One or two of you already know that on the occasion of our Carlisle Christmas dinner, Joe at FCSS took down the Bee for some investigation as well as a service - to be followed up by a long-awaited Flea mapping session, several attempts at which have had to be aborted in the last couple of years.
Just as well.....the "lively ride" down was immediately tracked down to wear on the wishbones.
Not the end of the story though!
Replacement oil cooler pipes and rad
New wishbones and droplinks
New Valeo radiator
2 x T1R's at an amazing price
Full service,
Replace and fit new rear eiffel towers, all POR 15'd
Undent driver's floor well where some tool had jacked it up
Reform corroded jacking point
Replacement bush in gear selector cable
New front discs
plus a few other bits and bobs thrown in.....
Really pleased with this
Then Joe arranged the uplift down to Flea's where the most important discovery was that of major overboosting and audible detonation in the saloon......
This was all sorted, hopefully before major damage done, and while it's maybe lost a wee bit of its manic kick for a second or two the power surge is much smoother and longer, mapping at 262bhp/255sq/ft and boosting at a healthy 1.7 bar
Good to meet up with the master at last - cheers Leighton
An added bonus was clocking 380 miles going home before the fuel light thought about blinking - this was a first by tens of miles!
When I picked it up from the well-known den
it looked like this, thought it had been mapped in a field
but I had to admit that's what the roads were like
Magician at work
Now washed and clean again, raring to go