barry123's VTS - Lightweight flywheel & quaife 21/04/12 #1035 - Page 48 - Saxperience

webby · 20th June 2010, 20:47

ads yes it would be possible you would have to wire in 4 switches into the oe speaker wires at the back of the hu so you can effectively cut it out of the circuit so it didnt mess with the impedances at the amp.

wire a switch into the remote wire and remove the fuse from the live. then you can remove it easy and still have some sound. im sure steve will help if he is busy im usually knocking about.

dav0506 · 20th June 2010, 21:02

Epic car man, almost as epic as your post count! Two-tones are by far the best!

I was just wondering if your two-tone is a factory standard S? I thought they only made VTR's two-tone as standard.

Forgive me for noobish question your lordship.

Barry123 · 17th August 2010, 02:35

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Originally Posted by webby

ads yes it would be possible you would have to wire in 4 switches into the oe speaker wires at the back of the hu so you can effectively cut it out of the circuit so it didnt mess with the impedances at the amp.

wire a switch into the remote wire and remove the fuse from the live. then you can remove it easy and still have some sound. im sure steve will help if he is busy im usually knocking about.

Sounds tricky mate! I still haven't got round to plumbing in the amp... and I'm still a bit unsure if I will. Which is a shame as it's a quality amp.

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Originally Posted by dav0506

Epic car man, almost as epic as your post count! Two-tones are by far the best!

I was just wondering if your two-tone is a factory standard S? I thought they only made VTR's two-tone as standard.

Forgive me for noobish question your lordship.

forgiven

Two tones rock! Yep the two tone S's were factory standard too. You don't see many on the roads, I've certainly not seen one (except for meets), although I've seen two Two tone R's now - one just last week. Driver gave me a knowing smile which was cool.

RIGHT.

The car is in pieces at the moment at sayer towers, I've decided to wrap the manifold since I'm now on my 5th, yes5th alternator. I figure the manifold is cooking the alternator, so I'm hoping the wrap will be sufficient at preventing another charred alt - has anyone with a raceland manifold had similar problems?

I've pulled off the injectors since they are 8 years old and have 104 k miles on them, and sent them off to be serviced and ultrasoniced by Injectortune. Really looking forward to the report on these once they come back.

I've cleaned out the M8 manifold stud holes with a tap as they looked a bit knackered.

The Sunroof was jammed but I've fixed that.

The oil leak I had around the sump which I thought I'd fixed has only been reduced (to 1 litre of oil over 5 k miles compared to 1 litre per 1 k miles before). So it seems I hadn't quite corrected it, which means I'll probably remove and then reseal the sump again tomorrow... ergh. But whilst the intake and fuel rail is off I'm going to check behind the engine in a bit more detail to confirm nothing is dribbling from the Headgasket.

I bought some replacement wing mirrors yonks ago as mine were scuffed so I'll probably put them on.

And tomorrow I may take some new headlight trims off to KM Design to be sprayed up, as I fancy plopping on the standard headlights.

Then I'm taking the car off the road for a year because I don't need it, but don't want to sell it. lolz

And I think that's it. I'll stick photos up once I'm done

Barry123 · 18th August 2010, 00:29

Ok some pics from today and yesterday...

Retapping my manifold holes...

The dirty injectors that have been sent to Injectortune.

Today I decided to go huntin' fo' oil! (leaks). Removed the intake runners, noticed they were full of dirt so gave them a right blasting. No leaks from the rear of the engine - I was expecting the head gasket. So that leaves just the cambelt-side - which I really really don't want to do at this point in time. Just to be sure I removed the sump again and gave it a resealing...
sump off

scraping off the old gasket... ergh.

Whilst the airfilter was lying around I decided to lob off the carbon fibre to see how dirty it was inside and well... it needed a clean.

So I've cleaned it

And I've decided that this injector loom...

is past it's best so I've ordered a new one - should be here Thursday.

Tomorrows tasks are:
Remove interior and shampoo it
Relocate the internal aerial to the rear window - that's going to be the mother of all ball aches
Replace handbrake switch as my current one is toasted
Refit injectors (if they're back), pop manifold and alternator back on.

Yates · 18th August 2010, 01:28

shouldnt be a bitch to re-route aerial, take it you mean one that went to original aerial point?

ive got another altenator if you fancy it?!

Barry123 · 18th August 2010, 02:18

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Originally Posted by Yates

shouldnt be a bitch to re-route aerial, take it you mean one that went to original aerial point?

ive got another altenator if you fancy it?!

Yeah I bought this after I had the car deaerialed.
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...Id_165626#dtab

And just wedged it in the sun roof panel, but the reception is next to useless so I'm going to pop it on the top of the rear window next to the brake light. Wire it through the brake light cable, through to the tailgate-chassis rubber and then somehow get it from the roof and route it under the carpet (really don't want to piss about with the headlining and route it up and over)

What alternator is it? And how much do you want for it?

willsy · 18th August 2010, 15:36

Booked your ticket for Trax yet mate?

saxomad197 · 18th August 2010, 16:55

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Originally Posted by adsayer

That's the plan mate... it's back in my hometown awaiting an inspection (and repairs if any

)

another vote for the standards...

