Well its about time I made a project thread and im gonna try and keep this is chronological order from how I started 7 months ago.
Spose I should start off by explaining the odd ball name, basically I needed a family car with a split personality to keep myself amused
I bought the car 7 months ago for £200. It was an absolute shitter, suspension was all ceased, no exhaust system, very down on power and just about everyones worst nightmare but I saw the potential in it and forked over the money after abit of haggerling loaded the poor girl on the trailer and got her home.
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As I didnt need the car on the road for abit I started shopping for some knew wheels so she could comfortably sit on the floor. What I choose was a set of porsche 924 compomotives 15x7j. My first problem with these was the hubcenters. The porsche hubs were a shocking 57.0 cb, I stood two chances of making these fit, machine the wheels or have custom spacers made. I choose to get the wheels machined out by a very good local engineering firm (RBS of great rybrough) they successfully opened the cb up to the 65.1 I needed for my estate. Once done I bought 5mm wheel spacers to clear the front calipers and a set of tpi polarised wheel bolts.
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Next was to sort the suspension out, while fitting the wheels I realised the monkey I had bought the car have had bizairly only fitted inner brake pads on each of the calipers -.- (explained the crap brakes when I drove it around). To solve this I bought a set of disks and pads all round and sorced a set of secound hand calipers and a set of bilstein b4 shocks/rear dampers and gmaxx springs.
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Spose I should start off by explaining the odd ball name, basically I needed a family car with a split personality to keep myself amused
I bought the car 7 months ago for £200. It was an absolute shitter, suspension was all ceased, no exhaust system, very down on power and just about everyones worst nightmare but I saw the potential in it and forked over the money after abit of haggerling loaded the poor girl on the trailer and got her home.[attachment=15110]
As I didnt need the car on the road for abit I started shopping for some knew wheels so she could comfortably sit on the floor. What I choose was a set of porsche 924 compomotives 15x7j. My first problem with these was the hubcenters. The porsche hubs were a shocking 57.0 cb, I stood two chances of making these fit, machine the wheels or have custom spacers made. I choose to get the wheels machined out by a very good local engineering firm (RBS of great rybrough) they successfully opened the cb up to the 65.1 I needed for my estate. Once done I bought 5mm wheel spacers to clear the front calipers and a set of tpi polarised wheel bolts.
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Next was to sort the suspension out, while fitting the wheels I realised the monkey I had bought the car have had bizairly only fitted inner brake pads on each of the calipers -.- (explained the crap brakes when I drove it around). To solve this I bought a set of disks and pads all round and sorced a set of secound hand calipers and a set of bilstein b4 shocks/rear dampers and gmaxx springs.
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