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[panky]

I used to work at BOC on the West Bank Dock estate and quite often heard, and saw, 6R4s and others tearing up the tarmac and drifting around the roundabout on test from RED  

[Avtovaz]

I used to work at BOC on the West Bank Dock estate and quite often heard, and saw, 6R4s and others tearing up the tarmac and drifting around the roundabout on test from RED  

 

 

you will rememebr this then, Roger Clarkes car

 

[Avtovaz]

not massiev update but still... did a repair to the post

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

did some seam welding to the inner wings and chassie legs, put a plate to cover the holes where the old servo was etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

My friend howie has bought a pipe bender, so we are looking at making a cage for it now. Lost of work to do stilL!

[Avtovaz]

one part of the lada that seem to fail ive been told is the link bars to body. So i looked at them today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they are 1.5mm plates, will do new bolts instead of studs for the mounts.

 

 

one also very bad part of the lada is the handbrake mounts, its on pedastels that are so vunerable, so they are cut off and will get welded inside of the car

 

 

 

 

 

i also did some strengthening of the 5th link mount to body

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i drilled out the spot welds that hold the strengthener for the bonnet latch, reason is i need to put a RHD wiper motor on this car, but no lada factory set up will fit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so ill be lookign for something like a corsa wiper set up.

 

 

at the garage today was this car too, went out in the wrong side of it and for a 2000cc vauxhall it went very well!

 

 

 

 

 

cant wait to get my lada out and done now lol

[stuart bowes]

 vauxhall ?

[Avtovaz]

 vauxhall ?

 

yes c20xe vauxhall engine, its got a 60g quaife, and an atlas axel on it.

[stuart bowes]

sacrilege !! putting a redtop in a mk2 .. 

 

I was confused, thinking obviously thats an escort right,  im not going mad am I  

 

no, fair play to him,  bet that goes like stink.  they sound great too

Edited by stuart bowes, 21 July 2026 - 08:30 AM.

[Avtovaz]

yes they are one of the best engines ever. Shame they are so expencive now. Back when they where £150 from a scrapper, i put one into my Lada!

CLICK HERE VID

 

was good, but the car fell apart.