and another squareback

[Lee.C]

Hmmmmm Sexy 

[j-f]

Good job Nicolas. 

[Nico86]

Looks good on Rivieras !

[nicolas]

thank you all for the nice comments. maybe the front needs to go up a little with the 165/80 tyres.

[nicolas]

allright, i don't know but i think the riviera's are maybe not the 'best' wheel for this car. so if anyone wants these feel free to PM me and make me an offer. the grey off the spokes is not contrasting enough with the blue (it works like a charm on a sepia brown latemodel, but not with the blue)

i do have another option, but haven't got around to do that yet.

i have another question btw: where would a maplight be installed in a type3? i know they were fitted in Holmes/Andersons car but i never saw a picture off one in a type3, but it is listed as an option on a GTV type3?

[nicolas]

so i had the engine out for the 3th time in 3 weeks. it started with a slipping clutch and much shatter. so that was replaced and worked fine, till the gearbox started leaking from the seal in the bellhousing. so it came out again.
the problem didn't stop and the gearbox was leaking badly by now. so i had it replaced with another one that just went in this weekend. it was a lot off work and it took me two attempts to do it right (hopefully as i haven't run the car yet). why did i do it twice, well easy. it seems the hockeystick on a type3 is different as the coupler is fixed with a screw from the underside and not from the top like a  beetle. even if the lever has two holes, it won't fit as the holes are offset differently and will not fit. so i had to take it out again.

and the engine had a CR from 11  so that needs to be fixed as well

[Nico86]

Hi Nicolas, are you still selling your set of Rivieras ?

[nicolas]

yes i do. PM me with an offer for 5 wheels.

[Nico86]

yes i do. PM me with an offer for 5 wheels.

  mmm I don't really know what they worth, pm me how much you're asking !

[nicolas]

wow what a week!

so i did most off the driving last week in the fastback (finally took it to EBI), but i had some great fun in the square as well.

i got the engine installed two weeks ago, but not been able to drive it. Cin did and she told me something about it making noise there and not doing that so, and so on. so insted off taking the fastback to Pat's open day last week i took the squareback and it drove OK. still not great, but very economical. no real punch or acceloration can be felt, but that has been taken care of now. the jets in the original carbs are a bit bigger and i swapped the distributor for a 019 now and it seems to work. i need to do some testdriving to be completely sure off course 

the wheels were sold and now i am running on original rims again (with way too skinny 155 tyres allround, but it is fun so far.) maybe, just maybe i can pick up the other wheels this week and fit them somewhere next week.

i also had to fix one seal on the back wheels as it was bent and gearbox oil was really dripping badly  . but that was fixed today and i hope to enjoy it for a few miles now without too much trouble.

if someone has some pics off the car at PAT's or from the cruisenight please post them up or send them to me. thanks

[wolfswest]

ahh, so it wasn't the cam installation that was wrong, pheewww 

enjoy it!

[speedwell]

 

[nicolas]

thanks. i knew i could count on you for having one.

and

in the department of less pleasant/ more unpleasant news, i just got off the phone with the tyreshop and it looks like one 8 spoke just blew. no one got hurt, it happend at night, but the back half is shot. don't know which rim it was, but i'll collect them tomorrow. guess i am looking for 2 back halves now...

[Diederick/DVK]

that sucks! but why are they at the tyreshop? glad it didn't happen on the motorway a few days ago then, right?

[nicolas]

that sucks! but why are they at the tyreshop? glad it didn't happen on the motorway a few days ago then, right?

they are there to fit the tyres. haven't had them on the car yet. these are the ones i picked up at VoWo... but i will see what happened tomorrow. maybe they mounted them incorrect, maybe the rim was not fixed,... we'll see. i'll post some pics.

[speedwell]

thanks. i knew i could count on you for having one.

and

in the department of less pleasant/ more unpleasant news, i just got off the phone with the tyreshop and it looks like one 8 spoke just blew. no one got hurt, it happend at night, but the back half is shot. don't know which rim it was, but i'll collect them tomorrow. guess i am looking for 2 back halves now...

mount your tyres by yourself , easy then the machine
remember the problem is there's no throat in the wheels for tyres   (hope you understand) The tire is too much tightened is do not take its place around the rim

[Turtle001]

been there ... done that ... kaboom there goes an empi

[nicolas]

so here are some pics. the empi wheel was really a hazard as the lip just fell off mounting the wheel and on the other side a similar large crack is seen. it just was not useable like this. so that is a big bummer.

on the other side, i finally had the time to test the Empi tach i bought a while back and that travelled the better part off european shows the last weeks, but that turns out to be a good one. it will need a lot off dusting off and cleaning, but reads steady and correct.

[nicolas]

well it has been a long long time since i posted something for this project, but i have been driving the car everyday since i got it back on the road.

but it had the fastbacks 1776 engine in it as the 1641 was 'troublesome' and didn't perform in any good way.

so i took the engine to a shop to have a look at it and help me diagnose what the problem is and what there is to do.
so that was more then 2 months ago and i thought the holidays were a good time to fix what needs to be fixed and get the engine back in the squareback. so that didn't work out, as there was nothing done to the engine, not even a checkup or test on the dyno. and meanwhile i bought 2 new carbs (well not NOS, but sold as near NOS  )
so i took it home last week and i fitted them after a quick setting and fired the engine up on a makeshift stand. it ran, but the carbs were no good, they flooded, ran poorly, basically ran like $%it.

so i took a look at what i have and i start to have 'dark' ideas.

i happen to have a box with 8 carbs in it for a type 3 and two more on the engine. so if i had payed all these sets a reasonable 200 euros i would be more then halfway in buying Matts (alltorques) turbosetup...
the drawback is that it fits a type1 engine and not a type3, but the more i fiddle with these stupid carbs the more there is a call for turbo, EFI and cranktrigger ignition.


it just would make more sense, eqspecially when i look at this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLR46klwcrM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/qLR46klwcrM</a>

yes even for a 1600... 

anyway i am off to the garage fiddling carbs. 

[Fiatdude]

A very BIG hammer works well when working on stubborn non-responding carbs --

[low oval]

thanks for the tip.

[Fiatdude]

The up side to that is you don't have to worry about working on them again LOL