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Congrats on the clean MOT pass. Personally I would keep hold of it after that. Only sell it if you can find someone who you know will look after it. Yup that is one of my concerns tbh. Some may remember my mate James who had the modded Cav Turbo that came to a few meets, well he sold it on for it t...

So 16th January was M.o.t day for the Cav and tbh I expected a Failure due to emissions more than anything else but instead it got a straight through Pass with No Advisorys http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee436/Festabmth/Mobile%20Uploads/_20170116_174706_zpsoefhgcuu.jpg The Emissions were not fa...

Cheers Guys :thumb Righty ho! Car was put in a local (mates rates) garage yesterday afternoon for the ARB Links and a Track Rod End to be done both of which I know are home jobs but push on ARB links are so much easier with a ramp! Asked the guys to check over the car for any potential MOT nastiness...

Quick one.... Car been into the garage and all that could be found I have ordered so.. 2 x Arb droplinks as bushes just fubar and o/s one egged 1 x O/s track rod end Should be in the garage early next week hopefully as I just don't have time or space to do the work it needs, fortunately its mates ra...

Might be a slow puncture on the left really low tyre pressure causing it to pull ? I may have my moments but I'm not that daft :p :lol: Ok so not much progress thanks to that thing called work and more so the thing I hate called "Annual Audit" :lol: Planned to take the car in twice last w...

a nice Sportage van shouldn't cost that much and has loads of room of speakers/junk/etc - it's something I've been looking at... My boss has a new ish Sportage, very nice in fact.... Hoping my workmate remembers a trolley jack today as local garages seem bloody useless at finding what is wrong, thi...

Well not posted in months as it was all going kinda ok ish, as well as this one ever does anyway..... Same old problems though, Mpg is through the roof again and managing about 270 mile to a full tank along with a new suspension steering problem :'( Just been told about a chemical cleaner BG44k so g...

James McGrath wrote:Anyone heard anything from Andrei?
He's been very quiet recently.

Andrei neither owns a Cavalier nor a car at all to my knowledge!

I employed him some time back and he messed me around so we haven't spoken since and that was some months back so doubt you'll see him around

25th good for me, at a charity meet on the 4th for Help for Heroes in Alton, think i sent invites to anyone on my FB friends list..

1. Lowrider Dave
2. James McGrath
3. Mikebmth (with a once again fixed cav)
4. John (dunno his username but has said he'll come along with his cav)

If you manage to find Depo ones they come with a glass lens, i'm running Hid in mine and improve night time vision a lot!

Good to see you're still plodding on with Archer :) John suggested to me your fuel smell problem could be some holes even minute ones in the top of the fuel tank under the boot floor, he had the same issues with his Cav and swapped the tank out to have no further issues ever since. As for the Roose ...

A simple fix then with a good result. As for your milage last month my Cavalier don't even that in the course of a year. :o Greig Simple I guess but expensive, its cost me in excess of £150 in parts to get it running properly again! Would love to get a smaller car for work and keep the Cav for show...

So I forgot to update this, blame the Cav.......Too much fun :lol: Last month final fuel / mpg usage was 363 before I put quarter of a tank back in as don't like the red light, after the 1/4 was put in she did 420 ish before resetting the trip counter. This is one car that definitely needs a jolly u...

First meet I ever attended was Rownhams but as its managed on CCTV Parking and a strict time limit its not a great place for meets, I think at least one person got hit with a fine by the parking police there Portsdown hill is a fair drive from Bournemouth and i did prefer Cadnam but hey it gives me ...

Keeping notes now....

Since every blimmin sensor changed and new Cat

110 miles and counting to quarter of a tank!!

Next job is to convince him upstairs to give us some decent weather then it'll be waxing time!

Forgot to add.... Temporarily made up a inlet to ICV pipe from an old ICV L shape pipe, fits well but plan to measure most of the pipes and replace with silicone given time and money Also the plugs are still to be looked at but shouldn't cause any fueling issue as they are brand new, plans to waxoil...

Looking good... I think I read somewhere that Motronic ECUs (if that's the one you have) do have a "learning" capability where they do adjust themselves according to driving conditions, but I think that's only if you leave the battery disconnected for a while.. Still hopefully this will s...

Beware.....Super Massive upload coming below!! Saturday 2nd April 2016 was definitely do or die day for my Cav and with the help of John from Chichester and his boss Cyril (the best welder i've ever met) who loaned me and John his workshop for nearly 4 hours to crack out as much as possible includin...

Cavalier342 wrote:Result. Is that gaskets + clamps?

Yes mate, everything bar the manifold gasket

Well that was simples

Called my local Motorbitz and they can get full set excluding manifold to head gasket for £14 by tomorrow so ordered that, should do for time being and hope it fits the new straight centre pipe

humbucker wrote:As for clamps, do you know what size you'll need? 54mm rings a bell. Let me know, got loads here.

Cheers, need them for Saturday morning so probably a motorfactors job.

Poly bushed my back box one as kept slipping off its mount.

Nope, no need to pull any fuses, just pop it off, some fuel will escape, if you're on a surface that you don't want fuel to leak on to, just have a small bowl handy to catch it. Tip the filter both ways once you've undone the hoses to get all the fuel out. Cheers Andrei, captain top poster to the r...

Guys, I have to rebuild the exhaust system on the Cav and as a mate has access to ramps we are going to do it in his workshop but he has asked I get the Clamps and Gaskets and have no idea how many I will need. I am presuming there is a gasket between the 2 parts of the manifold, one pre cat and one...

Was a good few hours and good to catch up! Also came across the first time travelling Nissan Micra I've ever seen :lol: Cheers to Dave for the work put it and generally being a good sport, trying to do this kind of work roadside is a nightmare and the back of my place is just dirt so a mate with a g...

Was an idea... Spoke to my mate John in Chichester last night and he has just bought a Cav 2 litre GLS to break with a C20NE already in it with decent mileage, now just waiting on the car to arrive and checks to be done on the lump which is late plate like mine so has a Cat :( but will be straight f...