Honda Civic '78, '65 Corvair and '88 Skoda Rapid.

[The Jackeria]

I need to make a pivot for the throttle cable because the travel at the peddle doesn't equate to 100% butterfly travel at the carb. Will look into angled things with bearings with a view to keeping the peddle feeling/moving freely, it runs now to the left of the engine bay round the front of the carb rather than over the supercharger as you can see in these pictures. Ignore the red/black wires through the un-grommetted hole, they're for my battery tender and won't be on there for much longer and the hole grommeted.

What else? Well I rebuilt the top end of the engine again so it now gets oil to the head where it didn't before for some unknown reason, galleys weren't blocked, correct gasket, unsure if I updated that here or not. Who knows - who cares. It runs again - finally.

I also took the civic for a drive out whenever it was nearly 30 degrees. Valve seals still need doing.

[The Jackeria]

Ohhhh, way back when after a whole bunch more driving, the over fuelling on the fox began to show itself in the trims. Turned out to be a 4 bar regulator on the return line on the pump inside the tank. So if you're going to 1.8t one of these and not go 4 bar straight away. Remove that and use just the 3 bar on the 20v fuel rail. Hard to fix something if you don't know it's there I guess. Sorted now though. Still drives very well.

[The Jackeria]

A few years worth of old parts down to the scrappy.



A plan made for custom cabinets in the garage.



A few more pulleys for the super charger, these will allow me to go up to the maximum 16,000 rpm the AMR can take/more boost.



Picked up a 123ignition 4RVV+EXT which is usually for a beetle or volvo, now I'm very skeptical about what people write online being true - especially with car parts, couldnt find any examples of people actually using beetle ignition parts on their car, however on this occasion it seems the Skodas distributor actually is a bosch 009 copy, I was looking to upgrade to something that can handle the timing changes I'd need now I have boost pressure, from the mounting surface down is is exactly the same apart from the drive dog being different, thankfully 123ignitions have all the dimensions of the unit on their website.

So I knocked out the pins and removed them, redrilled the original skoda one (the larger of the two) and sleeved the shaft to take up the shaft diameter difference.

Wired it up and we're away first try, super easy.














Drove it up and down the lane for the first time in 4 years.

Now that it's working again, I have already made it undriveable - nose of the gearbox has come off to either straighten or replace the shift rod because it has a minute bend which is making gear selection difficult.

[The Jackeria]

If you saw my post in the buying advice column you'll see I was asking for advice on a cabinet. I ended up going for it, a much needed garage update not just to keep things in more order but to help keep things cleaner. I find things really get caked in dust which will only get worse the more I do to the Corvair, this was because I had basic two level work benches with tools on top and storage below. Pretty much everything on show. I bought racking a long while ago and put it down the wall because at the time that made the most sense where I wasn't doing big work on the car right side of garage. That has now changed and I wanted to put tools off show.

So in pictures :











Curtain rail up in the rafters with long drapes to hopefully keep dust off and to make it look tidier, yes this blocks the window but its winter now so who even needs that?

What has it gained me? 60cm down the side of the Corvair, 20cm more in front of the Skoda where the box isn't as deep as the workbenches, 60cm left side of the Skoda where things are no longer on the floor. All the storage can now be accessed without moving the car out which I think is going to be the best change overall.

Next I'm going to cut down the trolley the blast cabinet is on so it will sit further back into it's slot. Way better than before because I can easily wheel it out the door to use so dust from it won't be in the garage. Where before being in the centre of the garage next to the pillar it was in the way and immovable. You might think yeah but you've lost space in front of the Corvair to the cabinets. I haven't, the air compressor and welder were there. so I have just maximized the usage by stacking upwards.

The nose of the gearbox is now pretty much ready to refit.

cleaned out, straightened the slightly bent selector rod, replaced the o rings, replaced the speedo drive which I bought a few years ago.

[jayj83]

The rapid looks so so cool

[The Jackeria]

Still chugging along, to get the nose of the gearbox out, had to drop the cross brace and arms, initially I did this outside when we had semi-decent weather a few weeks ago so it had to go back together to get the car back in the garage, so dropped it down again.



Made a new gasket because I couldn't find the right one online.



Set about reinstallation.



You can really tell which bits I have touched vs haven't touched... I didn't take the gearbox out before because I never anticipated when I bought the car quite how much work I would need to do just to get to where I am (minus supercharger), the intention was never to restore which is why it's been odds and sods here and there. It's been a trek. Still loads more I would do but we'll see, once this is properly useable I'll be pushing on with the corvair.

Probably should get some degreaser under here some day.



Also need a little rubber boot for the end of the shift rod as can be seen there's a channel for it to sit in. Another weekend, more progress.

Shifts so much better now.