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I had a play with the Cordia today, one of the fuel injector plugs had some corrosion and a crack, cleaned it up and the car is going much better, might be something to look at.

Do you have to connect to the main, or bridge over it? Just curious on why you had to dig it up?

Watching this with interest as my Cordia GSR is doing exactly the same thing, changing the disty cap has made some progress but I haven't got it hot enough to make sure the problem is fixed

I reckon You're lucky that brick wall is there, I'd hate to imagine the shit council would put you through if it wasn't. Nice work Mr &Mrs Sheepers

That is sweet., I want one!

and then there were two.. Going to part this one out

I ended up with this air pump from the shed tour. It's a Siemens 3 phase industrial pump and it caught my eye for the purpose of an extraction fan for my bead blaster. Initially I had thoughts of swapping the motor for a single phase 230v or even a DC motor with a controller so I can adjust the speed, I need the flow rate high enough to keep the cabinet free of dust but not too high so it starts sucking out all the media. Was just about to dismantle it for a clean up when wiped the dust off the top cap which showed the connection options and this is when it got a little more interesting, this motor can be wired in 3 Phase Star or 3 Phase Delta. (Obligatory warning, Dont ever try this unless you are qualified to do this as there's a chance of electrocution, explosion, fire, pestilence, flood and other nastiness) As you can see, in delta the windings are configured in a 240v config, but however if you did hook up a 230v source to say L1 and L2 the motor wont start, it'll just sit there and him and get hot! as there's no air moving to cool it down, you can get the motor running by spinning the shaft and eventually it will start but at a lesser power output and of course wont restart. Remembering a bit of my NZCE done years ago I know that adding a capacitor can have the effect of a phase shift or delay which is similar to adding another phase, there's a few calculations you need to do which I wont go into here in the interest of safety as things can go horribly wrong if you mess it up End result is a very use able 3 phase air pump on single phase, I have a Variac that can make this variable speed, win!

Thanks Mr V for organising a sweet shed tour as well as the providers of sheds and also to the other OS'ers who decided to brave the precipitation. Epic sheds coupled with many epic sharn's and epic cake. What he said about what he said!

Yep lets do that, meet outside burgerfuel car park at 10am, or earlier if you want a coffee in Ellerslie, depart for North Shore meeting point at10:30

Hard to tell from the map legend. Is the OS selling sausages? Or is it beside a fork in a main road? Puhuhuhuhu

Not a lot going on at the moment, have bought some bits like the MB cylinder, looking at a set of new shocks and may have a donor car shortly

That shed of Tumeke's looks to have some legendary stuff in it, I'm happy to sacrifice my shed in lieu of another shed, so to speak. Still want to attend either way!

Can start with coffee's at my shed again if we need a starting point and if we have a lack of sheds, not too much has changed but I'm sure we can find something interesting, dates are pretty easy but a good 6-8weeks would be good to let people get stuff together.

Weather is crazy! Huge blue/green flash across the sky heading back home tonight, wind was madness on the motorway, especially between Te Atatu and waterview, cop cars all over the place.

I'm keen...

Paint strip then a fine grade bead may work, would want to test it out on a test patch first though

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 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. 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.

Not sure if being made to whip your junk out in front of Neal is a reason to go or stay away, are the burgers that good?

Had a decent run at the drags again, for some reason it cant stage on the far lane at all, and there's a bit of an uneven surface 1/2way down which causes a bit of wobble excitement Successful run in the lane closest to the grandstand, Managed a better time of just over 28seconds and top speed of 71.2kph, not bad for some vintage 20" rims!

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!

Forgot to mention that the one on TM down by Hamiltoe doesn't look like the pics, nose and lots of other stuff gone, sils rusty, so I'd just end up with more of the same

Stop it Ed!, I'm trying to clean the shed out Would love the louvres...

looks sweet, but seriously, earth wire and a fuse on the primary bro.

I shall enquire....

Being manual was a nice surprise, everything else I own is auto or psuedo manual. That donor car is interesting except I don't have anywhere it can fit without shoving it on the front lawn. Wrong neighbourhood for doing that