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Re: Woohoo. -
04-23-2007
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Elder <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote: In article <591lf2F2ir79pU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, cagmeister (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk says... "Elder" <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote in message news:MPG.2093e48d3e19fce01445 (AT) news (DOT) individual.net... Tankenstein's Junkster has a year ticket as of half an hour ago. Nicely done sir! I know, it feels nice to have bought a bargain that needs some fettling, and not shares in a welding wire company. So the rotten inner wings, cracked diff. casing and complete inability to get it to run properly on LPG are just minor 'fettling' jobs, then? Cracked diff case can be plated, it is just pressed steek and just |
The LPG will be sorted this weekend. It seems to be missing a flap
opener which is needed to idle if the mixer is behind the AFM. In this
case it is, and that means it has never idled. No biggy, it still drives
ok.
The "rotten" inner wing is a small area of perforation, on a non
structural inner body panel that could even easily be patched with
fibreglass should I see fit. I'll get it welded when I get the diff
done.
Still a cheap fun car. I regassed the aircon the other day. Chilly as
owt, and has been for nearly a week, no oil goop leaks from the circuit
and no unexpected noises from the compressor.
It's a shed on the surface, but a very well engineered shed, with a
totally solid seperate chassis, box sectioned sills, new anchor points
for the rear seatbelts, one inner wing already replaced, the other
needing plating, and new engine, transmission and chassis mounts all
round, and fairly new, but well used Pro-Comp 9000 shocks.
I wasn't sure I would like it, but the clean MOT, and the whole roly-
poly slow comfortable cruise, and never having to worry about being cut-
up is actually quite nice.
It is a shite old car to love and cost less than one month's mortgage.
Two months if you think of the few bits I have spent, the cost of the
MOT, and the few weeks of mainly petrol. About £200 of fuel, for 900
miles, in comfort, 50% of which was local nose to tail grind, and twice
I have spent over an hour near stationary on an M class A road, idling
and crawling.
I held off doing the non urgent stuff till after the MOT. Now I can
fettle.
It hadn't been a daily driver previously, so it didn't need to be
perfect, just capable. I'm not tarting it up, just keeping it running.
Next owner can bob it should they wish, but that would be a waste of a
near new chassis.
Oh and it isn't 80's italian, so the rust isn't factory standard, it was
an option. It just has lucas electrics.
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It is a shite old car to love and cost less than one month's mortgage. Two months if you think of the few bits I have spent, the cost of the MOT, and the few weeks of mainly petrol. About £200 of fuel, for 900 miles, in comfort, 50% of which was local nose to tail grind, and twice I have spent over an hour near stationary on an M class A road, idling and crawling. |
That kind of fuel cost is enough to give me a heart attack.
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Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
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But whilst the LPG system is fucked, it's hardly meeting the original buying criteria. It looks like someone fitted a Carb Rangie LPG kit with a Rangie EFI A |
The forgot, or thought they could get away with not fitting the flap
opener. It needs the flap opener on LPG to idle. I could have moved the
mixed infront of the flap, that would have worked, but it would have
mean't bodging the fuel mixer into place. Not my idea of fun when an AFM
opener is less than a couple of weeks fuel and will loads a month.
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Carl Robson
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Elder <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote: It is a shite old car to love and cost less than one month's mortgage. Two months if you think of the few bits I have spent, the cost of the MOT, and the few weeks of mainly petrol. About £200 of fuel, for 900 miles, in comfort, 50% of which was local nose to tail grind, and twice I have spent over an hour near stationary on an M class A road, idling and crawling. HFM!? That kind of fuel cost is enough to give me a heart attack. -- That's coz you're not used to man size engines   |
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"SteveH" <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:1hx1m0p.4cpujy1i2knpsN%steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk... Elder <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote: It is a shite old car to love and cost less than one month's mortgage. Two months if you think of the few bits I have spent, the cost of the MOT, and the few weeks of mainly petrol. About £200 of fuel, for 900 miles, in comfort, 50% of which was local nose to tail grind, and twice I have spent over an hour near stationary on an M class A road, idling and crawling. HFM!? That kind of fuel cost is enough to give me a heart attack. -- That's coz you're not used to man size engines |
get to and from work?
