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Hi, I know you said had a look at the breather but did you get the steel wool condenser/out? I think you have to incriminate the top to get the condenser out? Or try blowing down the breather hose into the filler pot with the filler cap off?y memory may be failing me but I am pretty sure you have to uncrimp the top? Also, the front wings crack because the rear subframe mountings rust out and the whole subframe tries to rotate backwards and forwards under power and under braking. Always worth poking a screwdriver up into the subframe mounting box to see if it is rotten. We always used to cut the bottom of the front wing off to replace the boxes (available on ebay from a guy who also makes subframe rear legs and other metalwork for Fulvias) as you can't do it properly from inside the car no matter that people say! Not trying to upset you now that you have painted the car I assure you! And HF Fulvias had the valve covers painted a bright yellow, competition cars have them painted the same yellow with a light blue stripe front to back between the fixing bolts/screws. They were never body colour. But you probably know this!
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goldnrust
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I didn't actually take my breather to bits, but removed it from the car and looked inside it with a torch, then blew through it in both directions and could feel that air could pass freely through it ,so figured it couldn't be blocked. Don't worry about upsetting me The good news is that the subframe and subframe mounts are all solid as a rock, both have ben repaired/replaced at some stage but were going nowhere. The problem was that the wings themselves had rotted and split (probably before the welding repairs were done to subframe) but had only been repaired with filler..... If you go back a few pages you can see that I've had both of the bottoms of the wings off, and checked it out inside, rebuilt the inner sill structure and then welded repairs to the wing and arch. Yeah I've seen the blue and yellow ones and they look great, but not having an Hf I'd feel like a cheat having the blue and yellow cam cover showing through the grill. I like the idea of the body colours cam cover just to be a bit different. To cheer myself up after the paint (which incidentally doesn't look quite so bad now I've slept on it but still needs work to blend in) I've gone and bought some wheels this morning.... Should turn up in a few days and be in keeping with the car and it's style, yet a bit different to whats normally on Fulvias. The problem is 4x98 PCD, so will have to have a think about the best way to deal with that! Spacers/adapters might not be a goer as the offset will end up too low, if I can re-drill the wheels I will, if not I might be able to redrill the hubs, I'm sure there's a way to make it work, haha.
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Jun 27, 2013 10:23:34 GMT
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It looks good despite the paint fade mate! Y ou def gotta leave the front bumper off, it improves the look dramatically.
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Clement
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Jun 27, 2013 11:12:33 GMT
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Front bumper off looks good, but needs meatier tyres I can't wait to see the new wheels!
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Jun 27, 2013 15:29:37 GMT
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Yeah I've seen the blue and yellow ones and they look great, but not having an Hf I'd feel like a cheat having the blue and yellow cam cover showing through the grill. I like the idea of the body colours cam cover just to be a bit different. y . Totaly agree with not going the fake HF route. Since the choke cable is stiff wire you might be able to splice on (weld) a new end out side of the housing. Thanks for the photo tutorial, I may figure it out yet.
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1987 Alfa Milano/75 1979 Alfetta Mille Miglia 1976 Alfetta GT race car 1970 Lancia Fulvia 1.3 Rallye S 1968 Fiat 850 spider
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Jun 27, 2013 16:37:59 GMT
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perhaps a stupid question, but you will G3 the new paint right ? so then carry on along and cut polish the old paint too, might bring it up a bit closer to the new paint
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Last Edit: Jun 27, 2013 16:43:37 GMT by darrenh
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Jun 27, 2013 19:30:13 GMT
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Does look great. But those big air gaps between the tyres and arches....
I'm glad your enjoying driving it. Imagine it with some extra boost though... A little supercharger etc...
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goldnrust
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Jun 27, 2013 20:46:54 GMT
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Darren, not a stupid question. Yes that's my plan, but basically I can see that it's gonna need more than that to look good. I think I'll get away with most of it, aside from the door which will need more work. Those air gaps are to be fixed soon This weekend will be dedicated to putting my motorbike back together, but lows are high on the priority list along with the proper de-bumpering. I've bodged the indicators and plate back on, so I can drive tonight but it needs sorting neatly.
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. Those air gaps are to be fixed soon This weekend will be dedicated to putting my motorbike back together, but lows are high on the priority list along with the proper de-bumpering. I've bodged the indicators and plate back on, so I can drive tonight but it needs sorting neatly. Then I am going to source a nice supercharger and fit that to the engine just to make everyone happy! Yes - that will do nicely :-)
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Last Edit: Jun 29, 2013 1:25:31 GMT by yoeddynz
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Hi. Just as a hopefully helpful point, you can fit alloy wheels from a Skoda 130 etc from the 1970s/80s, the rear-engined models. They might need a little turning on the back to get the right offset but the stud/bolt pattern and PCD is correct...
