AAZ Bluestar with flipped Audi box

Been out in mine today, with my lovely 6 speed. Cruises at 80 2600rpm, lovely.

The terminators cock is fine too, but now I need shorter cables, the 5 speed ones are coiled around the underside of the van

This is how my leather clad terminators cock looks now:



I'll post up some of the graphs from "torque" soon as I have now worked out how to do them!

Edited by fufflenarnia - 05 Jul 14 at 21:59

I'd be interested in the cables if you do order some new ones Steve.

That gaiter looks tidy, really smartens it all up. Btw thanks for your posts on your thread re linkage, wouldn't have had a clue if it weren't for you.

Edited by GavB95 - 05 Jul 14 at 22:15

Shuts the kids up......




If only.



It stops me getting reverse - the 5 speed won't let you go from 5 to reverse. The 6 has a lift on the selector. The cable shifter doesn't have that, so I fitted this -

The solenoid blocks the washer, press the button and it lets it by.

Oh, I have an interested party for my selector setup (I plan on buying a new shifter too so will sell the full setup).

Edited by fufflenarnia - 05 Jul 14 at 23:03

Momo wheel arrived today so stuck it on, won't be to everyone's taste but I love it. It looks loads better than the old one.
Old...


New...


Stuck a Westfalia tow ball cover on (nice and cheap on ebay) and satin blacked some wiper arms to replace the worn out ones on the van (no spindle grooves left).

All cosmetic stuff but keeps the mojo up. Now trying to sell all my shite on ebay to pay for cable shift set up.

Cheers! I fancied a padded PAS wheel but they're mega money and don't look like anything different really. Happy with this.

Edited by GavB95 - 18 Jul 14 at 23:31

Bought it used off ebay but it looks like new and it came with the fitting boss. It'd been fitted in a mk1 golf so it's a direct fit onto T3 column. Visibility of speedo is restricted a bit but I can live with that.

There's a silver centred one on ebay ATM for £85 (121388350672) fits a polo 6n so would need a mk1 golf boss (about £20 used, make sure it's early/small spline). Not cheap but hold their money as they're popular wheels on classic 911s.

Edited by GavB95 - 19 Jul 14 at 10:43

Found the storage areas under the front seats today. I didn't know they were there, think I'd assumed they'd be blanked off on the diesels. Lined them out with some offcuts of thick rubber carpet underlay to reduce some of the road noise and lined out under the rear bench too. 

Cheers bud. The van's now taxed and I've been building up distance on drives out around the lanes. It's driving nicely, I've got to get used to the gear selector gate, but it pulls really well and feels really strong in 4th but I haven't pushed it too hard so limited use of 5th on the twisty roads.

I noticed that my driveshafts are really close to the trailing arms though (expected it to settle more) so I've put in an order for some Avo lowering springs this morning (dampers will have to wait till next pay day (or 2!)).


Decided not to use it till they're fitted, so hoping they'll turn up in the next few days. We're pretty slack so haven't booked owt in Scotland, we'll just set off if/when it's ready. There's some nice chilled looking sites on the west coast that are non booking which suit us nicely.

I've ordered 70mm drop springs that I think will give 60/65 drop on the multivan and should still have good clearance under the van. I'm not sure if it's still got it's original 30mm springs on there, maybe on the front but the back seems really high. Front is 70mm from arch to tyre, rear is 100mm from arch to tyre which would tally up with standard rear springs.


Cable shifts now on the back burner, but I've spotted Iveco daily gear shifters that look like they could adapt to work and are about £40 on ebay so one of those plus cheap cables could be a winner.

Been looking at lots of lowered vans online to see how they sit and whilst looking i've decided I prefer the look of the van without rear blenders so I'll remove them once I've sorted the rust bubbles they're covering up!





Edited by GavB95 - 04 Aug 14 at 21:32

Hi Gave nice thread glad to see you are managing to get lots done, I do like a Blue Star

Tried the breather mod today, used half a coarse stainless wire scourer and bunged it into the breather. It's still not stopped it coming out, next plan is to use a length of rigid alloy tube which will keep the breather line vertical, it currently droops over at about 90 degrees so I guess if oil goes up past the bend it can only drip out through the filter.



Fitted the poly gearbox mount too, I killed a few hacksaw blades trying to cut the rubber centre out of the bush and then got annoyed with it. I grabbed a drill and ran that through the rubber all the way round the edge to get it out of the way, that worked a treat.





This gear shift has been giving me jip, struggled a few times for 1st so I'll be looking for a cable shift solution soon. My hand's aching from forcing the selector across the gate to make sure it's got 1st.

A mate popped round this afternoon, he's fitted the ebay boost pin on his van and kept nagging me to do it so we fitted it and he's right, it's mint! It's made a massive difference, it just keeps pulling. :)

He's now telling me to get the governor modded? Will have to read up on that to see what the benefits are? Not sure I want to go too mad modifying the engine though, it's had loving caring owners in the past, I don't want to muck it up! I've got the Intercooler to go on but that might be enough for me.



Edited by GavB95 - 07 Aug 14 at 19:33