I've been around those roads. They were used on night rallies like Lake Vrynwy in mid Wales. So much house building atm but there are still some remote unspoilt areas.Absolutely great picturedid you mean a wealthy friend
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What did you do to your Z this week?
- Thread starter jonbills
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What was Duncan doing?
uk66fastback
Club Member
The Baston Car Show was at Grimsthorpe Castle …
Mr Ex Jnr
Club Member
sure was there was a 2+2 there aswell Malc he called never met him
also a 240rs was out
So, after 2 years of barely seeing the Z or being very involved, I find myself on a paid gardening leave and a new found passion for the Z.
I finally finished my "sensing" electric fan project, whereby the additional thermostat sensor feeds a PWM unit that with a switch in the cockpit, allows me to set it to sensing (10%- 80% duty cycle depending on water temp), Off and full on (100% duty cycle) - works an absolute treat and the gauge doesn't get above half way anymore even idling at inordinately long temp traffic lights the other day and ambient 23c.
Found a leak in one of my front left calliper pistons (to be investigated) as I could change lanes by braking.
But washing the pads with carb cleaner has 90% fixed it in the short term.
Got fed up with poor idle / throttle response and went back to basics: ALL carb to manifold nuts had loosened off. Front carb butterfly was being held open by the choke not returning properly. Reset all carb screws from the scratch and rebalanced it all - she's an absolute DELIGHT to drive now, idles well and temps are down - which makes sense when the choke isn't permanently applied subtly to one carb!
Got an ALMIGHTY headache and dizzy after 2 hours of breathing carbon monoxide fumes in the driveway - had to lay down for a couple of hours
It's nice to be playing again.
I finally finished my "sensing" electric fan project, whereby the additional thermostat sensor feeds a PWM unit that with a switch in the cockpit, allows me to set it to sensing (10%- 80% duty cycle depending on water temp), Off and full on (100% duty cycle) - works an absolute treat and the gauge doesn't get above half way anymore even idling at inordinately long temp traffic lights the other day and ambient 23c.
Found a leak in one of my front left calliper pistons (to be investigated) as I could change lanes by braking.
But washing the pads with carb cleaner has 90% fixed it in the short term.Got fed up with poor idle / throttle response and went back to basics: ALL carb to manifold nuts had loosened off. Front carb butterfly was being held open by the choke not returning properly. Reset all carb screws from the scratch and rebalanced it all - she's an absolute DELIGHT to drive now, idles well and temps are down - which makes sense when the choke isn't permanently applied subtly to one carb!
Got an ALMIGHTY headache and dizzy after 2 hours of breathing carbon monoxide fumes in the driveway - had to lay down for a couple of hours
It's nice to be playing again.
yellowz
Club Member
What shade of RED is it going.......................................
I thought a few rattle cans and an oily rag would have done Jon? Joking apart I'm looking forward to seeing this car and Derrick's.
Matt Berry
Club Member
I think he estimated 20 cans.
candy red
Club Member
Mines not fo far away
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Replaced my heater blower motor with the Honda Civic conversion. Only took about half an hour (including a brew-stop) to complete. Well worth it - if you can find one. It took me a few weeks until I found an ad on EBay for someone breaking a car. 1988-1991 4th generation Civic if you are considering it.
Not sure yet, either the current white sort of red, or its original 918 orange red.
Also had a few weeks re-doing the footwells. The Z is an ex-California car and still carried its original undersea on the floors. I noticed a couple of cracks had appeared and I could see surface rust underneath, so off it all came. Quite a lot of cleaning up to do, but the floors are in really good shape for 50 years old. 4 coats of Jenolite anti-rust primer, 3 topcoats of paint and then on with the undersea matting ( with help and advice from Ibanez Dan - ta dan!). I then had to re-do the bulkhead soundproofing as that was all cracked. Just used some more of the matting cut to shape, backed it with hemp-type soundproofing material and transferred the press-studs used on the original mats to the new. A lot of work but at least I know that the floor is in good shape and it looks "proper" now when you remove the
carpets.
carpets.
Pondo
Club Member
Love the colour choice.
does it just go straight in,any wiring mods needed ?
Alphabettispaghetti
Club Member
You know 918 isn’t the red orange. It’s 110 isn’t it?