Rich
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Once again, same as for my Hyundai thread, if you are going to moan 'its not old, its not retro', WHY DID YOU CLICK? Me and my brother picked this up for the wallet scorching (not really) sum of £70. Its a grim old heap, which means the sensible thing to do is build a rally car replica, right? Its grim. Did I mention it smells like a thousand dogs lived inside it? And its full of water because it has a sunroof? No? Well. Good job the interior is destined for the bin. The plan is to remove ANYTHING the car doesn't need and simplify. Its annoyingly a 1.1 SPI, so at some point we will be looking to retro-fit a 1.4 on MPI to give it a bit more bite, but having driven it already, when it gets the bucket seats, less weight, grippy tires and a heavy foot it should still be an absolute hoot. Tune in next time to see if I manage to totally ruin the dashboard
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Last Edit: Jan 29, 2017 18:36:37 GMT by Rich
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bstardchild
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That much mastic and the freaking sunroof still leaked - sheesh
Handy having a half cage already
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Rich
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That much mastic and the freaking sunroof still leaked - sheesh Handy having a half cage already If you push the roof down around the mastic it's not even actually stuck to the roof. We found the hoop on eBay for naff all just after we bought the car. Fate. Or something
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Great stuff,are you going to have a go at a Road Rally,plenty of Night Rallies this side of the Bridge
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Rich
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Great stuff,are you going to have a go at a Road Rally,plenty of Night Rallies this side of the Bridge I'll have to look into it. I'd like to. I don't know the rules regarding cages and seats and stuff like that, any links or pointers for a bit of reading?
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Easiest bet would be to find a cheap Saxo VTR donor and chuck the running gear in the 106 shell, you'll have 90-100bhp to play with as well as better brakes/rear discs etc
I do have a VTR engine kicking about somewhere in my garage lol
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Join a Motorclub is your best bet,have a look on here and ask some questions,all the Knowledge you need on here britishrally.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=6I used to do a bit in the navi seat a long time ago and a few mates still compete so if I can help with anything let me know...
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qwerty
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Saw this on Instagram. My kind of project!
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steveg
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Might not be much help but I found wedging a few bits of old engine mount rubber between the metalwork and the plastic surround stopped my sunroof from leaking badly. Over time the plastic warps and the sunroof glass doesn't touch the seal down the sides.
For what your doing you will most likely be ripping it out and fitting a new bit of roof in the hole.
I've got pretty much the same model but have fitted Rallye front springs, new shocks and thicker front ARB and the rear beam from something with thicker bars on it.
It's quite good fun to drive but the SPI is very nasty. I don't know if the slightly later multipoint injected 1.0L is any nicer to drive but I was considering getting a carb and manifold from an AX or similar to go on it.
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Rich
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Might not be much help but I found wedging a few bits of old engine mount rubber between the metalwork and the plastic surround stopped my sunroof from leaking badly. Over time the plastic warps and the sunroof glass doesn't touch the seal down the sides. For what your doing you will most likely be ripping it out and fitting a new bit of roof in the hole. I've got pretty much the same model but have fitted Rallye front springs, new shocks and thicker front ARB and the rear beam from something with thicker bars on it. It's quite good fun to drive but the SPI is very nasty. I don't know if the slightly later multipoint injected 1.0L is any nicer to drive but I was considering getting a carb and manifold from an AX or similar to go on it. Sunroof is going, it has to to fit the roll hoop properly, it fouls the cartridge at the moment. The longer term plan is a 1.4 with multipoint, I'll have to change the engine out anyway as the SPI cylinder head is different to the mpi. But I'll run it as-is for a bit because I'll actually need it on the road so I can pull the engine out of the MGB at some point..
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Rich
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So, ended up getting shot of the 106 because I got offered a landrover Discovery for cheap off a mate. Check this chod out. Painted the awful grille. Only for all the paint to fall off again, twice. Grr. Bought cheap winch bumper to replace the entirely missing bumper Started cutting huge holes to begin banishing it of any major rot Used some free steel for this. Pulled the front apart for the A posts, inner wings and toeboard Fitted a pair of defender mirrors.. Then found it had done a fire.. Since repaired all that. Noice. Because of the fire, the bonnet had been brush painted black. So remedied that by testing the new paint colour. Looks good to me. And that's where we are at. More soon!
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would love to see that twatting down a lane on a night rally two feet on the brake pedal :lol:
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Is the disco going military themed? I always wanted to make my old disco into something that could pass as an MOD vehicle
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1977 Land Rover 101 GS (Sold) - 1955 Standard Super 8 (Sold) - 1990 Mk2 Golf GTi (Sold) - 1973 Porsche 914
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düdo
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Good recycling skills with the old drum - probably better quality steel than what the rest of it's made of. They do like to aerate themselves these Rovers. A while back I saw a car that had been stripped back to bare metal only to reveal one of those old fashioned metal Walls ice cream signs making up one of the rear wings. Whatever's to hand I suppose.
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Rich
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Is the disco going military themed? I always wanted to make my old disco into something that could pass as an MOD vehicle No, I'm not a fan of fake army vehicles, I work with enough preserved WW2 ones to have my fill of drab paint. I have a theme and it's not military. Admittedly, I think it'll be lost in the majority of people but If you know what this is- Then you'll get where I'm going.
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So I'm gonna expect either a log carrier or a recovery crane?
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Rich
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I love and totally understand why game is in '' marks. It's totally fraustrating to play at times and has no real purpose but it's still awesome. So I'm gonna expect either a log carrier or a recovery crane? More like a roof crate a la UAZ. so kind of recovery, think of it as a support vehicle for when our timber tractor breaks down (yes, I do help look after a timber tractor) On a side note, have you ever seen a UAZ 4x4 in the flesh? They are HUGE!
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Rich
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So cracking on, got the front end all buzzed up. Now painted, painted again and waxoyled. Started doing some prep because I was well and truly bored of welding at this point Painted the back corner Then bashed the wing and door back on and painted them too. Going to start getting the tires swapped to my modulars tomorrow and then I can start do weldings again.
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