DieselMonte's 2012 Monte Carlo Project.

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Cars tracked and all done there.

Now a full service kit, all genuine.

Genuine Air, Oil, Fuel, Pollen and wipers.

Quantum oil of course.

Only 10k on this.

Been tracking down a few leaks, boost mostly.

Seen weeping here.

So put a new seal on the damper, genuine of course. Cleaned all up well and replaced.

Egr seal on the intake manifold was suspect too, so again changed it for genuine.

All back together and tightened. 

Tightened and replaced some suspect boost clamps too. Cleaned them all out when I was at it.

Replaced the MAF for one off the parts car too. Running much better now, a lot more responsive 

Replaced the undertray and tec screwed the back onto the subframe as it was lower than I'd like. Plywood somehow holding up still

Got some new steel rivnuts for the BAF K brace, seems a better job than the soft aluminium ones, somehow.

Sitting well on the new suspension, rides very well and has fantastic roadholding. Can't recommend the ST shock and spring kit enough.

Solid rubber wishbone bushes feel fantastic, roadholding is very good too.

Few other small things, but bulk of it is up to scratch for now.

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Another Trip to the UK

Went to Melbourne for straight liners. Not a terrible run, mostly straight shot on the motorway so fairly little trouble.

Got there VERY early so hung around York for a bit and then went to the air museum nearby.

Even loaded with stuff it sat fairly well. Ended up sleeping in it, didn't bother taking a tent.

Was a fantastic place, they even had a Saracen

Did a few runs on Saturday

And set some mediocre times. Soft limiter stopped me revving high enough so kept bogging off the line.  First run was fastest and kept getting slower as the day went on.

Exhaust would start rattling every time I finished a run and would stopped when I pushed it. Help from a friend bending the rearmost bracket solved most of it. 

Fastest time was a 10.61, slowest being 10.99 and the rest of the day was struggling in the 10.8s. 

Amazingly original clutch took it fine, aside from injector tick it ran fine the whole time too.

Car drove very nicely over and back with the new suspension, even got 60 mpg on the way over.

Pretty good weekend in all, definitely going again.

Injector tick is getting worse and worse but still driving fine. It will need changed when it goes.