hope all this gets sorted soon man :y:. you always seem to have issues. saw the vts yesterday im in love :hug:. so so so mint. it's jordysports up there. it's gorgeous. i couldn't stop touching it. hopefully sorting my finance out tomorrow and we'll see what goes on. woo :homme:

hopefully you should get the westy back tomorrow dude!
Was nice to catch up the other day when I came over! need to do more car tinkering now the weather is getting warmer!
Maybe just swarm round Adz's house lol :)

[QUOTE=landerboi13;4187437]hope all this gets sorted soon man :y:. you always seem to have issues. saw the vts yesterday im in love :hug:. so so so mint. it's jordysports up there. it's gorgeous. i couldn't stop touching it. hopefully sorting my finance out tomorrow and we'll see what goes on. woo :h

the silver s? yeah i saw that other day when i was over at his unit. it is mint!
sounds lush too!

yeah i do always have issues, but it was mainly dominos related! should be ok now!

yeah it was man, havnt dont that in a while. well as i work evenings now, swarming round adz's sounds like a plan!

yeah that be the one (:. well hopefully we can see some real good progress now not just fixing bits :(.

well here is the update you were all waiting on..

..its still in the garage

emissions are still fucked.

lambda is ok, other 2 (co2 and no2 i think) so eyes on the cat i think.

starting to get annoying now.

I have a cat but i might need it for mot's etc so cant give you that one.

if you do some research and my spare cat fits your car then you can borrow it for the mot, its tested as being fine and then buy a decat and give it back to me?? save some pemnnies! and might be slightly more responsive with a decat?

I always thought the vtr and 1.4's only had the air/fuel lambda in the mani and that was it but i guess your not getting ecu error messages just emissions read at the tailpipe?

Has your mechanic tried redex and hard drive and then carb cleaner???
more likely to pass if its been done then driven hard and then straight to the test machine iirc...

In fact if he wont pass it sod it il ask my mechanic, £40 for another mot but it will pass! so no need for new cat...?

ill see what my mechanic says tomorrow. i have the badger, but apparently it has to be new. dont want to buy one new that im only going to replace with a decat.

ill let you know about the MOT, might need to do it at yours. Just hope yours doesnt find anything else that is wrong!

I like the sound of lippy's mechanic :y:

Good luck getting the car sorted mate.

yeah i do too

thanks mate, but its geting seriously annoying now!

Ahh Hellooooo, didn't know you were on here! soz for the hijack lol. didn't realise it might be going to a fellow sax-p er. am relieved now. :D

yeah he is mate, and you know he'll look after it too!

UPDATE!

its back! at long fucking last the damn thing is home again and it cost me the low low price of £500 :(

This is the list of work done (as on the invoice) from the garage:



So basically i have no money again!

want to go to trago's tomorrow to get resin and fibreglass to start on my next projects, but i may begin by removing some of the things that were just fixed. Starting with the lights, HID's having been sitting around for too long!

EDIT: Almost forgot! the cat that was on the car when i bought it...EMPTY! nothing in it at all! so i baically had a de-cat all this time :P

Wow nice bill! ouchies... at least the prices were reasonable its not as if they over charged you for everything!
Took their time but I guess you fif get it 'discount' rate.
All in all could have been worse but also i guess could have been better...

Seems odd that you bought the car with fudged cat and manifold gasket that had been bodged and nobody seemed to know about it :)

Well hopefully a year until you have to fork out too much more money!

yeah did seem very weird, turns out there were quite a few things that werent as legit as i thought. but like you said hopefully will be ok for now!

next major thing is rear beam conversion then r engine, or maybe s depending on finances.

im now wondering if i should bother getting a decat at moment as i have a brand new cat on it now. which would only be used for MOT time once a year!

also the car sounds very odd with the new cat on. its not blowing but the exhaust is missing something now. you'll have to come over and hear it sometime :P

need anything from trago's? think i might go down tomorrow if i get my HID's done ok.

i need some cable ties!!! a packet of the cheapest 12" long ones and a couple of packets of the 6" ish ones :)

Cheers dude :)

got you some cable ties^^ spent far too much there!

Got back and had a few hours spare so thought, hell, ill fit my HID's

didnt take long actually. Im not happy where the ballasts are at the moment, but i may try and mount them somewhere better soon. Tidied it up as much as i could but still a bit of a mess.





Havnt got any pics in the dark as i forgot last night, but i drove to Hemyock in the dark and man was it nice to be able to see where i was going! Ballasts dont half make a noise though!

Also i pulled my side lights out so i could swap them for some SMD LED bulbs but now cant get them back in, which is annoying me! so i currently have no side lights. But im thinking temporarily i might mount the side light in the inside lense.

We'll see though.

Now onto interseting things...

...had the car back 1 day and im pleased to report its still not fixed...

...its got through the MOT, but the grinding noise coming from offside front arch area has got worse. I thought this was the bottom ball joint they replaced, but even at low speeds, and even reversing its making these noises. Not happy about that.

Im more not happy about this though, the back box, centre section and cat are all fitted nicely and dont blow, but now my mani is blowin...REALLY BADLY...so im thinking i may just buy a 4-2-1 as i'll be wanting one for the VTR engine anyway. Think i saw one on here going for about £100 so might see if i can get that one!

Then it'll be over to lippy's mechanic or adz/marc to beg them to fit it for me :P

more updates to come i hope! And ill get some HID night shots tonight.

bring it down m8, no point spending on fitting a mani, i will happily do it, will also check this issue with grinding for u, and can chat about future ideas im helping lippy today with his.

of course its friday isnt it. lost track of days. you free on monday? im kinda stuck at home waiting for a virgin engineer to turn up :(

When I fitted my HID's I fitted the right hand ballast in the fuse box, somehow it fitted, but they might have been slightly smaller than yours. And the one on the left fitted behind the ECU quite easy.

might try that actually, but the left hand one wont go into the ecu where i had intended it as i have a single plug ecu and the ecu is pretty huge. so no chance ill get it under there.

ill give it a proper tidy soon but its ok for now!

thought it looked like liams