Hello! New 5 GTT owner.

[M2YLE]

Thanks @Big Steve - Raider , been over 20 years since I have was really involved in forums so taking me a bit of time to get back into it.

Slowly getting a bit more familiar with the car and I believe I have finally figured out the way the water pipes were routed previously. I am missing the degassing chamber (swirl pot) which didn't help matters.

I also don't appear to have any pipework to provide water to the cab/inlet manifold so i will need to address this. I assume these can be ran without the water but not ideal?



Not the tidiest and I will try and do it better once the bay is painted and everything's is getting put back in permanently.

Are there any potential issue with how this has been done? Doesn't seems to be like any of the diagrams I have seen.

 

[andybond]

You don’t need to run water to the carb base really.

 

[M2YLE]

Thanks @andybond

Looking a bit of guidance on the Vacuum/Fuel pipes and I've posted a question in the query section, I thought it might be a bit technical for the general chat.

Once I can get a proper understanding of them I will feel a lot more comfortable with the car prior to me removing the engine etc. and getting on with this proper.

Looking forward to getting going with it now.

 

[M2YLE]

Well engine is now out for the bay refresh.

The main take away from it is the guy before really did like purple!




Despite looking new the Ball joints have split so will be replaced and same thing with the CV boots. They are pretty brittle so will change them too while it’s all stripped.