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24th August 2010, 23:23
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#961
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 6,663
Car(s): Astra Coupe Edition 100
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Any more fancy pics lately Mr Sayer? I like your farty shots.
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17th February 2011, 19:05
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#962
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Regular Poster
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Stafford
Posts: 467
Car(s): Mk1 VTR - VTS conversion
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Lovely car mate.
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17th February 2011, 19:15
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#963
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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Originally Posted by CHIP
Any more fancy pics lately Mr Sayer? I like your farty shots.
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Afraid not mate! The car has been SORN since September last year! I haven't even seen it since then!
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Originally Posted by Jam3s
Lovely car mate.
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Cheers!
Funny you should bump this up - I taxed the car this week so I'm going for my first drive in the car for 5 months woop woop.
Ok... updates.
I've bought a replacement engine - the oil leak despite being small was annoying the hell out of me. Thought it was the coming from the sump I resealed it twice - but still no luck. Nothing appears to be coming from the HG or the cam ladders  So anyway... 46k engine here I come.
The alternator munching got on my nerves. I suspect it's related in part to the engine loom as I recall giving it a wiggle once and the battery light went mad - so there's a new engine loom to go in.
Going to get some braided brake lines and lob some uprated driveshafts on the car but that's for another time.
Oh and finally have a buyer for the morettes so I'm going back to standard on the front. yee haa
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17th February 2011, 21:34
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#964
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Scotland
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 9,556
Car(s): Saxo 1.6i 16v VTS, 2 Classic Minis
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Good work Ads, good luck with the drive too 
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27th March 2011, 21:27
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#965
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Established Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Northampton, northamptonshire
Posts: 1,020
Car(s): MK2 VTR,
Transit - gone :(
3.0TD Signum
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Such a nice example of a vts mate, well done love it!
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5th April 2011, 15:46
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#966
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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Cheers chaps...
Right... Had a week back at sayertowers, so decided to tackle the car...
Got me some of these:
TRS Driveshafts
Three, yes THREE bloody abs sensors!!!
Morettes gone! So standard headlights are back. Headlight trims for underneath were being sprayed.
Front offside arch removed, that went off for a respray. Last year whilst driving down to Devon, I hit a puddle which somehow ripped the arch clean off, thankfully it was held on by the indicator, but dragged along the floor scratching it to high hell. So finally got round to fixing that.
Powerflex ARB bushes... The last of the bushes to be uprated. yay
Braided brake lines - what a nightmare! Two (both on the nearside) went on absolutely fine. The offside ones were a total bastard, the rears were really hard work and nearly rounded a union  The front however just wouldn't budge and ended up bending the bracket, so I got annoyed and gave up. Otherwise... it's nearly done!
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Last edited by Barry123; 5th April 2011 at 15:50.
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5th April 2011, 17:00
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#967
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 16,839
Car(s): Saxo VTS, Westfield
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Some nice work here mate........not looking forward to doing my brakes now lol
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5th April 2011, 17:03
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#968
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Southampton
Posts: 8,188
Car(s): Astra vxr with added boost
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love this car, the standard exhuast being put to use i hope xxxx mucho lovo
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5th April 2011, 17:13
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#969
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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Originally Posted by J222JRA
Some nice work here mate........not looking forward to doing my brakes now lol
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Originally Posted by moxy89
love this car, the standard exhuast being put to use i hope xxxx mucho lovo
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Cheers gang.
Only things I can suggest with the brake lines is:
1) 11mm brake spanner - don't attempt the job with an open spanner you're just heading for doom otherwise.
2) pray some idiot french factory worker didn't do the unions up as tight as a driveshaft nut
3) Drop the subframe down as far as you can - I just lowered mine until a few threads were connecting the bolts to the securing nuts
4) Get the droplinks out of the way for the fronts, so buy replacement droplink nuts (they're nylock)
moxy... I've put the standard exhaust on! It's out of MOT so I'll get it tested easter time hopefully.
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21st April 2011, 02:22
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#970
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Established Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: west mids (dudley)
Posts: 1,201
Car(s): cammed 106 flatty
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good luck with the work mate, looking good so far. 
