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[newbambeeno]

That tea looks nice!!

[Ro8bieg]

Im going to get one of those koso digi dash's aswel. can u take lots of pics of how you fit yours please because I dont have a clue lol

Good luck

Robbie

[stevede]

Car looks superb, keep up the good work!

[Southy]

That tea looks nice!!

Haha that was the brew my loving sister had made the mintue i walked through the door it was very nice

Im going to get one of those koso digi dash's aswel. can u take lots of pics of how you fit yours please because I dont have a clue lol

Good luck

Robbie

Cheers for that fella, i will more than likely be taking a lot of pics and its gonna be a learning curve for myself as i dont have a clue and i still dont understand it even after reading the instructions, twice i might add.

[Southy]

Right ive done few jobs this evening although not as much as i had hope due to a few mishaps whislt re-building my carb (think why have i got parts left over and you get the picture )

Ive done a total strip down of my carb this evening after cleaning the carb up yestday afternoon and polishing the dash pot and the carb itself.
I fitted myself a carb service kit and then took my time putting it back together (ok i missed bits out and had to strip it down again) but i got there in the end.

The carb all stripped down


Now i know these parts came from the carb but where?

I attched the carb to my new alloy inlet manifold and then proceded to fit my K&N filter to it once i had fitted my new needle and twin red springs.

Ah back together at last dash pot needs to be put on the buffer to get a nice shine now its been sanded.

I also picked up yet more new items i bought from work (will the spending ever stop i hear you ask?), these include a new steering wheel, a set of sparco pedals, a new shiney wiper motor and a few other odds and sods...oh and thank you to a very kind man (yes you steven) i now have a rear seat which i can strip of the old seat cover and fit my tailor made cobra one which matches my front seats.

Nice new pedal covers, one of the jobs for tomorrow night....

[dan_up850]

carbs looking nice mate, hows the car rebuilding coming along?

[Southy]

Thanks very much dan, well currently atm no work has been done on the car, my mate is due back this friday or saturday (depending on the weather) and ive booked a week off work next week so should get a lot of work done to it, start getting it all back together slowly ready to be put back on road mid-end of next month i hope

[big ears]

Thanks very much dan, well currently atm no work has been done on the car, my mate is due back this friday or saturday (depending on the weather) and ive booked a week off work next week so should get a lot of work done to it, start getting it all back together slowly ready to be put back on road mid-end of next month i hope

Your getting there mate if i knew you were doing up carb you could of had twin su i bought they cleaned up well . I dont think im putting it on mine because its fast enough but i was thinking about it ,tempted but i cant .Cheers ste

[dan_up850]

Thanks very much dan, well currently atm no work has been done on the car, my mate is due back this friday or saturday (depending on the weather) and ive booked a week off work next week so should get a lot of work done to it, start getting it all back together slowly ready to be put back on road mid-end of next month i hope

sounds like a plan to me mate lol, and it will go back together so quick and easily, its so much fun too, no rust, no mess, no crying!! haha, looking forward to seeing some more piccys.

Edited by dan_up850, 27 August 2008 - 03:42 PM.

[Southy]

Right ive done a few odds and sods tonight, i managed to get my new sparco pedal covers fitted to my pedals and my pedal box back together all without scratching the paint which is very unusual for myself.


The pedals all fitted with the new Alloy covers


The pedals reattached to the pedal box.

And i also stripped the rear seat which was given to me by steven (Big_ears) and i procceded to fit my cobra seat covers which match my front ones.

The rear seat base with the new cover fitted (slight crease which will drop out after being warmed slightly)


Close up of the orange stitching detail.

Also my mirrors turned up today from Demon Tweeks, must say im rather impressed with them for the price of them, they ar F1 style mirrors in carbon look.

The overall shape of the mirrors


The carbon look on the back

Edited by Southy, 27 August 2008 - 09:27 PM.

[x06jsp]

Looking good

[Down&Out]

looking damn fab!!

[Southy]

Thanks very much mucker, im getting all excited, i finish work tomorrow at 3 for a week, and mate is back tomorrow as far as im aware so should be bolting subframes on it this weekend i should imagine and getting it back on its wheels....well thats the plan anyway.

[minivanman]

The shell looks great! Just one thing - if you're planning for it to last why put oversills on? Oh and stainless bolts in the cage - I'd use high tensile steel, stainless is quite brittle It should bolt together really quickly - you definately seem to have got all the parts!

[Southy]

The shell looks great! Just one thing - if you're planning for it to last why put oversills on? Oh and stainless bolts in the cage - I'd use high tensile steel, stainless is quite brittle It should bolt together really quickly - you definately seem to have got all the parts!

Thanks very much fella the reason why ive put extended sills on is because the standard sills normally fill up with water and road dirt along the edge where its not sat flush with the body and this is where rot usually starts on them, and even though the car had been off the road for 3 years the sills were in a bad state along the edges when worked started on them.

I did think about high tensile but dont they rust?So my idea was to use stainless so i would still be able to remove the cage with ease if needs be later on down the line.

Yeah should go together rather quickly, been picking my brain literally everyday at work thinking 'Ive got this but i need this and that still'