Today I mostly .....

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:19 pm

Sanded and varnished on of the new internal Pine doors, touched up a bit of paint on the boat and yesterday added some swivel eyes on the winch bumper

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:39 pm

Those bars should do the trick Simon.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:27 pm

Right now, im outsise, BBQ going, radio on (kids in america currently on) and wifi laptop going...

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:36 pm

Attacked both the Riva and the Cappuccino with the polish and wax.

(might not show up immediately - just had to reset the DNS redirection to my server...try again in the morning if that fails!).

They're both looking slightly less sorry for themselves now.

Lada & Korean Parts · Post by **Lada & Korean Parts** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:08 am

top job.

lada is certainly a beauty.

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:03 pm

It does scrub up well! Unfortunately there are still quite a few holes I need to patch before it'll be MOT worthy - plus there's not actually a single panel on it which isn't dented! You can't really see how much of a state the wings are there either to be honest. Will look a fair bit better once the wheels are painted too I think, they're in a bit of a state at the moment as well.

bk052 · Post by **bk052** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:34 pm

finaly got my wheel's and have put them on the car

vlad · Post by **vlad** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:49 pm

Today i mostly watched the Brits do rather well in world Superbikes

Alejoint · Post by **Alejoint** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:49 am

Buried my 84-yr old grandmother.

Also had a hard time explaining my eldest that she's gone to heaven...

Alejoint · Post by **Alejoint** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:44 pm

Thank you very much David, much appreciated.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:22 pm

Same from England.

madman · Post by **madman** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:35 pm

My condolences Ale.

Today I mostly...

Picked up a copy of 4WD magazine with my Lada in it!

I know, I know... I'm getting tugged out by a Ford in the picture. But in my defense, there was no bottom to that hole, and I was the only one out of 8 trucks that even attempted it.

Alejoint · Post by **Alejoint** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:46 pm

Thanks Mary, Ivan, John and madman for your kind words.

Today I mostly: Started moving from my actual apartment to my mother's flat.

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Sat May 01, 2010 10:47 pm

Not much through the day...aside from watching the snooker, playing some, then tinkering with the Riva a bit in the evening...only stopping because it got dark.

Discovered why my Riva had refused to tickover smoothly since I got it, and why no matter how I adjusted the mixture, it refused to rev without black smoke...and it seemed sluggish...which I'd always just put down to it being a Lada, and that the valve clearances could do with adjusting.

...One of the vacuum hoses was connected in the wrong place, resulting in no vacuum to the advance/retard unit, and quite possibly to the second choke on the carb (or am I thinking of the Skoda 130's carb there?). Sorting this resulted in the idle speed jumping about 700rpm, which was quickly sorted...and suddenly blipping the throttle now results in a very aggressive bark from the carb and a very rapid pickup. Previously this had always caused a brief pause while the engine thought about it, then it would pick up in almost a non-turbo-diesel sort of rate.

Very brief test shows that the rate of acceleration has approximately doubled, and that the engine just generally feels far more "happy" than it had before ever since I got the car. I'd say that the performance now is about what you'd really expect from a car of that size...it feels pretty quick - which is what I've heard people say about the 1.5E Rivas, that they should be pretty brisk. ...Would be nice if this increased the fuel economy from the 25 odd mpg it was managing too.

Basically (assuming the attached image works...) Pipe A and Pipe 1 have been switched around. Not sure whether that should go to the top or bottom port on the carb...though I've since (as of about ten seconds ago) found the diagram of where the hoses are *meant* to go...which isn't entirely clear...and this appears to be completely and utterly wrong. *sigh* Will have another look tomorrow!

Is annoying to find that what you've just done is wrong...especially when it seems to work! This vacuum system truly is a dark art.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:20 pm

Today i mostly provided some radio cover for the Dyfi enduro cycle event