] and have just collected all the engine bay hardware that I've had shotblasted, cleaned and powder coated by the great guys at A&C Shotblasting in Newbury [I highly recommend these guys if you live anywhere near West Berks].
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Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas La de Do Da LA ..... looks greatWell, this week has been as though Christmas has arrived a few weeks early...a pile of new parts have been delivered including a proper new Bearmarch brass core radiator, Allisport Intercooler and Breather [they're genuine mechaniporn
Allisport Loveliness...
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I'm chuffed to bits with the powder coating and in being able to use all the original hardware...spend a good time cleaning off 33yrs of crud and have pukka engine bay hardware that will last for another 33yrs + all this at a fraction of the cost of buying new. It's very satisfying
Never mind the lovely Landy bits. I just spotted your red pants in the microwave door
Aye, but did the mrs do owt with ya LandyIv done nothing to mine....
But Mrs went and stroked it & put the cover back on it after the windy weather
but britpart, and the problem I had with it was the bulb shaking loose while driving over cobbles on our Portugal trip. Had a good look at it and I think I may have been the cause of it while fitting the bulb in the first place by not taking enough care to get things lined up properly before ramming it into the fitting. Oh well. While I was faffing about with that I fitted a couple of LED bulbs, even though I have said in the past I wouldn't fit them, they are literally brilliant. Still wont fit them to my indicators though, too many problem threads on here about them.
Fitted a new ctr section exhaust, std with the 2 silencer boxes. Struggled for ages to get the supports into the rubbers, finally unbolted the rear support and fitted that before fitting the front in situ. Now nice and quiet in comparison to the ST/ST straight through one I had on there. That one was put on to replace a duff one just before the mot, and I did notice a slight improvement in performance. Trouble was that since all the sound deadening I have fitted all the other noises have reduced enough to hear the horrid droning from the exhaust, so swapped back to a std system. Happy to say that road testing afterwards no noticeable change in performance.
The slight improvement you felt from the straight through one was probably a false impression from the noiseTook some doing to find this thread hiding out in the cold.
Anyway, finally had time spare to fit a new power steering belt after putting up with it squeeling for the last few weeks, seems to be working OK.
I use the hill coming up to my place as a tester, come off a speed bump at the bottom @ 15 mph and should get to 50mph at a certain roadside post, this is up hill, with the (3 years ago) new straight through exhaust I could get 55mph, so a bit of an improvement. Tested today with the std exhaust and got 55mph so win win.The slight improvement you felt from the straight through one was probably a false impression from the noise
