28-04-2015, 11:58 AM
Updates:
The BAD
So for those of you who don't know castle combe action day was a major fail for the MG team ( I say team as my friend brought his VVC'd ZS)
On the drive to combe the battery light flashed a few times however went out for when I was in the queue for track. However about 10 seconds or so onto said track resulted in a battery light that wouldn't go away after changing its mind a few times. After about 6 minutes I pulled off as I didn't fancy having the engine cut out or something.
Pulling up afterwards resulted in huge amounts of smoke from the engine bay and something dripping.
After a few minutes of having strangers tell me the headgasket is fk'd I crawled back to the stand where the smoke cleared and could see the inner cv boot has split and dumped grease onto the exhaust/cat pipe
Fked off I went for a passenger ride in the zs and rather enjoyed it. Didn't win no trophies but it performed flawlessly. Was then offered to use my other track session in the zs.
Halfway through the zs session the battery light came on, bollocks.
However we continued to the end and despite me being a cock with it the car didn't die/spin/loose coolant
Pulling up we found the alternator belt to be shredded and only half of it still on the pulleys
This ended the day for us early as drove 35 minutes to the nearest open eurocarparts to fit a new belt in their carpark as they closed with the staff standing around watching
The GOOD
I've fixed the electrics Was down to one nut not being on the alternator. Think it connected a stud from the internals to the voltage regulator, without it the stud was just randomly making contact.
That would properly explain what it was that went pinging down the car the other week if the nut had been loose and worked its way off.
Car now pulls like a train and still haven't put a remaped file on. Need to sort blowing exhaust as well as the cv boot.
Also also went to silverlake scrap yard and got myself the washers I needed for the coilovers, so I can now finally assemble them and have decent suspension and not the old stock crap in time for FCS
The BAD
So for those of you who don't know castle combe action day was a major fail for the MG team ( I say team as my friend brought his VVC'd ZS)
On the drive to combe the battery light flashed a few times however went out for when I was in the queue for track. However about 10 seconds or so onto said track resulted in a battery light that wouldn't go away after changing its mind a few times. After about 6 minutes I pulled off as I didn't fancy having the engine cut out or something.
Pulling up afterwards resulted in huge amounts of smoke from the engine bay and something dripping.
After a few minutes of having strangers tell me the headgasket is fk'd I crawled back to the stand where the smoke cleared and could see the inner cv boot has split and dumped grease onto the exhaust/cat pipe
Fked off I went for a passenger ride in the zs and rather enjoyed it. Didn't win no trophies but it performed flawlessly. Was then offered to use my other track session in the zs.
Halfway through the zs session the battery light came on, bollocks.
However we continued to the end and despite me being a cock with it the car didn't die/spin/loose coolant
Pulling up we found the alternator belt to be shredded and only half of it still on the pulleys
This ended the day for us early as drove 35 minutes to the nearest open eurocarparts to fit a new belt in their carpark as they closed with the staff standing around watching
The GOOD
I've fixed the electrics Was down to one nut not being on the alternator. Think it connected a stud from the internals to the voltage regulator, without it the stud was just randomly making contact.
That would properly explain what it was that went pinging down the car the other week if the nut had been loose and worked its way off.
Car now pulls like a train and still haven't put a remaped file on. Need to sort blowing exhaust as well as the cv boot.
Also also went to silverlake scrap yard and got myself the washers I needed for the coilovers, so I can now finally assemble them and have decent suspension and not the old stock crap in time for FCS