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Post by boggissimo on Nov 17, 2023 9:26:47 GMT
So, accident repair man came round last night and sucked his teeth for a bit, then came back with a quote for £1200 to sort the damage. My friend who towed me into the wall is going to contribute so it wouldn't be too big of a hit for me (pardon the pun).
I've been looking around at other car options in the meantime, found a nice NA in Somerset with a rebuilt/skimmed engine and a few other good bits, but no MOT. The seller said it has a hole in the exhaust manifold that'd need fixing but otherwise shouldn't have any trouble passing, but who knows? It's on Marketplace for £2100 and I would only offer £1500 but I don't have space for another one, and can't currently go and collect a car without MOT. Would possibly be pretty easy money to buy it, fix it and sell it for £3K.
At this stage and looking at all the work I've done on my white one, I'm thinking I'll get mine fixed.
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Post by boggissimo on Dec 5, 2023 14:30:15 GMT
A few weeks have passed, during which time I've picked up a replacement engine (1.6 from an NB, with gearbox). I also got a replacement NA head, which I cleaned up and have fitted last night, with new OEM gaskets all round. Before I fitted it, I put on the coolant reroute I bought a while back, since I'm never going to have as easy a time accessing the rear water housing as with the head off. I deleted the whole water neck from the front of the head, so need to decide what to do with the fan thermoswitch, and I'm waiting for the main reroute hose to arrive from Skidnation but should be able to get the timing stuff done and do a test start while I wait. The body repair folks want the car to be moving under its own steam before they take it off to be fixed, which is fair enough.
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Post by wannabe on Dec 21, 2023 9:25:31 GMT
So, accident repair man came round last night and sucked his teeth for a bit, then came back with a quote for £1200 to sort the damage. My friend who towed me into the wall is going to contribute so it wouldn't be too big of a hit for me (pardon the pun). I've been looking around at other car options in the meantime, found a nice NA in Somerset with a rebuilt/skimmed engine and a few other good bits, but no MOT. The seller said it has a hole in the exhaust manifold that'd need fixing but otherwise shouldn't have any trouble passing, but who knows? It's on Marketplace for £2100 and I would only offer £1500 but I don't have space for another one, and can't currently go and collect a car without MOT. Would possibly be pretty easy money to buy it, fix it and sell it for £3K. At this stage and looking at all the work I've done on my white one, I'm thinking I'll get mine fixed. AIUI you can drive to a pre-booked MOT appointment with (technically) no limitation on distance or location, without Tax or MOT but with the appropriate insurance, so I think it would be possible to drive a MOT-less car home to the nearest/preferred garage.  |
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Post by boggissimo on Jan 3, 2024 11:15:56 GMT
So, accident repair man came round last night and sucked his teeth for a bit, then came back with a quote for £1200 to sort the damage. My friend who towed me into the wall is going to contribute so it wouldn't be too big of a hit for me (pardon the pun). I've been looking around at other car options in the meantime, found a nice NA in Somerset with a rebuilt/skimmed engine and a few other good bits, but no MOT. The seller said it has a hole in the exhaust manifold that'd need fixing but otherwise shouldn't have any trouble passing, but who knows? It's on Marketplace for £2100 and I would only offer £1500 but I don't have space for another one, and can't currently go and collect a car without MOT. Would possibly be pretty easy money to buy it, fix it and sell it for £3K. At this stage and looking at all the work I've done on my white one, I'm thinking I'll get mine fixed. AIUI you can drive to a pre-booked MOT appointment with (technically) no limitation on distance or location, without Tax or MOT but with the appropriate insurance, so I think it would be possible to drive a MOT-less car home to the nearest/preferred garage. Yes, you can drive to a pre-booked appointment, it's just that the garage I take my cars to is only 500 yards away from my house, so going the long way round would be a bit tricky to explain! |
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Post by boggissimo on Jan 17, 2024 10:30:52 GMT
Update, as much to make notes for myself as anything else:
Engine is running OK with the replacement NA head. Coolant reroute seems to work fine, no obvious leaks, at least when running it up to temperature and setting the timing. Will need checking again when it is back on the road and driven in anger, and need to work out how to get the fan to come on without the front temperature switch attached to the thermostat. Maybe use the old AC wiring to turn it on/off from the cabin?
There was still lots of oil smoke on startup, so might need to do the valve stem oil seals on the new head, or there's something else letting oil into the cylinders, as it was exactly the same before (piston rings?). I never ran the engine long enough after doing the oil seals to be sure that they had cured the smokiness so it might not have been them after all.
While the garage is empty, I split the gearbox from the NB engine and put the engine on my stand so I can start checking it out. Clutch (but not flywheel) off. I could theoretically swap the intake cam and CAS from the NA head into the NB head and run it as is, without having to worry about differences in wiring between the two, but there are other differences to work out (alternator, belts, exhaust, inlet manifold, fuel pressure stuff...)
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 3, 2024 13:04:08 GMT
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 3, 2024 13:08:28 GMT
Rather than working up new panels, the bodyshop said it would be better to source a new rear corner from a good car, so after a bit of searching and a month or so wasted trying to get it nearby, I collected a good rear end from a guy up near Banbury who has a couple of shells in his garage. He chopped the corner off, I took it over to the bodyshop and they grafted it on. Really good work, I can't see or feel the join (obvs painted over too).
So now I need to get a replacement battery box, bodge up the numberplate panel (hard/expensive to get JDM replacement) and get it through an MOT in the next couple of weeks so that I can go to Goodwood on 20 April for the first sprint of the season.
