The pocket rocket

Monster · Post by **Monster** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:14 pm

I so Love R5GTTs. That car is is a spit of my pals one when we were younger, white, H reg, R19 rims and mint (although even back then his probably wasn't this mint). Awesome stuff

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:27 pm

Time to update again

Its taken a while to get the braided lines on,
One front copper pipe twisted with the nut as i undid the old pipe so had to make a new copper pipe from the master cylinder to the braided line,
Then the rears where mega rusted solid lots of release spray and some patience soon showed them who was boss

So had that all done and bled up during the week
Took the car out for a test spin friday to see how the brakes where and i'm glad i brought these pads once there is some heat into them they stop like nothing else.
Gave the car a bath to get the dust off last night.

Took it to work fine
Coming home was a different story...

Yup it brokedown about 2 miles from my house lol had to get the bro and old man to bring me some tools as all i had was the worlds smallest screwdriver.
Got it started somehow by luck so didn't turn it off and hot footed it back home...
Let it idle and then i tapped the coil pack main relay and it stalled!
A spare relay got it up and running again then i took to fixing of poor alarm install in the same area and cleaned the earths up again while i was there.

So i'll be running the car a bit incase there is anything else coming out the wood work and going to order a new coil pack and fuel pump for safety as i dont have spares of these lol

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:27 pm

Survived another 20 mins taster this time around bedford autodrome on the west circuit

New brakes are awesome and i had no problems with them at all, only small issue is they do squeel but normally only hear it when pulling up on the drive but tbh i dont care as they are great out on track

Now i'm trying to find the best deal on a coilover kit and also dribbling over a quaife lsd

IWANT1 · Post by **IWANT1** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:49 am

I see this in Peterborough the other nite, very nice work.....

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:32 pm

Saw this thought of you, maybe once the price drops it might be worth "stealing", sorry, bartering for parts/spares

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:30 pm

So time to update this since the fail at the last track day...

So we did a comp check
found cylinder 4 only had 6 bar and rest was 8 bar
So thought the worst as 1 n 4 get weaker fueling due the inlet design
So its been left it there as we was scared to take the head off to find melted a piston or something.

So today on my day off i man'd up and took the head off
And i got away with it!
The bores are glazed over alot but the pistons are mint! no det marks anywhere
So fingers crossed better quality rings and some honing will get it running sweet again to make the 21st of november

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:01 pm

So glad to hear that:hurray:. So whats happening on the 21st then?

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:27 pm

Lucky boy Adam

Nice when it goes that way for you (makes a bloody nice change eh?

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Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:54 pm

theres another novice day at snetterton iirc on the 21st but i won't book it untill i know the car is right

was such a good feeling pulling the head off and finding the piston still in one piece lol

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:19 am

Time to update

The engine had a new set of rings and honed the liners out properly
Went to start it up tonight and it was the same as before ...... hmmm not happy at this point as i know its now not mechanical...

So a mad rush to my cousins to rob everything off his 5 turbo.. carb.. coilpack/ecu.. tdc sensor..

Swapped the coilpack/ecu unit on and it fired to live on the key OMG! I was happy and angry at the same time. But at least the engine isn't breathing heavy anymore

I've had the wideband on it all night and done 70miles and everything is seeming fine on low boost and no clutch slip
Once i've done some more miles i'll raise the boost a tad n see if i can get back up to 16psi unless the clutch slips

Such a great feeling to be able to drive it again and guess i'll be at snetterton on monday fingers crossed without rac attending this time