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I guess, like the heat shield. Most know I'm not the type to fanny about polishing, so I'd expect if I cleaned them up once, they'd just go manky again....
They're there, in their room.
Nice, I like it
I took my heat sheild off an XE I once had, cleaned it and sprayed it with a can as it was looking manky, came out pretty well and never flaked.
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Originally Posted by SammyP
nah.. It got baked on.
it's a C20XE not a fookin Redtop FFS
Sammy P-Thats a very clean/cool looking XE you have there
looks nice Dan.
Looks smart Dan.
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I'm quite excited as I've solved one of the most annoying 'faults' with the GTE; different bloody keys! It has a different fuel cap so has two keys. Really annoys me. eBay came to the rescue, complete new, INCLUDING the glove box, lock set for £19 delivered! Yes!
Nice Work!
Do you have a link for the lock set on Ebay??
Thanks, I also need to sort that problem out with mine.
Post Track day report:
My GTE was thrashed for 3 sessions (about 7-8 laps over 10 minutes) at Castle Comb last Friday for my 'stag do'. It's exactly 100 miles to Combe, I came back with 3/4 of a tank left. I took it our for 2, Tom Williams gave it thrash the 3rd time and drive it very well indeed, much more progressive and altogether tidier than me!
The whole day the car didn't put a foot wrong, and ticked over to 146k miles with Tom at the helm. I was extremely chuffed with it. I abused the hell out of it, powering out of corners with the inside wheel spinning, revving right to the limiter on far too many gesr changes, all sorts of bad things. I hope this goes to show the car has been looked after most of it's life and clearly proves the engine is in good health. I think in the 2 and a bit years I've had it, it's had at least 8 oil changes.
Now I've re-connected the oil pressure sender properly, it now reads, I feel, much more accurately. Which made me panic as it wouldn't go any higher than 3 bars on the track, even when revved hard. But then I realised this is exactly what the pressure relief valve is supposed to do. On hot idle (it went up to 3 ars on the temperature guage very soon after coming off the track) it still showed one bar, with the engine quiet as anything, so I think this is perfect.
This is the rear tyre after the first session:
I got my dad to drive home as I was very tired. He commeted on how well it drives for it's age (17 years) and considering what it has to put up with. Obviously the standard suspensions and huge tyres hampered it's abilities on the track, but I'm happy with that. As I said earlier, I don't want to be tempted to push it much further and risk crashing it. As it is it's very controllable and you can really feel when you're pushing too far. I find on the whole lowered cars give a little less feedback than I'm used to and I wonder if this is how it was intended to be.
Also the brakes are clearly not up to the task, they faded very quickly on track, but did remain useful, just about. Obviosuly the desire to keep standard wheels limits the size of the disc, so a bit of investigation into pad compounds is in order. Saying that, 95% it's on the public road and GM pads are absolutely fine for this. I did, however, notice the brake fluid has dropped about a third of the way between min and max on the reservior, not enough to trip the check control though. So although the brakes recovered very quickly and were normal on the drive home, I thought I'd investigate. Good job I did:
These were brand new GM pads just under 2 years ago. It came with Greenstuff pads which I changed as the brakes have never been as good after it's first track session in 2006 I think. So I've refitted the Greenstuff for now as they have similar amount of meat left and interestngly have a slot cut into them where the GM pads have cracked. So although I get no more resistance to fade using the Greenstuff, at least they stay 'safe' if you intend to go on track.
They're there, in their room.
Oooo good work. They are nicely funked.
Has it really been two years that you've had it?
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
Good to hear you gave it a proper battering
LOL @ the brake pads destruction lmao
How worn were the front tyres?
Annoyingly the FURIO DEBICAS have plenty of life left in them
They're there, in their room.
Gonna have to tie it to a post and burn the fronts off aint we..Annoyingly the FURIO DEBICAS have plenty of life left in them
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
wowsers, will have to check mine.
Wouldn't hurt Dave.
Also, my windscreen has cracked! Halfway up, on the driver's side. In other words, right in front of my face.
Will have to save up as I might as well have the roof (and bonnet) sprayed at the same time whilst the screen is out.
They're there, in their room.
Bugger, When did that happen, At Combe?
Wouldn't hurt Dave.
Also, my windscreen has cracked! Halfway up, on the driver's side. In other words, right in front of my face.
Will have to save up as I might as well have the roof (and bonnet) sprayed at the same time whilst the screen is out.
£55 fitted for a new screen
''THE REAL ROB''
He knows, got him a price just after he got the car..lol
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
my price is more accurate then as mine was from having my screen fitted 2 weeks ago
''THE REAL ROB''
All sounds cooshti Dan. A great example of the car in safe hands.
Glad you had a good day & the car performed as you'd expect.
it's a C20XE not a fookin Redtop FFS
Looks good.
Those pads are comedy!
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Same thing i said.. am getting him a price.
I'm louder than gods own revolver and twice as shiney.
Oh, wish I knew you could get them cheap when I was after them for the corsa!!
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Yeah.
The screen didn't happen at Combe, or on the way back. But may have happened 'because' of Combe.
They're there, in their room.
This crack was present when I bought the car:
As was this bit of grot:
And this poo looking bit on the roof:
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Along with the new 'Combe Crack':
...it was tme for some bodyshop loving. As usual, it went to Station Bodyshop of Fareham, to have the roof and pillars painted and a new screen fitted.
Mmmmmm:
Ahhhhhhh:
And this area had a slight dusting of surface rust:
Whilst I was in the mood, I thought I'd investigate something brought to my attention by DarrenH (0ddball) on Mk2.com. Whilst doing the breather mod after beign concerned about the amount of oil in his inlet, he found the small breather to the throttle bottle was jammed up with sludge. So packed in he needed to drill it out, but found the larger bore size meant the idle was too high after. I wondered if a blocked pipe could have a reverse, or at least detrimental, effect.
Removing the fitting (19mm ratchet spanner is ideal):
I found if you removed the alternator belt and pushed the alternator back, you can feed the piped to the fitting out and above the engine to work on them easier.
Krunk!
I used a lot of carb cleaner and some 0.8mm welding wire to clear it out. Took a while and a lot of soaking and probing.
So this is how the car stands, and how it will be at Billing, after a bit of treatment from Benn, Master of Wax.
They're there, in their room.
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