Assetto Corsa Winter Works

[urquattrogus]

Thanks, sounds about right, I went for 28nm in the end.

Yes that's exactly what I did, Hylomar blue on wet gaskets, none on the dry ones.

I think Hylomar blue is great stuff, inert non setting jointing Jollop (as we say in the trade) that works.

With regards to the expansion tank hose, it's been sent off to Roose and they are going to make me one, with a view to offering it for other owners in the future.


Still coming along slowly but surely:

Lots of small bits like gaskets and clips all being replaced with new, cables and hoses to route, and also one of the non return valves that goes to the oil breather assembly needed replacing.

 

[Evo Cymru]

Thanks for the replies - as I thought but thought I would check to be sure. Just to clarify I should have said 'o' rings really, not gaskets, as this is what is used for the water manifold.

Regards

 

[urquattrogus]

More progress, could have fired her up late this weekend but I'm now waiting on that silicon expansion tank hose:







No prizes for guessing what's wrong with the one way return valve. All of the others were OK.

 

[Contigo]

Looking good Gus!

 

[urquattrogus]

The guys a Roose did a sterling job and turned a hose around for me nice and quickly. This now means that all coolant hoses are Roose silicon in oem black.

This should now mean that others can order said hose for a sensible price, and not the £240 inc vat Maserati quote!

 

[urquattrogus]

Well, she lives. Started her up and ran up to temp at about 11pm last night. Nearly a major anticlimax as the battery did not have quite enough juice to turn her over, but half an hour on the charger was enough. No fuel or coolant pissing out anywhere is always a bonus too!

Haven't taken her out yet, more little trim jobs etc to do, but she seems to idle nice and smoothly, I don't think having the injectors cleaned along with all of the other work has done any harm at all. The new starter motor also seems more willing than the old one.



Nice to sort out all of the small jobs like putting the heat shield on correctly (previously held on by one cable tie, another indie dealers work when some air con pipes were replaced it would seem) , replacing clips etc.



Filled her up with Paraflu Antifreeze mix, the capacity is listed as approx 12.5 litres in the manual for those who want to know.

 

[Contigo]

Top work Gus!

 

[safrane]

Always good to heard and read a car is back to life again.

 

[urquattrogus]

Thanks guys. I've just run her up again and re checked levels, what also makes it seem worthwhile is that for the first time I now have rock steady idle. Doesn't seem so common on the 3200, certainly wasn't on the other two cars I went to look at before buying this, and as you know, this one has had some issues too.

It now quickly returns to a steady 1000rpm:

[video]https://youtu.be/Ug837r9qCAM[/video]

All down to ditching this stuff and checking everything. Hopefullly it stays that way!

 

[allandwf]

Nice one

 

[RSM Masser]

Always a worry - a box of bits left over and everything running!
Nice job you have done there, I'll drop mine off now you have the experience, shouldn't take as long!

 

[urquattrogus]

How does £200 per hour sound? Deal?!

On a serious note, pm me if you want to know anything, I'm sure others can help too.

In fairness it does make you realise that these are not cars to rush on. Things take time!

Having those air inlet ports at that angle makes you feel there is a constant threat of dropping some debris down into the engine, difficult to clean etc. A powerful hoover stopped that when cleaning, felt like I was a dentist at one stage!

I was also cursing the fact that I bought another turbo car, esp a twin turbo one. So many hoses, vac lines etc and not much space!

Made me wish for the simplicity of working on my NA Alfa or about a year ago the Plymouth, big lump of pig iron where you can almost stand in the engine bay!

 

[voicey]

Having those air inlet ports at that angle makes you feel there is a constant threat of dropping some debris down into the engine, difficult to clean etc. A powerful hoover stopped that when cleaning, felt like I was a dentist at one stage!

If anyone is doing this in the future then try putting some blue paper down the inlets. That way you can clean the faces up whilst the paper prevents anything dropping down. At the end you can lift the paper and any debris out with a vac.

Also, the faces clean up nicely with some 3m scotch brite lubricated with oil. Then brake cleaner to wash it off.

 

[urquattrogus]

Good point, I did use blue paper to begin with, and then switched to tape, still scared with both solutions somehow. If felt like stuff was collecting on the top of the paper.

Care is the order of the day I guess. Belt and braces would be some plastic bungs?

There was just so much crud on the block. I did the best I could using some gunk degreaser and a brass brush, and about 4 tins of brake cleaner!

 

[Mott The Hoople]

Awesome! This Gig was unusual for me in that I don't have any of her Albums and did not know any of the songs, I just booked the tickets on impulse. I enjoyed it. She started slowly and built up. At one stage I was thinking this is not as "bluesy" as I expected, but my jaw then dropped as they went into a BB king style slow and cool beat with amazing Guitar from JST.

I'm going to see Mac Demarco and Hayley Bonar in the next few months which should be good - I try and take advantage of being quite close to London, although it's a late train back on a weekday night!

As for who's the best.... I don't know? Hendrix?

It was Jeff Beck. I swear it must be witchcraft to play that well.

 

[urquattrogus]

Martina (yes that's her name) has been only slightly neglected of late whilst I play with my new toy.

I have spent a lot of time rubbing down, degreasing and priming, and painting the subframes and some other ancillaries. Two coats of black were applied once prepped.

This was done using POR 15 products on the ramp at work. I had to take the exhaust link pipes out and the undertray etc for access.

I think this is a good thing that will protect things nicely, it seems to be a good finish that doesn't look like it will chip easily. Only time will tell.

One thing about the Assetto Corsa is that it's a ***** to put the front undertray in, there are those extra brake ducts and lining them up isn't that easy, you cant just bolt the front undertray back on.. I'm going to have to remove some of the ducts, no bother I suppose, but you start to think "right, will just pop that back on and off I go!" but it's not to be.

The actual tips of the brake duct to disc look to be carbon fibre, but the rest of plastic with some extra brackets, all those little brackets etc all certainly needed painting.

So that's my whole list done!

For now at least, it's time to enjoy!

 

[StuartW]

Well done! The tips of those ducts are indeed carbon. The brackets on one of mine corroded and the duct came off but fortunately I didn't lose it, so I have seen it at close quarters.

So yes, time to enjoy it - a whole different beast to your new addition

 

[urquattrogus]

The irony being that the 3200 is still much more likely to spit you into a ditch if you disrespect it! Even with 130bhp less.

 

[allandwf]

The irony being that the 3200 is still much more likely to spit you into a ditch if you disrespect it! Even with 130bhp less.

That's half the fun!

 

[urquattrogus]

Too true!