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Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Ok...todays work...Bumper and bonnet off... Cambelt covers off, cams, pullies and crank locked at TDC...SO much easier with the proper timing tools... Rocker cover and original cams removed... Schricks in place :) Then put it all back together...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project well you'l never know then lol.....everyone will tell you its worth it ;)

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Fitted the schricks this afternoon, timed up runs fine etc etc... Drove it from my grans to home (under a mile), was idling at home for 10 mins or so, then drove a few miles down the road....When i stopped, had quite alot of oil leaking from...

lovely cold air feed. and fail on the polishing front! just no!

lots of times.....gets to 148ish gps very quickly with the JB3 (1.8) box!

they are just a dealer for parcelforce/citylink/dhl etc....they were spot on every time i used them i just put both alloys face against each other with a piece of cardboard to stop marking, then taped round them both with wrapping film to hold them together

ive done it in two pairs before, for 10 quid a time (used to be, gone up a bit now)........senditquick.com

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project nope....the blue car wasnt the issue, or space...its the fookin neighbours

Think ive got some pics of your car somewhere too....will have another sort through later!

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project left the FCS 06 sticker in the windscreen, too ;)

nah, just rung a proper place....was gona ring some pikey scrap yard down the road, but thought may aswell do it proper....they sort out all the DVLA stuff and send u confirmation of it being disposed etc...all free collected it half hour after i rang, removed the wheels, few bits of scrap...

mines painted, satin black rattle can...dosent flake at all and its very flexible, the mk1's even have hinge bits where the 'grilles' are....been fine!

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project au revoir!

au revoir!

manual steering has a longer column

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project 1994... I was gona use the windscreen for mine, but oddly its got a big crack at the bottom right hand corner

when can i collect my keg :rasp:

yes they are by the looks of thinks i have one of each

lol, its been off the road since the end of april chris, nothing....just stripped it bare and stocked up on spares, was my runaround for a while.

it lasted 3 months then the bottom end went....so no lol. did last 185k though!

yeah pushing it to the end of the driveway in the morning and whipping them off, then getting it taken!

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project making room for the project originally, but cant work at home anymore, lol.

how many of you clicked because you thought it was the hybrid? ;) Finally going tommorow, been sat there for a month....Had a solid few days finishing removing anything I needed, few things left on that were either broke, worthless or rounded off....that reminds me, il remove the...

so far... ;)

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project yeah^ exactly...there is about an inch clearance now!! must have been like that for ages just gotta get that one snapped thread out then a new bolt in, and hopefully it should be fine....all the bolts are at 50nm now so defo the right torque! Not done...

as said^.... pop the front wheel off and measure the distance between the shock bolts center to center, if its 60mm you have the cup pack suspension, if not, you dont..

they are 18mm.

nice, enjoying the lens?

well I went for FK as they were ok on my old car, and not a bad price, plus i was making the holes bigger so didnt want to be modifying 700quid coilovers etc They have been spot on to be honest, well good enough for me at the moment. Done about 10k or so and had no issues, and about 2k with the...

heh ;)