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My lights are turned on I likey…must stop watching women’s sat Night TV
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Hi.
Welcome to gtouk. That car looks very clean.
Neil
Don’t see many Fiji blue ones any more, to my knowledge (feel free to correct me you guys) I don’t think we have any in the club? Certainly none that attend regular meets? Would be good to get yours out and about! 
Very nice indeed, welcome to GTOUK. You have found the right place.
Steve
Oops that’s twice I feel bad now in two days !!!
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Lovely looking car. I’m a Danube blue fan myself but the Fuji blue is nice too. Welcome to the club. Everyone here is bat crap crazy! You will love it!
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your half right though I’ve not been to any meets
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Welcome to the Forum BlueGTO91. Blimey, another lovely looking car. I’d better keep mine in the garage…
Anyway, AUTO…first thing is - if you haven’t already - read the Buyers Guide on here, and have a good look at ensuring your auto box is regularly maintained, i.e. oil replaced regularly, and ensure that the filter is cleaned or replaced.I believe Rob, at the Evil Empire, sells cooling kits for the auto boxes, he’ll be able to advise in any case. Over the 11 years I’ve known these cars, I’d gladly eat a hot dinner each time an auto owner has come onto the forum asking about what to do when his or her auto box has given up the ghost. Nine times out of ten it’s because it’s overheated.
Great car - enjoy it fella.
Mike
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Thanks for all the positive comments and welcome advice, plans are to get the brakes sorted, tyres fitted and mot it, hopefully it won’t need too much and looking around and underneath its solid.
Great advice regarding the auto box, I intend to get the cam belt/ water pump done and will give the oils a change, but didn’t realise the majority of failures were down to cooling.
The revs tend to drop slightly when cold, but when warm it idles perfectly and if the throttle blipped holds fine. So will look into this, or is it normal?
Thanks
The idling scenario sounds perfectly normal. If you have no history of a replaced cambelt, then you’re spot on with your plans to get it replaced. Rob of the Evil Empire can help you with the parts if you wish. Are you planning to do that work yourself?
Hi yeah I’ll be doing the work myself, looking at the room for the cambelt it doesn’t look too bad, quite a bit of space to get your hands down etc.
Get your car entered into car of the month. Looks like you might win!
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A few shots of the car taken today, I had an issue with the revs idling around 2.5k, managed to sort the issue, it ended up being the Idle Control Valve.
All the brake lines are now sorted and booked in for the MOT tomorrow, fingers crossed.
A few pics earlier today:-
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Clear indicators and side repeaters would make that look a treat 
Craig
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Cheers Craig 
, another thing added to the to do list.
The car went for the MOT today, and it was almost perfect - just an advisory on the rear discs/pads which I knew about and have ordered.
So in total - rear brake lines, 2 x rear tyres and rear discs/pads, not bad for a 25 year old car that’s been stood for 5 months 
Happy motoring!
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Hi does anyone know how the kickdown operates on a MK1? Basically if I floor the car, the revs increase to the red line but don’t change up? that is unless I let my foot off the pedal, then it’ll change. I’m guessing it gets a signal from the Throttle position sensor as there doesn’t seem to be any additional cables other than the throttle.
Any help is mucho appreciated
Welcome Mark. Nice looking car you have there.
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Absolute awesome job mate. A lot of folk wouldn’t have gone to that much effort… Patch plate looks perfect. One thing I’ve never even tried is welding… Hats off to you sir
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