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Yep, or may be something sooner which will be revealed soon :)
Nice progress Lee. Hope everything comes together for you.
:D good laaaaaad ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee
Nice one mate, i see it's gone together quite nicely..
And i like the sticker on the wing! :D
"Its alive". Well nearly. good work bud.
Any progress??
Nope, mainly due to work and money, but with a bit of luck i can crack on in the next few weeks.
wow i missed this lee, bet you can't wait to get it out on track (with 4 fully functioning rods)
Well its been a while since Ive had a tinker, so seeing as i have a few days off from the grind, i thought id best prep the car for Combe in a week and a half :)
First job was to work out why me wipers stopped working. I unbolted the wiper mechanism from the SR and plugged it into the track car, and the moror worked fine, so plan two was switch on the wipers, and tw@t the motor with a spanner lol Low and behold, it worked, so out came the WD40 and i left them running for a while. Work fine now, but it may need a new motor if it happens again.
Second job was to fix the fuel leak that occured just as i put it away from the RR day. Turned out the jubilee clip holding the return pipe onto the line had broken. Nice easy fix :)
Then some new goodies. Me new steering wheel and 4 point harnesses on the drivers seat :)
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Then i bogged off down the tyre shop to fit my part worn Dunlops i got through the other day.
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They were cheap as chips, have plenty of life left in them BUT.. theyre 195/55/15's, so i was risking it for a biscuit.
As per my luck recently, they just touch the springs on the inside on all 4 wheels, so im going to need some 1mm spacers. Hopefully that wont give me issues on the outside, as im fecking close to the arch as it is!
Other than that, it appears im ready earlier than I have ever been for combe! W00t :)
LOL good going, tyres look interesting mate, so if your all done on yours do you Fancie popping over to Dar's and finishing mine for me and then getting through the mot? lol lol
lol, wish i could but ive got no spare time again now till friday when we go up to the circuit!
Where the feck can you get 1mm spacers from? I might be tempted just to let the fecking springs wear a groove in the tyre walls lol
Good to see the car ready and sorted :)
wouldn't bother running spacers for the sake of a millimetre - just run them as they are lol
you can get 3mm's from halfords, universal alloy jobbies, which is what i run - but by the sounds of it, 3mm might be too much?
looking good, i like the look of the tyres, looking forward to coombe too pal
mr lee looking good and the tyres look very nice, should have mine back soon so i can finish mine
and mr dave will be at combe:thumb: but not with the nova:cry:
Lee just double side tape some washers to the back of the wheels where the blot holes are! lol
hey mr lee looking good, glad to see she's up and running for the new season:thumb:
not to have a dig in my first post in your thread, but dont run the tyres as they are, if they touch now then when they get hot and expand they'll be touching a whole lot more, you dont want another bad day at coombe now do you?
it's going to happen anyway lol so why not save his new engine and let it go on the tyres lol lol lol
ps: i was joking btw, when i said leave them as they are :p :thumb:
Well bugger me, i was wondering when you were going to show yourself :) Nice to see you on the forum mate! I have been watching your thread on MIG, im surprised you havent gone looking for that bloke yet lolQuote:
Originally Posted by lee303
No, totally agree, im not running it with the tyres rubbing like that, despite it only being a slight touch. Although i deliberately put 23 psi in each tyre to test them out, ill be dropping the rears to 18 and the fronts to 22 before i go on track. At the same time, 1mm spacers are looking like a mare to source, and theres no way im using washers lol.
**** feck! Not sure what to do now, aside from swapping my worn 888's back on friday.
Use some washer's you bodger lol
Use 3mm spacers and pull the arches out?
I have some 3mm spacers some where, could bring them Combe with me if you want?
i think there 3mil anyway.
Cant pull my arches out cos theyre fiberglassed on the inside to stop them falling to bits as theres nio lip on them at all!Quote:
Originally Posted by Welsh Dan
Ill try some 3mm spacers as i think dar has some spares :) Cheers for the offer Ad, i may take you up on it if he doesnt have any.
yeah, am getting mighty pissed off, i dont think he knows how lucky he is that he lives so far away from me tbh:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee
at leats you wil make coombe, looking increasingly likely i wont as i'll be putting it together instead:( shame as its always good for a first event catch up, good luck getting spacers:thumb:
Good work Mr Lee.
Give me a call over the weekend as got to sort a time to go get your car on friday.
Also have you still got the 5 spoke wheel trims from heyleys car as still in need of 1 for me trailer.
Speak soon me.
Agreed Lee, its always good to have a new season mince at the PCAD. Were both veterans at disasters at this event though lol
Chris, yeah, still got em :) I might have to do some serious tyre swapping again on Friday, ive been looking at some pics of mine on track and in hard corners the back wheel;s going a fair bit into the arch, so I dont think spacers are going to cut it.
you're not wrong therelol got my headgasket today so might be there with the nova to do some miles running it in, but might have to miss it and go for an MOT instead, we shall seeQuote:
Originally Posted by Lee
Well hope to see you there then pal :)
"Goes and fetch's bigger hammer" lol.
Righty, its been ages since I had a proper mince up t'barn, so seeing as the track car actually stayed in one pice on Saturday, I thought it was time the poor little 1.2 had some attention, as ive been driving it into the ground since the Van got KO'ed.
First job was to sort the exhaust. The backbox fell off it a few weeks back, so I bodged an old GTe item onto it, which blew like a MOFO. Then a hole opened up in the downpipe, which i've been under the car 3 times with a bandage trying to quieten down. Enough was enough!
There happens to be a nice full stainless 2" GSi system on the SR. So i got it all off, and first job was to spruce up the fannymould.
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Ahhh, stainless. Now the car will rot before the exhaust ever does lol
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Of course, both the manifold gaskets disintegrated on removal, so i was about to get a lift into town, when i remembered THIS had been sitting in me cupboard for years!
W0000t
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It sounds bloody lovely now, and I can get an extra 10mph on the motorway lol
I also did an oil change. Seriously, youve never seen oil as fooked as this before! You know how bad the old oil is when the engine quietens down after you put the new stuff in lol
Next phase will come on Friday, where ive decided the ludicrously low suspension kit on the SR needs to be installed, as its pretty much brand new, and also the MO's are coming off in favour of some 14 inch Cav steelies on 185/60 rubber :) Feel like something a bit different, and the MO's scrub like feck with this suspension on! Its going to look evil LOL
Cant decide what colour to paint the steels though. Im half considering white, ive got about 3 tonnnes of white hammerite in the garage!
Ive also decided it needs some GTe bumpers, the MK 2 stuff just doesnt look right on it, and I CBA to do a MK2 conversion on it just yet. So anyone got any lying around in good nick? :)
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Id go with white rims too
White steels would look cool. Have to agree on keeping it mk1 look aswell.
Shame the oil got so bad.
Whats oil lol.
Engine lubricant. Usually found outside of XE's.
oh black wet stuff that went in gold many moon's ago lol.
i love that colour on a nova :D
lollollol :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by craig green
Just secured a set of GTe bumpers and a grill, already painted black. So the look of the car is going to change quite a bit in the next week :)
Good stuff, will look way better with the gte stuff on :thumb:
What happened with the sr lump? that not going in as well?
SR lump was totally ruined :( It knocks like a biatch now lol