Right apologies for the delay i have been busy just not had a chance to get it all up on here..
so after a few rainy days last week i had a tidy out of the garage and found some goodies left over from other cars and projects that might come in handy, won a few items on ebay and even had a little sketch of what in my head!
things i have managed to collect
1. Panda Haynes manual £1.99
2. Starter motor £12.99 - new one is £150 just hope its a good one.
3. found in the garage an induction kit for my old honda LSI ( bonus) £0.00
4. Passenger side light and indicator £1.99
5. honda civic brand new radiator £27.99 - don't think it will fit tho : (
6. Radiator Mounts for a honda civic 10.00
7. Bosch fuel pump. £0.00 found in my garage.. : )
grand total so far - £ 301.00
also Mike the previous owner sent me down a new brake pipe he found in his garage ( what a legend feel like ive robbed the fella already lol)
so on to the good bit Mr christopher allen came over on saturday afternoon and it was great to have someone else as excited about this project as i am giving me a hand!!
so we managed a few early wins first up the accelerator cable had to be slightly modified ( bent and adjusted and we managed to hook up the panda cable set up to the ESI lump. we had to shave down the inlet manifold and flip the mounting bracket but it seems to work well ( i will i'm prove this once its a proven runner) video below mr crallen getting a bit over excited...
next up was the Clutch cable of which i have both the fiats and the Hondas so a we managed to butcher the hondas clutch cable for the bits we needed and then cut the pandas to make it work with the honda engine.
nice
it took a while but i trimmed the pipe that direct the panda cable the other side of the bay (as the panda box is on the opposite side to the honda. with the help of my trust Dremmel we made the panda cable work for us.
this seems to work well although the clutch accelerator and brake housing is quite flimsy.. we will just have to wait and see if it all functions well enough.
by this time crallen and i were getting stuck in
leaving the brakes to another time we started to investigate the fuelling. crallen having recently done a simular set up on the cortina it was interesting to get his feedback on the current set up which was a walbro pick up set up to a very smart swirl pot.
but it would seem that really you would have a smaller pick up pump and then a filter swirl pot and a larger pump to feed the engine from the pot... if the swirl pot is full but the tank pump is sucking air then there would still be fuel starvation so if the pump is sucking out the pot then there should be no fuel starvation.. i did a bit of digging in the garage and found a bosch pump from a 16v mk1 gti i had and a sytec fuel filter in the box of bit i got with the car... result! i will mount these bad boys once i grab a bit of ali and some rubber mounts..
looks like the last owner mike had a good sense of humour lol..
right so before we head off and have a few beers with the boys we decided to have a look at the gear linkage, we decided to have a bit of fun and see if we could raise it up as close to the driver as possible. it should be fairly simple but we need to fabricate a box to mount the linkage on..
first we need to work out the angles and location..
with that roughly sorted we needed to cut a hole in the panda : (
give you a better idea... we will have to adjust the linkage but it shouldn't cause too many dilemmas
a little sketch of how we intend to mount the linkage.. hope to get the box / mount made up this week.
next up i have started to work out the panda wiring that i will require and what i don't.. will give you an update soon but because they are so basic it shouldn't be too tricky... fingers crossed.
