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#196 MJWarren

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Posted 01 October 2011 - 12:56 PM



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Posted 01 October 2011 - 12:58 PM

Nice sound good.

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Posted 01 October 2011 - 02:39 PM

what a beauty of an engine :wub:

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Posted 01 October 2011 - 03:26 PM

Cheers guys, also got this one.



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Posted 01 October 2011 - 04:36 PM

Not jealous… promise :) ok maybe a bit.. a lot!

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Posted 01 October 2011 - 09:57 PM

after a year of being off the road its good to hear it going again with a new source of power!

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 05:50 PM

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One week to go and its nearly ready!

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 12:18 PM

Hopefully having a test run today we shall see how much work gets done and if the weather holds off

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 03:34 PM

Its looking incredible Matt.. really nice work, and done so quick!

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 05:03 PM

So happy with how its going Ben, my dad has been putting in loads of hours too and finally today it all paid off and its running. Really Chuffed.



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Posted 08 October 2011 - 05:21 PM

Wow Matt, super jealous! just watched the vid twice lol.. sounds brilliant and sits really nice with the splits.

Can wait to see the car for real :)

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 05:30 PM

Also.. earlier in the thread you had a nice new dished sparco wheel.. what happened to that one?

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 05:35 PM

Thanks ben, its really coming along. That sparco dished wheel was massive and it was with a bolt on boss. So i downsized to an OMP wheel with a weld on boss that ive had the steering column machined and pegged. I was struggling for room.

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 05:36 PM

That wrapped plastic round the wheel in the photo was just to stop the suede getting *******

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Posted 08 October 2011 - 06:59 PM

Ah That makes sense, I was concidering that sparco wheel for mine. Might need a smaller wheel then.




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