Reyland Zs Rebuild / Update

[sneekyparrot]

Bummer situation at the moment, garage flooded after mains burst at top of drive and took out everything under the car which was there out of the way whilst welding / spraying.
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Gripper diff / wiring harness's / ecu / stack dash all swimming in
3" of dirt filled water

😡😡

[stamford]

Will that be a claim against who is responsible for the damage?

[sneekyparrot]

Yes mick, Severn Trent admit liability and to be fair have had loss guy out. Only prob I see is they don't do new for old so guy is trying to inflate costs to cover replacements.
Finger crossed it don't drag out for weeks.

Real feel for those who complete house floods, the mess it made in just 2 hrs was impressive !

[peterzs]

We had the same thing last week.

Went out and found water rushing down the drive.

Appeared to come out where the sewer pipe came down the house. ££££'s sign at the thought of getting it sorted.

Then noticed it was still rushing down the drive, from a point outside the gate.

Water had pushed a telecom junction box lid off and water was pouring out.

The bit down the drive was coming out of their conduit, where they had brought the cable under the drive and up to the house.

Loads of stones and sand pushed out, water board were out in half an hour and fixed by 10.30 at night. Had to take our street light away as that was undermined.

As you say the amount of muck that gets pushed out is amazing. Lucky ours was a clean water main!!!

Hope they sort quickly and give generously for the replacement parts.

[petet16]

That's not good, hope it all gets sorted swiftly.

[stamford]

At least they have admitted responsibility and it's getting assessed. If that was pushed through on your home insurance you would have trouble.

I once made a claim for a break-in and the assessor said car spares were not covered. I had 4 off Revolution alloys with M+S tyres taken and they said as they were not on a car they are not covered! FFS how can I fit several spare sets to one car! They were off my oval racer. Daft but there you have it.

[peterzs]

I was reading that Peter Best, covers spares stored in the house on their car insurance policies.

Not the car insurance, just checked and its their Household Policy.

[adam]

Ugh, that's gutting! Hope you manage to get some compo from the insurance.

[sneekyparrot]

Originally Posted by adam

Ugh, that's gutting! Hope you manage to get some compo from the insurance.

Fingers crossed, just waiting to here.

Things were going so well, just spraying up the engine bay / interior / mounting dash and new rad.

Now I gotta clear whole garage to get the bloody muck out, maybe Sunday once I build up to it lol.

[sneekyparrot]

Well its been a while since i updated anything so here goes.

Things moving along nicely, not fast due to work and lack of funds as always

Old 180 Rad was beginning to fall apart so replaced with alloy Nissan unit but it needed a bit of work to fit.


Lighter FLCA. From a civic but needed machining to accept the tapered MG ball joints:



GearBox:
Has been rebuilt but ATB has been replaced with a Gripper Unit, plus a few tart up bits.


Front End starting to go back together:


Engine:
stripped and off to have the whole lot balanced to new pistons:


Basic tests to head showed something was indeed not good!


report from Head guy was bent inlets, worn guides on inlet and exhaust causing exhaust valves to not seat any more.
Head still being done at mo but this time its having:
Uprated supertech exhuast valves
new inlets
new guides
recut seat
ported and flowed.

Bottom end pretty much back together, just waiting for head then the whole lot can go back in once bay has brake lines etc fitted.



The Qpeng ECU has been dumped in favour of something more conventional.


More to Follow :-)