Jake. Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 It's basically a boost gauge I think... If there's a vacuum leak you have no power with a turbo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 No it isn't. It shows the health of the engine based on the INHG or draw under load. It's a handy tool on an older car for making sure everything is running well. They used to call them economaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinJI Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 I would die before you ever got my name on the log book of an MG TF. Two shit subframes bolted to a flexible tub by a company that were more concerned about tea breaks than the finished product. Avoid in a plague like fashion. That's because most don't have them, I just assumed they weren't worth mentioning. Have I become even more miserable lately? Most don't have what? I'd actually completely disagree. My housemate's got an MGF that he bought purely because it came into his work as a part ex silly cheep and he'll make money selling it in the summer having had some fun in it for now. I've borrowed it a fair bit while the Scirocco's off the road and it's been great. It's definitely quieter than my old Mk1 MX-5, both with the roof both up and down. The interior's more spacious than the MX-5 (more elbow room and head-room.) The boot's bigger than I was expecting, and if you include the space in the front probably about the same as a 5. To drive, the steering's not as nice feeling as an MX-5, but it's still great fun on a back road, the damping/spring rates are great for UK roads as standard and the back end's way more playful than I was expecting. I thought it'd be scary when the back came out but it's surprisingly easy to catch and it loves being steered with the throttle. It feels well poised and very nimble. The forward visibility's fantastic because of how low the bonnet is, which makes it very easy to maneuver and park as well as giving the driving position quite a nice overall feel in my eyes. Oh, and it definitely has less scuttle shake then my old MX-5 had. (before I fitted the roll-cage.) It's genuinely a great laugh to drive, and I'd say it's probably actually easier to live with then an MX-5 (mk1 at least, I suspect a mk2's probably on a par for comfort.) The only real downside in my eyes is that the seat's are a bit crap (the base is too high and flat) and the engine's a pain to work on because it's mostly behind immovable things. I couldn't comment on reliability as I've covered fairly minimal miles, but looking at it's overall build quality, I wouldn't have any worries setting off on a long journey in it. Yeah, they're just two metro subframes, but they've done a good job of joining them together. They drive well, they don't weigh anymore than the competition and have comparable power, if not a little more, and they got a 4 star NCAP rating so are obviously fairly tough. The TF has coil-over suspension, which removes concerns about the hydroelastic stuff in an F. I've not had any experience of a TF, but I don't think they're that different besides the coil-over suspension and the looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Robin - are you going to Queens Square tomorrow morning? If so, pop over and say hello! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Can anyone see anything wrong with these pictures in terms of air gaps, reluctor rings, location of reluctor rings on driveshafts. i know the pictures are shit. My camera wouldn't focus x Nearside (one that is displaying as being faulty): DSCN2880 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2882 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2883 by dann2707, on Flickr And the offside (working properly): DSCN2876 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2878 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2877 by dann2707, on Flickr Edited February 7, 2015 by dann2707 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Grease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_seamons Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Paul, save yourself hassle later down the line - replace that clear hose with proper silicone vacuum hose. The clear stuff is nothing more than aquarium hose. When it gets warm it's goes mega soft and will suck the walls in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinJI Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Robin - are you going to Queens Square tomorrow morning? If so, pop over and say hello! I should be along yeah. I'll be sure to pop over and say hi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Hello All, Went to Mr.Prawns house today and we got lots done with his awesome pit! I had the distinct honour of using the pit for work before any other car, Good stuff. Picked up a load of bits from the dealer before my trip over including the front splitter, new esp button, towing eye and jacking covers. Headed over to Nicks as I have an oil level sensor problem where the oil level is fine but the light turns on occasionally. Jumped in the car with Nick and headed off to Halfords to buy some paint for the Leon's jacking and towing eye covers. Got inside, they only had red or blue for Seat. Headed to the back to have some mixed up. We looked at the code in the boot for the colour we needed L041 (Ebony Black). The girl looks on the system and is stunned to see that