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Work away man, if they're any use to you at all in visualising the idea! I'll try you later from the house phone dude Thanks Dude, try me on the landline - mobile is utter rubbish when I'm in the house. I'll stick this one up for now - the others kinda give the game away a little. All of them AWESOME (would expect nothing less from your biro wielding skillz ;D ) Many thanks for doing them. If the current plan of colour scheme doesn't go ahead then I reckon the Gulf colours would look great. Some people reckon it's done to death, but certainly not in this case. Thanks again Dude.
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If you need anything for said beastie, you know where I am . Si, that's brilliant. You'll probably regret saying that once the build gets properly underway because I'm planning on replacing a lot of stuff. You've got 24hrs to retract your statement Thanks Dude. Need to catch up sometime....and you NEED to make it down sometime too. Man, this is gonna be cool! Look forward to watching progress may even make it down to Area 52 after the summer Sorry I missed you Pete, it was one of those days where I no matter how many people I got to catch up with (mostly very briefly) there were just as many that I missed. Gutted! You'd better get down for a weekend sometime. It's been a year since you last popped over and you need to get stuck into this build ;D Stay off the drugs you madman!
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I'm really liking that sketch !
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Have you considered putting the puma front end on the ka? They look awesome!
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Have you considered putting the puma front end on the ka? They look awesome! I thought about it for about 10 seconds then ruled it out. I like the look of the Ka and think it looks a bit ungainly with the Puma front end. Plus it's a lot of work to fit - I'm not afraid of some fabrication but would rather concentrate the efforts on making it a brilliant track car over anything that does nothing more than styling. I've also heard that the Puma lights are very poor in comparison to the Ka ones. Seeing as it will be a road car as well as a track car, I want the lights to function well. Don't get me wrong, I think it looks quite good but it's not for me and I'd rather see it on a show car. ^^ the only images I could find ^^ Thanks for the suggestion though. ;D
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I could drop in on Sunday and collect some slots!
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So who's up for a bit of short notice engine removal?? As those of you who've been to one of the 'short notice' non-play weekends can vouch, they tend to be awesome fun ;D I will come over Saturday afternoon & help out Bruce.....all i ask is that you make me a cup of tea & dig out the shovel for me! Tim...
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.....all I ask is that you make me a cup of tea & dig out the shovel for me! Tim... Would be good to see you Dude but I'm not letting you use any redneck traveller methods this time. You'll understand when I tell you Oh..and Bomber...that kit is awful! Thanks for the thought but I couldn't bring myself to nail that to the poor Ka! Not my kind of thing. Sorry.
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After a quick phone call to a certain someone consider my impromptu butt to call in at about 8pm Saturday evening Look forward to seeing everyone! Chris
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It's not a "kit" as such. It was a limited edition Ford sanctioned kit. And it looks great when done properly. Like mine.
So you apologise....I'm offended.
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Work away man, if they're any use to you at all in visualising the idea! I'll try you later from the house phone dude Thanks Dude, try me on the landline - mobile is utter rubbish when I'm in the house. I'll stick this one up for now - the others kinda give the game away a little. All of them AWESOME (would expect nothing less from your biro wielding skillz ;D ) Many thanks for doing them. If the current plan of colour scheme doesn't go ahead then I reckon the Gulf colours would look great. Some people reckon it's done to death, but certainly not in this case. Thanks again Dude. That looks like you'll want a street/sport ka grille.
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CIH
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Woudn't banded steels be too heavy for the Type-R ethos ?
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So you apologise....I'm offended. Sorry Dude, Just doesn't do it for me. Nor does any kit I've seen on a Ka yet...Ford sanctioned or not. I guess it brings me back to a point I made earlier in the thread where I've got a very clear image in my mind of how the car will look finished. A very clear image....and I can be very, very stubborn in sticking to that plan. I do it with all my cars, plan it out in every last detail in my mind before I even get the car. I know exactly how I want it to look right down to the little details before the car has even arrived. I did it with the MX5. Before I got the car I'd planned out everything from blanking the side repeaters, how I was going to use the corner reflectors, which bits I would colour code, which bits I'd do black, how I was going to two tone the interior, even where I would hang the air freshener I'd been saving for it! The Ka is no different. I know every detail of how the car will look even though it's still in Barnsley and I won't be seeing it for another week. Right down to the design of sticker I want to go on the side. All in my mind and all very, very clear. I'm afraid bodykits don't form part of this look. Oh...and sorry if I upset you
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.....all I ask is that you make me a cup of tea & dig out the shovel for me! Tim... Would be good to see you Dude but I'm not letting you use any redneck traveller methods this time. You'll understand when I tell you Oh..and Bomber...that kit is awful! Thanks for the thought but I couldn't bring myself to nail that to the poor Ka! Not my kind of thing. Sorry. It can look ok with colour coded bumpers What about something like this www.djm-motorsport.co.uk/Ford_KA_Project.html
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Issue I have with body kits like that is that you then can't drop the car into the wheels to fill the arches and they mess with a car's lines far too much in general. Just my opinion but that kit looks terrible in my eyes. I'm looking forward to helping out with the Ka, Bruce. See you saturday Dibbles
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stealthstylz
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Done a bit of pre-bristol drive prep this evening. Basically traveller de-rusting the brakes (wire wheel on grinder to get rid of rust, flap wheel to get rid of lip on disk lol) and making sure everything works.
One small problem - on the drivers side front the spring has snapped a full coil off. I thought maybe i'd be able to get the broken coil to drop out and chop the broken end off. I levered the broken bit out with a screwdriver and BAM! the next coil up dropped past the spring cup.
So anyway what's the best way to get the struts off so I can chop more coils off and weld some retainers on. I've got the top nut off, and I was planning to just undo the ARB drop link so the wishbone will drop down but will that be enough to get the strut out of the hub?
Matt
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craig1010cc
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I think that the fronts are the same as a sierra in that you need to slide them out of the hub (use a cold chisel to lever it open a little bit)
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stealthstylz
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Yeah they are, just need to find out if unbolting the ARB drop link will allow the bottom arm to drop enough to get it to slide out.
Matt
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So you apologise....I'm offended. Sorry Dude, Oh...and sorry if I upset you Sorry, had a couple. Realised I forgot the smiley. I'm really not offended. Although I'm tempted to buy that kit. It's missing its spoiler though. After seeing the Delica and TDB I'm interested in how this turns out.
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