Ricks Arctic 24v

[Kev_mk3]

Things have taken a turn
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id stick with the v6 over the saab........... (DI pack gives it away)

 

[TubaMagna8]

id be interested in a v6 at some point

 

[rickisgrate]

The v6 lives on for now

 

[DavebGsi]

Love the noise of a V6, are you using it much?

 

[rickisgrate]

Love the noise of a V6, are you using it much?

Yeah I've been using it a lot recently, put off using it because the tracking was miles out but now it's sorted I actually enjoy driving it again

 

[DavebGsi]

good man, mine is definatly parked up alot more than it should be, they should be used these things!

 

[rickisgrate]

So its been a while since ive had this out, simple reason is that it broke down about 2 months ago when I last used it. Nothing major just the alternator which I knew was on the road out for about a year because the bearings were whining quite loudly but it finally gave up. And it was one of those things where I just parked it up and forgot it due to other stuff happening in life.

But I'm happy to report its all fixed again, new alternator on with no issues, went to put the belt on and the tensioner was seized solid, thankfully all the v6 engines use the same tensioner so sourcing a new one was easy and that was replaced as well. Next hurdle was the belt which was a like for like replacement and it was 15mm too short, but again its a fairly common size so a new belt was fitted and all is right with the car again, alternator wise anyway.

Here is a picture of the old alternator and tensioner, I don't have a picture of the new ones because they look exactly the same except shinier.


I dont have any pictures of the fitting process either simply because I dropped it off at my mates workshop and he did it all inbetween doing actual paying work so I'm always grateful for that.

This is a picture of some of the cars he works on along with the astra after everything was all done


I took it a run to make sure everything was OK and happy to report it is, so here's a picture of it next to some herris fencing to prove that its OK


So that's it about for now, plans are to get the bodywork tidied up a bit, fix the oil leak from the sump gasket and get the wheels refurbished all in time for show season next year.

Oh I also went to Toronto Canada to see Oasis because all the tickets in Britain were bought up by scalpers and 13 year old children. I am not an oasis fan but my missus is l, but after seeing the show live I dont dislike them as much as I did but Toronto is pretty cool and you can still get caramel sundae's in McDonald's over there.

 

[rickisgrate]

So, no other way to put this, the v6 is dead. Proper update coming when I know more

 

[A.tapos]

Oh no

 

[rickisgrate]

So yesterday whilst driving upto glasgow to see Aunty Donna (fabulous show see it if you can) i was doing about 70mph when the oil light came on, I immediately got onto the hard shoulder and before I could switch the engine off I heard the dreaded knocking noise. I wasn't too far from home and decided fk it the engine is knocking anyway so I drove it home rather than wait 9 hours for a recovery wagon.

Went back out today started it up and it was very knocky so I drained out the old oil and put some new stuff in and the noise quietened down a bit. Great I thought so I took a drive up the road and the noise returned louder and more prevalent than before and the oil light is strobing on the dash so I suspect the oil pump has failed. The car was way down on power as well as I limped it back home with all the neighbours wondering what the **** the noise was coming up the street.

I did take a video but I dunno how to upload it to here so I'll figure it out and stick it up. But aye, for the foreseeable future, I'm done with this car

Here's a picture of the feeder gig i attended on Friday night to bring some happiness back


Feeder are awesome, go listen to feeder on MySpace or AOL or wherever you get music these days

 

[rickisgrate]

So i uploaded the video to YouTube. Its hard to pick up on camera but you can definitely hear it knocking

 

[DavebGsi]

Yeaaaaa

that sounds dead rick

Gutted for you buddy

 

[Kev_mk3]

Thats dead absolutely gutted as they are not easy to get now. When you take it out. Don't bin it its all I ask

 

[joycey]

Oh man that sucks

 

[rickisgrate]

Well all going well ive hopefully sourced a replacement v6 engine which will be a straight swap over. I do have a saab b204 engine sitting but my plan was to do a bit of work to it before fitting and all going to plan that's still the case. Or if all goes well acquiring this other v6 engine i might just sell it on and let someone else have their fun with it

 

[DavebGsi]

top news rick, I think being A V6 makes your build different, it's not all about power