Titan 3.0 Progress

[Braz86]

After a month of ownership, it's only fair that the 3.0 took a trip to the Zed Shed to get it off its stock stilts and to a more sensible ride height.

Considering how long it took to do the front shocks on my 2.0, this was a walk in the park, all parts went on and off with ease and felt like it took no time at all.

@Lee hiding under @GazHyde armpit

The only issue we came across was this little beauty

So it was an emergency trip to ECP with @pgunter to get new pads and disks, and coffee of course, and all was well again.

No pics or work on the rear shocks and springs, but here's the finished job

Thanks as always to the Zed Shed gents, they are already trying to get me to spend my money on refurbing the subframe as all the bushes need doing. I'll put it on the Xmas list gents!

 

[Dino D]

That sits so nicely on those wheels.

Trust them on subframe and bushes - it’s a transformation you won’t believe - I certainly didn’t believe it possible to have such a planted Z until it went under the knife at the shed...these are are amazing once refreshed set up properly- you are in the right place for it too, doubt there is anywhere else that has done so many Z3 rear ends!

 

[d0wnin]

Looks so good. Can’t wait to get mine done

 

[Braz86]

Yesterday, after chatting to Paul regarding speakers and frequency ranges, I bit the bullet and ordered some low range pioneers from Halfords, currently £20 for the 4" for the rear with a 35hz low end, and £35 for the 5" which should fit the front, 33hz low end. Slight modding needed of the speaker cover due to the central protrusion, just have to remove the wire gauze, then the foam that crumbles away, and snip out the central star and replace the gauze. Easy! Pics below

Sounded a lot better then stock obviously, and checked out the range with a signal generator on my phone, bluetoothed to the head unit, then recorded for you lovely people

I have some new speaker wire on order, just incase I need it, but hope to do the fronts tonight and see what the overall quality is like

 

[Braz86]

A dry day! Managed to get some free time too, so installed my Christmas presents-new water pump and thermostat. All seems good, but will check it tomorrow. Also tried the accelerator reset, but will see if there's any difference tomorrow too. A few pics below

Fan out, ready for the real work

Yup, knackered

Thermostat found at the bottom of the radiator pipe, definitely good to remove all hoses and check!

Cock! Sheered off trying to push out the water pump

New bolt was a bit longer, so packed out a bit to compensate

Next jobs are sorting out shoddy bodywork 'repairs' not that I'll be much better, and replacing the wishbones/mounts/track rods etc. Then I just need to save for the rear subframe refresh

 

[t-tony]

Good work mate. I still have a new W/pump and T/stat to fit. Must get it done.

Tony.

 

[Braz86]

Finally a dry enough day to work on the car, wishbones, drop-links and track rods are the order of the day, so that hopefully I can drive in a straight line! Going by the last time I did this, I made the decision to go with pre-fitted mounts on the wishbones, which would save about 2 hours of sweat and swearing.

Everything came off smoothly, except the tie rods, which seemed like they were welded on!! They are in good nick, so will leave those alone

Managed to attack the nearside top nut with a bit of engineering too

Old wishbones and mounts

It was all going so well, and then someone *coughs* @Mnbrennan *coughs* decides to snap both new bolts for the OS lollypop Much swearing ensued (I was surprisingly calm and relaxed), and we moved on to finishing the NS, which went better as we used my tapping set to clean out the threads first

I collected my extensive set of blunt drill bits and Martin set about trying to right his wrongs, but in the end we decided to call it time and think about how we are going to fix this slight predicament

To be continued......

 

[Axelf]

Can I ask what the accelerator reset is ? I have a 2.0 6cyl and throttle is stiff
Thanks

 

[Braz86]

Can I ask what the accelerator reset is ? I have a 2.0 6cyl and throttle is stiff
Thanks

What year is it? Models from around 2000 had a fly by wire accelerator, so no throttle cable. Stiff pedal sounds more like you have a cable

 

[gookah]

What year is it? Models from around 2000 had a fly by wire accelerator, so no throttle cable. Stiff pedal sounds more like you have a cable

not necessarily, some are a hybrid and have both an electronic throttle, and a cable, where the motor only does cruise control and asc, the cable is used as a normal accelerator

This is mine with both:




The throttle reset is by using the 'adaptations' in INPA where the software calibrates itself to the driving style, Resetting it gets it back to normal defaults

 

[Mnbrennan]

Yeah I was pretty p*****, someone previously had screwed the threads and I just made it worse

I have a plan...

 

[Braz86]

I haven't updated this for a while.

Managed to get the snapped bolts out, it did take a day and a half, but it's all part of the fun

New bolts in after a good clean up of the thread, and a bit of loktite just to be extra cautious, and jobs a goodun.

Next project is the sills. Someone that a specialist in Luton sent it to for new outers and any welding required, did an absolute bodge job.

Anything rusty was just painted over with waxoyl, or similar sticky paint, no cleaning up attempted. Less than 2 years ago!

This is what I found

Looks horrific, but that end plate is so thin it's like they wanted it to happen! Although I've never seen it before. Quick thinking and came up with a plan. 0.5mm steel sheet ordered online, and was considering welding, but found super steel in Halfords, which I thought I'd give a try. It's an absolute life saver! Not the neatest job, but gets everything sealed and looking better

Luckily the main sill bodys were just a bit of surface rust, so worse than it looked in all.

Everything cleaned back to bright steel then treated with Vactan outside and Dynax S-50 inside, before painting with red oxide and a spray of stone chip for good measure.

The goon at the bodyshop never stone chipped the sills, I did that too whilst I was at it

Now I have to find something else to do or fix, any ideas?!

 

[Jjim]

Great work

I'm currently using the downtime to strip out the interior and refurbish the leather, also sort out any wiring whilst the dash, centre console and seats are out.

 

[Rob Stokes]

Out of interest approximately how much £££s is it to drop the rear sub and refresh everything and put it back? Would like to know roughly how much I need to save up to sort my rusty bits..

 

[Braz86]

Out of interest approximately how much £££s is it to drop the rear sub and refresh everything and put it back? Would like to know roughly how much I need to save up to sort my rusty bits..

At a guess, I'd go with about 500, but it depends exactly what you are replacing/upgrading. @Lee is the best person to ask on that

 

[Braz86]

Tank strap Friday courtesy of next day delivery from @Mazza. Glad I don't have to do that again! NS hook was rusted to the bracket so took about 20 mins to get off, and OS is jus a pain in the arse!

Managed to unhook the bracket, but still needs cutting to remove. Gives you a bit more play

10mm spanner required here as the nut is too close to the beam

 

[mrscalex]

At a guess, I'd go with about 500, but it depends exactly what you are replacing/upgrading. @Lee is the best person to ask on that

From memory that's exactly what it cost me.