E30 Zone

MOT


Monday Morning, 8am.








She runs ladies and gents! She runs! See you all at Aces Monday Night! Save me a space please!

More tech 1 rightness on the road!

yay! CONGRATS

mcar is up for its MOT on monday morning too, but the japanese wrongness is gonna limp home with a failure sheet taller than me


Oh and PICS Please not seen you do a photo gallery in ages

dobbie82 wrote:the japanese wrongness is gonna limp home with a failure sheet taller than me

Well done scott, i was wondering when it would be on the road .

Hannah, nothing wrong with jap cars, they run and run! My brother picked up a nissan primira 16v 'S' regde 60k miles today for 1400, and dare i say it its better in many respects than the e30 . Doesnt look half as nice though .

well done

well done been a while since it's been on the road hasn't it?

well done geezer,will be good to see pics

Cool, long term project comming good, nice one !

finally..........i want to see lots of pics

Great news, look forward to seeing this monday

Thanks for the words people, but save them UNTIL it gets its pass sheet. After all this time it better not fail on anything, but I wouldnt mind betting i get an advisory!

Note for PacerPete, it wont fail on jacking points - The hardener has had 2 years to go off

oh yea... anyone that sees it, please still bare in mind that its very much still a work in progress car. Estimated "Completion" date is Gaydon 2012 lol

Good luck I hope it all goes well

Ant wrote:

indeed my friend!

Like I said though... shes still work in progress (she probably wont have skirts on at Aces etc etc etc), but shes still pretty.

She ran a bit lumpy when i started her earlier (it was 4degrees outside mind) but she idles SPOT ON 640 rpm. perrrrrfect. Larini sounds sweet too - subtle.

Great news Scott.

Look forward to seeing your Tech 1.

Roll on Monday!

Well done Scott, give yourself a pat on the back! fingers are crossed for monday mate.

O/t. tyres... thank you thank you thank you!!

no probs Sarah! It helps me get rid of one more (two more, actually) bits of car that im not gonna use.... ever. i'll put the money towards Darryl doing my Security!

SCOTT325SE wrote:no probs Sarah! It helps me get rid of one more (two more, actually) bits of car that im not gonna use.... ever. i'll put the money towards Darryl doing my Security!

It all counts Fella. Did Neil tell you he spoke to him about it??

nope. care to fill me in via PM?

Give me ten minutes and I will pm you.

Fankoooo

good luck scott, be nice to see it on the road mate, even if its not quite 100% complete

Nice one fella... think we gona need a whole row for the tech 1s..

23 replies and no one used this yet?

i knew someone would put that smiley up! dont have my cam with me here in wales, but i will pick it up before i come to Aces and post them up on tuesday for all to see.

Ive just taken it round the block* for its maiden run, escorted by my dad in his van. Car feels REALLY tight and together!!!!! Id forgotten how much i loved the manual steering rack. Slightly lumpy but i think I need to set the plug gaps and check the leads out and Im laughing!

Id also forgotten how tail happy the E30 was with a slipper. Pulled out gently from a junction and had the steering wheel upside down before i'd even got out of the junction Oops, my bad! It was totally unintentional and I'm kind of glad my dad didnt see me do it. Ive just gotta be careful now and re-learn how an e30 handles after driving french wrongness for soooooooooooooooo long!

Found my speedo doesnt work though, which i know is an MOT fail straight away, so im just off back out the garage to sort that out (anyone have any ideas)?


Scott325SE (Running Car & Big Grin)

* "The block" is a 3 mile countryside loop with about 4 farms and no cars. 2 junctions and a few bends.

Speedo is not an MOT fail Scott.

what he said, they dont check it !!

Ant wrote:Speedo is not an MOT fail Scott.

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ant, ur a legend!















I still need to sort it out though. Any ideas?

Thanks fella.

use the multi to bell the wires from the diff plug back to under the seat mate, almost certain to have broken along there somewhere

Slip the tester a couple of Pot Noodles and he'll turn a blind eye...........

Well done mate, long time in the waiting a? - if i remember rightly we where all on the old Zone when you started her refurb? back in the days when Russ318is was whoring his way around posts lol

Ref speedo, as Ant said mate check the diff loom plug first and work back - kind of feel like i'm teaching you to suck eggs here lol.

Neil.

PS, best of luck with the Test - i'm sure with all the work done, she'll pass no problems.

come on scott.

we need to see this car youve talked about and spanked so many grand on for the last 2 years.

petes got his mot tools ready...

Speedo and Smiles Per Gallon guage working now,

Neil, its been FAR too long in the waiting! Yep, i bought it when we were on the old zone (thats going back a fair bit)July 04 I think i bought it. Drove up to Hull/Huddersfield to get it. What a flocking waste of money hey?!?!
Thanks man, i HOPE she passes no probs.

Jon, get your arse to the Ace tomorrow. Hopefully I'll rock up with the car (preferably NOT on a tow-truck!)

Driving a rebuilt car is very nerve wracking. The last one I did was a Cooper S I rebuilt in 1990. The first drive lasted 4 hours, around 70 miles with a toolbox in the boot plus bottles of all the various fluids. I can't remember how many laybys I stopped in just to alter or to tighten something up, find a stray rattle etc. But by the end of the day it was running and driving fine and I never touched it again in the 7000 miles I did in it.