G40 Version 2

[sleag40]

Finally recieved a settlement offer less than a week before the case was due in court.  It seemed reasonable so I accepted it - exactly 9 months after the collision. The insurance company responsible for the piss poor handling of this claim can suck my balls! Got the cheque at the end of February so I could now get insured at last. March 1st saw us on our way to the MOT man.

[sleag40]

MOT sorted - just needed headlights adjusting - he did it for me. Also kitted me out with a
Set of 4 Yoko 539s for a good price. Not many left in 185/50/14 now.

[sleag40]

Done about 400 miles since built now. The vast majority of the time it's been fine but theres been a couple of times when it's been difficult to start when hot. It won't fire up unless your foot is flat to the floor - then it fires right up. All the sensors are new and I've tried swapping the old ones back in. If it did it all the time it would be easier to trace! I've been testing the loom today but didn't find anything amiss. Probably need to wait until it does it again and then re-test.

[sleag40]

Took advantage of the good weather and gave it a good clean. Also checked subframe bolts had not come loose. All was well so I celebrated by adding a layer of smashed flies to clean off. Hope the weathers as good as this next week for Santa Pod!

[sleag40]

Arrived at the Pod and realised I'd forgotten my licence. Tit.

[sleag40]

Sussed out the intermittent hot starting issue - nothing more than a dodgy connection on the blue temp plug.
Went to GTI festival near Stratford at the weekend - proper scorchio! Chose not to run up the strip due to sheer unpleasantness of spending time in the car queuing for long periods. Camped at the start line end with a load of VWDRC peeps and burnt to a crisp spectating.

[sleag40]

Changed the nylon outer tca bushes for powerflex ones last night just to see if there was any difference in feel. I'm hopeful it will be slightly less harsh without losing the taughtness.

[sleag40]

Bought this yesterday. It's not nearly as nice bodywork wise as I was hoping so could turn out to be a full strip and respray project. Bugger. I must enjoy the whole process or something!

[PeteG40]

Nice... good buy

[Freddy77]

Nice one love that colour, if you respray it I hope you keep the same colour?

[sleag40]

It'll be the same colour! Gonna keep it bog standard - comedy 240mph speedo and all!
I'll start a new thread when I get my act together.

[Yoof]

Good work on the new purchase 

I was tempted, if I had more garage space 

[Freddy77]

Oh course it's that one thought it looked familiar, what's the material state of it like then,
240 mph would be an achievement, some one may do a jet engine conversion in the future so it's worth keeping the speedo for that!
I would love to change my speedo to read mph as mine in k but someone drew on some shoddy mph units up to 70 on my speedo, anything above 70 Is a. An achievement and b. an optimistic guess

[sleag40]

All will be revealed soon enough in its own thread chief. Loads of pics will be taken before work commences.

[Jezza-7]

How well does the Rallye outlet elbow fit?