\'89 EGI \'it\' - Work in Progress

[papercutout]

I have some of those FTP lenses you can have. I never run my car with them in, but they don\'t have the fitting bolt/screw/nut things, because they broke.

[Lacey]

Thanks for digging the stuff out for me, I appreciate it! Doesn\'t bother me much about the tyre difference, will just put them on the front and should be fine.

Condition of the FTP lenses doesn\'t bother me either since mine doesn\'t actually have any, obviously the nicer condition the better, but I;m not one to be picky when it\'s something I don\'t even have to begin with

[papercutout]

The tyre sizes make a big difference - you\'ll have to replace one of them, to match the other. You cannot run a 225 on one side, and a 205 on the other! Firstly it\'s illegal (you cannot have mis-matched tyre sizes on the same axle), and secondly it\'s a massive difference, so the car would pull sideways!

[Lacey]

Arse, well there goes my hopes of having 2x more T-II rims to put legal and safe rubber on the car >.<

Guess I\'ll have to just have the pair from the front that are slightly feathered from steering then and use them for the same purpose. :/

Sorry to mess you about 1990, didn\'t know it was illegal to have slightly mismatched tyre sizes T_T what a pain in the backside, thought that would have been a good solution then. >.<

Do you want my address papercutout? How much will the postage be do you think?

[1990_fc3s_t2]

Don\'t worry about it, Think your gonna have to get a new tyre either way as the other 225 is all cracked and flat and the other 205 has quite bad shoulder wear.
Here\'s the other tyres,










Got the molding off the door with no problems, oh and the spoiler looks like it\'s damaged one of the little feet in the picture but it\'s just paint chipped off, also one of the mounting studs is missing so that side will need sticking down with something! :p









This is what looks like damage but it\'s just black under the red. :Thumbs-up



Here\'s the door trim and knob,





T2 steering wheel if you want it, i prefer the egi.

[Lacey]

Will PM you!

[Lacey]

Just another update!

Done more work on the EGI today with mucho helpo from Prof.

Both my popups now actually work, and are reliable, to begin with you had to lift the pass side one up by hand every time. We took the light out, dismantled the winder motor to find that the plastic gear inside has basically been eaten by the motor, thankfully prof had a spare in the garage (which had a duff switch/motor, I can\'t remember) so we Frankenstein\'d up a working one out of 2 deceased ones, reinstalled (and after much swearing at the thing whilst trying to find the right resting positions for the contacts) got it to actually start working properly, instead of spin around in circles.

That was the main fix for today.

Second was my flappy accelerator peddle, apparently the throttle cable is supposed to have some kind of bar or piece of tube at the end of it by the accelerator peddle that keeps the accelerator half-depressed (insert joke here), one of the previous owners had cut it off to lift the accelerator up, so the resting position was level with the other 2 pedals which, having looked in profs, it\'s not supposed to be - it\'s SUPPOSED to be pushed in further than the clutch and brake, so that\'s at least partially / temporarily fixed with a bit of reinforced rubber hose, and the accelerator sits with far less give before the throttle engages. It\'s not perfect, but it\'s 2/3 closer to how it should be, so a lot better.

Third was the fuel cap being a pain in the backside, having to wedge the lever up then go open it manually, after greasing the nipple (hurr hurr) that pins the filler door shut, and greasing the hinge on the filler door, that now works perfectly fine as well, after some percussive maintenance to get the latch to sit in the right place.

All in all a productive afternoon

Also a P.S. for 1990, if you prefer the EGI steering wheel, I have a spare you can put in your T-II if you like? :p

[papercutout]

Don\'t worry, I don\'t charge for any advice I give, and you certainly can\'t post it! :p


(I assume you mean for 2x FTP lenses?)


Round here there\'s a company that does part worns at about £20 each, and fitting/balancing/disposal of old tyre for £10 each, so that\'d be £60 for a pair of part worns fitted - which is mega cheap compared to buying new. Only relevant if you\'ve got very little money though!


Ps. It\'s frigging annoying that the accelerator sits lower IMO, it means I can\'t heel-toe. Did you and Dave notice if there was a way of having it return to level with the other pedals, without being flappy?

[Lacey]

Got the wheels on the car finally, mismatched set though! Turns out the wheels I got from Mitch (back) are completely standard look just a bit dirty, but the wheels I got from 1990 (fronts) have been sandblasted, polished down, painted and lacquered during a refurb at some point, so the wheels I got gratefully received from Mr 1990 will be the donor wheels for the paint job, sanded back, properly refurbed back to delicious original shape (slightly curbed in places) and painted a high gloss white with silver (maybe red) flake and red accents (wheels nuts on centre cap sprayed metallic red for example)



The car in it\'s current state - now with headlights that actually retract on the switch! (yes, I already know the bonnet is a different colour, so are various other panels. :p )



Door trim that needs to be re-stuck down



Me likey teh stripey :Laugh

[B.Martin]

Looking good, updates are great! Those door stips are a pain the in arse, one of the ones of the EGi i had completely fell off! I could be wrong, but i think its still in my mums garage lol!

