[trackday_prep] Paul's Gti6

[gti-si 0]

You wired the oil pressure up to the temp?

 

Looks quite warm for the oil or were you driving it about for a while?

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

No mate haven't been driving it yet. Its got no oil cooler attached at the minute.

Thats a point i threw my old 1.9 8v in the bin so now I have no sensor to go in Miles adapter

 

Any body got one?

[Spiky 37]

does the gauge fluctuate when you dab the revs? or does it raise with the temp of the water? just a little slower?

 

what oil gauge you got the std 205 one? have you actually plugged it in?

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

It's still the 16v item, haven't got round to installing the 8v one yet. I realised my mistake there.

 

I'm in need of the oil guage sensor off the 8v cos stupidly I didnt take i out the block before I chucked it

 

Still no rev counter

 

Bought aload of metal today, going to be welding some seat frames up tomorrow

Edited July 3, 2009 by paul_xiii

[Spiky 37]

check the earth bythe vacum pump as the rev counter earth is attched to one of those.

 

else if you want a refund on the loom send it back and i'll refund you.

[Spiky 37]

on the car side of the looms tell me which wire is labelled 112, not on the wires of the loom i supplied

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Don't be stupid Spiky I don't want a refund

 

Cheers I'll check the earth tomorrow and note the wire, did you get my PM?

Edited July 3, 2009 by paul_xiii

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Is this the oil pressure switch? (pic from my 6 engine)

 

 

I've got the tee-piece from Miles that I need to install.

Edited July 4, 2009 by paul_xiii

[gti-si 0]

Yes thats the pressure switch. When you get the 8v item, stick that into the side of the tee and bung the top with the pressure switch you replaced with the tee. You bunch of turles. Plastic vicar moulding eyebrow cheeked winkle chinks. Holla x.

Edited July 5, 2009 by gti-si

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

HaHaHa WTF was that about?!

 

Had a good day today at Pugfest, bit sunburnt. Stans 306 supercharged gti6 was fooking loud as fook!

 

Loads of nice motors there, pretty sure I saw Anthony sat near the top taking pictures on his ones. Wasn't too sure so I didnt say hello.

 

Got a nice new present for the biatch today: Cheap aswell

 

 

 

The bore before and after the butterfly is alot bigger now. Only £35

 

Bumper is on now and looks more like a 205. Just got to change the top mount, oil pressure sender and the engine side of things are complete.

Next to weld in rollcage and seat mounts and its MOT time

Edited July 5, 2009 by paul_xiii

[Arahan 4]

Was that the light blue 306? Coz that one really was very loud!!

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

It was indeed, nearly burst my ear drums at one point lol.

 

Think it's a high compression supercharger kit. A few of mates on the 306 forum know the bloke

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Had a fiddle with the lights etc to see if they still worked, nothing did...

 

The hazard switch was in the wrong plug so the sidelights were coming on when the hazards were ment to be flashing

 

Then every earth was shot, rear right light still doesnt work

 

Frigging french electrics

 

Bumper and lights back on, in need of a few bits to complete the front end. Then its the interior to finish off!

 

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Done loads of work over the weekend, mainly tidying bits up and a bit of welding.

Modified the seat frames to fit Cobra seats formally Corbeau seat frames, still to fabricate car seat mounts. (Glad I ripped the old mounts out as the spot welds were rusty as fook!

 

Blanked off sunroof

 

Bonnet fitted

 

Wheel stud conversion (had a habit of snapping wheel bolts )

 

Modified downpipe, glad I had 2 in the end as I 'tapped' the flange on one of them to break the weld and the flange snapped

 

Where do you guys get the lambda boss from?

 

All thats left now is to fabricate the seat rails and weld in the rollcage, install the 8v oil sender and MOT time

Edited July 12, 2009 by paul_xiii

[gti-si 0]

Good work mate, really motoring on now.

 

You can get a boss from any motorfactor, there just a standard size, M18 I think.

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Bling

*c£o1u5g0h*

 

Some nice cars I saw today aswell

 

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

New wheel I acquired today

 

Roll cage padding

 

Oil sensor in place, thanks Matt holley

 

Got this spare now, any takers?

[Matt Holley 11]

Im glad the sensor got to you o.k. Nice bonnet

Edited July 15, 2009 by matt holley

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Quite liking the black grille to go with my carbon bonnet

 

Amazing what electrical tape can achieve lol

 

I got this bad boy through the post today after trying to get one for months and months

 

 

Nearly finished the downpipe, just got to weld the nut on to accept the lambda sensor

Then to crack on with the exhaust

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Exhuast all welded up fitted alright aswell

 

 

Had a bit of a re-shuffle in the engine bay

 

 

Bloody water keeps p*ssing out the expansion tank, think it was my fault for filling up too much

 

Oops!

 

Also found this little critter in the engine bay, scared the crap out of me when I realised what it was lol thought it was scrunched up duct tape

 

When the exhaust was on and the earth had stopped shaking I could hear the cambelt was too tight

Edited July 19, 2009 by paul_xiii

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Bit of an update, fitted my new coilovers after giving them a clean up and a spray

 

 

Which way does the nut on top twist to adjust them? There AVO coilovers

 

How its looking now with new headlights

 

 

New indicators

 

 

Also fitted clutch cable and speedo cable today and what a b@stard that was!

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Thought i'd get the seat rails started today (at long last!)

 

Did a few measurements and got cutting :glare:

 

Just a to see if it fitted

 

I welded a nut onto the bottom of the angle. Loads of pigeon sh!t for the first go but fine tuned it for the next.

 

Two seat mount bolts thing majiggs fitted.

 

Rail in place got to weld it in tomorrow.

 

Been a bit clumsy today lol, got a bit of red hot metal from the welder in my lug hole. OUCH!

Then just before I was about to packup/leave I went to move the bar in the vice grabbed the red hot bit without gloves on, now I have a nice burn on my hand OOOUUUCCCHHHHH!

Edited July 26, 2009 by paul_xiii

[kyepan 291]

war wounds!

 

keep up the good work, pug is running now, tried to call you but your phone was off.

 

J

[Tom Fenton 1,525]

How tall are you? Only reason I ask is that I think with the rail mounted that high, I think you will struggle to get your seat low enough for the top of your helmet to be below the rollcage top hoop. You really do not want to drive it with your helmet above the rool cage hoop- rollover could mean broken neck.

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

About 5'11", i've angled the top bar so the seat will be sitting at an angle.

 

The seat has sliders and the height is adjustable. I've tried to keep the height of the rails the same compared to the OE mounts.

 

I put the seat roughly in place and the position seems ok :glare: