JA83's car

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:58 pm

Anyone know what the low level coolant light is doing intermitantly flashing on while accelerating? Ive looked in the coolamt overflow bottle and there.is no low level warning sensor, and.the.cooling system is full....

ProZac · Post by **ProZac** » Mon May 28, 2012 9:17 pm

Its for your washer bottles, one of them will be low. Mine is permanently on as my headlight washer bottle it missing the filler, so is a tad tricky to put water in ;)

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Mon May 28, 2012 9:57 pm

ahhh ok, the light flashes on so quickly i assumed it was a low coolant warning light

perrinsohc · Post by **perrinsohc** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:54 pm

love the car man

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:43 pm

Well saying the car has come a long way is an understatement! Currently the car is running, engine bay back together and painted. Ended up splicing a half cut onto my car. The car was cut just infront of the lh strut tower, through the chassis rail, and through the far rh side of radiator opening. Ive painted the front filler panel and headlight covers today also.

Next is to paint inner guard blacking, paint bonnet and lh,guard, mount bonnet prop and reassrmble.

But biggest thing atm is tyring to source a lh castor bar mount... Can anyone help???????????,,

panda · Post by **panda** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:40 pm

JA83 wrote: But biggest thing atm is tyring to source a lh castor bar mount... Can anyone help???????????,,

I'll check tomorrow. I think I may have one.

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:46 am

Thanks anyway panda but i managed to straighten the mount usimg the press at work :)

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:18 pm

Well since the car has been repaired I drove it for several months before it ended up on a tow truck.

The stock injection setup was flooding itself occasionly and the engine dropped compression on cylinder 2.
I stripped the engine down and found the cylinder head was fine, valves all sealing with petrol in the combustion chambers, head gasket still like new (was only replaced 2 years ago). So I took off the sump and popped out number 2 piston, ring lands were fine and rings were still like new! note before strip down the valve clearances were checked twice and all ok.

upon dis assembling the rest of the engine I found number 3 and 4 big end bearings were about to spin, so the decision was made to rebuild the engine, stay sohc and go multipoint with a sonata manifold.

Schultz · Post by **Schultz** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:47 pm

That is one beautiful looking machine. It will give you a few hours of heart break with heaps and heaps of joy when you can drive it.

Life is wonderful.

popup · Post by **popup** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:51 pm

Do you know what was causing the drop in compression on cylinder 2?

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:42 pm

it probably washed the bore

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:44 pm

Exactly what i reckon dave

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:29 pm

Went to get the crank machined, but ran into a snag. I want to run acl race series bearings but the crank is already too far under size and they couldnt get the big ends in anything smaller than .50.

Luckely Avandull had a stock crank for me that was completley STD and after.running the micrometer over it its in really great shape. Now just waiting for the bearings to arrive so i can dummy assemble the bottom end and see if i have enough room to deck.the block

quest · Post by **quest** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:32 pm

weren't there numerous problems with those bearings ?

JA83 · Post by **JA83** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:43 pm

Can't say I've heard of anyone having issues with them?

Thanks to panda my multi point sonata manifold arrived yesterday

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