dc2 man
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Score: 118 Joined: 2/8/2009 Last Login: 11/21/2009 From: limerick, IRELAND Status: offline
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hello lars thanks for the help,and thanks for the compliment on the driving. the mk 2 escort body would be cool actually pure rally,so your a ford man,nice,friend of mine has a ford focus st turbo,nice car,i drive an integra type r im a honda man lol another friend of mine has a cosworth sierra 91 its mint and man it is quick,he throws out the ass of it just for fun at crossroads,we races when ever we meet on the road so thank god i dont meet him often lol man i would love to see that capri with the chainsaw engine,how does it run? what running gear have you fg/carson/hpi etc etc? you got some good projects going on there lars,i like the sound of that marder convertion to onroad,you must be pretty skiilled with the 1/5th scales so,i also like the sound of that idea of the mk2 body from mcd hopefully for you they might produce them at some point,you must have had some work with the onroad conversion so what had you to change then? i have a spare fg chassis lying around at home as i got a new one for my beetle so i might start up some new project sometime with that, i was actually considering a 125cc two stroke motorbike engine and extending the chassis a little as i have shed loads of parts lying around both alloy and plastic,could stick to fg diff and chain drive,im sure it would work,what do you think? got a few bits today from hobbythek,4 more gbm cross alloy shocks to match the 4 i have already on my beetle,two choke shafts as i lost them on both machines,and i got four hitek hs metal geared servos,two big two small,i got the carson up and running this evening as it was lovely outside but the last time i ran it i could not tune it at all,i knew there was something up with it,i presumed it was drawing air from someplace or another /cracked hose i thought or just a leak someplace as the idle was very erratic,so before i left this morning i put it up on the bench and gave a look through it,do you know what i spotted,the manifold(intake) was loose,AHH GREAT i thought,so torqued them up put in new steering servo along with checking everything,so i was ready to go....so off i went to the place i run it as you saw on the videos,and to my surprise it wouldnt start at all.........ahhh no........... i was kinda piss''''d of to be honest,i spent another ten mins trying to start and finally fired up,spluttering,misfiring and erratic ideling........ohh no i said what now....... so homw i had to come with it kinda sour to say the least,and it was anoying me to try and figure out what could be wrong with it as i was worried it may have injested some dirt or rubber lol in to engine with loose intake,so bought it in took off header to chck piston,man its like new after 10tanks of fuel....150mill to 5liters i run,i might lean a bit anyway,checked everything and no good................ahhhh,so finally i came across the culprit,the intake mani again,when i was torquing those intake mani bolts this morning before runnin when i spotted them loose i overtightened the bolts (it shouldnt have cracked anyway) and cracked it so it was drawing air from there,i have to say the carson intale mani is fairly week looking plastic,im working on that right now it is 10pm here in ireland and ,my girlfriend is giving out lol the fg ones i have 3 spares and they wont fit,so im out with super glue to try and repair,hey it may just do fine lol we will see................................man i am going on a bit here tonight lol... later folks..
< Message edited by Lightfoot -- 3/25/2009 11:41 PM >
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