Month: February 2019

I had a few quiet moments to tidy some stuff up in the garage in the last few days, and my bias valve finally arrived with some other fittings, so i got to get some stuff done.

Firstly, I finally fitted the water overflow bling:

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Just squeezes in there, and replaced the bodgy brass fitting on top with a cheap AN one.
On the bottom i welded in an NPT bung and then squeezed in a 90deg 1/8NPT to -4AN fitting to clear the headlight motor bracket. Filled it up and hopefully it wont leak this time.

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Should solve dumping coolant out of a crack half way up in the old plastic overflow bottle.

The new bias valve with M10x1 adapters finally arrived too, so i bent up some new lines and fitted it:

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Needs the weird banjo to flare adapter for the front port because of the bubble flare fitting, but that is how they came from factory, so it looks pretty standard. Now i just have to contort myself under the dash again to button it up… another time.

Got a few hours to get back into this again, knocked up a second baffled muffler:

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Its just a baffled SS magnaflow same as the straight through design, but hopefully will make it easier to drive longer distances, or think. Its just a single bolt on the V-band to swap them over, so easily done at the track or whenever i want to.

I also remembered to fit up the rear swaybar, which thankfully fit between the exhaust and the subframe, although its a little tight to manoeuvre in. Its a Whiteline 16mm adjustable unit that i swapped for a stock front sway. Put it in with another set of Supermiata links:

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However, the Supermiata links at the rear leave a little to be desired. Firstly, to space them back enough i had to run all the spacers, which means that there is bugger all bolt engagement:

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Secondly, at full droop the deflection angle is pretty extreme, so I cant remove any spacers:

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Not quite sure what to do with that just yet, other than just buy a pair of new longer bolts for the upper link.

Hopefully my decidedly not overnight parts from the US will arrive soon and i can finish off the brake master upgrade and get the car going again.