it is not a mix of colour, just black. Turns out they aren't supposed to mix up just black and in the 3 years she had been on the mixing section she had never had to. You would think this would be quick. Turns out it would take her half an hour to clean the machine from green paint to black. Irritating waste of time on a day that light disappears at 5. Picked up some lacquer and off we went. Headed back to Nicks and got the car over the pit, avoiding the wooden planks used to contain the hole as they are a bit weak and dangerous at the moment. Got under the car for the first time and could see some oil on the sump and some on the piping near by. Piping was cleaned and tightened as the jubilee clip was quite loose (hopefully some more boost please) Sump had a surprising amount of oil on the bottom, but most concerning was all the gouges in it from where the car has been lowered so much it had scrapped. Cleaned all this up and will see in a month or so if the oil returns. Whilst we were down there we thought we would have a crack at repositioning my exhaust back box as it was severely bent where the previous owner had lowered the car so much that he managed to reverse and hit the exhaust on curbs. Bending the box downward and forwards by about 5 inches in each direction! We jack the back box upwards and positioned a scissor jack between the rear anti roll bar and the back of the back box. We then marked up in some areas with a Sharpie for reference positioning points. Gradually increasing the extension of the jacks we managed to find a 3 inches worth of movement backwards. We then noticed how loose the back box exhaust clamps were, rotating the back box by hand! Rotated it around and managed to get the exhaust pretty much back into its housing, the rubbers to the exhaust mounts are okay past the back box but the one at the very rear is still too far forward, but looks a hell of a lot better. Tightened everything up and reviewed results from above. Approval granted. We then decided to fix the root cause of the problem and raise the coil overs. Nick was very shocked with the suspension in general. He pointed out that they we not cheap coilies, these were Weitec Hicon GT coilies with polyurethane bushing throughout. The back was sat at 620mm floor to arch on the right and 630mm on the left. Gradually managed to raise them to 650mm. Sorted. Looked better and completely healed my knocking problem. Then was the turn of the front. Was sat approx 630mm on the right and 640mm on the left, aiming to move to 650mm all round. Jacked the car up, took the wheel off, went to adjust and turns out the adjuster is made of plastic and the threads completely caked in shit. This meant the bugger wouldn't turn, the plastic kept snapping. Soaked in WD40 and went for lunch, came back, still no movement. Decided we would release the spring tension by removing the bolts at the strut. Effort! Managed to get those bolts off eventually (Super tight), so off they came but still no movement. We jumped into Nick's fiesta/rocket car and went back to Halfords to buy one of these: Unfortunately, this didn't do the trick either, not only did the tool bend to shit but chewed the tabs up royally. We decided to give up, order some aluminium adjusters and attack this another day as it was about 4pm. Put everything back together, eventually, with final seating at 650mm rear and 640mm front as we had managed to budge the coilover on the threads slightly, but not enough to meet the target, fortunately we had managed to set the suspension up evenly from left to right. Jumped back under the car to check out the sensor issue as we had kind of forgotten about it! Unclipped the sensor and gave it a good WD40 dousing, refit and left it. Hopefully this fixes the problem, but might not as it looks like it had seen a knock. If the problem persists we will change the sensor and refill the engine with oil. Then we went out for a test drive. It felt like a different car. Had grip in corners, low and high speed, and the ride was significantly improved. We expect the handling to improve further if we can raise that front end 10 more mm. Got back, switched out my broken ESP button for a new one. This is a job I was dreading as I hate electrical stuff. Turns out pliers and 30 seconds is all that is required. Pull out, unclip, throw away, clip the new one in and press it into place. Then we had a crack at fixing my rear brake light where if the brakes were engaged, the side light would turn off. and no light on one side was present. Turns out it was a dodgy bulb (again), had the car 4 months now and this is it's third brake bulb replacement. There must be a root cause, but as light was not on our side we decided to call it a day. Nick also noticed that the lights were not standard at the front or rear with angel eyes at the front and random at the rear. Said goodbye to Nick and Tori, and went home to the girl friend. Unfortunately, I said I would be back by 12. So now i'm am getting the silent treatment and writing this instead. However, that doesn't matter because my car feels significantly better. In other news, I am off to Wales tomorrow to pick up 5 LCR 18" rims (Bright Red ), a new glove box handle, matts and a modified Audi TT front strut brace. Car is finally starting to get there. Needs a thorough clean, trim covers spraying and will be presentable and ready for some decent photos. Once all this is done the next plan is a new full stainless exhaust and manifold set up, fresh remap and a LiquidLeon gauge setup. Cheers for reading, been a great day and learnt a lot from the VAG King, Prawn Thanks, AshNot sure what happened to that post, spacing has gone very weird and it wont let me edit it. This is what we bought btw: Pits are made of win Edited February 7, 2015 by Ash-Kennard 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 *Pics are made of win Sounds good though dude, nice one! Something very satisfying about sorting out all the little niggles and making things right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Anyone near Bristol got a pit or four post lift? