sonus
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Get the engine back together with new headgaskets so it can be used in 2020. Finish the new dashboard and start prepairing for the new fuel injected fast road engine for 2021
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Current 1968 TVR VIXEN S1 V8 Prototype 2004 TVR T350C 2017 BMW 340i
Previous BMW 325d E91LCI - sold Alfa Romeo GTV - sold Citroen AX GT - at the breakers Ford Puma 1.7 - sold Volvo V50 2.0d - sold MGB GT - wrecked by fire MG ZT 1.8T - sold VW E-golf Electric - sold Mini Countryman 1.6D -sold Land Rover Discovery TD5 - sold
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qwerty
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 2,410
Club RR Member Number: 52
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Plans for 2020 anyone?qwerty
@qwerty
Club Retro Rides Member 52
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From a car point of view 2019 started poorly but then went really well.
I'm hoping to repeat it this year. No major plans other than keeping the Polo running well and improving it slightly. I would love to get bigger shed and build a carport, but I'm not putting any pressure on myself about it. Most of all I want to just get out and about in the car. A few shows and a few meets. Last year seemed to be a great year for local meets.
I've also started helping a good mate work on his project car which had been sat dormant for 5 years and I'm really looking forward to that being back on the road!
Tom
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Hmmm, let's see.
Spent the last 12 months clearing off a big debt incurred during two off-project years so the '38's been pretty ignored apart from just driving.
However, we're having a bit of a business shake up, so I may be able to get off my current wibblepoo project but, at the same time, lose the steady, if not too exciting income. Early days on that, so I'll need to hang fire a while.
Back to the RR. It needs front and rear bumpers (frigging tricycle riders!), either second hand, shipped from the States by a mate that brings stuff over by the container, or remade in steel. If I go that route, I want to keep the existing profile though so it'd have to be farmed out. No room in the garage for both car and doing work and little on-street parking. Second hand are a hour long swap job.
It also needs the dash stripping out as the tabs that hold the instrument binnacle are all pretty much goosed. Need to have a replacement ready before that job too.
Front seats would benefit from a rebuild and recover. 25 years of fat a55es have pretty much done the drivers foam in and they're pretty badly cracked as well. Know a place that does lovely work. Just need to get an estimate.
So yeah, it's mainly not cheap TLC type stuff I've been holding off on, and it's perfectly usable but, as I said, I need to see where my business is going this year first.
Frustrating as I'll have the spare cash to do the jobs, but don't want to risk it just yet!
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Last Edit: Jan 4, 2020 1:39:28 GMT by georgeb
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- Revive abused Rover 75 1.8 I just bought.
- Have 0 head gasket failures.
- Restore and reseal Morris Minor's underside.
- Learn how to rebuild a Ford Type 9 gearbox.
[br The Rover is a bit of a change from the Volvo. Nice pairing with the Minor. We must have similar taste in cars as I have a 75, a Minor and have just got an 88 Volvo 740 estate.
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Haven't posted in here for a while. Main plan is to finish sorting my Minor's paintwork and get it back on the road. Also to set up a new reader's rides thread encompassing all three cars.
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it's easier to say than do but I'd like an MOT for the Cortina.
The reality is that it'll be some work and a heap of money. I'm looking at all the finer details like seals and clips and the prices just escalate!
so my step by step is:
Brakes and brake lines (got pre made hard lines that need bending) Loom tape it up and fit it start fitting electrical stuff Gearbox rebuild Engine - rebuild an original oil pump as the high pressure one is too high, sump gasket and tidy up Fuel tank - procrastinate further hoping it'll seal itself up! I think I'll chop that and build a new lower section Fuel lines - should be straight forward test the engine/ electrics if all is ok proceed with headlining and interior and seals
head over to the MOT station for a certificate, then onto the Winchester till everything blows over
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1966 Ford Cortina GT 2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 7,079
Club RR Member Number: 146
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Plans for 2020 anyone?vulgalour
@vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member 146
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First car job was to get the BX to the new house and make sure the garage is big enough. The garage is big enough for a car OR tools, not ideal, but still better than nothing. Next job is to get the Princess down from my friend's place in Middlesbrough to my new place in Kent. Then I can get on with unbending all the valves. Then I need to find out exactly what I am and am not permitted to build and hopefully crack on with adding at least one car port to the existing garage and pricing up and figuring out the best way to flatten out and improve the hard standing for the parking area. Whether that actually happens this year remains to be seen, this is the first bought house I've lived in and there's a lot of DIY to do to make the house a home.
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Last Edit: Jan 6, 2020 20:57:47 GMT by vulgalour
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I've started ordering some bits for the mk2, so hopefully we can get that actually working this year. Might mean sending it to someone and paying them lol.
Golf Plus is getting sold to my mate/mechanic to be his new courtesy car. Which means new daily time! I am fortunate enough to be able to pick what I want (never really had this luxury before) but it's causing an issue - I can't make my mind up what I want. So yeah, 1st world problems.
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Maybe turn an S-gargo into a mid engine RWD...
