MuZiZZle's VTS Track Toy - Page 8 - Saxperience

blackie_2k5 · 10th June 2012, 11:45

Could pick it up later today if you want, there's a littl but damage near the drivers air vent if you on me a number I'll text a pic of the damage, it's nothing major but I could probs try to touch it in if you wanted, if wanting touched in it wouldn't be able to collect till tommorow or tues though

blackie_2k5 · 10th June 2012, 13:27

Can even have the blue vents if you wish

MuZiZZle · 11th June 2012, 19:51

Wow they're blue!

How well would that repair?

MuZiZZle · 19th June 2012, 10:14

Right then, the car had its first outing on fathers day, a 180 min track slot from 9am at Donington, while FCS was happening, prior to this:

Friday lunch I had the wheels balanced.

Saturday consisted of double checking all of the zipties, checking fluids, D4MJT fitted my lambda sleeve as I messed on taping my induction kit up.

I drilled and fitted my super low subframe from Benwh555, it's amazingly low now!

And that was that, I was worried I had forgotten something but it turns out I hadn't, the drive down, although bumpy due to the uprated bushes and whatnot, and a slight wobble from a rear wheel at high speed (grr) was without fault, and after pitting for a mandatory McDonalds breakfast we made it to FSC in good time.

After parking on the infield and offloading anything not needed on track into D4MJT's car we made our way to the pits, it was basically bumpy and very very dirty.

We couldn't find YBracing anywhere to pick up our helmets, and I had forgotten my driving licence, ahhhh, it's going to be one of "those" days!

Fair play to Book a Track, they accepted a photograph of my licence submitted with a proof of date!

Now helmetless D4MJT took the car to be noise tested while I ran around like an idiot looking for YBracing! why couldn't I find them? because they had just arrived in an unmarked white van, side door open, full of OMP goodies!

Now, with 2 helmets in hand (fnar) I legged up to the sound testing area and we got 87 on the static, which I was quite pleased with.

On track the car was fantastic, a few laps at a steady pace before picking up speed, I am still amazed at how much feedback you get from the car, the brakes are progressive, the power is steady, and no matter how hard it was pushed, the back end would not slide (in the dry). I didn't get a hint of oversteer, and no matter how hard it was pushed the back just stuck.

Faster and faster we went until we were black flagged, into the pits we went,, why the flag? 99.2dB on the drive by! with a 98dB limit

We were told we could modify the car, show the modifications and go back out, if we were flagged again that was it.

I tried every trader there looking for a baffle, nobody had anything.I returned to the pits, my only hope to blank off the induction from the headlight and double the pipe to the CDA back on itself, this and shortshifting was my only hope, and now it was raining.

All of that had eaten up about 45 minutes, so we had about 90 left, I did some laps, may have lost the back end once ;p, then D4MJT did some laps on his own, and I finished off the remaining time, sadly not pushing too hard for fear of a black flag.

I can't sing the cars praises enough!

I'll not mention the journey home though : coilpack, o2 sensor, clutch failure, towed over a huge nail, AA van

blackie_2k5 · 19th June 2012, 10:28

I'll do a repair on it later if your interested mate, collecting it from work later

Looks good on track mate, not happy I never made this year

Wayne · 19th June 2012, 10:46

Glad you had a good time

ah it was you who was behind me on first sighting laps wondered who it was! i was abit nervous to start with

going slow to get an idea on circuit

MuZiZZle · 19th June 2012, 10:56

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Originally Posted by Wayne

Glad you had a good time

ah it was you who was behind me on first sighting laps wondered who it was! i was abit nervous to start with

going slow to get an idea on circuit

I did wonder what the F you were doing, then you boosted off on the home straight!

Wayne · 19th June 2012, 11:04

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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle

I did wonder what the F you were doing, then you boosted off on the home straight!

Haha

got more used to the car throughout the day

yep boosted it on the home straight

was my first outing on track etc, but when Ian/ATSPEED gave me some pointers when on track with me i was fine then

m11ler · 19th June 2012, 12:39

Just gonna leave this here..

Muzzizle by m11ler, on Flickr

MuZiZZle · 15th July 2012, 20:49

Right, where to begin, well the car was unable to go in gear and had been dumpred at mine by the AA, the plan was to tow it over to D4MJts place and stick a new clutch in, simples!

So 2 weeks ago I stuck it in 1st, turned it over and drove it to his without stopping, to prevent some sort of towing balls up!

Success, it may have taken aaaaaaages, but it was in his garage!

Right, so 2 saturdays ago I got a new clutch

After a lot of swearing, D4MJT got the gearbox off

We celebrated with a cup of tea before starting on the clutch, he lashed underneath

Then, bolt 6 of 6 on the clutch cover plate....

