My 3B Coupe project - Total rebuild

[AndyP]

Just over 300miles complete now and it hasn't missed a beat. Did another oil change and final torqueing of the head studs yesterday and just spent all afternoon hooning around the Peak District putting miles on her.

[A80Avant]

With so many heavy duty hoses I doubt it would go anywhere!

[newsh]

My catch tank is also floating since I fitted the 034 HO coils, I need to do some sorting and bracketry

[AndyP]

Next part of the project is to re-do the breather system. It works perfectly as it is now, but since moving the battery to the rear, I have nowhere to mount the seperator, it's just floating a the moment held in place by the hoses.



I'm planning to make my own seperator and catch tank out of aluminum, and use fancy Goodridge type fittings, but I'll start a new thread about that in the fabrication section when it's complete.

[Quattro Dan.]

Looking good Andy, should be lots of trouble free motoring now.

[newsh]

Holy crap mate, that looks sweet! Totally jealous

[DNA-S2]

Looks great mate [emoji106][emoji482][emoji4]

[AndyP]

Well it's finally finished, had a few issues with the water pump which I'll write a separate thread about, but it's now been run up to temp a couple of times, head studs re-torqued and oil changed.



It needs MOT'ing which I'll get done on Saturday, but I took it out for a sneaky run around this afternoon and it feels great

Anybody else fitted RS2 washer jets??



Mine seem to weep, if I drop the bumper to the floor so the jets are below the bottle, water just pours out of them, am I missing a valve or something??

[AndyP]

Got to love the carpet [emoji4]

Beats working on cold concrete

Hoovering it is a PIA though

[DNA-S2]

Good work mate [emoji106]
Got to love the carpet [emoji4]

[AndyP]

Fuel lines now finished and the tank is back in







Ready to connect up to the OE fuel lines


The bottom end is now back in and mostly connected up, I was going to get the head on today but I wanted to get the brakes and clutch bled before because there is better access to the clutch, and I'd run out of brake fluid



Now getting depressed looking at the state of the subframes! It's like the Forth road bridge this car

[andykingfishers2]

Looking good Andy! [emoji106]


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[DNA-S2]

Very,very nice mate [emoji106]

[Error404]

Hmmm, all my bits are painted in normal 2k. Hope it lasts. What happened to it on yours mate?
I've tied the POR15 black velvet manifold paint on my old 7A tubular and it just rusted through in about a year. Maybe I needed more than 2 coats.

Looks great anyway

[AndyP]

Nice
Is that ceramic coating I spy on your manifold?

Nice cam cover & wastegate - RS Blau?

The exhaust manifold and wastegate are painted with this:-

https://por15.3dcartstores.com/HIGH-TEMP_p_104.html

I painted the cam cover with normal car paint to match the colour of the car before but it didn't like the heat. They are now painted with this

http://www.vhtpaint.com/products/engineenamel/

They don't do a really dark blue, but this is pretty close to RS2 blue.