Project Cordy - My old 16v reborn

[Icecavern]

W000h000! Great news mate.. The bonus point (for me) will now be seeing C12RDY re-born on a worthy modfest of a Cordoba

Well it would be getting the reg number tonight... Except the DVLA office has closed in Reading and now have to go to another one...

On a brighter note it looks liek removing the wheel arch liners has solved the arch rubbing problem at the front. So now I just need to do some "correction" of the liners where it was scrubbing so they can go back in

 

[F2 Stu]

If you going to stick half a tonne of mdf & fibreglass in the back your not going to be too worried about handling

 

[andyj]

now now ladies, less of the handbags please !!!

 

[richieroo01]

if you are having problems with the bolts trying to get the caslapers off, instead of drilling them get a blow torch on them and heat them up to loosen them off.

 

[Icecavern]

if you are having problems with the bolts trying to get the caslapers off, instead of drilling them get a blow torch on them and heat them up to loosen them off.

Do Cordobas have caslapers?

 

[Icecavern]

Update on the oil leak...

Andy helped me change the sump gasket on Saturday. We managed to snap one of the sump bolts somehow before it was even tight

Anyway today I replaced all the sump bolts with new ones as they were only 50p each I figured I might as well.

So I just took the car out for a spin, it's raining so difficult to tell but I'm pretty sure the oil leak is still there. So it's not the sump gasket The oil collects on the gearbox side of the sump, around the gearbox cradle bracket. Is there anywhere else around there it could be leaking?

 

[m0rk]

could be the crank seal

cheaper to buy oil

 

[Icecavern]

Is there one on the gearbox side then?

 

[Icecavern]

Update... The install starts

Just the rear 3/4 panel sub boxes on the go at the minute but they're coming on nicely

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Pete

 

[F2 Stu]

And for those that cbf to register?

 

[UncleFester]

And for those that cbf to register?

What he said

 

[Icecavern]

hang on, I thought you could see that as a guest

 

[Icecavern]

Working now

 

[UncleFester]

Looks well made that Pete, got to love the smell of fresh fibreglassing, that curing fluid smells wicked

 

[Icecavern]

I hate the smell of fibreglass TBH, but it's the only way to make the things. Birch Plywood smells great through

 

[UncleFester]

So ... will it be finished for Edition38

 

[Icecavern]

No...

But with any luck those sub boxes will be finished.

 

[UncleFester]

It must be in the final stages now Pete, at least mechanically anyway - when do you reckon you'll have the install done, or are you just doing it as personal project with no time scale as such?

 

[Icecavern]

Well the Cordy will be at E38, all the mechanical bits ( well most ) are done. Hopefully sometime over the winter I'll get a Mk3 front end on and the respray done.

The interior doesn't have a time scale as such, but I want it done early next year. TBH the sub boxes and amp racks etc in the back aren't too bad a job, it's the dash that is going to be a lot of work.

 

[UncleFester]

Going to be busy this week then, i know how much of a mess installs can make of an interior whilst the work is in progress, finding a suitable place to stop is not easy - what dash are you putting in, something out of a vag or are you ripping yours to bits to install stereo stuff into it?