Back In Black

[denny]

My car was declared ready for collection yesterday evening after all, so I went and picked it up today. Hooray.

Now I just have to get through 500 miles without breaking 3000rpm, and another 500 of 'taking it easy' as I gradually ramp the revs back up to normal levels. At the minute it's like driving a learner bike all over again - not enough power available to get out of trouble, or out of everyone else's way. I think I'll go for a lot of long drives in the evenings for the next couple of weeks, try to get it over and done with.

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It starts extremely happily now, and runs fine straight away, as you'd expect.

Other than that, I can't really comment on it at all, because of the limits on how I should drive it right now - I'm not using the car anything like the way I used it before, so I have no basis for comparison. Ask me in a few weeks :)

It's been rebuilt with some mild porting work, exhaust downpipe exchanged for one without a pre-cat, turbo pack swapped for one without a blown gasket, and clutch plate replaced with one that's nearly new instead of nearly dead. Total cost, 3900 pounds.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Ah, good to know the other problems have cleared up with the engine rebuild - I suppose you'd sort of expect that really.

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

Sounds a very reasonable price, and didn't thake too long either...< grins on your behalf >