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[coopdog]

ah haaa its turbo nick!!!

[Turbo Nick]

did the name give it away? lol

[coopdog]

did the name give it away? lol

 

i never really noticed before :L

i just seen the pic was familar haha

[domdee]

oh that looks well!

[Minidarren83]

Are you running spacers on the rear? My wellers just don't seem to poke as much as yours

[Turbo Nick]

No spacers on the back dude, other than standard spacered drums and 10x6 wellers.

[hoody99]

Cheers dude, probably going to have to ditch the arches though, will see how far they stick out when the new wheels go on.
 
Planning on running it as low as possible, with as little arch gap as possible. it's on the bump stops all the way round at the minute so will come up slightly, but not much.

Bump stops???? There's none on the front lol

[Turbo Nick]

there's a small 1" ish rubber bump stop built into the coilovers :)

[Turbo Nick]

I've made up some new bottom shock mounts, still not 100% happy with how they sit but there's a before/after pic below. Still got lots more faffing to do with the front suspension yet and possibly moving the top mounts but I'm going to wait until I've dropped an engine in there as the sump clearance will be my limiting factor.

 

 

 

Got to give these a bit more grinding so they clear the rear beam fully too.

 

 

 

 

 

Just had a length of 25mm CDS tube delivered so hoping I can get onto making up my brace bars this weekend ready to drop a mock up engine in.

[Turbo Nick]

thought this was due a bit of an update, got a few bits and bobs done when I've had chance.

 

brace bars are made (end of the tubes still need capping off before powdercoat)

 

 

 

Decided I still wasn't happy with the angle of the front shocks so had a bit of a tea drinking bacon eating sunday morning breakfast meeting and we've moved the top mounts to get a better angle now.

 

 

 

Dumped the old 1293 engine back in for mock up, I drained the oil out when I started the rebuild and it's sat under the bench empty for 18 months. Put it back in the car and it starts leaking ******* oil!

 

 

 

Picked up a nice new set of pistons for the engine build

 

 

 

Ordered my front from ABS while they were doing free delivery (bargain!)

 

 

 

Picked up a pair of ally skins to lighten the doors so I've chopped out the inner skins and repaired the rot at the bottom of the frames ready to put the new skins on this weekend. Also grabbed some DSN alloy hinges at the stoneleigh show because I'm a tart and they're pretty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got to work on the internal linkage too. Turned and adaptor up on my mates lathe and made the linkage from carbon fibre rods. Still needs a bit more adjustment to work properly and a proper boss for the rose joint turning up on the lathe. I'll lighten the selector box when it comes out next and get some shorter grub screws for the UJ's too.

 

 

 

[cradley-heathen]

looking nice mate! those carbon rods are cool!

[Turbo Nick]

They are pretty pimp! :)

 

I ended up breaking that selector yoke I got off you too, they're soo deilicate! picked up another 2 from stoneleigh just to be safe.

[Turbo Nick]

Ally door skins are done and dusted :)

 

 

 

[rally515]

What a pretty looking monster, those ally door skins look good as they are Haha, what's the final colour/theme

to be ?

[tomb1992]

Nice project seams to be coming along nicely! will you be running it with a T2 turbo again? . 6 x 10 wellers by far my favorite wheels  !! suit it perfectly. (especially in grey) looks like it will have the power and stance to match when its all done  .