Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

Stallingrad

Have to keep reminding myself this thread is not titled "Today I did something tasteful to my car".

GvidoR

Stallingrad wrote: »

Have to keep reminding myself this thread is not titled "Today I did something tasteful to my car".

That's so funny. :rolleyes:

MetzgerMeister

Stallingrad wrote: »

Have to keep reminding myself this thread is not titled "Today I did something tasteful to my car".

This is the kind of thing that is being mentioned most in the feedback thread. Ease up

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Stallingrad wrote: »

Have to keep reminding myself this thread is not titled "Today I did something tasteful to my car".

I think this one of the problems with the forum
Something not to your taste but you should not tell everyone

Stallingrad

Come on, people are sticking carbon wrap on fuel flaps and we have to bite our tongues? No fair! :pac:

But I'll say nothing from here on.

MetzgerMeister

Stallingrad wrote: »

Come on, people are sticking carbon wrap on fuel flaps and we have to bite our tongues? No fair! :pac:

But I'll say nothing from here on.

We don't have to bite our tongues, just don't post something that's bordering on "trolling" (cabb8ge will love that).

At least phrase it differently and still get the point across like "not to my tastes but it's your car".

And yes, I do realise that this post is rife with high-horsedness but I do not feel any sense of one-upmanship by posting this.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Stallingrad wrote: »

Come on, people are sticking carbon wrap on fuel flaps and we have to bite our tongues? No fair! :pac:

But I'll say nothing from here on.

Perhaps he like carbon wrap

GvidoR

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Perhaps he like carbon wrap

I doubt I would have put it on if I didn't. :P

imurdaddy

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

We don't have to bite our tongues, just don't post something that's bordering on "trolling" (cabb8ge will love that).

At least phrase it differently and still get the point across like "not to my tastes but it's your car".

And yes, I do realise that this post is rife with high-horsedness but I do not feel any sense of one-upmanship by posting this.

Give the guy a break! His car, his money! Anyway he's at least posting pics!

sorry MM. miss quoted was ment for stalingrad.

MetzgerMeister

imurdaddy wrote: »

Give the guy a break! His car, his money! Anyway he's at least posting pics!

Ummmm.......yeah what the hell do you think I meant in my post???

Cleveland Hot Pocket

GvidoR wrote: »

I doubt I would have put it on if I didn't. :P

FWIW I like carbon wrap and matte black too.
I do get stick for it sometimes but it ok.

imurdaddy

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Ummmm.......yeah what the hell do you think I meant in my post???

HaHa read above I miss quoted you ment stallingrad!!

corkgsxr

GvidoR wrote: »

I doubt I would have put it on if I didn't. :P

Sorry for what I started. I hope you realise its not about you its just those tow yokes bother me in a way that's not even rational.

GvidoR

corkgsxr wrote: »

Sorry for what I started. I hope you realise its not about you its just those tow yokes bother me in a way that's not even rational.

It's okay, I'm getting used to people not liking my cars, hahah.

MuppetCheck

GvidoR wrote: »

It's okay, I'm getting used to people not liking my cars, hahah.

Think I've said it to you before (you had the Bora in the past, right?) but as long as you're happy it doesn't really matter.

GvidoR

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Think I've said it to you before (you had the Bora in the past, right?) but as long as you're happy it doesn't really matter.

Yeah, I had too many cars in the last 6 months. I'm keeping the Colt for a good while now though. It has only 694xx miles on the clock.

thats not gone well

Completely forgot to show the difference in the seats yesterday!:o
they're identical from the top and when you sit in them.

Heated; control module and the wires for the elements


Non-heated, just a blank to keep the extra wire out of trouble.

dgt

joujoujou wrote: »

Previous owner was Polish?

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Got my baby back from garage. 200 notes gone.

He was indeed Polish and seemed to look after it very well :cool: he even had it decatted :pac:

Would love to know who wired that up though....

bmstuff

Final pictures

Car coded to HIFI to flatten the factory EQ curve, so the midrange no longer try to be woofers.

The 4 channels JBL amplifier powers the front and rear speakers while the small white VIBE mono amplifier powers up the underseat mid woofers.

Plays nicely combined with the Gladen speakers and now that everything is properly wired.

Nice clean 3 ways system now

GvidoR

Merry Christmas to my car!

GvidoR

Kicking off the service with spark plugs.

Old vs new



Boom, all done!

iano.p

Done a oil change and changed a bulb for the nct. Only for it to fail on a bush on the front wishbone. I think it will have to go ti a garage i never changed anything like that.

YbFocus

Take out the wishbone and bring to the local for the to push it out and replace it.
Then bring it home and refit.
Saves lots of monies

dgt

Arise from hibernation!!! :cool:


Moved to the garage

Now, to the head.... Bleed off pipes need replacing


Plugs out and injectors out (yes, they screw out with the King Dick :pac:)


Time to clean the head properly. With a sharp blade. Half done


Almost done


Head surface in the process of


Like a gradient, this side is also almost done


All valves out again, no biggie....


Then this


To clean the ports and precups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDzLuAOEOvg

More later....

iano.p

YbFocus wrote: »

Take out the wishbone and bring to the local for the to push it out and replace it.
Then bring it home and refit.
Saves lots of monies

Thanks very much for that wouldnt have thought of that. Do you know if i would be better to do both sides.

YbFocus

iano.p wrote: »

Thanks very much for that wouldnt have thought of that. Do you know if i would be better to do both sides.

More than likely the other ain't far behind.
Feel the movement in the fecked one and compare

Dgt, I now have this idea in my head that your like tdp etc

dgt

I had to google TDP.... the 406 does tend to slide round roundabouts of it's own accord sometimes but otherwise I won't be doing anything like that with it :pac:

Just want my head as clean as I can get it s less chance of it to go wrong (first time doing this with an XUD) and see if polishing the ports/grinding out unwanted castings make a significant difference

Planning another engine build already with the Citroen XUD when it's out....

YbFocus

You want it as clean as possible

This stuff never seizes to amaze Me, I can't ever see a day where I'd face out to pull the head off the bmw just so its cleaner

dgt

Ah well the stem seals went on this one and was burning a lot of oil..... I wouldn't be doing this otherwise :pac: it's an XUD thing but it's old age at fault coupled with poor maintenance ie crap oil :mad:

It was badly coked up, raging I didn't get a pic of the lump of crud on one of the exhaust valves, looked something like this :eek:

It may need shimming as the valves were ground in to remove pitting on the valves. I'm not looking foreward to shimming this one if it needs it, bucket shims are bloody tiny

YbFocus

I am jealous of your mechanical knowledge