Righty, lastnite i was about to start work on my front end but my welder packed up so that got propeled down the end of the garden with much force so i deffinately need a new welder now! Will have to get out and on the look for one. BUT my loverly uncle was going to buy me a welder as a early bithday present as he had heard me winging that my welder was a hunk of *******, but he said that i could borrow his dads and if i got on with that he will buy me one
I continued with the smothing of the shell last nite but where my garage is at the end of my garden and it was -7 lastnite with 3 inches of snow, the filler on the shell wouldnt dry so i had to ocntinue with stripping the front subby but i will go up there in a mo and start shapping.
There has not been a lot of movement on the preject recently and this is due to the fact that i have a brother that severly suffers from aultism, asberges, adhd, comunication disorders and many other mentaly chananging problems and due to my father leaving recently and him having no contact with any of his children my brother is taking it rather hard and i have a lot to do with him and his education and his 24 hour care, so the project may has been going a bit slower that i expected which really does suck!
But! talking to a friend the other day, He has a C20XE with loom, manifolds, exhaust, ECu and pretty much everything that will be needed for a vaux conversion and he wants a pretty fair price for such a low milage engine. I have also seen, heard and been in a car with the engine running and its a beast, the onlyreason he is selling i is due to upgrading to a LET.
My finrst questions are, would it be suitable for me to build my own subframe? I am aware that i will need to cut away in the front of the car for the gear linkage. I also assume that if i was to ad a set of throttle boddies that i would have make modifications to the bukhead area? I woulod aldo want to keep a standard sized front end and not any of the extended ones. Drive shaft wise i may be able to get my uncle to machine me some for a little less that £400 but if not i will be prepared to pay the £400 Matt wants for his.
I will not be driving this car as a first car if the conversion goes ahead and it complete by the time i am 17! I wil buy another car and keep this untill i am old engouh to afford insurance ect. Maybe take it to a few track days.
Is anyone going to the 16vminishop open day?
Tomm
