1998 Almera Si

[tommo]

quick mobile clip of a blast off a roundabout earlier on. listen for the bangs between gears... nice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9TbW6tkpNs

 

[Dale]

Nice vid tommo, sounds sweet and seems like it moves nicely too.
Good ole 1.4's cant beat em, cheap tax and insurance, and plenty of fun.

 

[tommo]

cheers pal.

got the grinding sound sorted, it was the brakes, they have worn a lip on the inside, its strange, pics later...

 

[CoV]

can tell its not a bog standard 1.4, kool.

Sounds just like my sunny

 

[sprint]

great cars the 1.4's, drive them like you stole them all day everyday and they just dont give up, mine got abuse for 13k and alot of long hard drives around country roads and never missed a beat!

does yours redline at 7k? im sure my old one was at 6.5k, revved to 7200 on the gauge though.

 

[tommo]

i have no idea where it exactly redlines mate. the original tacho showed it limit at 7100rpm and since i had random tacho death i swapped it for a gti one and it shows it limit at 7200rpm.

watchin that video, although its not exactly fast, it does look and sound like it pulls clean all the way round the rev guage. i like

anyway, back to random brakes. when i swapped the brakes i found the following on the inside of both front discs:

ive never seen a lip form like that before, its was starting to struggle braking, and making grinding noises. its pissed me off slightly because although the pads are still really thick, almost new id say, they are now useless due to the lip worn into them.

ergh.

 

[CoV]

hard pads eating into the discs perhaps?

 

[tommo]

dunno. the pads moulded themselves around that lip. seems fixed now anyway....

 

[GTi kurt]

When's the GTi coming then?

 

[tommo]

end of summer i reckon.

got a few missions for the 1.4 first so gonna start savin some munnies.

 

[tommo]

right were back on form. 12 months test, 6 months tax and 12 months insurance (£320 tpft and i can drive other cars) got the dented door sorted and itsd clean at last. brakes are now fine and its all lookin ok at the min, roll on the shows and shakespeare county raceway

fartin about for mot

pics of the exhaust off the car

de-cat:

5Zigen backbox:

and despite popular belief it is actually red

cheers.

tom.

 

[shaggy_master]

Looking clean boss!
Even better with the new door

 

[CFN_MAC]

Glad to see you door is sorted m8

did you have any problems like we did when changing mine around?

 

[tommo]

yes we did mate, ive got no central locking any more lol

 

[CFN_MAC]

yeah corbs mentioned it to me about it locking and unlocking constanley

Im sure i was reading a thread with a similar issue in the GTI section might help a bit

 

[shaggy_master]

There was some sketchy aftermarket alarm involves wasn't there Tommo?

 

[tommo]

that was a guess, and it made sense, but meh, ripped that out anyway lol. just gonna add i wipped a new mini cooper the other night, unless it was a mini one kitted up to look like it. silly idea, id never make my car look like something its not

 

[Dale]

Ga**de Ftw!

 

[tommo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kut-IVqga-s

 

[shaggy_master]

Looks pretty clean boss!
Seems to pull alright for an Si aswell!