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Everything posted by cupradave
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page received mate nightmare!! dunno what to do I have so much stuff to get organised for going away for work and have to nip to Peel this evening after work, give me a ring when you get a moment mate
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did you get sorted Nick? if not I have heard Dougy Duels (sp) has a breaking classic in, front ender.
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I am not aware of one but will ask around for ya mate
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awesome dude, never tire of hearing that sound
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like a cross between the two not quite Overhaulin but certainly not Pimp My Ride
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cheers dude just to keep you all up to date I ordered the first of my parts today, they should start arriving in the next few days Some upgrades will be appearing but I am keeping them under my hat for now, you will have to wait and see what they are
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woooah!!! de ja vu could swear I just read this post on XLR8 Cheers John, there will be plenty to do so you may regret offering to help LOL
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Thanks guys I have the parts sourced but getting them here to the island is the issue carraige charges on all the parts I need is rediculous
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have had some sleep inbetween trying to figure out why I lifted instead of keeping the boot in not got time to watch DVDs now mate, have watched all but one of the last load you gave me
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Got on with taking the engine out today Dave K came round early doors after dropping his Mrs off to work and after a couple of bacon baps and a cup of tea we got to it first was to de-plumb and disconnect, also removed alternator and power steering resevoir next was the bit I was not really looking forward to, cutting some of the twisted front end off Top section off and the bottom it all has to come off anyway and it made it much easier to get the engine out then the craine was moved in after alot of swearing and a couple of cups of tea we realised I had left a bolt in and thats why it would not come out, so we finished our tea and removed the bolt and guess what? the engine came out we then removed all the wiring loom and electrics from the wings so there we have it, I have pretty much decided to try and repair her so I just need to put the wheels back on and it is pretty much ready to go off for pulling straight, more cutting and new bits welding on and now for the pics of the bent bits
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Cheers for the comments folks, it means alot. I am having a serious down day today, I think it has finally hit home what has happened and how much work it is gonna take to sort I had a call this afternoon about the jig work, the fella went out to look at the car and said it is gonna be about £600 to pull it straight. Its gonna work out to about £700 (give or take) for most of the parts required for rebuilding the front end plus a new FMIC and then painting Starting to wonder if I should consider buying another car and transfer all the parts over to it from the red one another possibility I thought of was to turn it into a serious long term project by buying a bare shell and build myself the scoob I always dreamed of owning, kinda think I am too impatient for that though anyway, providing it does not rain this evening (which it looks like it may) I am gonna try to carry on stripping the front end and get the engine ready for taking out one of my mates planted the seed in my mind to do an engine rebuild while it is out
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no rest for the wicked Tracey no need to be jealous mate 'someone upstairs' decided my car needed some re-styling yesterday GUTTED!!!!! :cry: :cry: When a car has an argument with a wall the car will always come off worst. Luckily, or not so luckily I have not had the repair bill for it yet, but it was a dry stone wall so the wall took most of the impact force and saved me from a hell of alot more damage. Got the old girl back to the house this afternoon and proceeded to strip it this evening with the halp of Dave K, thanks again Dave. all the junk looking at this I am gonna have to fit a catch tank when rebuilding the car to prevent the oil from going into the new front mount intercooler when fitted in the words of Arnie, "I'll be back!!!" will keep you all posted on the progress
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yip got it back yesterday lunchtime gave it a good spanking home after work today and there was no scrubbing need to save some money now for the next wave of mods still got some playing to do with the set up of the suspension too
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well, dropped the car off this morning to have the arches done, they said I should have it back saturday morning at the latest, hopefully they have no problems here are a couple of pics taken last night after the suspension mods
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Yes mate it sure was, what with fitting this lot and having to take Project X to the test centre again on Saturday before finishing off the Scoob Had a lazy day on Sunday though Dropping off the Scoob first thing tomorrow morning to CC Automotive to have the arches done, hopefully they can roll them without needing paint but the price they gave me if it does need paint work is pretty good so we will see Could be without the car for half a day or 2 days depending on if it needs paint or not, keep your fingers crossed
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Well, spent all day Friday and most of Saturday fitting all my suspension goodies. I had planned to take loads of work in progress pics but did not really have time, just cracked on to get it all done Took the car to P.A.C.E. first thing on Friday morning, after a quick tidy up and moving of some rally cars my car was put up on the ramp We got the front end done first, anti-roll bar, drop links, coilovers and anti-lift kit forgot to take a pick of the anti-lift kit once the new parts were fitted on the front attention was then directed to the back stripped off the old parts then also dropped out the rear diff and T-bar the old diff and t-bar bushes were burned out and replaced with some nice new Powerflex ones then we fitted the Whiteline rear anti-roll bar and drop links also got the new tyres mounted this was as far as we got on the Friday half eight Saturday morning and I was back to finish off first job was to fit the rear coilovers, then to make sure everything was nipped up properly put the wheels back on and dropped it to the deck, it sat ok at the front but the rear was a little hight so back up it went, wheels back off and an adjustment of about 20mm was made to the rear the ride height was now acceptable, so a quick adustment of the camber was made then a quick run round the yard was made to try and settle the suspesion a bit, back into the garage and more adjustments were made to the camber along with the wheel alignment sorting out took the car out for a run along some back roads then back to the garage for more checking eventually we settled on the following Front - two deg neg camber with a bit of toe out Rear - three quarters of a deg of neg camber and a little toe in as most of you know I do not use the car everyday so did not need to play safe with a road set up, the turn in with the above settings is unbelievable the car feels so much more positive on the road and gives you so much confidence, the anti-lift kit works a dream too, makes a huge difference only downer is that the rear arches catch the tyres now that is next on the to do list cant wait to get it back on the track though Big thanks to Ian @ P.A.C.E for his time, help and use of the ramp More thanks go to Graeme @ Whiteline UK for supplying the coilovers, anti-roll bars, drop links and anti-lift kit before after
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There are loads mate, that 100 was my initial stock that arrived to the shop You can order one here Colin McRae Rally Legend DVD
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Here are the sprint results from Saturday Motorfest Sprint Results
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cool pictures John really enjoyed it today, especially in the wet with the 4 wheel drifts my tyres look like this after today yeah I think so, Peter said he would have given me a shot today if he had not blown the turbo on it he said he was surprised how strong my car comes in with the power and how quick it was, obviously does not stop like his and that was the only thing he picked up on but thats next on the list after the suspension work is done but dont tell Hels
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you dont need these by PM mate do a search in this section for Barry Curran there are loads of stories in here, unfortunately usually bad ones
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good choice, bound to be one in this list somewhere mate Dealer List
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LOL, what time did you get? Jokes aside I hope she is ok mate Got some more to do to the car yet mate, but am really please with my results yesterday
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here are a few pics from today, had a wicked day and the Scoob performed really well in the sprints, I came second only to a supercharged Ariel Atom, well pleased. cant wait to see your vid Mark of me going up the strip, will also be asking for a copy of the footage shot with the Duke cameras, especially the in car stuff from when I had the bullet cam in my car
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LMAO @ "different" do you not find the car has alot better turn in? you will have the rose jointed ones on yours yes? I have that type as standard too but Graeme and George at Whitline UK told me that the rose jointed ones can become noisey and that they use the solid ones on all thier own cars, road and track, so I took thier advice and got the solid ones it is like torture walking into my garage at the moment, there is one pile of parts for the Scoob and another pile for Project X that I cant put on until it has passed the test