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

Nice one, thanks.

What’s wrong with this? Seems cheap...

Not a Ti or Tii?

Looks to shiny and can clean too. Do an MOT search on the reg.

Holy shit. Nice 2002

Had a rough one in 2018 with lots wrong with it, nothing in 2019 and full pass with no advisories last month.

Very tempting.

@Fixedwheelnut ... tell me what’s wrong with it?

Road trip?

Looks fun! Ignis Sport?

I think these are used as daily drivers, I’ve seen them around town.

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Yep, Ignis sport. I think a handful of these were built for a local championship, it has a plate LSD and bilstein coilovers and a few other bits, super nice cage and seats etc

brilliant stuff. looks amazing

Puzzle time. Is there an easy way of doing this? Before I go at it with a dremel, soldering iron and glue gun

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Bugger.

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What do you need to do?

At least (it looks like) it was on the way back....

I’m around 60 seconds from home, but the dash flashed up “stop immediately”, so that’s what I did. I imagine a new engine would be expensive.

Still, glass half full, if I do need a new engine we may as well shoot for 700 bhp.

Mount the (new) alpine tweeter in the old plastic circular housing

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6.2 LS3 swap?

It's just the alternator belt. Car would be programmed to tell you to stop immediately as some water pumps are belt driven so there's a risk of over heating and obviously emptying the battery.

I can't imagine there's any lasting damage done there, just an annoying job to untangle the old belt.

The belt snapped pulling away from some lights, power steering immediately went and a red battery icon appeared between the two clocks.

I was by the Bell Green Sainsbury at the time, so thought I'd try to make it home, "over heating, stop at once" appeared by Forest Hill station, so I did.

AA man turned up, tried to fix it with (I shit you not) a big zip-tie, when that failed he towed me up the hill to home.

The car is now parked outside, the dead belt is in the boot, and it's being trucked to DDR tomorrow morning - I'd very much like to know why the belt snapped.

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The water pump is belt driven, which is why it got hot - that and I had the luck to get stuck behind a Fiesta that had an enormous box in the boot, and was therefore driving at 15 mph, so I had very little airflow through the engine bay. AA chap reckons the engine will be fine as I stopped the second the car told me too, but we shall see.

That's the real issue. Replacing the belt is trivial. Working out why it failed in the first place is more of an issue.

Apparently the idler pulley is known to freeze, then the belt breaks the raised lip of the pulley off and ties itself around one of the other pulleys. Not say that's what happened here, but that's the result of a bit of Googling.

Given that I've maintained this car with an open cheque-book I'd have hoped that anything which is known to be prone to borking itself would have been checked and/or replaced, but there you go.

Old age. Happened me last year. Were you revving it when it snapped? As long as you got it stopped quickly, hopefully there won’t be any major damage. Losing the power steering is an ‘interesting’ experience!

Ok, this is the same layout as my engine:

All of the pulleys move freely and none of them is (visibly) wonky or damaged, however the tensioner is the exception to this - it's hard to move by hand, not frozen but it's tough to tug it round.

Is this normal for a tensioner? I'd say no - but have no frame of reference for that, I just don't think it should have that much resistance.