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Continuing my lifelong theme of bad taste , I couldn't resist this meek lil'red terror tucked away in Neal's shed

 

160K's on the clock, sounds like a kitten purring to a deaf person.

What sealed the deal for me was that a magnet still stuck to one of the panels without superglue.

I finally embarrassed Neal so much with my pouting over it that after an hour or two he had a weak moment and sold it to me.

 

And then it sat in the shed, cold, moist and rusting like any respectable Mitsi does,... until a few days ago when the Xmas Tree drags registration came up and I did my usual moan of not having anything OS apart for the cruiser, Neal quickly interjected and reminded me that I actually did own an OS car!, oh whoops, awkward...

 

So here it is, it it's pre-washed glory with the dodgy car salesperson that sold it to me as evidence for all to see.

 

As you will see someone nicked all the GSR, Turbo and other badges, along with the numbers off the plate

 

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Everyone likes a nice rear view of a hot lady in red but he refused to wear it during daytime the shed, however Neal did offer to check she had a strong pulse pulse.

Fairly even between cylinders 131,133,132,132psi, unsure what it should be but I read somewhere the service limit is 120?

 

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It even came with the specialist support that tucks away in the hatch

 

Plans so far are to give it a good ole clean up and make a list of what needs replacing, if the list stays under 21 pages long I'll resist the urge to torch drive it off a cliff amidst a base jumping stunt.

But as a starter, Plugs/points/new ignition coil/disty cap/ change fluids etc and see how she looks.

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  • 1 month later...

Just a quick update as "some" small hurdles have been cleared.

The "lil red terror" has had a bit of a birthday(so to speak) and been treated to:

New engine oil and filter

New Air filter, geez these are expensive for a paper filter

New plugs, leads and coil, gearbox oil, brake bleed and a bit of a clean up.

Next up was a WOF which wasn't as bad as expected, a bit of "treat this rust here, tighten this bearing there, bolt this down over there", the hardest bit was trying to replace the badly cracked fuel filler hose on a Friday afternoon and sourcing an almost 90degree bend of fuel resistant pipe with an ID of 42mm for one of these is near impossible!

Ended up stretching a 38 mm hose over it but the bend crushes, "shee'l be right , I just want a WOF" was stated by myself in a 4:45pm pre WOF panic, with a sticker slapped on her just after 5.

Xmas OS Drag morning and it was to the local post shop at opening (9am) for a rego a then hitting the motorway shortly after with that "woohoo its running and legal" high you get only when you get a project running just in time for an event

 

Ran superbly on the way down, not so good on the strip, best time of the day was 17.1 seconds, that was partly because my reaction time was absolute shite (.554 of a second) , the gearbox syncros are not so happy and also it's developed a misfire above 4700rpm

That blistering time was only after almost an hour of cooling with the bonnet open, worst time was almost 19secs even after I jumped the gun by 0.17 of  second!

(I actually did better on the jet bicycle with an RT of 0.014!, must be that jet A1 fuel burning bringing out the fighter pilot reactions).. but I digest...

I(we) think it might be a bit of heat soak, coil was pretty warm and so was the igniter box, I didn't notice anything else, certainly didn't hear anything with the motorcycle helmet on (Thanks to Chris R for the loan helmet)

Took her for another spin today and the misfire was there sometimes, again under full boost and above 4500RPM, but this time I did notice a strong smell of raw fuel just after and a lot of air noise during so I'm wondering of there's a manifold leak... something to ponder and investigate.

 

One observation was that I forgotten how fuel hungry these things are, I haven't owned an 80's car for nearly 20years and it kinda shocked me how rapidly it feasted on the contents of a tank of fuel, even after factoring out my lead-foot.

 

After, at a guess 300kms it was time to top up with fuel, this was when I found out how a kinked inlet pipe can create a perfect seal , not a drop was making it past the bend/kink, in desperation I filled it to the brim hoping fuel would go down the breather tube, but no. Finally with some perseverance I positioned a pair of vise grips on the kink just right so I could get a slow dribble into the tank, after 10-15minutes I had $30 of fuel in which was enough to safely get home.

 

I still can't work out why the woman who parked patiently behind me throughout this whole refuelling saga, never said a word, just smiled politely and never once looked over at the several pumps that became available with the waves of cars arriving and departing, some GSR lust perhaps? 

Cue tui ad...

 

Ps. There's no way the cordia would ever have got to this year's Xmas drags without Neal's help, thanks mate, it's really, really appreciated you top fella!

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Decided to give the engine bay a bit of a birthday and took it to wash world Greenlane, Attendant there came over straight away to have a look and said he hadn't seen a Cordia GSR for quite a while, especially with the black side skirts as they always get lost or damaged.

Drove it next to Neal's shed for a bit of a catchup and I noticed how one sides skirt had come away at the top a bit, literally just touched it and the whole thing fell off onto the ground in front of us, talk about luck!

That revealed the (lack of) RH side front guard, which was completely dissolved at the bottom

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Curiosity took the better of me and decided to remove the guard completely, which involved removing the headlight surrounds, bumper assy. and some stuff

well chuffed that the rest looked pretty good considering.

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So it's off to find either a front guard in good nick or one with a good bottom 1/4 that we can cut and weld in.

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continuing to track the misfire issue that started just before the drags..

A new dizzy cap has made a lot of progress, starting a lot easier, however the missing issue @5kRPM hasn't disappeared, and occasionally is runs like a biartch at any speed.

Was having a general look about the engine bay when I saw that one of the injector plugs looked like they were missing part of the body, the whole thing looks a bit brittle.

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Engine stalled as soon as I touched the plug

Opened it up and found the pins were corroded, this is after I removed the majority of the corrosion

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The corrosion seems to travel down the wires a bit too, so I'll need to replace some of the wiring loom to the injectors and the plugs.

As soon as I tried to remove the 2nd plug the front part with the wire clip part broke off

So..I'm on the lookout for a supplier for the plugs, problem is there seems to be a few that look similar but dont fit and google image searches lead me to a whole lot of dead ends overseas, anyone know the correct number/name of this plug?, and/or local supplier which doesn't charge $50+ per plug?

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Need 2 plugs like this..

 

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