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Very budget track build
Eighteen88:
--- Quote from: Shoduchi on August 18, 2021, 05:21:00 am ---The silver box is the alarm horn. It fails frequently with age.
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Yeah this what it is, recently had to replace mine and it was a twat of a job removing it!!
Clarkj93:
So been tackling the rust. Decided to just sand away some of what I could easily and cover the rest a rust converter, and paint any areas that will be exposed to sunlight. It did not look too pretty to be fair but all surface rust anyway, only serious rust I found was on some of the crash bar but in a pretty insignificant place to the structure so it's no concern to me.
if it protects some vulnerable areas for a bit longer and slows down some corrosion I'm happy.
Also been tackling a misfire due to system running lean, mainly cylinder 1. Been scratching my head a bit with it so thought I'd do a bit of a overhaul. New intake, carbon cannister hoses and silicone coolant hoses, along with some silicone boost pipes.
Everything is from creation motorsport. Been happy with the quality but the throttle body hose I've had to leave off the car, I just simply cannot get it to fit onto the throttle body even with heating it up and using lubrication. It's just about 1 or 2mm too narrow. I've even tried taking the throttle body off the car just to check if I can get it on off the car but still no. Got a forge one in the post to check if its creation motorsport short coming or me being a wimp.
After doing a few hoses as mentioned I noticed this vacuum leak...
Looking around I noticed this brake booster vacuum section is quite hard to come by, autodoc sell it for about 25 quid, ebay specials sell it for about 45 quid. I have not check but I heard from vw it's over 100 quid... I ultimately decided to very carefully cut the cracked and hardened hose off the ribbed connectors and place a 9mm samco silicone vacuum hose on instead from Merlin motorsports, fits perfect and no chance of it popping off and in total cost me 9 quid so il take that as a win.
Just waiting on some new jubilee clips for some hoses, pop in the new coolant, stick the intake back on and hopefully we will be running reliably again! Got lots of orders arriving in the next month, so should be some cool updates to follow shortly.
LC5F:
--- Quote from: Clarkj93 on September 03, 2021, 10:16:56 pm ---Looking around I noticed this brake booster vacuum section is quite hard to come by, autodoc sell it for about 25 quid, ebay specials sell it for about 45 quid. I have not check but I heard from vw it's over 100 quid... I ultimately decided to very carefully cut the cracked and hardened hose off the ribbed connectors and place a 9mm samco silicone vacuum hose on instead from Merlin motorsports, fits perfect and no chance of it popping off and in total cost me 9 quid so il take that as a win.
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Just checking that the pipe you fitted has has webbing inside the silicone?
If its a basic silicone hose with no reinforcement is will flatten itself under vacuum - leaving you with no vacuum assist
Nice work on the rust - that was a task I wanted to do this summer, but other things got in the way - whats the black paint you used before undercoat?
Clarkj93:
@LC5F I used por-15 as the rust converter/underseal, sticks very well as long as you use rhe metal prep stuff as instructed and apply in thin coats.
The hose is this https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/samco-9mm-silicone-vacuum-hose-per-metre-vt9b3w
It's advertised a vacuum hose solution so I assumed it would be fine? But yeah from memory it is a albeit quite thick but basic silicone hose.
LC5F:
That looks like it should be up to the task
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