[color=#1a1a1a;][font="helveticaneue;"]Well after owning the car since the end of March, I thought id start a rebuild/project thread. Had a few trials and tribulations since owning EO03 RVL, but I bought it knowing it was a constant project, and wanted something that would keep me busy, and its certainly done that.[/color][/font]
[color=#1a1a1a;][font="helveticaneue;"]Bought the car from Peteslag, after what can be described as a stressfull few days, with my best man having his son 7 weeks early, and the day that I was meant to be going to see Cocopops, and Pete's car, and painting my dining room in my house, my first painting experience. Well, weather and babies meant that seeing Lee's car was not possible, but while my best mate was having a nap, I shot up to RAF Cosford to see Pete's Silver SC2.2. He was very good with me, as this was the first VX id actually been to look at, so had alot of newb questions and he took me out in it. Was very impressed with the power delivery, as well as the handling and ride down some pretty shocking roads. [/color][/font]
[color=#1a1a1a;][font="helveticaneue;"]After getting home, and making sure my mate was ok, as he had left by the time I returned, the wife appeared, and I obviously was convincing enough to her, that I need 2 cars with only 2 seats, (Other car is a 350Z), I called Pete, and the deal was done. Picking the car up a week later was easy, as we were driving past his place on the way to a long weekend in Shrewsbury with some friends. Pete was also kind enough to try to get an MOT on it, which it failed, but only on rear tyres, so we readjusted the deal to compensate for that, and I ordered a set of 595 RS-R's for it. [/color][/font]
[color=#1a1a1a;][font="helveticaneue;"]A week after picking the car up, id organised to have all four tyres changed to the 595's, and get the car MOT'd, id also picked up a TB from Nick in Bedford, so he was my first .org member I met as a owner, and is a really nice guy. A day or so later, LeeVX was kind enough to offer to bleed my brakes for me with fresh fluid. Reason being, that although Pete had a couple of invoices for the car, there were alot of unanswered questions over things, so I thought id start as I mean to go on. So after getting its MOT first thing, I set out to Lee's in Bedford, when its started to rain, first time out in the rain, and I had the roof off. Its ok I thought, as long as I travel at 30mph or more, i dont get too wet at all. Then the car coughed a few times, and then had no throttle input at all, and I pulled over to the side of the road, half a mile from Lee's house, rain was really lashing down now, so first port of call was to get the roof on, and I phoned Lee who was gracious enough to come have a look, and diagnosed it as a faulty MAP sensor, so he did a quick roadside fix to get me to his house, where after confirming his initial thoughts, announced that he actually did the SC on the car! Stroke of luck, as I had no evidence of when/where the conversion was done. Lee kindly had a MAP sensor that he had spare, so I bought that off him, and he kindly sorted my brakes, as well as adjusted the tyre pressures, which were way out from the garage firring the tyres, and sorted me out a EGR blaking plate, as mine had already been bypassed by him when he did the SC conversion, so that tidied up that. So the PBJ was obviously just a little nervous of going back to Lee's, but really had no need to be, he looked after her a treat, and did me a massive favour, as well as showing me his VX, which is just mega, what a piece of kit that is. [/color][/font]
[color=#1a1a1a;][font="helveticaneue;"]Fast forward to a few weeks later, and taking the wife to see a friends new house, and she drove it there, and I drove it home. On the way home, the speedo started to go crazy, then decided to die altogether, less than ideal. The next 6 weeks or so, (probably longer), were spent trying to fix the speedo at every available moment. I had replaced the wiring from the hub to the loom, replaced the connector for a new one, as well as replacing the hub. All did not work, replaced all the other hubs, in the vein hope that it would work again, no joy. After pestering Vocky for a while regarding suggestions, he came up with trying a different ABS brain. He happens to live 10 minutes from me, and round the corner from my best mate. On the way to Banbury to see some friends, we swapped it over, and its been perfect ever since! The cylinders in the ABS unit had some corrosion on them, like they had been wet or something, so im guessing that they were not functioning properly. Anyway, all fixed now. [/color][/font]
[color=#1a1a1a;][font="helveticaneue;"]Somewhere along the line, I picked up a set of JK composite seats with subframes, and fitted them. Though cant seem to get on with them, maybe its because im lanky, who knows. [/color][/font]
Edited by D-DAWG83, 06 October 2015 - 09:25 AM.
