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We have turbo on route as well now, so coolant pipes and a proper battery tray we are good to go.

1234dist wrote:We have turbo on route as well now, so coolant pipes and a proper battery tray we are good to go.

The tray feels like an excuse. Drop a battery behind the driver's seat and feed your jump leads through the window.

Just make sure you use PLENTY of insulating tape under the bonnet

Johnny 216GSi wrote:

1234dist wrote:We have turbo on route as well now, so coolant pipes and a proper battery tray we are good to go.

The tray feels like an excuse. Drop a battery behind the driver's seat and feed your jump leads through the window.

Just make sure you use PLENTY of insulating tape under the bonnet

I started really young in my car builder career

I see

Now that I come to think of it though, jump leads wouldn't actually carry the cold cranking amps required to start an engine without melting, so just wait the tray for heaven sake.

Best short-cut I ever saw a mechanic take was actually when a friendly AA man had been called out to start my boss's kit car many many years ago. He didn't let on that he'd twigged what the problem was, but asked my boss for a 50p piece. He reached into the engine, there was a spark, and the car started. Turned out it was a dodgy starter solenoid and he'd identified the two pins on the starter he needed to short to make things happen as they should. The 50p got handed back to my boss with a huge black spark pattern across it and a little bit of it missing, presumed now welded to his starter wiring.

Seeing as the monsoon weather system has finally passed, time to crack on again.

Today we managed to:
install rear engine mount
replaced upper coolant pipe with one that fitted better
assemble and fit the turbo, manifold, oil feed, oil return
fitted all the water pipes
fitted radiator and intercooler and boost pipes
Fitted both drive shafts
plumbed in the actuator and dump valve
fitted the fuel feed pipe
and did a water based leak test, and there was one and it just happened to be the radiator its self

So picture time









During this process i also got one of those phone calls you hate.
No not PPI, "i've had a bump"

So 1.5 hours later i had he boss ladys 620 looking like a car again so we can get ordering parts to swap out. Lucky nothing but a bumper and under light trim, nothing structural.

So, let the shopping begin.

Busy session then mate.

Was it a tad cooler today ?

was 27 degrees but cloudy and a light wind so was very comfortable