New picture is reporting that the things go slowly but surely

Unfortunately I could not see it in live but from picture only. The thing looks good and I am afraid that any part will be put on it will not make a positive impact. Why can not we just drive a pure painted can without anything on it?

Captain Pirx Is Pigmenting

The next chapter begins in the life of Captain Pirx. After 2 years daily driving a “full” restauration starts. No, it is not full, not even half full. I do not see the reason of making too much change. If the paintwork would have not been gone due to UV and heat of sun I would not even make any. But the body is lacking of lot of pigments and protection of paint and I want to keep the car for ever or more.

In order to make a good start the project is already started with a nice, 1300km long drive from my home to my other home. This is what this car made for. Driving long roads. Whatever speed you wish. It can go easy on highways over limit. Luckily Germany has no limit at very many on their highways and surprisingly this thing could keep up with the latest creation of car makers too, even in the inside lane. It has a little dead steering but all in all it gives a firm ground touching feeling. The German highways famous not only from limitless rush and overtaking by 200km/h but also congestion of traffic, the so called “stau” is also part of it. I have got to split from the highway many times on my way due to the stau-s. The good thing with the ZX is that also nice to cruise the land roads. It is firm but not too much and so comfy.

Before the big ride I contacted one of my schoolmate from high school and he gave me another contact where the work can be done. We made a couple of calls and finally I delivered the car. At the first place to my Hungarian home, spending summer holiday there. I was lucky to be able to travel again to Hungary in the autumn. I could deliver the car fully after some months waiting for the agreed date. The final delivery was planned to be done by a trailer but because I could be there I could make the drive with my plate. Finally I gave it over to the owner of the classic car care garage. Now it sits at that place in Hungary.

Chronologically, for now, when I am writing this, a little “ironing” work is done already on the front right fender and underneath, no worth to make any big deal of it. It took some days for the body worker. After a half-full disassembly now it is under the preparation of paintwork.

According to the plan after the painting is done a longer period is coming with full assembly and other preventive, nice to be done-s and must to be done-s.

 Four weeks gone and a little development again. 

It looks a little step but quite a lot of handwork done.

The things are prepared for spraying

Sprayed Thursday 14.12.2018

Exhausted exhaust

I'm in the habit of randomly overstressing the gas on the Z31 whenever I see a subtle outway of the street front of me just only for feeling the dynamism of the V6. Slightly below 170 BHP does not indicate the power of a muscle car but the way it still comes forward is that thing what car enthusiasts made for. Savour out the last turn of the crakshaft can be made with the highest RPM they feel the engine likes at the end of the longest drag possible to wedge in to that track, just before at the last millisec the brake must be apply. Not doing it all the time but in some cases. It was a case beforeyesterday too and I did it just cornering out from a desolated intersection and all of a sudden: BRAAAAAAAAAAA-PRRRRRRRRR...
The weakest cog in the machinery gave up its mandate and let the burning-hot sweeping gases making their way in to the open air, one step before it is dedicated by the precisious Japanese engineers. The rusty pipe is cut around in between the mid. silencer and the end muffler. By the way, it was expected since an awab bond has been already kept on it from the last century against cascading. It is another patchwork pure from the mindful previous owner.
I can not stress enough that those Japanese guys professionally calculated the whole exhaust system, optimising for any kind of abusing. So any blind discrepancy only delivers flopped performance.
Following this self-recommendation, we used futuristic technology for fixing. A special Audi pipe collar is used plus a few cm of steel pipe. I was wondering about taking away the whole muffler only using an empty tube after the mid. silencer but that would make the whole concept useless. An everyday car must be fully featured as stock from the production line. It was a good chance to look at in to the mid silencer anyway. Yuhhhuuuuu! There is almost nothing in it. It is a straight trommel with some perforated steel inside. I could not make a pictue of it without a good camera but my conclusion is that apparently there is nothing in the way of exhaust gases up until the muffler. Just like a silenced pistol in any 007 movie. Optimal. There is no catalitic converter. It is from pre EURO standard age, when such thing  were not in the alley. And in spite of all of these still complies with the todays directives of exhaust gases.
All fixed now with microscopic modification on the pipe & professionally tested. We made a round with the kids this evening on wet road, The laud felicitate child laughing after spinnig wheel talks of everything and prooves the success.

The sick parts

The medication pipe and collar

Audi, made in Germany

Cut, weld and then link them together with the misterious Audi part. Wow, German hight tech!

Felirat hozzáadása

The AWAB & the ...

Here is the sealant to be changed and the two screws to be drilled out giving space for new.