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ToolsnTrack
Posted a lot
Homebrew Raconteur
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Club RR Member Number: 134
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Plans for 2020 anyone?ToolsnTrack
@overdrive
Club Retro Rides Member 134
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Ha, its funny how a simple thread can boost your mojo. I've been dwelling in January blues. Seeing that other members are all in a similar place to me whereby taking stock and sorting out priorities is a bit of a warmer to me. Great thread idea... Managed to sell one limp duck by the way of a wee Yaris I bought to flip. Done OK out of it, and gained back some space I didn't actually have. Its a Yaris, so I'll delve no further into that. The other limp duck is this... Yup, the problematic V8 version. Its got a misfire that has frankly defeated me, so I'm cutting my losses and selling it spares of repair. Already sold it once on eBay for a fraction of the price I paid, and the buyer has ghosted me. Typical. I expect many more of this before my trousers are properly pulled down, but some you win... some you don't. It WILL free up some magnificent space though, and also an insurance policy. 2020 really is about simplifying for me. That leads to the big boy: An apt picture, as I have resolved to repeat a visit (filmed of course) to a drag event and a track event this year now that the thing is turbocharged, and run a comparison on how better (or worse) it is with the power hike. I did have grandiose plans to whip the body off and sort surface rust on the chassis, but as its still solid enough for an MOT last time round, I need to actually use it for a year rather than continually miss summers because its in a perpetual state of "project". Therefor, a driveshaft repair is all it needs, plus a few flourishes I'm thinking of. Other than that, I shall be peppering this year with learning a bit of bike craft since gaining the A license. ~But thats not really relevant for this thread. What is relevant now we are at 2 pages long, is a review of what some others have mentioned. In no particular order, I would liek to address the following: 1 finish this and hopefully race it. 2 Learn a bit about electronics, how to flash ECUs etc. 3 Put a Touareg v10 in this. You my good man seriously do need to complete that. We all want to see the first start vid of the A3 this eyar minimum. A build thread for the trophy truck wouldn't go amiss either! Main thing for 2020 is piecing parts together to throw this Into this, but it wont be being started until end of the show season But I'm doing a full interior before getting it back on the road for show season Lots of wiring to clean up. Painting the floors, couple small rust repairs and sound deadening. New carpet, seats etc. And thats just 1 of the cars Now that is also a build thread we all need to see. I do hope its coming... Get the engine back together with new headgaskets so it can be used in 2020. Finish the new dashboard and start prepairing for the new fuel injected fast road engine for 2021 Again, a build thread is kindly requested!
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Plan for 2020; get the DAF sorted ! (see avatar)
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Get the engine back together with new headgaskets so it can be used in 2020. Finish the new dashboard and start prepairing for the new fuel injected fast road engine for 2021 I had to use my inner google fu to remind myself what a TVR Griffith bonnet should look like. If anyone had described to me they were going to do that to a TVR Griffith bonnet, i'll be honest, I would have thought they were on the funny stuff. But that works soooooo well, and I need to know whats hiding underneath it.
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sonus
Europe
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Get the engine back together with new headgaskets so it can be used in 2020. Finish the new dashboard and start prepairing for the new fuel injected fast road engine for 2021 I had to use my inner google fu to remind myself what a TVR Griffith bonnet should look like. If anyone had described to me they were going to do that to a TVR Griffith bonnet, i'll be honest, I would have thought they were on the funny stuff. But that works soooooo well, and I need to know whats hiding underneath it. The bonnet is pure function. The basis is a stock TVR Vixen Series 3 bonnet with the center section raised 1β and then a tear drop shaped addition added to clear the dynamo on the Daimler Hemi V8 ππ Refitted the cylinder heads yesterday so now only need to clean all the parts due to trusting Steel Seal to seal a suspected head gasket leak to get me home from UK to Norway. Ended up spraying the whole engine bay and down the cars side with white goo that is rather hard to get off π€¬π€¬π€¬ Trip ended like this in 2018 and the car has been off the road since
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Current 1968 TVR VIXEN S1 V8 Prototype 2004 TVR T350C 2017 BMW 340i
Previous BMW 325d E91LCI - sold Alfa Romeo GTV - sold Citroen AX GT - at the breakers Ford Puma 1.7 - sold Volvo V50 2.0d - sold MGB GT - wrecked by fire MG ZT 1.8T - sold VW E-golf Electric - sold Mini Countryman 1.6D -sold Land Rover Discovery TD5 - sold
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That's awesome! Seems I got my TVRs mixed up there, sorry. Is a Vixen and a Griffith similer? They look alike to a simpleton like me. Though googleing them to try and work out whats what has found me some very nice machines.
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sonus
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That's awesome! Seems I got my TVRs mixed up there, sorry. Is a Vixen and a Griffith similer? They look alike to a simpleton like me. Though googleing them to try and work out whats what has found me some very nice machines. The Vixen Series 1 like mine are very similar to the Griffith 400. Vixen S1 started life with MGB engines and quickly changed to Ford Kent engines. Griffith 400 was built with Ford 289 V8s π Mines a bit of a mystery having the Daimler Hemi V8. Mine was the second last series 1 made, before the series 2 which was launched with 4β longer wheelbase which mostly all was to increase the door length for easier access.
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Current 1968 TVR VIXEN S1 V8 Prototype 2004 TVR T350C 2017 BMW 340i
Previous BMW 325d E91LCI - sold Alfa Romeo GTV - sold Citroen AX GT - at the breakers Ford Puma 1.7 - sold Volvo V50 2.0d - sold MGB GT - wrecked by fire MG ZT 1.8T - sold VW E-golf Electric - sold Mini Countryman 1.6D -sold Land Rover Discovery TD5 - sold
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I just wanna get out and DRIVE my car! Steve
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Last Edit: Apr 6, 2020 21:11:33 GMT by shielsy68
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My plans until probably July are βStay at Home, Protect the NHS, Protect Lives. As should most others
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