Woohoo!! Reassembly starts!

[johnnyringo]

Most impressive! Gutsy! What axle ratio are you running?

[RickyS]

Looks great, I still never managed to catch you going up the hill! Saw you on the way home though, it looked awesome on the road


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[Blackpopracing]

Johnny, it's a 3.5:1 9" True trac. Reading some of the axle calculators recently I may have been better with a 3.8(?) or 4.11's

[v8pop]

Cool Vid Mark, glad your finally getting some use out of it.

Cheers. Tim W.

[Blackpopracing]

Someone sent me this video tonight, I like it

https://youtu.be/H4tBeP6AVe4

[yjohnb]

Does look good on the start and swift !


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[Blackpopracing]

bit of a thread ressurection not had to post for last few years as car 'just works'

I bought myself some upgrade speakers for the Pop. It currently only has two rear side panel speakers, but I'm fitting two extra ones as well. These are to fit in the overhead dashboard.



Some computer aided design gave me templates to work from.



I'd love to show you how I used a holesaw to cut the holes, but unfortunately none of mine were the right size so it was good old fashioned chain hole drilling, looks like an old telephone (for those old enough to remember them);



And after some time it looked like this. I was not happy with the screw clips provided, so changed them out for 4mm steel rivnuts. The reason for that is the speakers sat on top of the clips so stood off the panel a bit, they sit flush with the rivnuts. Or at least they will do as I don't have the tool for them at home, I'll have to borrow it from work on Tuesday.




All fitted and wired in to the rest of the loom.



Happy with that. These are 4" speakers - I've mounted them in such a way that if I want to upgrade to the 5" versions they will still fit/look ok.

[Blackpopracing]

Mmmm....new stuff



After reading through Phils stereo wiring diagrams I quite liked his unit. So decided to upgrade my Kenwood unit to a posh Sony one with hands free phone capability - a hot rod with hands free phone?? whatever next!!

So out comes the roof panel;



Of course the plug on the back is a tiny bit different to the Kenwood plug (of course it is) and the wires on the Sony plug are too short to fit my loom so I had to extend all the wires a bit - I ended up fitting new front speaker wires to avoid joints.

Then popped the unit into the cage - and the locking tabs don't lock on the Sony....*sigh* and the Kenwood cage is epoxy bonded in to stop it buzzing, so that had to all be chiseled off......



But it was all fitted by the end of the evening and the phone works nicely - not sure how well it will work over the engine noise , but I'll at least be able to hear it now. Got to get a DAB aerial for it as well, the FM works but might as well have it all



Anyone want to buy a nice Kenwood head unit?

[mygasser]

''Anyone want to buy a nice Kenwood head unit?''
how much mark? i'll need something in my nash, what with having only a pinto to listen to otherwise .
neil.

[Blackpopracing]

PM'd you Neil.

Edit - cant PM you as it wont work.
I'd take £50 for it? could take it to Popstalgia or Hot Rod drags
It's a Kenwood KDC-4057U https://www.kenwood-electronics.co.uk/car/rec/ipod/KDC-4057UB/?view=details

[mygasser]

unfortunately i can't get to either mate, any chance you can post for another tenner? maybe pack it in the box your new one came in?
neil.

[v8pop]

Nice outcome Mark tidy new one and the old one gone off the garage shelf.

Cheers Tim W

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[Blackpopracing]

Hi Neil,

Yep, that works for me.

[Blackpopracing]

Neil, can you email me directly to the email I sent for paypal? I can't open the PM.

[mygasser]

Neil, can you email me directly to the email I sent for paypal? I can't open the PM.

done.

[Blackpopracing]

Not too much to report, stereo is an improvement on the Kenwood, had 3 phone calls while driving but all spam/fraud so no chance of testing how well it works yet. Kenwood got sold fast as well, so all good there.


My car has been running a bit lean for far longer than it should have been but the recent hot weather at the Supernats & towing made it pink badly *feeling guilty for not doing it before* so I finally got around to doing something about it.

Richened both primary & secondary jets 1 stage bigger and went one spring stiffer on the vacuum needles. Engine is far happier now - I think it's still a little lean on part throttle off cruise but it's definitely the right direction.


As such I was keen to see what the fuel consumption would be like with it richer - would it be worse, better, the same??? Driving up to the hot rod drags it did 19.5mpg so not bad - a little less than before for motorway cruising but fair enough. Driving home we got split up as a convoy so I drove on my own at a steady 65-70mph all the way with a couple of heavy /busy sections on the M1 but did an extremely respectable 22.5mpg!! so really pleased with that - the engine is obviously much happier now.

[jsf55]

As a comparison, the pop runs at about 55/60 because of the teardrop, with efi and 4 speed + lock up and also fuel cut on braking it averaged to the super nats and hot rod drags 29 ish mpg and does it all on E10. Still costs a bloody fortune from Swansea tho !

[BBC ZL1]

Hi John,

It would be interesting to hear what efi system you have, and how you have gone about tuning it for performance and economy.

Thanks

Alan

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[MoreCubes]

As such I was keen to see what the fuel consumption would be like with it richer - would it be worse, better, the same??? Driving up to the hot rod drags it did 19.5mpg so not bad - a little less than before for motorway cruising but fair enough. Driving home we got split up as a convoy so I drove on my own at a steady 65-70mph all the way with a couple of heavy /busy sections on the M1 but did an extremely respectable 22.5mpg!! so really pleased with that - the engine is obviously much happier now.

That's because it's downhill on the way home Mark

[jsf55]

It's a stock GM P59 ecu with hp tuners software and hours and hours of reading. Even now 5 years on from fitting i find new info on it

Hi John,

It would be interesting to hear what efi system you have, and how you have gone about tuning it for performance and economy.

Thanks

Alan

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