The Marea was crippling enough at 26mpg, ffs. Never, *ever* again.
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SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #
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That kind of fuel cost is enough to give me a heart attack. I can afford it until I get the part I need to sort the LPG, then it |
I didn't to spend on the fix, until I knew it was worth fixing and not
shunting on as a project.
As long as the part arrives before then, it will be idling on gas by
Saturday night.
Not a complicated system.
Give it gas, give it air, set up the idle gas level at 3k revs (is)
that sets you cruising mixture (that is done).
The AFM meter flap is nearly closed, blocking most of the air, but the
gas level is a lot higher than petrol, so it is too rich to idle. I need
a vac operated flap opener to make it idle and have ordered one.
We know that is the case, because
1) Me and pete spent a little while with a gas tester, and got revs but
no idle, or idle but no revs.
2) An LPG specialist who doesn't stock the kind of opener I need because
the systems he sells use a gas pressure instead of vacuum based opener,
says yes, for the reducer I have and the AFM I have, if I want to idle,
I need a vac operated opener. So even though he couldn't make any money,
he advised what I needed.
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Carl Robson
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Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com
Now Playing at home:Front Line Assembly-A Decade
http://www.myspace.com/theelderuk
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In article <1hx1m0p.4cpujy1i2knpsN%steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk>, steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk says... That kind of fuel cost is enough to give me a heart attack. |
comfy, quiet, V8, cheap to fix and - wait for it - fun.
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I can afford it until I get the part I need to sort the LPG, then it will drop to about £90 for 900 miles. I didn't to spend on the fix, until I knew it was worth fixing and not shunting on as a project. |
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As long as the part arrives before then, it will be idling on gas by Saturday night. Not a complicated system. Give it gas, give it air, set up the idle gas level at 3k revs (is) that sets you cruising mixture (that is done). The AFM meter flap is nearly closed, blocking most of the air, but the gas level is a lot higher than petrol, so it is too rich to idle. I need a vac operated flap opener to make it idle and have ordered one. We know that is the case, because 1) Me and pete spent a little while with a gas tester, and got revs but no idle, or idle but no revs. |
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2) An LPG specialist who doesn't stock the kind of opener I need because the systems he sells use a gas pressure instead of vacuum based opener, says yes, for the reducer I have and the AFM I have, if I want to idle, I need a vac operated opener. So even though he couldn't make any money, he advised what I needed. |
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Golf GTi Mk2 (2.0 transplant in progress),
Golf GTi Mk1 (For Sale)
OMF#9
Currently listening to The White Stripes
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Good job my services are free :-p You loved it though. |
Carl Robson
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2) An LPG specialist who doesn't stock the kind of opener I need because the systems he sells use a gas pressure instead of vacuum based opener, says yes, for the reducer I have and the AFM I have, if I want to idle, I need a vac operated opener. So even though he couldn't make any money, he advised what I needed. Was that Andy Evans by any chance? It was the Tinley Tech (I emailed round a few web known Rangie LPG |
to your mate regarding servicing/fine tuning later once it idles.
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Carl Robson
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Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com
Now Playing at home:Front Line Assembly-A Decade
http://www.myspace.com/theelderuk
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Elder <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote: It is a shite old car to love and cost less than one month's mortgage. Two months if you think of the few bits I have spent, the cost of the MOT, and the few weeks of mainly petrol. About £200 of fuel, for 900 miles, in comfort, 50% of which was local nose to tail grind, and twice I have spent over an hour near stationary on an M class A road, idling and crawling. HFM!? That kind of fuel cost is enough to give me a heart attack. 'kin hell. I get better economy out of the lorry. |
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