Project \'rotarvette\'

yoeddynz · February 08, 2007, 02:43:35 PM

cool- I\'d love to have a guided tour- I think I know the valleys mentioned. Once summers here and cars done i\'ll have to contact you and hook up!!!
cheers man
alex

TwistedHumour · February 08, 2007, 02:57:12 PM

Quote from: yoeddynzcool- I\'d love to have a guided tour- I think I know the valleys mentioned. Once summers here and cars done i\'ll have to contact you and hook up!!!
cheers man
alex

Sounds good! We should have a mini meet

A day of blasting it through the twisty welsh mountain roads in the cars followed by a day of singletrack!

Dominic · February 08, 2007, 04:48:39 PM

Quote from: TwistedHumourSounds good! We should have a mini meet

A day of blasting it through the twisty welsh mountain roads in the cars followed by a day of singletrack!

:Thumbs-up :Thumbs-up :Thumbs-up :Thumbs-up

yoeddynz · February 09, 2007, 08:26:14 PM

yeah yeah yeah yeah! Welsh roads- wow. We had a 175bhp dolomite sprint track car a few years back and I remember Hannah got to drive it up to Betws y Coed (spelling? I\'m a Kiwi- hence even less chance of getting to grips with Welsh place names). We were to sell it but potential buyers turned out to be tyre kickers - not that Hannah complained as she got to drive it back after 2 days mtbing! what a weekend!
More of that please

yoeddynz · February 20, 2007, 01:58:02 PM

Project coming along nicely- I\'m at that point where its pick up a component, clean it, paint it and fit it! Not having to think too much right now as mostly its just refitting standard mazda or chevette bits. minimal bodging needed

My new steering rack bits arrived from TJ motorsport. Thanks Tim. Two extra teeth on the pinion cuts lock to lock from 3.5 to 2.4 turns. Cool.
Stripped rack and with only 25,000 miles on car showed no wear. Swapped bits and all good.

Then just as I was fitting a new clutch disc (Ebay-Â£10 inc postage-bargin!!!) I noticed the spigot bearing sitting in bits at bottom of its little cave. ****! No seal was present where there should be one. Ordered a new bearing and seal but to remove old required the use of my now very worn Die grinder.

By Sunday evening last weekend after some last minute bell housing polishing I had engine and box sitting
in place on my freshly painted mounts.
Phew! Onto the refit.
The master cylinder was failing on the car when I drove it back from london. I checked the one in the spares car and that was just as dire. A local motor factor rang me back after I was asking for a seal kit and informed me they had a new master cylinder complete and I got for only Â£70 (RRP Â£120)

Soooo happy- fitted it in with freshly painted servo and its looking like a new car in there! now doing new brake lines- more photos soon.

TwistedHumour · February 20, 2007, 02:22:08 PM

Nice work! Really cant wait to see this project finished - its going to be an absolute stormer!

Looking forward to seeing the fitted pics

yoeddynz · February 27, 2007, 02:21:27 PM

cheers mate! hope it inspires people to get the grinder out...

Ordered a nice fat shiny 14" dia Moroso air filter today. hmmmm

oil cooler is knackered- all the fins are dropping out. Does any one out there have a spare cooler off a series 2 kicking about?

MikeLMR · February 27, 2007, 04:56:23 PM

looking good, got be finished soon eh

only kiddin, know how long all the finishing off takes, keep up the good work!

yoeddynz · February 28, 2007, 05:50:15 PM

cheers- i\'m now panicking about thew oil cooler now!!! cant seem to find one.
anyone out there got a spare or no some one who does?
Series 2- the wide one under the rad with inlet/outlets on passenger side.

please please please....

shaunwil · February 28, 2007, 06:20:38 PM

You could use one of the mini mocal oil coolers !

Shaun

MikeLMR · February 28, 2007, 06:29:25 PM

except that they are about 1/4 the size of one fitted to a rotary and don\'t come with a thermostat an pressure bypass as standard. If it doesn\'t leak fit it an replace at a later date. The one I have has a bit of fin rot so I intend to replace it with a better one at some point (it\'s a Gen2 one)

shaunwil · February 28, 2007, 06:59:57 PM

Doh, thought you meant the powersteering one !!!!!

http://www.thermex.co.uk/auto_1.php

http://www.fluidyne.com/pl_hpaccessories.html

Shaun

dubber91 · February 28, 2007, 08:28:47 PM

ive got some stock coolers IIRC....

Steve

yoeddynz · March 01, 2007, 01:54:02 PM

excuse my ignorance but what does iirc mean?

do you have one of the coolers i mean? if so you are GOD and is it possible you can bless me with one?....

alex

yoeddynz · March 01, 2007, 01:55:27 PM

i spose that if the fins are still there but now they are alu oxide instead of alu they still might work?...

Project \'rotarvette\'

Dominic