Lude Generation

I'm now officially the owner of a BB4 in silver.

Thanks to Vargna for parting with his pride and joy, and giving me a lude to restore, and a project it is



Snapped auto tensioner, so time will tell if the engine lives, body work, actually is in better nick than most £1000 plus ludes i've looked at, it's by no means mint, but it was bought as a project to fix up





The trade mark Vargna spoiler doesn't come with it

pics of the damage/bodywork









luckily I have still have nearly a complete shell off my old lude and a spare H22 in the garage, not to mention a M2B4 LSD box and a stupid amount of goodies to put on.

Not collected it yet, but it's paid for and I have the V5

Let the fun commence

Couple of updates

OEM spoiler put on



Then i started to strip stuff off to have a look at the cambelt, on removing the alternator belt this came away in my hand



Fecked bottom pulley, now i don't know if this is what the noise was so still need to check the cam belt, but you never know I might be lucky and that's all it was

Not really much of an update as i can't really do anything till I know the engine is ok.

Been raining all day so been playing with the CarPC software, mount needs finishing off as i bought it like that.







Still needs loads of work to get it all setup right, but i'm getting there

Rain Stopped play today, so into the garage I headed with a few tools



Aim of the day to remove the crank pulley off my old engine, and f00k me they are on tight. It wasn't help by the fact that the engine was on a stand. I had to use a jack wedged to the stand and against the removing tool to stop the engine from turning.

Eventually with me hanging off the end of the bar, it went CRACK and came undone



Problem I now have is that the replacement pulley I have is damaged, but I have no choice but to use it an hope it doesn't chew up the auxiliary belts



Ideal world I'd replace it, but I'm doing this on a budget of basically nothing so I'm having to make do till I can afford to replace parts.

I'm hoping that I can do it up tight enough, my torque wrench only goes upto 210Nm so hopefully be enough, fingers crossed

If the thunderstorms stop i'll see if I can get the one off the car, but it's not looking to hopeful at the mo so might have to wait till tomorrow

Got a break in the rain so ran out and started on the car, same tools as last time but need a longer socket extension to clear the wing/bumper.
Which made it all a bit Floppy, so with the aid of an axle stand....







This was worse than the other one, had to jump up and down on it before it cracked, it was even lifting the car up by the force applied to the removing tool on the ground

End result



Think that's fecked, don't you

Another storm came over before I could get the cover off to look at the auto tensioner, but might be able to pop back out in a bit.

Ok, covers off, lined the crank arrow to point up



And the cams point



As far as I can tell that's not slipped at all, but I may be wrong

And I have no idea how to tell if the auto tensioner has gone

Sort of sorted, it's not perfect, but it's not stalling now. Need to get a new Dizzy

And here some pics as i've been lacking lately

Crudely made auto tensioner bracket, but it worked



Turns out the Main relay was ok, but while I had it out I spotted a few dry joints



So resoldered them while it was out, save having problems in the future.

Now it's running I need to get it ready for MOT, which I know it needs a couple of things, the exhaust is fecked and there's no fog light.



Anyone know this make?



Looks too bad to be welded so the exhaust off my other car will have to go on. Which means I have to fit the decat as it's a UKDM exhaust

Hoping MOT will be ok on emissions, as it's a BB4?

Few piccies, really don't show how rough the car is though, needs a full respray



Lexarse lights will go coming off



so will the rear bumper as it's really rough

Bit of JDM stuff

Well it failed it's MOT

But here a pic with my very in need of a refurb 17's on



Spot the dent in the door

No more lexarse lights