When i turned up to work this morning my boss and workmate almost p*ssed themselves when they saw the stickers

Diablo should pass easily, she's as tight as a tiger and now has the standard exhaust back on so no need to worry about emissions anymore.

Goldie has an insanely annoying rattle around 1900rpm when under load, i wonder if a certain someone may have dropped something inside the centre box when doing a little repair It sounds like theres something rattling round in there anyway.

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I can't be bothered to get under the car to change the exhaust over again, i'm getting old
Plus every penny i earn now is going towards my trip to germany, no more spending on the car for a few weeks

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I think i'll give it a miss but thanks for the offer.

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Cheers Chris, you're on track at FCS aren't you?
I don't know what time i'm on yet but i have ordered one session on track

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Yes mate, I'm on track 14:00-14:15 and 15:15-15:30

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Mini update time:

I did a bit more lightening today, the bonnet lining is now off (and fitted to diablo as its in better condition than diablo's was )
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I was going to single skin the bonnet but wasnt sure on the best way to go about the spot welds, obviously drilling isnt the answer unless i want 'speed holes', and getting it too hot may upset the paintwork on the visible part which isnt ideal (awaits jokes about it already being rust coloured )

Front door speakers are now gone, i may get the door cards off tomorrow, but i like the fact that they have pockets to hold stuff in which will be useful for my trip to germany in a few weeks.
And the fact that i rest my knee on the door card when driving, i dont want to have it resting on a sharp edge or hard steel which will get annoying after several hours.

Alarm ECU is now off, i traced the wires back from it and they split and go to the central locking ecu and some go to somewhere under the dash, at this point lazyness took over so i left the wires in for the time being. It's something i intend to sort out when i paint the interior or fit a cage.

I want to get rid of the central locking ecu but i will be needing to use the boot for germany, and for some reason my key wont unlock the boot lock, so it has to stay for now

I fitted the new rear numberplate.
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Finally i touched up a few areas in the engine bay which were affected by my many petrol leaks.
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I may well just order myself a fiberglass bonnet and tailgate, undecided whether to use aerocatch fixings for the bonnet or try and keep the standard latch setup. I think i would prefer standard setup incase theres ever an engine fire it will be quicker to get in there and try to put the fire out.
Will get locking aerocatches for the tailgate so i can get rid of the central locking, but will also need to get a polycarbonate rear window as it wouldnt feel right fitting glass into a nice and light fiberglass tailgate.

I also need to source a new gearbox at some point as its a bit silly getting into 2nd at anything above walking pace. But if i get another box i may aswell get a slippy diff at the same time, and thats not cheap so won't be happening any time soon

I've had a bit of a leak from my brake lines where they meet the bias valve, it seems to have almost stopped but im going to sort it out once some new adapters arrive, i have another bottle of ATE Suber blue stuff ready to put in, and hopefully the rear bleed nipples wont have seized yet as i can't be bothered to spend another 3 hours drilling and milling them out I smeared a load of copperslip over them after i had bled the brakes last time to try and keep the threads a bit protected from air and water, i don't know if it will have worked or not though.

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My dads pimp wagon

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My dad loves it, he genuinely thinks its the greatest car in the world (We all know the 306 is really )

We're like a peugeot dealership, my mum has a 307 and my room is literally full of nice new genuine pug parts

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Little update time, i sorted the gearbox leak last weekend, replaced the seal that goes between the speed sensor housing and the gearbox and also fitted new driveshaft seals as i had forgot to leave 1mm protruding when i did the last seals, one wasn't leaking but the other one had a tiny weep so decided to change them both since i bought the new ones as a pair

I took the car to have its tracking done, it was quite a way out but all sorted now. The guy looked like he wanted to kill himself when i told him i had had the steering wheel off, subframe off and rack off. Still not worked out why but it really seemed to upset him much to my amusement

Today i took a load of scrap to get it weighed in, whilst i was there i stuck the car on the weigh bridge, it came in at 1160kg. Thats with a tank full (petrol station 2 miles down the road) and me, i just weighed myself at 70kg.
If the website i used is right 60 litres of petrol would weigh about 45kg at 15*C, which is what it probably was at, so the car is roughly 1045kg as it stands. However that was with 4 scrap brake discs, the abs pump, a few electric motors, starter motor and various brackets which i have chopped off still in the car, so i would hazard a guess that its nearer 1020kg.
The person operating the bridge said it weighs in 20kg intervals, so it could be closer to 1000kg or 1040, who knows
Either way im pretty happy with that weight for now.

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But i bet your missing out on every panel vibrating like mad in yours, so yours is missing 'character'

I forgot to mention in the last post that i sorted out the leaky bias valve, i ordered the brass adapters 1/8" NPT to M10x1, but when i fitted them it turns out that the ends on the braided lines arent M10x1 at all, so i measured the thread major diameter on the old stainless adapters and it was around 9.4mm

Luckily i had been anal and bought some PTFE brake line sealant so gave everything a good spraying with brake cleaner and left it to dry, then applied the sealant, fitted the adapters and lines and left it to set overnight before filling back up with brake fluid and bleeding the system.

Today i cut up the old middle seatbelt and made it into some door handles since the door cards are now non existant, i didnt take any pics so will stick some up next time i have an update.

I changed the earthing point for the battery as i was getting very intermittent 'STOP' flashes which i assume could have been a less than ideal earth point, i havent been out long enough in the car to see if it has stopped it but hopefully it will have.

I gave the roller bearing wishbone bushes another few pumps of grease at work this morning, i wasnt sure if my dads grease gun was actually pumping much in or just spreading it round outside the nipple

Finally i gave the car a quick wash ready for FCS tomorrow, i have acquired another session on track so will hopefully get some footage and put it up on here asap.

The only problems with the car now are the issue of trying to get it into 2nd at any high speed, and at around 2000 rpm it seems to be quite jerky, but below and above this its fine, and its not always apparent so i assume it could be a spark plug, coilpack or sensor, which i will have to look into further later in the week when i get a spare minute.

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You caught me stealing your ideas

EDIT: My door handles are even pretty similar, which i thought i had stolen the idea from Rikky

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Also, what is that black box with wires connected to it just under your window switches? Mine doesnt have that

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]