Alee83's Cherry Red Rallye

[Alee83]

Well, update time!!

After the French car show I bought myself one of the photo's from the official photographers and had it framed...
It now has pride of place, with one of the Astor 6 from 2009, on the staircase wall...



Then, as we had a bowt of good weather, I thought I'd paint my engine parts I had collected and get them fitted before winter!

Here painted up...



Got the rocker covers and coil cover fitted, needed to get gaskets and injector seals before fitting inlet manifold!!



So, seals and gaskets bought, decided to get on with the inlet.

Easier said than done!

As I was fitting a PTFE gasket which is about 4-5mm thick, the inlet was stepping away from the head. First attempt at fiiting ended with the car not starting and missfiring.
Not knowing why, but assuming the inlet was gaping I decided to try tighten it up... (without torque wrench) :blondblush:

After realising I just snapped my yellow painted shiney inlet manifold, I took it off and went back to the original one. Fitted the de-resonator bung and went for it again. Still missfiring and still running poo. Thoughts then turn to sensors, maybe one of them was faulty. Changed sensors with spares and no joy!

After seeing oil on the head, realised it was still gaping, so tried tightening again (a little more gingerly this time) and "SNAP"... Inlet manifold No2 gone!

So after a quick few threads on here, got another manifold off Raz (TOP BLOKE).

So this time, looked a little more carefully. Under the manifold there is 2 brackets to attatch the manifold to the front of the engine. As the PTFE gasket had pushed it out, it was resting on one of the mounts. BIG HAMMER, problem solved. All new seals, gaskets and hey presto, working Rallye

Engine stripped...



Injectors were a little rusty, gave them a rub down before re-fitting!



Rubbed inlet and head down to make sure of clean faces...




Fitted the new yellow lion Rallye inlet badge too...



So, all running nice, picks up better without the resonator, sounds better too! Jyust need to get my Green cotton air filters sorted and will sound like a beast!

Thanks for looking...

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Here she is at a little Yorkshire boys meet!











Here is Arron trying to shag my car....



ArronDT's car:



Karl1989's car:

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Also, got my Poorboys Natty's red wax on Friday. So hit the car with the strawberry flavoured shiney stick today...









Thanks for looking guys...