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Dec 22, 2008 14:41:16 GMT
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TS is a much better bet than the TL. Parts are a bit of nightmare, but if you have the time you can always sort the rust, it's just steel. They've been built with fuego turbo lumps in them before now.
Don't offer too much though - I sold mine to RatDat for £50 I think!
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paulw
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I know all that, and I asked him about it and he just said it it was special and worked ;D I wouldn't normally believe someone on that basis, but it did too. Definitely wasn't the usual aerosol primer, far far better, dried fast with no sinking and flatted well, much better than the z3000 single pack etch we used to use at the Renault place. I used a proper mask with it just in case. He said I'd be able to paint any topcoat over it as at that time I was undecided whether to go celly or 2k. Maybe they call it 2k primer cause you can spray 2k over it, but whatever the thinking and however it works it was good stuff
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paulw
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Just wanted to give a quick plug to these people: www.colorite.co.uk/home.htmlif you do want celly - they still supply any colour for classic use and not at mad prices - went down to their place to see them about paint for the Dart and they really know their stuff. They're in Hanwell, West London way. They also do 2k primer in an aerosol which I found really useful when working on doing loads of small repairs around the car. Didn't know you could get that.
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paulw
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Surely if I keep the pivot points perpendicular to the car the toe in won't change at all? The wheel will move forwards and backwards in the arch with suspension travel but the arms would be quite long so it shouldn't be too bad. Matt Sorry, I hadn't realised you meant pure trailing arms - the semi bit means the pivots are angled (like on a beemer). With trailing arms you don't get any toe change or camber gain in roll, same as the standard set up. You'd have to find a way of giving yourself the roll stiffness that you'd lose from the beam, but you could do this with an anti roll bar. Even if you built fully independent suspension you'd end up linking the two sides with an anti-roll bar, the standard system is just a simple, non-adjustable way of doing that. But maybe you can modify what you've got - Have you got any pics of the standard set up? Any idea which bits are the weak spots?
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paulw
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Well, I suppose I should start a readers rides thread on my new toy then: was worried it would be a bit o/t but seems not ;D
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paulw
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I think the reason why it's a piece of angle is that it's not meant to be very strong, in a way. That angle piece is designed to twist and act like an anti-roll bar. boxing it will stiffen it, but it doesn't allow for much adjustability if you find it wants to dive off the road backwards...
Semi-trailing arms give you changes to the toe-in/out as they go up and down - this works ok on rear-wheel drive cars as they will tend to to toe-in to counteract power-on oversteer, but I think you would end up with a real handful if you put them on the back of an Uno.
I think you'd be better staying close to what you have, and either strengthening existing bits and improving the bushing etc, or refabricating parts in tube if possible to closely replicate the original geometry, to be honest.
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paulw
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indeed, insurance matters. And just make sure that it covers the car while stored away from home. One of my insurers used to ask for both my home post code and the post code of any garages or other "places of regular storage" I used for my cars. Simple question "Is my car covered when laid up over winter in a lockup which is not at my home address" takes 2 seconds to ask and could save you some . I was horrified when I saw that in PC btw. Yes, the first thing that came up was that I'd borrowed some space to work on the car in a friend's garage, and that wasn't where it was usually stored. But the insurance form only asks where it is usually stored, and the exemptions only say it's not covered when it's outside near my house, they don't say it's not covered when it's temporarily under secure lock and key somewhere else. But that was the first thing that came up so it's always best to keep your insurers informed, even if it's at a business for work. I was amazed at how few people in the MMA even knew about laid up cover, I've lost thousands and loads of time but at least I'll get something back eventually. Cheers for the commiserations - it did leave me totally skint (not to mention pretty lacking in motivation and tools!), but I have got a new project, not really RR fodder but maybe I should stick up some pics in Reader's Rides anyway anyway, hijacking of excellent thread over with the advice that if you use a big bit of carpet to lie on in your garage when you're working like I used to, don't leave it under the car - it will soak up any leaked water and keep everything damp for weeks and don't leave boxes of old records on your bonnet, cause again if you get a leak, wet cardboard will take the paint off (don't ask how I know these things )
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paulw
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And if your normal insurance is up, get laid up cover, costs about £40 so assuming your car's worth more than that it's worth it. And for those who don't think anything is going to happen to it while it's safely in a garage, this is what I was left staring at in July, thanks to a friendly neighbourhood arsonist: I had comprehensive cover but I'm still trying to get a decent settlement, but my mate lost two hot rod projects and had no cover at all...
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paulw
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Sept 8, 2008 13:30:15 GMT
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when I was about six we had a family holiday to the States and when we were coming from the airport in LA that Damnation alley thing was just parked up at the side of the road next to the highway. being a car mad child I completely freaked out but I don't think my parents saw it and thought I'd gone mad, ranting about multi-wheeled space trucks
God knows why it was just sitting there...
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paulw
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Jul 23, 2008 12:42:02 GMT
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Anyone going past hangar lane at about 6.30? I'm on public transport
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paulw
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Jun 27, 2008 20:09:35 GMT
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you get a slight difference between different makes anyway, (and even as they wear out) so I wouldn't have thought that small a change would matter too much.
Changes of more than that can have weird effects on the geometry, like changing the scrub radius if there's a lot of KPI which is kind of the same as changing the offset, my Dart steered miles better after going from 60 series to 70 series tyres, which to be honest I didn't really expect...
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paulw
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Apr 11, 2008 22:01:07 GMT
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One thing to check is to get someone to push the clutch in and see if the front pulley moves - the engines can spit out the thrust washer/bearing on the crank and get loads of end float and eventually destroy the block. I had a 1300 that did this - otherwise running fine with no smoke or knocking, but 3/4 inch endplay...
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paulw
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Feb 26, 2008 19:09:56 GMT
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I'm going up tomorrow night as well as it happens. Think I'm running out of gas now, but there's plenty of steel, so that should work out perfect See you up there, I'll be up about 7 with luck
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paulw
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My only hope is that the other units they ripped off werent rented by the 'friendliest' people shall we say, and they are hunting for their stuff! Yes, there were a few more death threats etc as the afternoon wore on... Any news on whether the wheels were in the Beemer? I spent most of Sunday armour-plating our place like the A-team Probably going to go up there tomorrow night as well since I've thought of a couple of weak spots if I can sort out more gas. Do you still need anything doing?
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paulw
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Ooops, I'm on Pauls computer, it's streetrules really. Oh, and the car is still for sale!
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paulw
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My keyboard's sodden with tears. Damn you Matt Wright!
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paulw
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I am. It's enough to just give off a general vibe of owning a cool car, I'm sure
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paulw
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Apr 10, 2007 16:24:41 GMT
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Aaah, was really looking forward to it tonight but too much work to do (too much time when I should have been working wasted over the weekend - drinking and looking at sixties Drag racing pics so my own fault ;D ) Sounds like there'll be a good turn out too
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paulw
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Mar 13, 2007 14:54:05 GMT
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Doh! Cheers tigran...
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paulw
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Mar 13, 2007 14:21:08 GMT
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Anyone going?
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