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I just wouldn't sell it for that Ayds. I'd need a fair bit more than that to even seriously consider it. I've put too much time, effort and dough into it to let someone else have all the fun!

I waxed the inside of my trunk/boot lid. Like the rest of the original paint, it looks fresh off the showroom floor.

I coated my toolbox at my work.. 5 hours/650 degrees.

Is that zinc? or did you actualy gold plate your tool box?

e21mad wrote:Is that zinc? or did you actualy gold plate your tool box?

No its not zinc. Special hard coating material.
Its actualy the same material as you see on this cuttingblade...

neat! I guess in 30 years time you will have the only tool set that isnt rusty. hehe

Tried to remove rear bumber. I started to undo the nut from inside the sides of the boot but the weld failed and im just turning the thread now. How do i get this off as there is not a lot of clearance between car outer body and bumber to get a spanner in to hold the nut!!!!

I drove it like I stole it.

e21-Mark wrote:I drove it like I stole it.

You left it burning in a ditch and abandoned it?

cdavie2002 wrote:Tried to remove rear bumber. I started to undo the nut from inside the sides of the boot but the weld failed and im just turning the thread now. How do i get this off as there is not a lot of clearance between car outer body and bumber to get a spanner in to hold the nut!!!!

I had that on the slug - gave up and masked it up so I could paint around it!

Now what did I do to my E21 today - I put the slug on the truck I managed to borrow, and drove it to Stockport where Mr Wood set up the ignition timing again - I fitted a new crank trigger kit from O2 again, anyone buying this should be sure to get the crank sensor that fits, Ford dealers here don't seem to have the correct trigger - I think it may actually be a brackety bit with the standard sensor in it, but no time to find out so I made my own bracket to go on the 02 again bracket. The timing looked 180 degrees out to my eye, it was actually 183 out. By my calculations that would have squirted fuel into the cylinder, compressed it, expanded it, squished it out of the exhaust valve and lit it just as it was past TDC on the exhaust stroke - FLAMETHROWER!

Then I took it back to the workshop and left it on the truck under a cover in case it rains - bonnet is now full of holes to let air out and a big one with the air intake sticking up through.

Worthless without pictures I know.

Jim

e21mad wrote:neat! I guess in 30 years time you will have the only tool set that isnt rusty. hehe

Untrue!! : mine is (from 1977, so this makes 34 years!) totally non rusty at all, like new!!! Only the plastic cover have I replaced some time before 16 years as the old one was cut in the thin part near the screws...

Two days ago : drove it really fast in "Athens-riviera" going to meet some friends at the beach to take a swim with them,( and, as I had left the office at least 1 hour after they had arrived, I wanted to go there the soonest possible to catch up!)


In the "limanakia" curves

(on the "Poseidonos" coastal avenue in the south of Athens by the sea, there are some close curves called limanakia, where, during the small hours of the night, go some "bad guys" with hot+fast+low cars, especially rwd such as bimmers, or mx5, but other also, for drifting etc. Of course there are also the necessary cantinas with beers and hot dogs, as a lot of other go just to watch, not only the fast+furious, but also the see by night! Also you may regularly meet there the blue guys as well ),

I saw that my car has had a significant performance improvement with the weber (thx to Mark!) and the strut+stress bars...Car was entering the curves very different than ever before, like a real sports car!!
Is this possible just by having added a strut bar??????
And what is more, my tyres badly need to be replaced (just was tinking of leaving them on until the end of the summer...)

Also improved the front brakes lately to ventilated disks-but I have an annoying whinning that I hate...
But way better braking!!!

Spent ages sat in the sun with yet another tube of Autosol and some rags, polishing my BBS and shredding my finger tips on the bolt heads.

Bempie21 wrote:I coated my toolbox at my work.. 5 hours/650 degrees.

My tool kit is also 7 pieces. So the bottom slot must be intentionally empty in all E21's.

I dont know either what kind of tool was in there... Never seen it too...

Maybe got someone a picture of it so i can order it... (I dont want empty places)

Mine is 8 pieces, if I am not wrong...
But still that place is empty, and also different (the shape of the plastic cover at that place is not specially made to hold anything, it's obvious...(I have to take and upload a photo, I know...)
So the 8th tool, is placed under the other 7, in a vertical sense let's say, on the picture here with the gold coloured tools, where some letters can be seen...