Recent content by Coops Mk1

Still just in use, great car, and keep getting loads more comments at petrol stations, waves on the road etc etc, more this year than ever

@Jamess182 No worries mate, anytime as said and cheers for the custard creams 😍

Technically yes, but the gearbox was rebuilt couple of years ago with bolted diff and the top end of the engine was rebuilt after a cambelt failure at about 130k before my ownership It's not as clean as it looks in pics but it's solid which is a good thing!

Bath day, needs roof sorting, boot still and a million and one other bodywork issues .. Thankfully none of which are rot/rust. But for 24 years and very nearly 175k miles she will scrubs up okay!

Never change MOT place if you have anything other than a bone stock car as you'll just find c***s

That chap in the 16v is way less of a c**t than all the MK1 people I still know now 🤪

Yeah they followed line of the bumper nicely, it really was a lovely exhaust

Bye Sister Scramble

Nah i never bothered in the end as my beam geo is spot on as it is and car handles perfectly so don't want to change anything. Plenty of others have though

Both, but I'm talking about the mk1 setup here, but my car runs full mk2 sport running gear, so engine, gearbox, front suspension setup bar the coilivers which are Williams

I run kw v2 coilovers, which are koni inserts and 3 way adjustable rears, think fronts are 15 way adjustable. Standard rear torsion bars and 182 trophy front arb and whiteline rear arb I've tried firmer springs, 550lb, but ruined the handling so went back to the kw recommended 340lb for the...

Welcome

Done good few thousand in mine this year, got brake issues currently though so it's on sabbatical until the new year

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Mine looks terrible now tbh, it's still solid but the paint is fucked, needs a full hit tbh