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Sounds good though dude, nice one! Something very satisfying about sorting out all the little niggles and making things right Not sure what happened to that post, spacing has gone very weird and it wont let me edit it. This is what we bought btw: chain-oil-filter-wrench-100mm <img class="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 0px;" src="http://www.drapertools.com/products/sq/800sq/77584_233.jpg"width="393" height="393"> Luke, Pics were done at the start but we started getting pressed for time so they quickly stopped. I've never been good at taking photos and doing things. also the pit was about 3" deep in water so didn't want to risk dropping the phone. Yes, Very satisfying I also forgot to mention we relocated my handbrake cable as it was rubbing the rear wheel (not good) and fitted the front splitter. Here are the pics we did get. Enjoy Edited February 7, 2015 by Ash-Kennard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 This has been talking to me on eBay for the past week. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-VOLKSWAGEN-GOLF-GTI-MK2-VR6-GREEN-/321660877933? It just looks really clean, and I think with a decent set of wheels, raised up a little bit and with a 4 light front end it could be a really nice car. Just been chatting with my mate Ben, because I only just noticed the Parsons Performance stickers in the rear window. Which is him. Turns out he knows the car a bit, the guy who owns it is a VW nut, also owns a Rallye, middle aged bloke who looks after his cars really really well. I've just asked him if I can go and have a look on Tuesday next week. And I'm hopefully off to see the G60 on Thursday, but the guys gone a bit quiet since I offered him 5K cash... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 is that a 25mm eibach rear arb ash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Paul, save yourself hassle later down the line - replace that clear hose with proper silicone vacuum hose. The clear stuff is nothing more than aquarium hose. When it gets warm it's goes mega soft and will suck the walls in About to order some I didn't have enough so just used what I had in the shed for now as I won't be using the car for a bit yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake. Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Does anyone want to buy my seat Ibiza? Not sure what to do with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 is that a 25mm eibach rear arb ash? Yes, Fitted upside down so it get in the way of adjusting the suspension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Nice. Reeeally need to track down a rARB for mine before Curby! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Jardo if you go see that VR6 let me know. If you want to train in and have a lift the rest of the way that's cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Cars. All sorts of cars. Shiny cars. Old cars. Loud cars. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.783639518381830.1073741838.317967944948992&type=1 Cheers Robin for the ICV and good to meet you - see you next month dude! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 after two days, two different diagnostics machine, i found out why my airbag light is on.... unreal..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 its not even unplugged, there just isnt an airbag ecu there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Took some pics today after a well deserved wash DSCN2895 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2896 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2899 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2902 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2907 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2908 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2909 by dann2707, on Flickr DSCN2910 by dann2707, on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete.M Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) Clean. Mine got similar treatment today. Put a new stainless exhaust silencer on it too. If there's play in the inner steering rod could it cause knocking over little bumps? Also came up with an idea. Since the Volvo is getting a bit worse for wear and doesn't really warrant having big money spent on it, I'm thinking about running it until Autumn or near-ish the end of the year, weld the diff, go drifting a few times or until it breaks, then break it for parts and buy a new car. Maybe even just buy another 940 and swap some parts over. Edited February 8, 2015 by Pete.M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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