Arse, we were utterly scuppered, nothing we did would get it out, we were running out of time, the car was half out of the garage, so it was suspension back together, wheels on and car into the garage for a rethink!

A week passed, I collected some new bolts from citroen as they only had new uprated ones so I needed 6, they had 5! they come in bags of 5, so I asked for 2 bags, they only had one!!!!! calls around all of the local dealers led me to a citroen owned bodyshop not far from the car, they had 3 and were open on saturday!!!

Also the answer to getting the bolt out seemed to be an epoxy/steel mix called JB weld, used to bond a T40 socket into place, winner!

It, arrived, it was bonded, it was left to cure!

Now the following saturday, the weld had cured for 32 hours or so, my youngest had also loaned me the following:

D4MJT got under the car, got ratchet on the socket, which was enough force to..........pull the f*cking T40 right out of the bolt hole, argh!!!!!!

Frantic phonecalls and D4 had secured a mig welder, off we went! via my house to drop my BM home as my missus needed it, argh!

Picked the mig up and remembered the 5 bolts were in my BM boot, lashed home, got said bolts, then bombed to get the other 3 from the citroen bodyshop! "do you have any nuts or bolts we can weld on at yours D4?" ahhhh, over to my mums it was then!

Eventually back at the car, we're good to go, however the CO2 tank is empty! iphones out we located a place called Dixons in the west end of newcastle that did it, bwaaaaaarp, "no we can't refill yours, but you can buy one of ours", about 20 minutes and £85 quid lighter we head off with my £48 deposit returnable bottle of CO2!

All connected up and good to go!

Just about to possibly cock it up when D4's mate shows up, who's a welder by trade, handy!

he works his magic, the clutch falls out once the cover is off, ahhhh that's what happened!

As a thankyou to this welding god we removed the front of his 335d to replace the lower front grille! then cracked on with the saxo!

The amazing new bolts from citroen were wrong, the correct length but a lot bloody thinner! ARGH!!!!!!!

We only needed 1 bolt to replace the f*cked one, well 2 actually as one was missing, after much pondering I remembered that the base bolts from the OMP seat I had put in D4s car earlier were the same! win! (oh yeah we put an omp subframe/slider/seat into his car in the middle of all the chaos, as you do)

Jazzy linkages were installed

It all went back together and on the first start up we had a horrid squeaking noise, also we had no gearbox oil as I'd brought over PAS fluid! FML!

A Jaunt to the local shell garage for oil/pornography and we were good to try again:

Fail, it squeaked again, then D4 vanished under the car, emerged again and turned it over, no noise!

It was the plate that covers the bottom of the flywheel, it had just been put in place and not bolted! huzzah!

It flipping worked!!!

I can't thank D4MJT enough for all of his help, his brothers help and his housmate, they're all f*cking stars!!!!

blackie_2k5 · 15th July 2012, 21:05

sounds like you had a mare mate

did you not read my reponse to you post about the bolts?

MuZiZZle · 15th July 2012, 21:09

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Originally Posted by blackie_2k5

sounds like you had a mare mate

did you not read my reponse to you post about the bolts?

I did dude but it was faaaaar, this was a race against time kinda thing, it lives again though!

Sophia_Bush · 15th July 2012, 21:30

christ I've been through bad times but this is up there

Gandi699 · 16th July 2012, 00:09

Bloody hell mate, its a ball ache when the clutch cover bolts get like that. Could you not have cut the head off or slotted it to get it to turn? Then use one of those bolt extractors if you have to cut the head off it. Failing that I've used a set of specials sockets in the past that cut into the bolt head. Seriously good bits of kit they were
Also I'd get that gearbox oil changed to 75w80, I've read that 75w90 is bad for the synchros on a sandy brown thread on 106owners so 80w90 must be even worse

MuZiZZle · 16th July 2012, 08:25

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Originally Posted by Gandi699

Bloody hell mate, its a ball ache when the clutch cover bolts get like that. Could you not have cut the head off or slotted it to get it to turn? Then use one of those bolt extractors if you have to cut the head off it. Failing that I've used a set of specials sockets in the past that cut into the bolt head. Seriously good bits of kit they were
Also I'd get that gearbox oil changed to 75w80, I've read that 75w90 is bad for the synchros on a sandy brown thread on 106owners so 80w90 must be even worse

Cheers for the heads up sausage, it's not really being driven, that was just put in as it's all they had, I'll get some motul ordered from opie!

I must say, leaving for work seeing the VTS sat outside is quite satisfying!