Gazdaman
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Registered: 30th Aug 07
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I booked a last ditch MOT at 12:50 25/03/10 Which is the day my MOT runs out 
Now I really need to stop it smoking, so I've turned down the maximum fuel screw.
I had to tamper with the anti tamper seal to get to it.
But once I did, I turned it down a quarter of a turn and it seems to have helped. So I'll give it a go, if it still fails I'll turn it down more.
Fingers crossed!
Gaz
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sri-monster
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ill buy those steelies if you still have them
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Graham88
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Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Looks good Gaz, well clean!
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Gazdaman
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Cheers Graham! SRI-monster, u2u'd back.
Car went in for its last MOT today. First of all the tester came out from the station with one of those looks on his face. Y'know the "I'm sorry mate".
I said "Still smoking?"
He replied that it wasn't so much the smoke, it was failing on the metered smoke and asked what I'd done to fix the problem since last time. I listed all I'd done, ending with that I'd turned the fuelling down slightly.
He suggested maybe I should turn it down a bit more. I asked him if he minded me doing it now? He said crack on...
So out came trusty 10mm spanner. I turned it down a bit more AND IT ONLY BLOODY PASSED!
Well, that bit anyway.
Failed on a new patch of welding needed on the sill. My welding man is coming round in a couple of hours and the retest is tomorrow.
Should sail right through!
BLOODY LOVE IT!
Gaz
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Gazdaman
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Welding done, £35. Ready for its re-test at 16:10 tomorrow.
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Gazdaman
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Now running with 12 months MOT!
15" steelies sold to SRI-Monster who came down from Newcastle to get them! Losing a rear light on the motorway in the process!
Good day.
Now I'm looking to get rid of the Calibra leathers and replace with a set of bucket seats. Then lose the rear seats, false floor the back including subtle audio build and run 3 point harnesses off a rear strut brace.
Gaz
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
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Surely turning the fuelling down affects it in other ways?
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Gazdaman
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On a diesel turning the fuelling down just affects the power. A diesel doesn't run on an ideal mixture. It just burns as much diesel is put in (up to a point). If all the air is burnt and fuel is left over it leaves black smoke out of the exhaust. If all the fuel is burnt and air is left over, all is still good.
Gaz
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Gazdaman
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Rev counter:
Sadly it reckons I idle at 2krpm, with a max of about 10k rpm.
Which I reckon is pretty good going for a diesel!
I tried all the different settings on the gauge aswell. And this one is the best one too.
Still, works a decent indicator of revs, so I'm happy. And it looks decent.
Gaz
[Edited on 02-04-2010 by Gazdaman]
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Dan H
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have ya tried fuel cleaner, injector cleaner and a new fuel filter for the smoking?
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Gazdaman
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3 tanks of fuel additive, new injectors. Not done the fuel filter yet. But it went through its MOT so I'm happy. Just got the max fuel screw turned down 1/4 of a turn.
Gaz
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Gazdaman
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Recently I've done a subtle boot build, because I had two 12" subs in the boot, it took up pretty much the entire boot. So it needed a tidy to gain some more boot floor space.
The before photo...
Made a base, screwed the amp to it
Made a false floor and some spacers to give the amp some space.
Screwed some blocks to the false floor to hold the sub in place.
Then trimmed it up in black acoustic carpet. Looks damn good. (I completely retrimmed the box aswell, if you notice the photo before, it was really really ropey where I cut the old box in half.)
Then I cut some 6x9 holes in my grey, poverty coloured parcel shelf, and planned to retrim it with the offcuts of the acoustic carpet. The holes went well, the retrimming not so much. Where you have to join two parts of carpet, it's really difficult to make it look neat. So I ended up ripping the carpet off. Which left crappy glue all over it.
So I either had to find a plan B, or put a crappy looking parcel shelf back in.
Plan B was a bottle of 'back to black'.
So I back to blacked the parcel shelf....
Looks good, but still wasn't dry after about an hour. So I've left it in the garage overnight, and I'm hoping it'll dry, or soak in or something.
It's all temporary until I make a proper one in MDF and carpet it the same as the boot build.
Gaz
[Edited on 10-06-2010 by Gazdaman]
[Edited on 10-06-2010 by Gazdaman]
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Gazdaman
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Ok, the back to black really didn't dry. So I went back to the drawing board and made an MDF one. Except my widest offcut was 2" too narrow. Typical! So I screwed a couple of 'shoulders' onto it. And had to bodge up an assembly to screw the original hinges on. Not pretty but it works. Just needs carpeting.
Then gave it a quick wash:
Gaz
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Gazdaman
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Really need a white tow cap!
Gaz
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