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MK2VR6
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I've not checked in on this thread for a while, but am impressed with your huge progress! Interesting to read your rollercoaster ride over the last few weeks too. As far as paint goes, prepping and painting the rest of the car has got to be the way forward; personally I'd always be drawn to eying up the mismatch each time I looked at the car. Get it done done now while the new paint is fresh and not faded. For a mojo boost, do you know of anyone else with a Fulvia? It's always a good feeling chatting and meeting with others of the same marque, and will remind you why you like it really! On an aside, I've just found out an old mate I worked with in the early 90's still owns his Fulvia from the time. I can still clearly remember him buying it and a road trip to Plymouth, with me driving my mk1 Golf. Unfortunately my mk1 is long gone, but the Fulvia is still around and slowly beig restored! He says he would never sell it after all this time and likened it to a slightly twisted love affair... Keep going - it's looking grrrrreat!
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jgjg36
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Jun 30, 2013 18:42:02 GMT
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Hi there, have read you're progress on this avidly, really impressed with your work, Always liked the Fulvia, a friend of my dad's (Clive York, RIP) used to run a little Lancia workshop filled with Fulvia/Flavia/Flaminias in various states of disrepair and parts pilled to the raffters, you'd have loved it! Anyway I saw posted above the words "Fulvia" & "supercharger" in the same sentence, and you obviously like a challenge...which leads me to a car I saw at an AutoItalia event at Gaydon a few years ago: Couldn't find much info on it but this may help: www.lancisti.net/forum/showthread.php?5274-Supercharged-Fulvia-SportCheers, keep up the good work!
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goldnrust
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Jun 30, 2013 20:31:08 GMT
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Cheers guys Really interesting to see some more pics of that supercharged sport, I've seen those couple of pictures of the Lancisti thread a few times but never any more info. That plenum looks very OEM I wonder if its off a different Lancia model? I've always thought making plenum that flows evenly and well would be one of the sticking points for a sort of home built turbo/supercharger project like this. Wheels are sorted, they are the wrong PCD, but I will make them fit, because they will be awesome and have echoes of the lovely Campagnolos on that supercharged sport, but be a bit different. I did think about just blowing over the whole car, one of this issues with that is the colour is a custom matched one and I doubt they can replicate it exactly, and I didn't buy enough to do the whole car. I've looked at it closer and I think I need to do a proper blending job on the door and boot lid, then everything else will look fine after an attack with 2000 grit wet, some g3 and a little polish. I had a spare few moments this afternoon, so I thought I'd investigate the rear de-bumper and try out some paint restoration while I was at it. Heres a before, this is washed btw, but it's got some sort of road dirt/grease layer embedded in it. And here's the after.... a bit of rubbing compound and a polish made a huge difference to the paint! I like how the de-bumper looks but like the front there are some problems to solve. I need to work out if theres a way to remove the bumper mounts, without just cutting them off as it looks a little unfinished right now. Secondly there's number plate light, I've decided I didn't want to go for imitation HF lights with a chrome one each side of the number plate, and was hoping to fit a mini motorcycle one above the plate, but there;s just not enough room, so for now I've mounted it to the side, and I'm going to buy a second one to mount on the other side to make it symmetrical.
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Jun 30, 2013 22:01:50 GMT
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Cheers for the kind words guys, it is appreciated Every car has it's own character & situation where it shines best so matching the two with regular use isn't easy, so even the 'best' sometimes doesn't quite fit or satisfy as you may wish. I think you've really hit the nail on the head there, when I can only run one car day in day out there's 4 days a week when I wouldn't swap the Fulvia for the world, but then 3 days when it's just not giving me 100% whats I want out of a car. My impressions of the Fulvia haven't been distorted at all It's taken me a good few weeks of thinking to come to this decision, even yesterday I went for a drive and thought 'what a special little car'. While I've had my fair share of issues to work through, many of them are only really niggles. For example this knocking noise, both my parents drove the car and couldn't feel it, and had I not been chasing that I'd have not had half the work to do on this. And I think it's also fair to point out I've done ~10,000 miles in the last 6 months in my Fulvia and not once has it left me stranded, come rain or snow or ice or sunny warm traffic jam. I may have had to limp home once or twice but she soldiered on and for an old Italian car that's mighty impressive.
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Jun 30, 2013 23:20:06 GMT
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The rear de-bumper looks good too! Need to do something with that pea shooter though ;-)
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Koos
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Clement
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He's right! Make it longer, hanging down lower and directing upwards
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Great Progress on the car!! I m very curious about your new wheels… This is what will be going on my car for lowering the front end. I bought it from rosso corsa italia, but you could probably also build it yourself. Maybe this might be an idea for you… www.ricambilanciafulvia.it/fulvia-corsa/assetto/694-rulli-balestra-anteriore-fulvia-2-3serie.htmlYou can also modify the upper wishbones for positive camber by moving the holes for the joint inwards, if you want. For the rear end, supposedly the works team removed the 2 lowest leaves of the spring and added them on top, maybe its worth a try. The plenum on the supercharged fulvia looks like it might be made from a heavily modified Flavia camcover..
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Sorry, of course I meant to say negative, like the HF
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zircon
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Last Edit: Jul 2, 2013 20:01:04 GMT by zircon
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