The Red Mk1.5 Roadster - so this is goodbye.
Mar 18, 2018 10:09:06 GMT
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Post by josho on Mar 18, 2018 10:09:06 GMT
You may be wondering what I mean by the 1.5 in the title, well, my wonderful red roadster is a 1992 import that was only brought into the country in 2005 and it is mighty clean underneath, the paintwork is currently a different story.
The rear quarters and bootlid are currently both in primer and the bonnet is partially badly sanded back making it look a little rough.
However as the saying often goes, do not judge a book by its cover.
Myself and a very good friend moved all the drivetrain across from my old silver mk1, this had a MK2 6speed paired with a 4.3 type 2 torsen diff and various other parts.
Link here for the terribly neglected thread for that car
mighty5s.com/thread/816/silver-itb-mk1
We stripped that car of almost all removable parts bar the doors which themselves were stripped, and the subframes. We even did a full loom swap, which as it turns out is far less daunting than one might think.
We also at the time took the liberty of installing and mk1ifying my MK2 1.8 engine over the silver cars original engine. This comprised of changing the rear water outlet with sensors, fitting the CAS and fitting the mk1 throttle. We had forgotten that we needed to fit the mk1 alternator at this point which caused some issues, which I shall get to later.
After fitting the MK2 engine and everything else required, we tried to get the car running on my megaspaff eBay knock off ECU. Which, didn't go well. We surmised that it was dead and so the decision was made to bin it and go back to the standard ECU for the time being.
After carefully removing the wiring harness for the megaspaff, I fitted the original ECU, and after we set the timing the car fired right up and settled into a steady idle.
After much cheering from me it was time for its first drive. It was about 10 minutes into said maiden voyage that strange things began to happen. The car was bucking under steady acceleration in a cyclic way, a second of power followed by a second of dead repetitively. It got worse until I found a place to pull over and switch the car off. It was at this point I heard a loud hissing noise from the back of the car. Now this being in leafy South London I assumed it was not some poisonous snake intent on killing me so I went to investigate. Nothing from the fuel lines, doesn't smell like fuel, WHAT IS THAT DRIPPING ON THE EXHAUST! I opened the boot and the battery was all swollen and spitting boiling hot acid out the vent tubes and straight onto my lovely Hks eggsauce. It was at this point I knew, I'd canoeed up. I also realised that we did not switch alternators, a hasty call to my friend and the mk1 alternator was bought down, with me propping the boot open so the battery could cool down in peace. After fitting the mk1 alternator it was plain sailing for the rest of the drive, however something wasn't quite right, but I'll leave that for the next post, in which I may even include some photos.
All for now.
Josh.
The rear quarters and bootlid are currently both in primer and the bonnet is partially badly sanded back making it look a little rough.
However as the saying often goes, do not judge a book by its cover.
Myself and a very good friend moved all the drivetrain across from my old silver mk1, this had a MK2 6speed paired with a 4.3 type 2 torsen diff and various other parts.
Link here for the terribly neglected thread for that car
mighty5s.com/thread/816/silver-itb-mk1
We stripped that car of almost all removable parts bar the doors which themselves were stripped, and the subframes. We even did a full loom swap, which as it turns out is far less daunting than one might think.
We also at the time took the liberty of installing and mk1ifying my MK2 1.8 engine over the silver cars original engine. This comprised of changing the rear water outlet with sensors, fitting the CAS and fitting the mk1 throttle. We had forgotten that we needed to fit the mk1 alternator at this point which caused some issues, which I shall get to later.
After fitting the MK2 engine and everything else required, we tried to get the car running on my megaspaff eBay knock off ECU. Which, didn't go well. We surmised that it was dead and so the decision was made to bin it and go back to the standard ECU for the time being.
After carefully removing the wiring harness for the megaspaff, I fitted the original ECU, and after we set the timing the car fired right up and settled into a steady idle.
After much cheering from me it was time for its first drive. It was about 10 minutes into said maiden voyage that strange things began to happen. The car was bucking under steady acceleration in a cyclic way, a second of power followed by a second of dead repetitively. It got worse until I found a place to pull over and switch the car off. It was at this point I heard a loud hissing noise from the back of the car. Now this being in leafy South London I assumed it was not some poisonous snake intent on killing me so I went to investigate. Nothing from the fuel lines, doesn't smell like fuel, WHAT IS THAT DRIPPING ON THE EXHAUST! I opened the boot and the battery was all swollen and spitting boiling hot acid out the vent tubes and straight onto my lovely Hks eggsauce. It was at this point I knew, I'd canoeed up. I also realised that we did not switch alternators, a hasty call to my friend and the mk1 alternator was bought down, with me propping the boot open so the battery could cool down in peace. After fitting the mk1 alternator it was plain sailing for the rest of the drive, however something wasn't quite right, but I'll leave that for the next post, in which I may even include some photos.
All for now.
Josh.
When we last left our intrepid mighty story, I had fitted the correct alternator to the car and continued home merrily. 
thanks though 
all in the aid of fast. 
le sigh