Couple of updates I forgot to put on here.
I've been using the car for a while now and it is good fun, still needs loads of work and money throwing at it to bring it up to the level I want but I don't have the space or funds right now to do it. It's drivable and safe which is what really matters, everything else is just 'I should do this' stuff.
I've now done about 700-800 miles in the car since Feb and since I replaced the battery it has been brilliant.
Had a good weekend last weekend, went to a rolling road with another forum, roof was down from 8am when we left the flat until 6pm when we got back. So nice to have the ability to lower the roof.
Downside of a cabriolet is that it is very noisy on the motorway, wind, exhaust etc. gets quite tiring especially when you are trying to talk to a passenger or listen to music...still, it is good fun.
Today I decided to givee the front fibreglass skirt/lip/thing a coat of Plasti Dip as it was looking really rather rubbish in a dirty, faded greyish colour.
Before:
After:
I think it does look a lot smarter, but I'm running low on the paint/rubber coating and it needs a couple of coats. It should weather in a bit and look more like the front grills over a couple of months which is cool. If I decide I don't like it, I can just peel it off too.
Pic of the front with no tape:
The plasti dip is really awesome, looks so much better now than it did before, really liking it. If anyone wants an easy and lasting (longer than a few weeks) way to make grills etc. black, use this stuff. 8) Down side is that it isn't all that cheap, £15 for a 400ml spray can.
Went out for a blast from Bristol with -westy- today, some awesome roads once your out of the Bristol area, really badly surfaced roads in and around here though.
http://youtu.be/UDD1S0hTYJo
Filled it up with fuel and found it was doing this:
due to this:
I've changed the tank due to a rotten filler neck, now this top hose has perished, and I have a full tank, and it is a tank out job, and I don't have a garage to work in.
Might have to just ignore the car for a nearly a week and head down to where I can work on it next weekend.
Which line is that anyway? The one on the right that looks wet.
Hopefully this is now fixed thanks to some helpful information from a guy on E30zone.
This is the offending pipe once undone from the tank.
Removed this section of pipe.
I refitted the pipe, made sure I pushed it on as far as it would let me, which is further than it was on before. I'm guessing it is fixed but I won't know for sure until I next brim the tank. The pipe is in theory the breather pipe, so it'll only really come into concern when the tank is full/being filled. It was obviously burping fuel out up the breather pipe, and then spilling it out from the split
These old cars.
