[Diy_efi] Hoses...

[Ian Molton]

Done the job now.

was a fun event...

on the way to my dads, the oil filler cap popped off the top of the 
engine (luckily, not completely I still had it) and so the cams happily 
splattered oil all over the engine bay (and the bloody radiator)

so, after cleaning that up, fixed the cause of that problem - which was 
a modification I'd made to the airbox to take the crank case gases 
further down the air intake, so as not to fill the air filter with oil. 
it seems this reduced the diameter of the port in the intake too much, 
causing excessive pressure in the valve case, which blew the cap off.

solution was to make a new adapter with a bigger hose, drill the top of 
the intake pipe and insert it into there (its oversize so it cant drop 
through into the works and kill my turbo). the old adapter is now 
stopped off.

the radiator didnt fit (right height, but the mount was different to my 
old one, so we had to make a bracket, grind off the old mount a bit and 
attach the bracket to the old mount. two new bracket on the top held it 
into place.

turned up some pipe ends out of 25 and 32mm stainless on the lathe and 
welded them together to make adapters. turned some notches into the 
adapter so the pipes wouldnt blow off. cut 2" off the ends of the 
existing pipes, and a added some short 32mm sections to the radiator 
end. all fitted together with screw on pipe clips. no leaks so far.

the one irritation is that the fan (which I spent ages de-rusting and 
painting the cover of) seems to have a duff motor. so now I have to 
source one of those. of course, now I have a car with the more common 
(1.3l) version of the radiator, so that shouldnt be hard.

ttfn!