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General Car Chat / mv6 nova

« on: 19 March 2010, 18:58:54 »

Was at my local tip today and a H reg nova pulled up behind me burbling away.
on a closer look it had only 2 front seats the rear seats are now where the battery and roll cage are and yes a 3.2 under the hood [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=lolk.gif].
we couldn't chat much as we were told to get a move on

but it sounded lovely.
when I asked him how much it cost the answer was 5k plus

he has lots of fun with scoobys and other fast cars as he said a cheeta in sloths clothing

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General Car Chat / yeee haaa no codes

« on: 12 March 2010, 20:04:51 »

well fitted new num 4 injector today plus intercooler and fan tweeked the turbo boost (again) done 30 starts then clipped it no codes showing previous codes were 64 82 & 44 took it for a run (30m) still no codes.
by christ it goes like hell now

no more flat spots
turbo kicks in at 1200rpm.
it'l be interesting to see the mpg now.
o last thing started puting a good 2stroke marine oil for outboards £16 a litre in fuel (300ml per 60l) its now a lot quieter

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General Car Chat / injector 4 from vauxhall

« on: 03 March 2010, 13:38:36 »

Went to two dealers today to price the injector.
first was in Grangemouth(evans halshaw) salesman was about as much use as a fart in a space suit anyway he quoted £157 plus vat

and a 10 week wait roughly

and if I wanted trade price i'd have to got to bellshill.
Then went to Arnold Clark in stirling salesman was spot on he even said he's sold a few of these this year so far and the price £78.80

plus vat and a surcharge of £15 so you can say all in around £93 trade card accepted and they can have it in 2 days.

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General Car Chat / 82 gone now have 81

« on: 23 February 2010, 16:13:17 »

A well it looks like im going to have to by a new num4 injector for my tractor
I fitted a 3rd replacment today(second hand from scrapy)
I pulled all injectors out put fresh filter on full of d-magic turned engine over caught the d-magic in a load of paper towels from inj-pipes got loads of crap out reapeated process then striped injectors again they were full of crap again but not as bad.
I done 30 starts then paper cliped it 82 gone but now 81 has appeared b*****s

.
I supose i need to start saving

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General Car Chat / 82 is back

« on: 08 February 2010, 15:49:44 »

A well 2 weeks of driving bliss over then on a trip to Ikea today 82 popped back up again on my tractor next step when I've got the dosh is a re-con fuel pump(in 6 months

) getting pee'd off with diesel magic now.
then my next progect is to take the fuel pump to bits and see how it works once a new one is fitted

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General Car Chat / diesel injector cleaning

« on: 24 January 2010, 15:44:34 »

I decided to remove the injectors from my tractor and clean them I also have 4 spares.
the engine ran like a bag of sh**e tryed diesel magic no change.
so I spent 4 hours today spliting the injectors and washed them in diesel when i say split i mean took injector to bits its very easy to do number 1,2and 6 were totaly cloged with black crap and it smelt of diesel magic there was far to much crap for the diesel magic to clean it runs so smooth now.
took it for a good blast up the motorway and done a paper clip test code 64 gone

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General Car Chat / light goes out

« on: 22 January 2010, 08:51:11 »

I dropped my son off at footie training last night and decided to wait.
whilst I was reading the paper after half an hour the interior light went off which was a first for me.
so at least if you leave the light on you won't have a flat battery in the morning.
you learn somthing new every day

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General Car Chat / poor renault espace

« on: 22 January 2010, 09:30:17 »

just watch the whole video or after 1min 36 secs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpD06P7kiI&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=793CABDF042A9514

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General Car Chat / frozen washers solved

« on: 06 January 2010, 16:12:37 »

Hi all having put concentrated screen wash in the washers it froze (-13 last week) but I found a great solution.
I cut up a electric blanket to extract the heating element and wraped it round to washer bottle and pluged it into a 100watt (240v) invertor

which sits next to the battery and re-routed the washer pipework via the rad instead of going up the wing.
The only snag is it takes about 30mins to defrost the bottle and I have to remember to switch it off and on.
As far as I can see in my meega is the washer jets only have a heated nozzle.
I drive trucks for a living and the fuel tanks have heater elements in it to warm up the fuel so it won't freeze

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