Anyone else had a productive day?

yep had a good weekends work on mine to got the van back up the workshop and painted the turbo kadett and fitted the alloys but i forgot the camera so i'll have to take the piccys next weekend when i bring it back home to put in the garage while i do the van as i need to get the van painted before the weather gets to cold

I ended up buying the mag in the end, couldn't resist! plus your trackday bit was worth a read! well done

I'm planning to do a v8 conversion on the mg, already got the engine and whilst i'm doing that i want to fit a sebring body kit and i'll be fitting sebring valences aswell, so the bumpers will be going. Then i need to choose some rims to fill out the sebring arches but i'm not sure what rims yet?

But none of thats goign to happen until i finish the beetle! so the idea was i bought the v8 and then that would give me the kick up the i needed to finish the beetle and then i can work on the mg......and it seems to have worked so far....

They are porka rims on the beetle off a boxster

Got any pics of your mg? can't remember seeing any?

Cheers
Gav

took engine crane back to my mates ( and then ended up working on the other e30 there....didnt get much done but its more productive than days where i do nothing so i thought id give it a mention... trying to get that one all set up for 24v swap and 5stud-nes

Good work everyone, more impressive than my simple yet effective motivational tasks.

After charlie browns wanted £64 for a battery for the sierra V8, i scavanged a perfectly good one out of my dads yard for 6 pints of milk!

Also got round the oil change on the cvh as i was on borrowed time!
heres a non action pic!


GavinJ, i think in my PPC mag pilot; RPM magazine, there is a thing on V8 sebring MG's, a brief how to.

On Saturday, I finally moved the Sprite from my uncle's driveway (which is where it's been for the last month since the engine died) back to the nice warm warehouse where it is normally kept. Borrowed a friend's very large Brian James flatbed trailer to tow the Sprite - overkill I know as the Sprite is only about 650kg, but it did the job. The Amazon managed ok, but I don't think it would want to tow that particular trailer for a long distance, as it is quite heavy.... Must have been an interesting sight though!

The Sprite was soaking wet inside (my own fault for using the tonneau cover rather than the hood when I left it at my uncle's) so in order to take out the carpets, the seats and runners had to be removed first, which wasn't fun as there's minimal ground clearance to access the other end ot the bolts

It's dry indide now & with the carpets out most of the floor looks ok, and a large amount appears original too - highly unusual for a Spridget of this age! Still needs few repairs though :-(

Unfortunately, I can't weld (yet...)

Well yesterday was not exactly productive.
I was supposed to be going round to assist my mates Mini weldathon, but finished yo spending the whole day putting up some external lights on my house. A tiresome task.

Maybe next weekend will be better. I'm thinking the LandRover may well be returning from the garage in the next few days so I can commence on giving it a few "Retro-Rides" style touches! ;D

I've had a hilariously bad day, I haven't even had time to work on any motors. I was in the town centre trying to get a job today, still no luck as of yet although there are a few places who say they'll let me know, then I was out with a girl (which didn't go as well as it might have done! :, then afterwards I had to get a train back, because the Imp's out of action just now while I rub it down for repainting plus do some work on the interior, that and my ankle still hurts a bit and I've been advised not to drive anything since it's still a bit stiff.

Anyway, the plan was to get on at Greenock Central station and jump off at Cartsdyke, which is the nearest station to where I live in the East end of Greenock. Problem being, little did I know that due to some whim of our marvellous public trasnport system, they had decided the train wouldn't be stopping again until the town centre of Port Glasgow, i.e. in the next bloody town, a few miles from where I had planned to stop! At least the conductor was too busy chasing neds up and down the carriages trying to get their fares off them to notice I hadn't bothered to pay mine. Seeing as by this time I barely had enough money to pay the train fare, let alone get a taxi back to Greenock, and neither the trains nor the buses would be going back that way for a good while, the end result was a quite agonising walk home, after which I'm in no fit state to be working on the Imp. There's a good reason I don't use public transport!

So in short I haven't had a productive day, I'd have a rant about the public transport system and how there are poverty-stricken former southern Soviet republics with more reliable public transport systems than ours, but it's a bit off topic really, and besides that I'm too bloody sore to think about much else!

i spent yesterday, fixing the passenger side door lock on the micra after some degenerate broke in and pinched my radio