S1 Rebuild(s)

[Dave Adams]

some pics of the rebuild process,

the top trailing arm bracket is broke......

the diff is sloping back a little (looking up) so that will need sorting.......

As you can see there isn't a lot of bracing in an S1 chassis, that will be sorted.

[Dave Adams]

I would gladly come to an arrangement over the ( lancia/fiat ) box. i could even chuck in the engine for you to rob the tuning parts off it. i. e. The high comp new pistons, and the big valve head (43mm inlets) and piper cams.

[Dave Adams]

well scrap yard hunting got me some bits for my car....the lancia engined project. not the green one which incidentally is getting sold as soon as i can be bothered to advertise it.

so i have a Ford escort radiator (one of the last ones...it had a "zetec" 1.6 engine in it) with its enormous fan, a VW polo expansion tank  both cost a total of £25 so not to bad  as they look to be in really good nick.

i still need a gearbox, and if anyone (Steve if your interested let me know) wants the lancia 5 speed box and tuning parts talk to me a PX for a gear box is well on the cards.....

[Dave Adams]

now before i go and start bidding on ebay, anyone got or know of a type 9 gear box?

i do have a Lampredi 5 speed gearbox (lancia / fiat gearbox) which could be swapped and most of a lancia twincam as well....

[Dave Adams]

mind you a quick search throws up some interesting engines that will fit the lancia gearbox......the fiat v6 2.0L dino....they must be common.....not.

[28ullkq4hau58]

i know wheres theres a type 9 but it comes with a pick-up ,lol,,

thought i had some one interested but its gone quiet,,

[Dave Adams]

well my S1 has just gone through another MOT,

some advisory's  leaking n/s/f shocker.....that's a bit irritating as they have only done 22000 miles from new,

play in rack.....same as last year but it does need replacing now,

oil leak......its a ford nuff said....but its only a dribble from the gear box tail shaft and its a new seal..C'est la vie.

[Dave Adams]

oh yeah CO was at 6%......that's a bit high :-) the adjusting screw just would not budge so i took the air filter off....it was enough to get it through. a new filter might be a good idea although it isn't that bad.

now when i say not that bad i mean that it is a little dirty, the filter works fine.....

[Dave Adams]

early finish from work and thought i would go scrap yard fishing....got quoted £20 for a nearly new Fiat Sciento radiator and fan, plus £20 for a pair of BMW 3 series Touring (estate) rear lights and £5 for a centre switch panel for the Fiat partly because it has a nice hazard switch....so £45 for the lot........

so once parts were removed from the cars i went back to pay and the guy added it up to.......£25 so i paid up and legged it.

p.s. i did ask if he was sure and he said yeah mate £25......i tried ....not too hard though.

[Paul Sheridan]

I'm truly shocked Mr Adams !!!!!!     what with you being a fine upstanding Duttoneer and all.  You should, at the very least tried to have beaten him down another fiver :-))

[Dave Adams]

Poxy clutch cable snapped AGAIN tonight this one lasted less than 2000 miles.......

next car is getting hydraulic clutch.

luckily i had a spare cable at home its longer by a fair bit than the RS2000 cable i was using. it has a code of MTX1147 on the packet ....Mk3 cortina? what ever i need another before this one goes as well.

[Dave Adams]

mind you i am getting quite good at clutch-less driving now i can go through the whole box up and down with out crunching.....

[Paul Sheridan]

Have you got a buffer fitted on the pedal box for the clutch pedal? I fitted one so the pedal bottoms out before the clutch fork, that way the cable is not inadvertently over stretched.