Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Question on buying used cars.

Do folk generally prefer looking for private sellers when searching classifieds?

Carbs or throttle bodies?

Real private sellers not fake traders.

No, but do you fancy coming to Paris to fit a few wheel hubs, discs, pads and tyres to a monaro?

Not settling for the lesser easy option.

Flip front goes up...

Flip front goes down...

The shop ordered 3 new belts and installed them free of charge so i could pick up the car with working a/c and power steering last night. All is good again and it drives real nice .)

Thanks for the infos.

I replaced some original plastic shift linkage bushings of my 9-5 with ones from Maptun. I was sure the gearbox was failing as second (and occasionally fourth) gear wasn't staying on, turns out the worn out linkage wasn't engaging the gears properly.

Shifting is one of the better ones I've had in Saabs, ie. not as good as in BMW's etc., but at least it doesn't feel like my old c900 any more and I have 5 functioning forward gears.

Interesting. Would it be similar linkage in an auto box? Perhaps not in the gearing, but somewhere along the drive train? Mine is getting increasingly clunky when I get the throttle on or off

throttle bodies

Interesting. Would it be similar linkage in an auto box? Perhaps not in the gearing, but somewhere along the drive train? Mine is getting increasingly clunky when I get the throttle on or off

I'd look at when the fluid was last changed before investigating the shifter (which is often a cable on older autoboxes, and more recently electronic).

My educated guess is never, so that's prob a good start

Have a look for something loose or worn bush.

Look at the colour of the fluid, I'd replace the fluid with the proper spec fluid. Look how to fully drain the fluid, as it can be more than take a drain plug out.

Can offer all you can eat moule and frite from flunch.......

Had to get big cheap no brand suitcase and put the hub, three wheel bearings, discs and pads.

Now just being nosey, keeping the bike injectors or different ones?

Are you splitting the bodies to keep the inlet tract straight? Or are the inlet ports close enough together not to need it done.

Any of you guys had luck claiming for pothole damage? I’m not even too concerned about the snapped ARB drop link, I just want the bloody road fixed...

I'm already using the ITBs, just moving it over to new engine, and then will move back again when the old engine is ready.

OEM injectors scaled correctly using the ME221 ECU
Don't need to split them as the inlet ports are close enough together, but also the manifold runners are angled a little bit and then straightened using silicone connectors to the bodies.

Cheers

Can't recall if I've asked this, apologies if so - dashcams, anyone got one?

Also, I've booked the car back in with the painter to get a few minor snags resolved, after which I'm going to PPF the bumper, mirrors and areas just ahead of the rear wheels, then ceramic coat the rest.

and then straightened using silicone connectors to the bodies.

PTFE lined silicone, I hope. Standard silicone and fuel don't mix nicely IME.

Fuel lines are separate. Air goes through the throttle bodies and through the silicone hoses, through the inlet manifold and then into the ports on the cylinder head. Fuel is then separately injected via the fuel injectors.

I think carbs would be different where fuel and air mix in the carb.

But you're still using the injectors in the ITBs I assume, so what's passing through the hoses is an air/fuel charge mixture? I've seen cases where that's been sufficient to degrade the silicone hoses over a long period of time.

depends if the injectors are in the ITB body or in the manifold

Indeed. I know GSXR ITBs have injectors in the ITBs, but I don't know enough about MX5s to know whether or not there's also the possibility of having injectors further up the inlet tract. Normally if you've fitted ITBs you'd use the injectors in the ITBs but it's possible the injector bungs on the ITBs here have been plugged.