Important! : Ed's 1.1 16v- Dead in a cloud of smoke.

[ed-bradley]

Meeh, its all fun.

Patience is beginning to wear thin with it like, but I'll never give up!
Aslong as it keeps me busy until june when I get another Saxo I'll be chuffed.
This can stay in the garage as I plan on reshelling it again at a later date, and use as a weekend toy.

Fingers crossed though, it'll be running ok again tomorrow. Recieved a new top inlet manifold from Sam_16v today as mine has broken. That may sort the poor running out, along with the exhaust

[ed-bradley]

Suppose there is something to remember with things like this though..

Double check everything, never rely on someone else to tell you somethings ok!
I'll learn to go over things once they've been done by someone else, and myself.

Gearbox didnt sound bad, so luckily I think I may have gotten off quite lucky.

[sam_16v]

fuck mate you have about as much luck as me lol glad you got inlet box hope it sorts the running problem out p.s you can get away with running a gearbox dry breifly plus not every drop would have come out

[ed-bradley]

Haha I know yeah, everyones just telling me to get another car. But I'm not a homo like that. Want to have atleast 1 good day out of it!
Yeah man, nice one for the Inlet. Should prevent any air leaks anyway, which Im certain there is!

When I went out this morning, there was still some dripping out. So was quite lucky considering.

[sam_16v]

Originally Posted by ed-bradley

Haha I know yeah, everyones just telling me to get another car. But I'm not a homo like that. Want to have atleast 1 good day out of it!
Yeah man, nice one for the Inlet. Should prevent any air leaks anyway, which Im certain there is!

When I went out this morning, there was still some dripping out. So was quite lucky considering.

same everyone tells me the same but i will get 1 good day out of mine to lol plus you can say its built not brought
do you still need injectors cos i might have a set of orange bands for sale very soon if you need them il give you discount

[ed-bradley]

I dont think I do now mate Injectors seem fine at the minute, but I'll find out soon if I do Lol

[sam_16v]

Originally Posted by ed-bradley

I dont think I do now mate Injectors seem fine at the minute, but I'll find out soon if I do Lol

hopefully you wont if after you fit inlet it still runs shit try temp sensors they can make it run shit

[VTR-GAZzA]

Originally Posted by ed-bradley

That ear clip looks a little loose, saved you from potential future failure there.

[ed-bradley]

It'll be fineeeeee Gaz/Rob -_-

The shafts are being changed tomorrow now aswell anyway,
Had the new ones for a few weeks and was going to do it at a later date, but considering this happened..I'll do it now.

[VTR-GAZzA]

It's Rob. :laugh: Edit- Damn emotions

My red driveshafts are in now, look like compbrake items ahahaha. New lower braced arrived the other day then i need the bushes swaping to my camber adjustable arms and the beam coating in red.

Have you not thought about a lower brace? They make a massive differance along with powerflex bushes and camber adjustable lower arms. It really does.

[ed-bradley]

Mmmm Red.

I've got one sat in the garage. I took it off too repaint it, about 8 months ago. But keep forgetting to do it. Need to get it back on ideally, made a hell of a difference when it was on.

[VTR-GAZzA]

They don't need paint, mine was constantly on the floor anyway, if you want it red you can have it coated with my beam if you like.

[ed-bradley]

I was going to/will be doing it Flourescent Yellow, along with some other bits I've been collecting. New colour scheme y0. Well thats the plan anyway, when we get a dry/warm couple of days I'm going to rattle can the car Matte black.

New 4 stud wheels are Anthracite, and will be getting some Flourescent yellow treatment to the Insides.

[VTR-GAZzA]

Anthracite ayyyyy, where have i seen that before? Oh yeahhh..

[VTR-GAZzA]

Hur hur, there's a Fiesta in your project.

[ed-bradley]

You'll get stoned to death for putting that on here!

But yeah, managed to find a set of 4 Stud Compomotive MO's that were cheap. So its all good

[VTR-GAZzA]

Originally Posted by ed-bradley

Gaz'll get stoned to death for putting that on here!

But yeah, managed to find a set of 4 Stud Compomotive MO's that were cheap. So its all good

Edited for accuracy.

Come at me bro(s)

[ed-bradley]

Well, end of an era people

Car went bang a few days ago.
Engine was running like an absolute dog, I had pretty much given up on the car at this point anyway..Too much money and time wasted overall- (Sort of contradicted my self by the above posts saying i'd never give up, meeh..what you gonna do about it). T'was an experience though to say the least, and I had fun on the odd occasion.
Car is being broken for usable parts and then the rest scrapped.

The engine went bang after I knew it was pretty much dead, Pissing oil from the Cam ladders and head. I have a steady supply of Avgas, used in appropriately tuned race engines and aviation. Armed with a few gallons of that in the tank.. I took the car for a blast seeing how long it would last. Lasted about 10-15minutes up and down the nearby dual carriage way before it went pop at *ahem* speeds.

Suspecting some burnt/dropped valves or a hole in a couple of pistons. As its now/was running on 2 cylinders afterwards. With an alarming amount of smoke coming from the Inlet. and every crevis on the engine.

I'll be back with another Saxo at somepoint though..
Not sure when, Next car i'm not sure what I want..taking a break from saxo's if I can.
But will get another when I can justify having 2 cars.
As for the engine, I'm stripping it and selling parts that people want.. But with whats left. I'm going to build over a lengthy period of time a Decent spec engine - Possibly bodies or boost. Ready to be dropped into another saxo

The end.