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Mar 22, 2022 10:05:36 GMT |
Now with the weather being nicer and day's longer, I was able to get an hour in on the Puma after work. Managed to grab some M10x1.0 nuts from work which meant I could start to get the rear suspension somewhere vaguely where it should be. Went from stupid-undriveabley-low:  To somewhere semi-sensible:  It's still low but I think it's about right on. The nearside coilover is somewhat seized so that was blasted with some GT85 and left over night. Will have another stab this evening. |
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Mar 22, 2022 10:15:22 GMT |
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Loving this so far. I had a puma years ago as a courtesy car and loved the feel of it.
Anything to lose weight wise by stripping the dash; radio, heating/cooling system. Must be a few kg hidden away
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Mar 22, 2022 10:37:43 GMT |
Loving this so far. I had a puma years ago as a courtesy car and loved the feel of it. Anything to lose weight wise by stripping the dash; radio, heating/cooling system. Must be a few kg hidden away Cheers dude, they're a proper fun little car. Even though I am trying to lose as much weight out of it as possible, I'd like to keep the dash and radio intact so that it has some form of comfort retained, I've lost a lot out of it already! The A/C might go but it still blows ice cold so I'm in two minds. I'd like to be able to drive it to events so some tunes would be nice too haha |
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Following on from this:  I needed to sort it out. I'm not totally sure what it was? Maybe sunken filler, bad filler job, some sort of reaction? Either way, it couldn't go for paint like it. So I cracked out the sander and filler and had at it. I'm hoping I've done enough to keep it at bay for at least a couple years but I don't really know! I am an amateur after all, working with limited facilities and tools! A skim of filler and some primer, I was left with this (primer was still a tad wet when photos were taken). Much, much better looking and much smoother!   Hopefully, the next proper update will be paint! Fingers and everything else crossed as I've been gagging to paint it for months now! |
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Got a bit choppy with the grinder last night...   |
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Not much of a progress post I'm afraid. My car has been trapped in the garage for a couple of months as there were roof repairs being done (the council failed to tell me this). Managed to drag it out over the weekend and was greeted by all sorts of rubble and crud all over it, not a happy bunny.  This has hampered progress somewhat, you will notice it hasn't been painted. I did manage to start stripping the front suspension to fit the front arms and coilovers however I was met with a not totally-unexpected bump in the road. I bought the coilovers cheap and here's why, the top thread is not long enough to go through the car. Off to the machine shop at work to sort that out, however one is in place and gives the car a much more purposeful stance.    I have also fitted "tuner" nuts as the stock nuts and socket were wrecking my wheels. With play stopped on the suspension for now, I decided I should probably sort out somewhere to sit. Custom seat rails would need to be made to fit the Noble seat. I am not a fabricator by any means but am having a bash here.  Need to do some more welding and probably beef this up with some box-section but need to make sure my measurements are ok before I go too mad. Should find out this evening how badly I have done haha! All the best! |
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Jun 22, 2022 10:09:22 GMT |
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Good to see this back! Keep it up.
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Jun 22, 2022 10:53:08 GMT |
Good to see this back! Keep it up. Cheers, will hopefully be able to chip away at the list. Lots of niggly little bits but I'll get there. Maybe even in time for the RRG2022!? |
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Jun 22, 2022 11:54:58 GMT |
saw this and thought of you. mike taylors photo  |
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Jun 22, 2022 12:03:26 GMT |
saw this and thought of you. mike taylors photo Ah yeah the dream! S1600/S1400. They do look much more butch than the production car haha |
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Jun 24, 2022 14:03:34 GMT |
Just in time for the weekend! Got the nuts made for the coilovers, hopefully they'll work but we've left more rather than less on it in case some more material needs to come off. It's way easier to lose rather than add!   If the weather allows, will try to get these fitted up over the weekend and THEN it might actually be rolling on all of it's new wheels and suspension... maybe... |
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Few bits and bobs done. The coilover bolts need trimming, so back to the machine shop today and then they'll be good as gold. The lower arm bolts are properly seized in, so wasn't able to change them out for my polybushed items just yet. Did swap over the ARB droplinks though, so that's something. Got my seat sort of bolted up but needs some finessing. I think I'll actually totally re-do the seat frame as it's just not quite how I want it, plus it could stand to be a bit stronger. Maybe using some 1" box section instead. Either way, the seating position is proper race car, very low but awesome!  Found my danger tree which I thought I had lost forever!  Which in turn meant I could finally sort out my rear boot pins.  |
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