I wasn't expecting much of a response to be honest man!

anyway pics as requested (see below)

That's the next thing to worry about... I have 8 VTS rims now, so I'm going to select the best four, shot and powder coated and boshed on to the car. Not sure on colour yet though

Thanks man

Yates mentioned the same thing tonight actually... I tried a photoshop and it looked a bit

. So I'm honestly not sure but the morettes are growing on me daily

and another vote for the morettes lol

Cheers gang.

Anyway just got it back to my little inbred hometown to discover yorkshire is covered in some cold, white shit. Popped to the local skally hang on to take some pics under the street lighting and then 2 mins later whoever controls the lights decided to kill them. BBBBAAAASTARD.

Just put my trusty MD headunit back in

And forced mothersayer to floor the loud pedal on the car... she screamed haha

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prob see you taking the pics so thought they cut the light for a laugh

Yates · 18th August 2010, 17:03

just altenator on this engine, dont know what kind of condition its in though, can get it tested though

can you not run that wire under the carpet, under rear seat, up behind rear door card up to c pillar, saves doing headlining...

Simon^p · 18th August 2010, 17:34

I used that same aerial on my old car, its was shite

Don't think it will make any diffence where you put it, still won't work

Barry123 · 18th August 2010, 18:27

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Originally Posted by willsy

Booked your ticket for Trax yet mate?

Not yet, although I think I will! Might as well!

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Originally Posted by saxomad197

prob see you taking the pics so thought they cut the light for a laugh

lol

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Originally Posted by Yates

just altenator on this engine, dont know what kind of condition its in though, can get it tested though

can you not run that wire under the carpet, under rear seat, up behind rear door card up to c pillar, saves doing headlining...

Yep, I'm doing that currently. Still a faff mind.

If the alt. works I'm interested my sweet.

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Originally Posted by Simon

I used that same aerial on my old car, its was shite

Don't think it will make any diffence where you put it, still won't work

bollocks. Where did you put it out of interest?

Barry123 · 22nd August 2010, 23:59

Right...

rerouted the aerial...

One of the dipped headlight adjusters on the morettes wasn't working so had to tackle that.

Anyway, I'm still desperate for a taller fifth gear so nabbed a damaged spare box to practice on. Here's the fifth gearset with the syncro on top.

So I've given up trying to find a second hand 5th gear set, so I'm going to take a risk for the sake of other saxp'ers who might want to do this, and buy a brand new gear set from Peugeot

and that's about it. so far!

Other things, my nearside wing mirror was scuffed so popped on a new one, I've started undersealing little patches that needed a bit of attention.

Aaron · 23rd August 2010, 10:23

you fitted them injectors yet??
did you get any graph showing there flow rate?(before & after)???

Anthony · 23rd August 2010, 10:56

First time posting in this epic progress thread! Car looks rather sexual and its good to know such a awesome VTS has 100k odd on the clock makes me feel better as mine is nearly clocking 95k!

Davo106 · 23rd August 2010, 11:05

What gearset did you get in the end dude?

Barry123 · 24th August 2010, 19:44

The Car is alive again.

So these were how the injectors looked when I sent them off to Injectortune...

and this is how they looked when they came back today:

Here's the before and after results...

So they were running at about 93% of peak (which isn't bad for 105k mile injectors I guess?!), but now they're all flowing perfectly it seems.

So I popped them in and refitted the intake and filter. First thing I noticed is... Christ! the engine idles so so so smoothly, it's quieter and less juddery. It's a touch more responsive although it's not obvious. I haven't gone on a good run yet but I'm hoping for some good mpg improvements.

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Originally Posted by Aaron

you fitted them injectors yet??
did you get any graph showing there flow rate?(before & after)???

See above dude!

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Originally Posted by ant809099

First time posting in this epic progress thread! Car looks rather sexual and its good to know such a awesome VTS has 100k odd on the clock makes me feel better as mine is nearly clocking 95k!

I need to get it rolling roaded mate but it feels great at the moment!

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Originally Posted by Davo106

What gearset did you get in the end dude?

I'm running a 1.4 xsi box man which has a 0.85 5th gear. But I've ordered a 0.767 to beef it up a bit and make motorway journeys a bit more bearable and more economical - but it's a shot in the dark as I'm going on information from knowledgeable people on gearboxes (Mankee and Raunchz) but I didn't fully take in what they were saying, although they explained it me a few times

Something to do with the length on the input shaft spline that the 5th gear sits on

This is the 5th gear pinion (0.85) on the output shaft.

I'm taking that and the input pinion to Peugeot tomorrow to see if the thickness of the cogs, the number of splines and the shape of the splines are correct and if they are, then it should just pop on hopefully!?

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Ashl3y · 24th August 2010, 19:47

Love Mk2 morettes

win win win

timmythechef · 24th August 2010, 19:49

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Originally Posted by Ashl3y

Love Mk2 morettes

win win win

i disagree, this one looks good with them, and james', but that is all IMO.

Barry123 · 24th August 2010, 19:57

oops, forgot the obligatory saxo shot...

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Originally Posted by Ashl3y

Love Mk2 morettes

win win win

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Originally Posted by timmythechef

i disagree, this one looks good with them, and james', but that is all IMO.

Cheers lads! I'm really not a fan of them if I'm honest but haven't got the will to change them over, even though I paid to have them resprayed(?!). I've got some new headlight trims but they need to be sprayed up and I just can't be arsed to get them done - I will though!!!!

VenoMNL · 24th August 2010, 20:21

About the gear box what do you rly want to know? i didnt got that..

How many teeths does the the pion you want to put have? anything pm