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21st April 2011, 06:11
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#971
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Sydney
Posts: 8,525
Car(s): Mango Westcoast
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Good stuff mate, glad to see your still cracking on with it 
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21st April 2011, 07:15
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#972
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West Midlands
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: West mids
Posts: 23,149
Car(s): Supra,civic GL
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brake lines are wank but looks like good progress man
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i passed over 5 years ago now. 3 points no crashes. I'm too good to crash...
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oh really.....
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21st April 2011, 09:01
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#973
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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Originally Posted by stevo1600
good luck with the work mate, looking good so far. |
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Originally Posted by jpsaxo
Good stuff mate, glad to see your still cracking on with it |
cheers lads. I think I've gone as far as can reasonably without now spending a fortune on mods. It's been off the road for the last 7 months so I'm desperate to just get the damn thing on the roads (and in time for Bolton Abbey)
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Originally Posted by AlexB
brake lines are wank but looks like good progress man |
Do you mean the exact brake lines are wank or just the job of changing them is wank?! haha
Sheared a nipple last night so I've got to sort that mess out now. arghhhhh
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21st April 2011, 09:35
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#974
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West Midlands
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: West mids
Posts: 23,149
Car(s): Supra,civic GL
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The job lol!
Im planning on rippingvall mine out for braided everywere just to make it easier lol
ive not seen a set of exacts so cant comment on there quality
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Originally Posted by Viper
i passed over 5 years ago now. 3 points no crashes. I'm too good to crash...
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oh really.....
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26th April 2011, 23:14
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#975
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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Originally Posted by AlexB
ive not seen a set of exacts so cant comment on there quality
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They hold the brake fluid without leaking so they pass the adsayer grade of approval...
Right my old muckers...
Sheared a bleed nipple last week on a front caliper ARGH so set to work removing it, by drilling into the pot...
...except I went too far and fucked it ARGH
So shat ma pants, ran off and bought myself a replacement set... no pre-2001 266mm's available ARGH so I bought the some post-2001 266's which meant buying a new set of disks and pads ARGHmybankaccountARGH. Went to fit them and realised I needed to grind the carriers a bit ARGH. Grinded them and BOOOMMMMMMMMMMM they're on.
Old droplink boots were shagged.
new ones on.
So that was that... now, for the last 11 months or so, my car had 4, yes FUCKING FOUR warning lights up, was like a shitty discotechque.
EML - for the decat, I hadn't tighten the lambda sleeve properly d'oh.
Battery light - suspected I'd eaten my fifth alternator, but was charging okay! weird! sooo, I gave the terminals a wiggle...
Brake light - thought the handbrake switch was fuggered, so replaced that back in summer last year, still on! So replaced the reservoir this week (as it has a float switch)...
ABS light - in a nutshell the ABS was fucked. Three sensors were trashed at the final count... so they were replaced...
The result as of tonight....
No warning lightsS!!!! so it's ready to be MOT'd 
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26th April 2011, 23:41
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#976
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 9,994
Car(s): Moonstone Blue 106 GTi
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winrar!
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26th April 2011, 23:44
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#977
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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rar!!!
Hoping some nice garage will MOT it tomorrow and then I'll stick it back in the garage again and leave it there lol.
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26th April 2011, 23:51
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#978
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Saxperience Addict
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 11,590
Car(s): ITB'd Saxo VTS & Mazda 6 MPS
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was expecting 'now for sale' at the end, glad there wasnt!
glad to see the problems fixed. was it definatly the sensors at fault for the abs?
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26th April 2011, 23:59
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#979
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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selling?! no no no christopher. Yeah dude seemed to be just the sensors. I thought the ABS module had entered fuckdom since three sensors were rogered - so much so I had a garage lined up to carry out a diagnostics. Then I just thought 'fuck it' and plugged it all up
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27th April 2011, 17:31
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#980
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Aycliffe
Posts: 32,205
Car(s): Saxo VTS
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PASS. No advisories. To celebrate I'm popping to tesco, decatting it, then leave it in the garage for a month
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