Lee's Garage

[stuartp]

lmao they rock, poor little buggers, cant even stand up properly yetlmao

ha least you havnt got 15plus of the little ****s moooing every time ya pull up and step out side the unit doors. Still like the farmer said keeps theiving chavs away!!

and it just goes to show all that time you had waiting for parts let you get on with all the little bits and peices. because you seem to be having trouble free running in..... (touch wood)

[Bottlethroddy]

Awesome place for the oil temp sensor! Right next to the thermostat for the cooler! Probably isn't a better place for it!

[lee303]

yeah, its kind of ingenious, good old think auto! seems to work really well too, sat at 75-80 all day yesterday, which is about right considering i wasnt hammering it

[Dave.A]

got mine finished today Lee, gives you some figures to aim to beat:

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/vi...php?tid=427940

(dip at 4000 rpm now gone)

[lee303]

trouble is dave you'd need to bring it down to track and road or its not really a fair comparison

more little jobs completed tonight, have had a slight issue with my brake light switch
being a bit crap and stopping working every once in a while, so thought i would swap to an inline pressure activated switch
so, ordered this from merlin motorsport, off a harley apparently!

comes with fitting that go direct to a -3 hose with olives, so easy to fit, goes here, in the rear line as the rears are easier to bleed after fitting! lmao cheers to essex gte for the leg work...

wires still to be tidiedlmao
that done i reset my gearlinkage so the reverse detent now works, and shortened a fuel line a tiny bit so it didnt touch the dry sump tank anymore

then watched man u get to the champions league final, so all in all a top night

[spanishfly]

Nice one matey You got through without them scoring. Hopefully see ya in the final!
OH btw, we're in germany during Euro2008, hopefully should have good atmosphere!

[Steve!]

man who?

[lee303]

think it will be full of germans laughing at our non qualification tbhlmao
was a good result and another great performance at the back, all english final

[spanishfly]

think it will be full of germans laughing at our non qualification tbhlmao
was a good result and another great performance at the back, all english final

I'll lend you and Giles spain shirts! The germans are favorites to win it! Spain being 2nd favs (although Spain will get knocked out straight away)

[Giles]

I'll lend you and Giles spain shirts!

pfft. I'm gonna wear the german garb so I can 'make it' with the german lovlies.

[lee303]

**feels sorry for german females everywhere**

[lee303]

righty, went up today to do the final things before the rolling road session next week

firstly was an oil change, took the tank out and cleaned it out and did the same with the oil cooler too so i could make sure it was properly flushed out

then pissed about with the throttle cable so i could get full throttle and made sure my new injectors wil fit

they are peco yellows so i needed to be sure the would fit the rail without the spacers that are used with stock bosch type injectors, you can see the height difference here

shaould say at this point that Bowyer let me down yet again by not getting my injectors i paid him for here by today despite his assurances that he would on monday, so i had to buy another set from SBD who had them in stock, a leopard dosent chage its spots, as they say

then jr from corsasport showed up with an XE bottom end he wants me to look over and rebuild for him
its had a bore and a grind and been put together, but apparently the builder has no idea that you need a clean enviroment to build an engine in, it was caked in crap, the rings being particularly dirty, brand new bearings with some light scoring etc etc
thats Animals hand in the pic, he actually popped up too today!

so anyways thats in bits now and off for a bottom end balance then we can put it back together
the boring was actually very good and the crank clearances are fine, which makes it even more of a shame it was slung together so shoddily tbh
still, we shall sort it now:nods:

so thats it till the mapping now, gonna take it for a good drive tommorow and make sure its ok though, just to be sure!
oh and cow update, the little-uns are geting bigger! lmao

[spanishfly]

Looking good. It that JRs corsa xe?

Animal So his manta done then?

[lee303]

yup, tis jr's engine, there was some crap in there that was just because of how it was stored, but the stuff on the rings and the bearings was obviously there from build up, the rear main would have leaked like a good un too, shame as the bores etc are spot on, will be spotless when it goes together this time

and err, no, matts manta isnt finished, he spent the day doing his mondeo brakes and sorting through his stuff to see what to throw away so he can actually get to the manta to work on itlmao

[spanishfly]

yup, tis jr's engine, there was some crap in there that was just because of how it was stored, but the stuff on the rings and the bearings was obviously there from build up, the rear main would have leaked like a good un too, shame as the bores etc are spot on, will be spotless when it goes together this time

and err, no, matts manta isnt finished, he spent the day doing his mondeo brakes and sorting through his stuff to see what to throw away so he can actually get to the manta to work on itlmao

If any suspension components, brakes or any of that other useless stuff gets thrown, i'll have it lmao

[lee303]

unfoortunately, he's only binning the crap stuff, downright out of order if you ask me

[Colonel K]

Dude Im seriously gonna have to come and observe when you put an engine together one day

Cars looking / sounding awesome. I almost did some work today LOL Stupid hangovers.

[spanishfly]

I'll get Kitty to stealz them

[lee303]

any time you like mate you need to get on with yours too thoughlmao

spanish, you have no chance, we'll set cato the farm cat on you, and she's one tough bitch

[jr@corsasport]

Cheers lee thankfully it proved 110% the right move to take it apart, was shocking lmao

Cow update is class too lmao

i need to buy you and animal lunch too when the bits are balanced

[jr@corsasport]

Also please not others, i have played no part in orginally building that bottom end, all i did was buy it, and then noticed it was coverd in crap lmao

[1800ed]

Maybe some of the crap in your engine was because of it being in my workshop for longer than a minute. It's pretty dusty in there lol

[Colonel K]

Just realised Animal was up the workshop!

So lets get this straight, Brians actually working on his car and Animal still exists. What is the world coming to!

Yeah I need to work on mine. Just went and pulled the headlining out and found all the roof supports have come away! They arent structural right? lmao

[lee303]

Cheers lee thankfully it proved 110% the right move to take it apart, was shocking lmao

Cow update is class too lmao

i need to buy you and animal lunch too when the bits are balanced

no worries mate, was definitely a plan to take it apart for a look see

Just realised Animal was up the workshop!

So lets get this straight, Brians actually working on his car and Animal still exists. What is the world coming to!

i know, its weird, i'm retty sure i havent been using any more drugs than usual so..... lmao

[jr@corsasport]

no worries mate, was definitely a plan to take it apart for a look see

i know, its weird, i'm retty sure i havent been using any more drugs than usual so..... lmao

that statement would seem much much better if you hadnt invented the word retty lmao