove. an 8mm shaft will go through the hole and line up with an 8mm hole in the crank when it is at TDC. be carefull not to get the the shaft in one of the balancing holes, etc. verify TDC by looking at the marking on the flywheel. I use an 8mm punch - don't use a drill bit else it might snap off in the sump. Use something a little milder. it will lock it enough for you to torque up the bottom pulley!Chris your a star matey saved the hassle of getting it all out
as for cam's, I guess you havn't un-done those but you might need the cam tool to hold them at TDC while you torque up the bottom pulley.
comp is back with oil down the pots
Today, Sold my 5 grey
Then of to work for abit, now just got home, might go and change the seats from the white 5 to the cup car....,,, might not.
nice one shoppers, i havent got sf4 yet, went and got some paint instead
cleaning my car for its mot for its next owner
as soon as that bitch is gone, ill be picking mine up...during the week...
cleaning my car for its mot for its next owner
as soon as that bitch is gone, ill be picking mine up...during the week...
Chop chop, tempted to take it out for a blast now....
make sure its spanking clean then, new owner wants it tues night lolcleaning my car for its mot for its next owner
as soon as that bitch is gone, ill be picking mine up...during the week...
Done some Uni work, Played street fighter 4 on ps3 (vypRR) and now going to watch 2 teams i hate the most in the prem play for a cup! And later go out
Having an easy day today. Was on the sauce last night, and old age now dictates I defo can't drink like I used to without feeling as rough as a badger's ass the next day
Chinese for dinner tonight, if my stomach recovers in time...
took dash out this morning removed sound deading from boot , now watching footy come on utd ,
This afternoon :
Removed skany seats from the Cup Car,
Removed nice seats from White 5,
Put nice seats in the cup car
Put in standard interior in the White 5.
Topped it off with a little blast in the white 5, gonna miss it.... Alot
Heard from the new owner of the grey 5, he got home safe and well and the 5 performed well.
Now going out for a meal with the miss's, gonna try not to mention 5 at all.
Decided to fully rebuild the lump as the dry readings are too much out of whack for what's planned .
Finished sorting out the greenhouse . All ready to start this years crops
Good day today ,amazing what a bit of sun and warmth does for the spirits
I just took the 5 out for a test run after changing the manifold gasket, it only took me 3 weeks and i treated myself to a 8 chunk whole nut bar too.
I'll be getting ready soon to go to my girlfriend's so her mum can make me dinner
I only got in a short while ago, 440 miles in total, to collect a roll cage... Hmmm. After spending over 3 hours driving on the way up I was feeling battered on the way home, i'll sleep like a baby tonight.
had a good day when it comes to 5's...
at 11:50am this morn my buddys freshly rebuilt bottom end was sitting in my conservatory, left the barn at 6 tonite with it running, and ready for tappets and a re-torque when cold... then its done! woohoo
Slept in , had a drive out for half-hour earlier before watching U N I T E D win
plan for tomorrow is to crack on with the stripping mates renault gtt.
Clean my car and get some nice tyres fitted to my turbines ready for the nice weather to demote my speedlines
Had a proper **** day up there with the worst days of my life. Played football in the morning happy days drew 2-2. Went in to town for beers and to watch two pony sides play a pony game of football and have it decided in a pony way not great. On the way to the taxi see an old mate getting a bit of a slap off some bouncers so decide to step in and break it up and got arrested for the privlage, banged up for nineteen hours and missed work. Bouncer guy said I hit him three times which is bollocks. I asked the nice police lady to see if any cctv footage was available and when she came back with it it conformed what I had said from the start, I did fcuk all wrong. How **** is that. Thank fcuk for the cameras
Well i got the sunny day i had hoped for. Took a few snaps on the mobile whilst out and about near Teignmouth. Not bad for the old 2gb iphone camera.
What's a 2gb camera?
What's a 2gb camera?
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