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 9, 2024 13:47:06 GMT
I fixed the main parts of the numberplate panel back together with my 'plastic welding' kit, basically a hot stapler. Not pretty but it works, and I kinda like the battle scars. Fitted the new battery clamp so that's all back together.
Now the two remaining things to fix are:
1) rewiring/attaching the fog light, which I'll probably have to take the bumper off to do properly
2) bending the exhaust pipe back into shape to get it to fit in the bumper cutout. It looks like only the last exit pipe from the backbox is bent, but it's pretty thick and will take a pretty good beating to get back into shape. At the moment it's not close to getting back on the hangers, which presumably would be an MOT fail
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Post by Zed. on Apr 9, 2024 19:43:01 GMT
Now the two remaining things to fix are: 1) rewiring/attaching the fog light, which I'll probably have to take the bumper off to do properly 2) bending the exhaust pipe back into shape to get it to fit in the bumper cutout. It looks like only the last exit pipe from the backbox is bent, but it's pretty thick and will take a pretty good beating to get back into shape. At the moment it's not close to getting back on the hangers, which presumably would be an MOT fail 1, wire into O/s reversing light. 2,shouldnt be too hard to reshape, dont use a hammer though - bar down tailpipe and manipulate? OR... I have a cobalt thing for a mk1 1.6L Eunos..... Rich. |
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 10, 2024 9:55:33 GMT
Now the two remaining things to fix are: 1) rewiring/attaching the fog light, which I'll probably have to take the bumper off to do properly 2) bending the exhaust pipe back into shape to get it to fit in the bumper cutout. It looks like only the last exit pipe from the backbox is bent, but it's pretty thick and will take a pretty good beating to get back into shape. At the moment it's not close to getting back on the hangers, which presumably would be an MOT fail 1, wire into O/s reversing light. 2,shouldnt be too hard to reshape, dont use a hammer though - bar down tailpipe and manipulate? OR... I have a cobalt thing for a mk1 1.6L Eunos..... Thanks Rich, I have an LED bar with reverse and fog to get more light for reversing on rallies (yes I know I shouldn't have to!), but maybe for speed just doing the reversing light trick would be easier.
The backbox is a bit deformed by the pipe being pushed forward, so a bit of remodelling there is probably necessary to get the pipe starting at the right angle, will see if that does enough...it's one piece from the cat back, so just fitting a new backbox isn't going to work.
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 11, 2024 9:50:07 GMT
Managed to wangle the cat-back pipe and backbox out from under the car, and bashed it about a bit. Really didn't want to move much, I got it straightened enough to at least go into the cutout of the bumper, but it's touching the plastic, so that's not going to work.
Had a chat with the MOT man, he said there's no need to have a bumper on the car as long as there are no sharp edges exposed, so I think I'm just going to take the bumper off, get it through the MOT and then take it to an exhaust place to sort it out properly.
For the fog light, I've got a third brake light in the boot lid/ducktail, which doesn't work as a brake light (can't work out why). Wonder if that would pass as a fog light if I put a nice bright bulb in it? If not I'll need to do the reversing light trick as without a bumper I'd have nowhere to mount the LED bar!
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Post by dickie on Apr 11, 2024 20:46:09 GMT
Hi, I am sure that I used the high level brake light as a fog light on my previous Eunos with no problems. Take your bumper off then remove the plastic cover from the crash beam then bolt the crash beam back on. No sharp edges and you should find two flat sections in the crash beam low down in the middle which should make ggod places to mount stuff. I have a multi LED Rainlight as a foglight mounted on the offside one with a cut in the overbumper which looks neat and tidy.
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 15, 2024 11:11:31 GMT
I think the wiring for the high level brake light is dodgy between the corner of the boot and the light unit itself. Sometimes it lights up, sometimes it doesn't. I've rewired the offside reversing light into the fog light wiring and got a red bulb, so hopefully that will do the trick. Bought a red LED from Amazon but it doesn't work so went traditional.
MOT booked for tomorrow so fingers crossed!
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 16, 2024 15:04:27 GMT
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Post by boggissimo on Apr 16, 2024 15:38:27 GMT
They should have done a non-cat test, and the numbers on the failed test would have been a pass on a non-cat test - but that's irrelevant really because they had to abort the emissions test due to the engine overheating. I think that could be partly because when I did the coolant reroute I deleted the water neck/thermostat at the front of the engine, and there was nowhere to plug the fan switch in. I was planning to wire it to the redundant AC switch in the cabin to switch it on/off manually, or work out how to extend the wiring to reach one of the other temperature sensors; but I forgot to do either.
I am planning to use an aftermarket ECU eventually, and that could control the fan without needing to reinstate the fan switch, but I want to get the basics sorted so it can pass another MOT before trying to add another layer of complication!
My biggest concern is the seat belt anchorages, which is because of rust on the rear sills behind the doors, which is within the 30cm radius and hence an unequivocal fail. I don't think I can fix that myself so will need to find someone to do the welding. With no MOT, driving the car somewhere to have it done is tricky, so that's another layer of complication.
The exhaust stuff is annoying, I think there's a blow from the manifold, and possibly one of the joints under the car as well, will need to take it apart and find out. This could also have contributed to the emissions readings.
The other big question is what to do about the huge amount of oil smoke coming out of the exhaust. I reckon it's probably the piston rings, so will do a compression test next and see if that helps diagnose.
The fog light fail is because they couldn't find the switch, so would have been cross if that was the only thing, but it's the least of my worries. At least they didn't complain about having no rear bumper!
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