My name is Russell Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 And its all well documented what standard it need to be returned too. Or chase the filter manifacturer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positive Ape Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Oh no!! This is probably my favorite thread on the whole site so I follow every update. It's just unbelieveable how many things have gone wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 fuckin' hell. Nice guys really do finish last. You couldn't have built this thing better, and it still bit you in the arse. should've jsut bodged it and you'd never even have a breakdown such is life. I guess at least it didn't happen out on the road where you may have had it all go a lot more pear shaped on you. find a shed and tuck her away mate. I'm sure you'll come back to her some day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted November 28, 2011 Author Share Posted November 28, 2011 Thanks for the kind words guys. I'll get back to it at some point. I'm hoping to navigate myself through a first home purchase and hope that I end up with a garage I can use to work on it in. Initially the damage looks minimal to nil, thankfully oil fires burn cool, so it's mainly a mess to clean up, which will take a good few weekends in the garage. At least that's what I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowzer Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Sucks dude. As Cam said though, much better killing something in a controlled environment than out on the track / street / middle of nowhere. Ya can't find the weak points until they break. May I suggest, if the loom and everything is fine, just give it a quick blast off and try another dyno run, and worry about a full cleanup later? That's what I'd do, but I'm not that big a perfectionist. If I can't see it it ain't a problem etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Even if you do park it up for a while, I'd say get in there now and drown it in degreaser etc and give it a hose down. Will be a prick to clean up in X months time I reckon. +1 for terrible luck and demoralization etc, good on you for remaining so positive/optimistic throughout it all, I'd be pretty dark by this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camo_78 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 +1 for terrible luck and demoralization etc, good on you for remaining so positive/optimistic throughout it all, I'd be pretty dark by this point. make that +2,i cant believe how much trouble such an immaculately built car has caused you,i would have pulled the pin long ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dell'orto Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Oh shit man....I have no words. Terrible luck. Definitely blast it with some sort of degreaser now if only to make the clean up easier when you can be bothered with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 yeah man some form of cleandown now will help. and choice that you're still interested in getting back into it. hopefully it's all just smoke staining and superficial stuff. I guess if you strip the loom off it before you store it, it'll give you something to inspect before perhaps firing it up hell, you could even take a project turn and just roll it as is, like it's been on fire and you don't even give a shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0R10N Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Wow, just... The nightmare I had with my RX-7 doesn't even factor compared to your dramas with the Exige thus far George... but as others have said, I'm so, so glad that I listened to reason and held on to it, instead of ragequitting and sawing the car in half to sell as parts once I found out the chassis was bent (like a banana, hah) over the course of two years I managed to save up enough dosh to finally get it sorted, so if you have the forbearance and the ability to store the Lotus somewhere out of sight and out of mind... I say do it! Unfortunately my shed is gonna be chocka with my own junkheaps otherwise I would most definitely offer to house it, but there may be other Auckland OS members with storage space available while you hunt for property? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mixmasterlex Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 That was hard to read man but pleased to hear the damage is not major. I admire your attitude and hope to see this bad boy finished. Mostly just because you deserve to get to drive this fucking car in anger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I fucked out loud when reading that. Sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I fucked out loud when reading that. slap slap slap slap/slosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowlancer Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Fuck everything. I'd probably burn the fucking thing to the ground. Can actually tell how fucked off you are by your replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 Calmed down a bit now thankfully. I'll strip it down again in a few weeks once I've somewhere to work on it more, then I shall get to the bottom of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 i knew this would be the outcome! you raged hard last time it went wrong and 2 weeks later had it pretty much fixed. good work, it'll get done, and it'll be one hell of a first drive at 8000rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 il save you a stroke and take it off your hands for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Sweet deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Well, I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas and is now full of Christmas cheer and the holiday spirit. I've decided to stick around Auckland these holidays to look after Toni, who has had to go into hospital for a couple of weeks, and also get back to work on the Lotus. I've already gotten in some new sound deadening foam and heat reflective material from the USA, and the only thing missing, until yesterday had been the car. I'd left the car out at Toni's parents place under a sheet since the fire, unable to look at it but yesterday I ventured out there with my friend Richy to take a look. We got the car out of the garage and mopped up the various puddles of oil that had accumulated and set about examining the damage. Most of the oil that got out (about 0.7litres judging by the dipstick) seems to have burned off directly from the exhaust manifold or on the firewall. The good news is that other than a couple of patches of the firewall heatshield that obviously got scorched, there seems to be no damage at all to anything else. The engine bay seems to just be very soaked with oil. We then got the car topped back up with oil (from about 2/3 of the way down the dipstick) then we started it and left it idling for 15 minutes. There was a lot of smoke as the oil gradually burned off the manifold and exhaust, but even though we were standing by with hoses and extinguishers, there was little drama. The engine seemed to sound fine, no knock or concerning noises whatsoever. After that, I drove the car back to my workshop where I can pull it to bits and fix it up again. Thankfully the drive back was uneventful, the car runs as it should, feels just like it did before the fire and makes no concerning noises... The datalogging seems to have been right in telling us the engine's just fine. MASSIVE relief. So that's where we are now. Today I'll start stripping the car down and getting it up in the air so that I can work on it again, then the clean-up begins. They have a special on cans of degreaser at SuperCheap Auto today.... maybe that's an omen. Welcome back everybody and here's to a better 2012 than 2011... a year I'd sooner forget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltik Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 That was a tense read, im glad i made it to the bottom without any nasty surpises Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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