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UPDATE:
Again no progress on the car, more in life...
As previously mentioned I was moving house. After spending a fair while at the wife's family farm we were heading back to my neck of the woods - the west country.
We moved a couple of weeks ago and are pretty straight already and despite the...
UPDATE: (although kind of not really)
A couple of pictures whilst it burbled away...
A warm up of the oil and then a test drive, there are a couple of other videos, but they wouldn't upload dam it...
There are a couple of issues that are immediately apparent - like the...
UPDATE: (although kind of not really)
As previously mentioned life was kind of stopping any progress on the car, we have now completed on our house and are moving in 2 weeks time... I honestly can't wait and am so excited for it.... a new (double garage) home for the clio too.
Prior to moving...
As with my above image I ride a (singlespeed) hardtail with a 100mm fork and I ride that pretty hard. I guess it depends what you are going to ride but with the geometry changes in recent years hardtails are so much more capable.
FFS, that is pretty annoying. Good you had the opportunity to send it back though. TBH I didn't want to comment sooner but I really don't see the point in full downhill rigs in the UK, everything has progressed so much now that a 150/160mm enduro bike will do most stuff, I have ridden some...
Not answering for @FPummell but £20k is a rough price I had in mind.... BUT I am sure I have spent over that on my build, I am very very confident in that.
But reading what you have said I think there are 2 different points....
1. You don't need lots of money and a big spec car to have fun
2...
Well I would love to say that things have progressed, but they just haven't, in any way.
Life has kind of been getting in the way again with a lot going on, but potentially in a very good way as we are finalising a house purchase back down in the West Country. Hopefully that should proceed...
Nice V10 @Chambers_RS
The missus has a Nomad C but I have never overly got on with Santa Cruz (although I have been borrowing it)
@497adam I see you have raced Ard Rock then by the looks of it, such a good race. How do you find the HB160? I also demo'd one of those when I was buying my next...
Like most of the build I had all the parts free from back in my FastCar Magazine days. As I had the single wiper assembly thats what I was going with (as it seemed easy).
Now I have a blown motor and an assembly that is potentially flawed I might aswell look at the best option and I believe...
With the Wiper? I haven't really moved forward tbh as have had a lot on my plate recently with a house purchase.
I have had a few thoughts and conversations regarding it.
@robzracing uses a laguna rear wiper that sounds good, and is under 1/4 the price of the uno item. He uses his with a mount...
UPDATE:
Whilst time passes as I try to figure out what I am doing with the wiper I thought I would get some other jobs tied up.
Numberplate and rain/fog light.
With how the previous loom was wired and me not having a rain/fog light I wired up that switch to switch the rear numberplate light...
Nice to see someone else on here flip the car and wire wheel the lot themselves.... its effort isn't it (but at least you had a jig ;) )
Great work so far, looks like things are coming along very nicely.
Interesting reading about the steering debate too... I am without PAS or EPAS, will see...