Ok, so this is stupid even by my standards.
He’s the story: Way back in the early ‘00s a mate (affectionately known as Fat Bastard) bought a fairly high-spec Camira rally car. He then discovered that he was a much better navigator than driver and the Camira was no longer...
He then bought this Daewoo to reshell all of the Camira fun bits into. He managed some work on it, but then got distracted by life and it sat in his shed for about 15 years.
Recently he got the shits with it, and the P2 V70XC, clogging up his life and asked if I wanted them. We worked out a deal and I dragged it home.
It came with a bunch of spares. Here’s about half of them.
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Funnily enough, it is the lowest kilometre car we own! Pretty sure that it has never been a road car, so almost every single one of those 50,000km will have been hard kays!
It is a (barely) survivor of the short lived Daewoo race series from late 1990s. A class for Standard 1.5 litre, 63kW single cam shopping trolleys of fury that appears that even the internet has forgotten.
Fortunately the god-awful bodykit has mostly gone - only the ridiculous wing remains.
The shoddy paint adds nothing to its non-existing appeal...
It looks like the wing is held on entirely with Sikaflex... but it is going to be removed, regardless of how it is held on!
I refitted the fuel tank, filled the engine with oil and tried to start it. Eventually got fuel to the rail, but still no start.
Worked out that the fuel injectors were all stuck. Having a shed full of shit meant that I dug out some NA S40 injectors that have the same diameter in both the rail and manifold, and took the same electrical plug. The Volvo/Siemens injectors are 16 ohm compared to 12 ohm for the Daewoo injectors, so no drama there.
The only thing is that the Volvo injectors are physically shorter... A few minutes with the hand drill into the mounting points on the rail and that problem is solved!
I have absolutely no idea of what flow rate either type have, but it runs without obvious problems. ?
Rollcage is a basic but reasonably well constructed weld-in six point steel cage.
I refitted the driver’s seat. It is cheap garbage and I am going to take it back out and replace it with one of my other crappy old race seats because they are still better than this. This is the oldest harness that is still legal, so is perfect for this shitbox.
Also removed the not-too-bad old Sparco steering wheel to use in something that I like more than this, and replaced it with the FauxMo that came in one of the BMWs.
It needed a spacer to get the ergonomics right, so I used a sloppy old quick release. This will need work to reduce/eliminate the slop before the car is driven.
It already has the Camira’s very old MCA Gold rally suspension in it. About $5k to replace it with the modern equivalent and a big part of why I bought the car.
Brakes are also from the Camira. Rear discs, and fairly large vented front rotors are all of unknown origin. Calipers are early Commodore.
The screw up here is the braided hoses have some weird imperial thread (AN-3 apparently), where the car has M10x1.25 threads.
Once I sort this, it will be driveable but there’s still a million things to make it less of a shitbox.
Things like this weird dent in the spare wheel well.
Which became obvious from underneath...
FFS, this shit is not difficult!
So yeah, that’s where it is up to.
I still have to go and collect the good 2-litre motor, the MegaSquirt, the XC and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces. There’s also a Quaife close ratio LSD box that is possibly at another mate’s mum’s place but that mate is being a bit elusive.
So the plan is to bash out the bigger dents, and bog/cover what is left and use it as a khanacross/Colo/rallycross car.
If it is semi-ok to drive, then I will put the 2-litre with the quad throttle bodies in it and see what happens. It should be fairly quick, and there will certainly be no worries about damaging it.