Whats next then other than the wheels?

[Lacey]

Looking good, updates are great! Those door stips are a pain the in arse, one of the ones of the EGi i had completely fell off! I could be wrong, but i think its still in my mums garage lol!

Whats next then other than the wheels?

If it is, I want it please! LOL!!

Other than the wheels, I have a full set coming from mitch all with really good Eagle F1\'s with hardly any mileage on, so they\'ll be going on it and the current lot will be coming off, over time (when i can be arsed) I\'ll refurb, sand back and paint the other set.

Before it goes back on the road I want to give the thing a fair overhaul just to ensure the safety of it. Before it actually gets driven properly I intend on - replacing all the brake line with braided, do a caliper rebuild on both fronts and backs, along with a full caliper refurb and paint, and will put on the new wheels all with good tyres when they\'ve come.

Also not sure whether to stick with the standard EGI lights or swap out for Turbo-II lights, I kind of like the EGI lights since nobody really has them, but mine are in completely appalling condition and really do need to be replaced at some point. They work, they just look hideous where the black plastic surround has been somehow murdered in a way I just can\'t describe better than being a cat\'s scratching post.

Aside from still being in desperate need of a (preferably inexpensive) EGI exhaust header to CAT pipe, and possibly swapping over the injectors for reconditioned ones, the car is roadworthy! Just in a bit of a sorry state, still working my way through the interior piece by piece to de-paint all of that, and have a new mint sunroof to finish painting and install once the weathers not so naff. :Laugh

[B.Martin]

Well it\'s good your taking on sub a project and how keen you are is great! I will ask my mum about the door strip but I\'ve been out of there 3 months so it\'s likely that it hasn\'t survived the \'mums garage purge!\' I imagine she was in there the day I left clearing all my unwanted (by her) stuff out!!

As far as the rear lights go the egi ones often can be had for cheap. Someone was breaking an egi on eBay other day, not sure if lights were there though. TII lights look better but are rarer/more expensive so it depends on what your budgeting!

I\'m sure whatever the case people will help

[lennycarloff]

Good looking egi, you have set yourself a mammoth task with the inside but I do hope you finish it because it will look so 80\'s cool ,it just needs a load of time throwing at it ,something I sadly have to play with my toys ,and if you need any encouragement I picked my egi up a year ago and it was not even near as nice as yours but still I have got it sorted don\'t get me wrong it still looks like crap but it goes great and sticks to the road like its on rails

[papercutout]

Keep the EGi lights, as you said, it\'s a bit different. Either pick up a new set, or take your time and smooth them off - work your way through the grades of sandpaper to remove all scratches/writing. Using a block so you keep it the right shape of course!

You could then tint them, and they\'d look even better!

[Lacey]

Good looking egi, you have set yourself a mammoth task with the inside but I do hope you finish it because it will look so 80\'s cool ,it just needs a load of time throwing at it ,something I sadly have to play with my toys ,and if you need any encouragement I picked my egi up a year ago and it was not even near as nice as yours but still I have got it sorted don\'t get me wrong it still looks like crap but it goes great and sticks to the road like its on rails

I know what you mean, every time I get in the car I take a look around at just how many more spraypainted black bits there are that I didn\'t notice last time, it\'s like a downward spiral, i swear after this I don\'t ever want to see a can of black spraypaint again!!

Well it\'s good your taking on sub a project and how keen you are is great! I will ask my mum about the door strip but I\'ve been out of there 3 months so it\'s likely that it hasn\'t survived the \'mums garage purge!\' I imagine she was in there the day I left clearing all my unwanted (by her) stuff out!!

As far as the rear lights go the egi ones often can be had for cheap. Someone was breaking an egi on eBay other day, not sure if lights were there though. TII lights look better but are rarer/more expensive so it depends on what your budgeting!

I\'m sure whatever the case people will help

Oh I already have T-II lights and I do like them quite a bit, but I also like the EGI lights just mine are in terrible condition and just generally look tacky. I havn\'t seen EGI lights up for sale before so in all likelihod I\'ll be putting the T-II lights on at least as long as it takes to source EGI ones that arent screwed up condition wise, and by then they might grow on me even more than they already have. Mainly I just like them because they\'re a bit different to the norm.

Keep the EGi lights, as you said, it\'s a bit different. Either pick up a new set, or take your time and smooth them off - work your way through the grades of sandpaper to remove all scratches/writing. Using a block so you keep it the right shape of course!

You could then tint them, and they\'d look even better!

Tint them what? :p lol, the theme I;m going for is red and white, so being mostly red, they go nicely already :p