Glad your sticking with it Steve,you have my respect for that and I'm sure you have been overwhelmed with the help that's been offered both to me and you to help get the car sorted.

Hope that this time it behaves itself.I will have a word with it before you have it back and explain that's its on a final warning.

cheers johnny

i did consider a fawlty towers moment of beating it with a twig, everything else had been tried

Well its not giving up without a fight,it sliced my hand and it threw a spanner in my face.
Its got a temper on it thats for sure.

Anyways,be nice to see it at Spa again.Hopefully mine wont let go a week before it this time.
Barbz is currently fool proofing it for me

Might need a passenger ride again if it does.

yeah you deserve some luck other than bad too lol!!

You've earned it

Glad to hear you're sticking with your Coop proccy.

This is a tough one - repair a rusty one - or re-shell.

I suspect in years to come, when Coupés become rare, the latter option will dissapear so folks will have to get the welding goggles on.

Currently Coupés are at their lowest ever value so I would think finding a solid coupé and swapping bits over would be the best option.

I know it's hard with Italian cars but I think you should make your decisions with the head and not the heart

This is fair enough for many cars, but there are one or two - like mine - which have a touch more historical significance. I really have no choice but to repair, or get out completely.

For me this opens a whole new can of worms...the how to section really needs a revamp to accommodate the change required to owning and keeping the beast on the road. Apart from my squealing manifold I intend to start treating the underside! It sounds so easy...
Takes me back to the first thread I ever read, one of Stans I think where he had stripped his car back to it's bones for the same reasons.

Well intercourse me ruining and stick a stick up proccy's bum.

I go away for 2 days and look what happens!!!

Proccy, speechless mate... Your a good man and I hope the best!

Can't wait to see you at spa!

you raging nonce, i'll see you at curborough if you turn up

Knowing Marco, something will happen at the last minute and won't be able to make it

just had a phone call from JBT - i've been a bit nervous because the engine i'd sourced was obviously a slightly unknown quantity and the last thing i needed was for John to establish it's not good

well, he turned the car over and i heard her roar into life again

comps from 145 - 150 across them all, hot oil at 2 bar

i fucking love this car and especially this community

Great news Steve

Steve, great news!!

I normally get calls from JBT........... .

Will she be at Brooklands?

Tim

Excellent news Steve

cheers Adam - how's things with yours now?

brill news Steve well done.

Off to Flea on Saturday, nearly done now

... by the way Steve, you might think about changing your signature....

once the rust is banished Tim, then i might

Good News

Other than those 7 phone calls mate,its not been too bad.
But you do own 2 coupes so you have twice the hassle.
See you friday Tim anyways for the dreaded manifold.


Proccy,finally good news,32 hours of labour and i have been extra thorough triple checking everything as i have taken on the curse of Proccy.
Took it for a run and it drives well.Just the welding and a few other things to sort then the test of Flea.
So fingers crossed for that one.

great news steve!!!

Good to read you're still a Coupe owner Steve

Was that cast mount changed for a replacement?

No the mount itself is fine,the dowels were missing which was causing the position of all the pulleys to be out.
I checked in rotation with a dti gauge and theres no more than 0.05 run out which is great given the age of the car.

That said im still fitting a uprated pulley just in case.
New crank pulley,tensioner,idler,alternator,swapped the ac pump and ac tensioner so the only thing that was ran on the old engine is the Ps pump.

Great stuff JBT. I bet Your well chuffed Steve.

more chuffed than my bank manager that's for sure

Now only semi- ed...

Good luck,

Tim

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Other than those 7 phone calls mate,its not been too bad.
But you do own 2 coupes so you have twice the hassle.
See you friday Tim anyways for the dreaded manifold [/quote]

I've got a £5 Morrisons voucher