Popular Post gibbon Posted June 4, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2021 Hatch and rad louvres on, side skirts and front garnish on... so just the front and back bumpers to go. Front bumper skeleton is off getting sandblasted, it's pretty shabby so will need to have some plates put in it I meataxed the downpipe together before deciding to get cute and run the wastegate outpipe separately for as long as possible for MAXIMUM POWER. so waiting on a matching 1.75" flexi to arrive. Then I'll take the bumper skeleton and tacked up exhaust to an actually competent welder at work to finish off Managed to sunburn everything from my biceps to my nipples putting the downpipe together, spicy! Tyres have gone flat from boredom. Wheels need a polish too I guess. Bet those friggin brakes have seized again in the meantime 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gibbon Posted July 11, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 11, 2021 I've gotten a few more bits and pieces done. Made up some brackets for the intercooler and oil cooler as they were missing. I've come across a super life hack: old treadmills. Owners are desperate to get rid of their rooted old treadmills, you can buy em for a buck and you get a hundred kilos or so of steel framing, aluminium bracketry, wiring harnesses, fuses, transformers, relays etc. 5 minutes heavy lifting and a short drive with a trailer and you basically get a mystery box of hobbyist components. All my brackets are now made out of treadmill parts. So the front end finally got put back together, I got the bumper skeleton sandblasted, didn't bother plating the remains as it's really just there to keep the shape. Treated all the rust, brushed it down with chassis black and smothered it in LPS which I have since found out is $230 a tin so probably going to stop borrowing it from work... Primed up the front bumper which as mentioned came with the front kit glued to it with fugly silicone. I seemed to recall this car being a lot tidier back in the day, either I was just young and moon eyed or there's been a few cheap and dodgy fixes since then. Anyway I cut away a lot of the silicone and redid the joins in bog, it came out OK, the area where it joins is all below the bumper so not really visible. Finally fitted the bumper up and the whole thing instantly started looking more like a car! One odd thing on the side of the bumpers, they're slotted into the guides as they should but still seem to be sitting too far out... I'm not too sure what to make of that. Might end up removing the guides altogether and seeing how well they fit without. The guides were new in the bag, the thought occurs that they might be for the widebody model and purchased by mistake I finally received the 1.75" flexi for the wastegate pipe so started tacking that up too I walked to the back of the hangar, turned around and zoomed my phone all the way in for this shot so that the quality would be poor enough to hide my shit ass welding. The welder popped by while I was doing it. He saw it and started making sucking noises through his teeth. I told him I was nearly ready for him to come by and seam it up. More teeth sucking noises. Also knocked back the rear bumper and skirt. The car is super almost nearly kinda done 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gibbon Posted July 24, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2021 things have occured. most are bad painted the rear bumper and kit, chucked them on. the lights still need to come out and have the surrounds done. where it promptly ran into some fitment issues. not too sure what's going on here, its almost like the bumper needs to be pulled back a good half inch, which would leave an ugly gap between it at the body proper. hmm. the kit can't go forward as it fits nicely in the wheel arch already. I'm almost tempted to just go without it if it keeps giving trouble, the car already has a pretty bulky back end JUST LIKE YO MAMA the dump pipe mk 1 had some fitment issues (and got its own thread) and thus dump pipe mk 2 was born which clears everything and allows the heat shields back in with a little adjustment. its made out of a stupid amount of segments as i didn't have nearly enough bends to create what is essentially a stupid corkscrew shape. it's ugliness has since been somewhat assuaged with a liberal coating of hi-temp shit weld hider. still better than what came out though! i swear! anyway while all of this was going on i suddenly became aware of a burning smell and smoke from under the battery compartment area so apparently the low light sender for the headlight washer reservoir just shorted out, whilst sitting in an empty and highly flammable plastic container. it would appear this thing isn't fused? I'm a bit surprised as I had only just reconnected the battery to put the windows down, but i have had it connected before with no issues, and I haven't really touched any of the wiring (although it is a mess). so potentially this thing was just waiting to burn up at some random point, fortunately I didn't leave it hooked up and wander off. The car doesn't have light washers anymore anyway so I might as well biff it. bit scary really JUST LIKE YO MAMA some adjusties turned up, probably will never fit them because I loathe suspension work had a chuckle at this too, it came off one of my spare turbos. "i dunno man, i fitted the bigger turbo but it just doesn't have the top end i'd expect". looks like it was slowly blasting its way through, he'd get that power eventually so yeah, shit stuff, scary stuff, cool stuff, funny stuff. no actual progress. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibbon Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 with smoke pouring off the oft-handled greasy exhaust, turbo and manifold, the starion fired into life and settled into a polite idle with very little actual hassle apart from having to rewire the fuel pump. I vaguely recall my workmate saying *something* had to be done in order to start the car but I couldn't remember what, he couldn't remember what, and the seller's contact details were about three phones ago, and I bet he can't remember what either. All I know is that the black & white wire that feeds the fuel pump wasn't anywhere in the main body loom so I'm guessing it's somewhere else with a killswitch attached to it. Anyhoo check out the glare from that CRISP AS FUCK WHITE. the car would be more complete except I absolutely refuse to pay retail for bulbs and so am currently waiting on about twenty various shaped and sized globes to limp over from chinaland. Obviously I've skipped a bunch of stuff but it's been mainly fiddling around putting bits of trim on, wiring back together, and faffing with the turbo plumbing aside from it being pretty much time to fire up, the other reason for getting the cars out was to swap them over, relegating the GT6 to the Naughty Corner next problem I have, the car revs up fine, but if I try and stab the throttle to make some boost, it runs EXTREMELY lean (like, off the gauge lean) and cuts out. Could be the fact that it's running on five year old 91 drained out of the triumph? not too sure. I remember some wisdom of old "don't buy a starion with electrical problems, it will NEVER RUN AGAIN" 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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