Nice updates! Cluster looks great!
Thanks!
Long time no update, these months were just, uhm, weird but intense. I'm not going to write long stories in this post, its more of a picture bomb.
So after the last post my buddies Audi 100 Avant got its engine finally started up. Its new heart was in nice condition, just got the heads rebuilt, and properly assembled the whole thing. Needed engine wiring loom insulation fixed, aswell as front left door, ****load of wires needed change... Its a pre-canbus type of car... Door wiring was surely a thing i wont do again, I think 4 or more afternoons were trashed by that.
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This was the first ride after a long time...
And after a few months this is how it sits with lowering springs and Bilstein B8s, and some proper wheels. Its engine still purrs like a kitten, it became a great cruiser with relative nice mpgs. (its a 2.8 engine)
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At the end of april we traveled to Kiev with my old classmate and his buddies. It was a great little trip, fun stories and beers, night train and so. It brought some changes in my life which i needed.
Seen a few funky cars there, this was the only 240 I've seen there:
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Lifted 245 with bigger tires, large rustholes, random taillights...
Crunchy modded lada:
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This is somewhat normal there.
After this i tried to focus on brownie to pass MOT, which again meant i had to de-cat and de-lambda it, change a few bushes, ball joints, change to legal tire size. Eventually it passed on first try so it was nice.
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My little tool still rocks, pulled old TAB out in 30 seconds without air tools.
Went to 12david34 to have fun in Bratislava, tried to fill the car, almost got the whole thing burned to ashes.
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I still dont know exactly where it leaked from, but at least it went directly on the exhaust so thats a nice thing. I havent filled up the car fully since then, I was lazy and distracted to fix it...
When it was still full i called my brother to bring me a 20L can because even after 20 minutes it was dripping fuel. Pulled a hose from injector rail and manually controlled the relay:
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Somehow we couldnt get a flow from the filler tube, but this worked. 20L drawn into the can and on the way to slovakia.
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Rolled over 444'444km...
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Travelled to Budapest to spend a few very nice days. M47 did not like the trip but im still alive.
Prior to national volvo meet i did a few things, this was the best of them all. 3 hours of work to have a pair of GT braces, from plastic coated thickwall Trilogiq tubes.
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Meet was, uhm, too short. Met some great guys then it was already ended.
Fixed a carburetted 244 there, because why not.
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I did not even wash my poor car for the meet... It wasn't captured much either
By the end of june i got fired from my workplace because we got less and less orders, so its a bit rough now, but eventually it will get sorted. Little corsa went to MOT inspection aswell, spent a bunch of time fixing its brakes, suspension, chassis... It passed, too, so I have two working and mostly reliable cars which is nice.
Had a chance to buy a set of complete but a bit trashed quad rectangle headlight setup for cheap. Fortunately it had H4/H1 cibie inserts. I had the H4s recoated, ghetto fixed the H1s with alu tape and installed them. At first i had mixed feelings but the more i see it the more i like it. Its ****ty condition perfectly matches with the car, while the light output is close to the big TV screens. I still need to perfectly aim them at the garage.
So yeah, this is how it sits now:
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