Mr K
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Sept 8, 2008 13:02:20 GMT
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the line up of the cars with the skoda is that at the guildford cruise or the "american car meet" (once got stopped going into a petrol station after being at the guildford cruise and pc plod asked me where I had been and I replied "the guildford cruise" he said that it didnt exist so me said "the american car meet" then mr plod was happy! Correct location, but its at 'no-rice', 2nd wednesday of the month, burgerking carpark - Guildford. |
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reliantreviver
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Sept 8, 2008 22:05:28 GMT
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Oooo, very sexy Nick, not sure about the choice of grey, looks a little too blue for my likeing, perhaps slightly more silver.
Think I'm gonna have to get one of my 3 SS1's onto something wider than 6.5's then!
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Reliant "750" Super Robin, Scimitar SS1s - 2 x 1300, 1 x 1600, 1 x 1800ti. 76 years off the road between them!
Also - Mitsubishi Galant Sport and Hyundai Coupe Gen3
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looks mint on those wheels, glad to see you filling the arches to busting point!
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Mr K
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Sept 11, 2008 13:21:26 GMT
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cheers for the kind words guys! had to pull the drivers side arch a bit more, but the passenger side still needs a smidge more too, and maybe wind it up a few mm at the rear too. also polished the bonnet up a bit more, its getting there but still a bit dull, in hind seight i should have just repainted it! its still running pretty rough, but its getting better! wooo! took it to no-rice last night, pleased that i managed to make my deadline. the pics? only one of the car:  a few other things i spotted there:     also spied this:  which has got me thinking, would look awesome on the back of the ss1 i think! next jobs are to get the carpet out ready to see about the mods to the roll hoop and keep trying to get it running better! |
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Sept 12, 2008 17:24:56 GMT
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Cool car meet.That passat is awesome.
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I'll love V8'S till the day i die.....
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Mr K
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Sept 16, 2008 13:13:50 GMT
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Em and I stripped the carpet out at the weekend - this requires removing quite a bit of trim but its out now (a lot of the trim will go in the future too, but atm its all serving a purpose.)   under the passenger floor I found this:  oops. that repair seems to have cracked! when we replaced the sill on the passenger side (drivers side had alreayd been done) we had to cut away half the floor to allow access to the back of it, and then bonded it back on, however due to it being hidden, non structual and secured in other places it was only glassed in with a few layers of glass dumped on top - which have now cracked. the crack is directly over the exhaust and expalins the excessive tempratures inside the car! so the plans are to repair the passenger floor properly, with some heat reflective stuff above the exhaust, clean up the drivers foot well, paint the floor satin black, false floors with grip tape on in both sides, the Em has offerd to make a quilted and insulated tunnel cover that will popper on, and i need to tidy up and secure the wiring. We also spent a while tweeking the engine and have got it going really rather well! |
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reliantreviver
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Sept 16, 2008 16:24:30 GMT
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While your in there drop the floors a couple of inches, nothing worse than using your head to skid on in the event of a roll over!
I'll have to see your painted floors to pass judgement, but I'm afraid me no like may be the outcome.
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Reliant "750" Super Robin, Scimitar SS1s - 2 x 1300, 1 x 1600, 1 x 1800ti. 76 years off the road between them!
Also - Mitsubishi Galant Sport and Hyundai Coupe Gen3
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Mr K
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Sept 17, 2008 9:14:46 GMT
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While your in there drop the floors a couple of inches, nothing worse than using your head to skid on in the event of a roll over! I'll have to see your painted floors to pass judgement, but I'm afraid me no like may be the outcome. Leaving the floor height how it is for now, but i will eventually be dropping the seat - but in good time (not when the car is taxed, insured, MOT'ed and the weather is good enough to use it (just)) the new seat will be going in on runners, dare i say it, but only for a while until I'm happy with it and due to some carefuly chopping and drilling it should still be about 10mm lower than the stock sagging one. hopefully have some pics of the floor to show you soon, i painted a little sample patch last night and I'm happy, its not 'pretty' but its functional and tbh, the carpet sucks anyway, and it will be nice to have a perfectly flat floor. Anyway, since when did your opinion matter? lol. i think i only have one mechanical window winder, don't suppose you have one knocking about? i would love to ditch the winders and 1/4 lights and fit some perspex windows with slidey glider style openings, but i think they would leak/buffet/and be insecure. i need to knock up my new doors soon, thats the next job once the floor/seats/belts/roll hoop are done and its been to the rolling road. thats when i will come n see you to collect my new dash/centre console/what ever else? |
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Mr K
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Sept 22, 2008 13:12:35 GMT
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another update, Em has been tidying up the headlining useing some grey vinyl that shes edged to hide reliants poor attempts (its just butted up and glued! over time its peeled off and pulled appart). From:  to:  i have been busy sorting the floor, stipping off the old repair:  i then ground it out, which despite covering it up inside i filled it up with dust! oops. glass on:  painted up (don't know why it looks grey in the first one):    i then washed and polished the rest of the car:  tightened up a few loose bits of trim, and dad has knocked up a tool to adjust the solid lifters, so i can get them in there now too. another update soon i hope! |
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Mr K
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Oct 20, 2008 12:48:56 GMT
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no updates for a while - but I have been busy on the car, I even entered a sprint - however see retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=48083&page=1 for the disaster that was! lol. always next time! jobs wise I have finished painting the floors:  knocked up the drivers side false floor to cover the strong but not so pretty previous owners repair (although, it actualy looked fine once painted) and smooth it all out:   which actually makes a suprising difference to driving it, and weighs nothing (6mm ply) various other little tweeks have been done, but nothing worth documenting, the biggest change was that on thursday night we cut the harness bar to size:  got it tigged on friday:  and fitted on sunday:   which meant my seat could go in! very pleased with it, although the seat needs to be a bit lower, although it is still lower than the standard seat. I have orderd a length of seal to re-seal all the doors and hard top and have tracked down most of hte leaks, so fitting the seal / fixing them is the next task, hopefully it will be rain tight then! I'm starting to get itchy feet about binning the CVH for a tweeked 2.0 zetec and runnin in modified production class but I need to look at the blue book with regards engine swaps (150-160hp would be nice to start with, 200 would be the aim) hmmmm. for now I will get the CVH running properly, the interior, body and chassis up to scratch whilst I decide on a plan for the running gear. |
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luckygti
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Oct 27, 2008 23:39:56 GMT
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Looking really good now. Nice to see the whole build! (So far!!  ) Like the floor idea, looks good. |
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Speedle
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Oct 28, 2008 13:25:13 GMT
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awsome! i wasnt to keen on this car at first but its seriously grown on me! impressive repairs dude loooks like a fine example! and I'm definatly keen on her now!  |
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Oct 28, 2008 15:13:42 GMT
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turbo? should be able to keep the class then looking good otherwise, nice to see another retro being abused ;D |
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Mr K
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Oct 29, 2008 13:39:19 GMT
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Cheers for the kind words - as for a turbo, wouldnt that make it come under the cc x1.4 rule for turbo cars, making it too big for the 1401-2000cc class? and i didnt think you where alowed to increase displacement if it takes you up a class? after monday nights tinkering I'm back to thinking i will stay with the CVH, i have fitted the solid lifters and its awesome, really goes well now and is running pretty well too, it should go like the clappers with a rolling tune. to celebrate this i dug out the new engine:  a block we picked up off ebay for £40, its been decked, over bored 1mm (1637cc) and enameled, under all the gunk:  when we went to collect it the guy threw in some brand new +1mm AE pistons saying they where incorrectly fitted to their rods and scrap - I'm not really sure whats incorrectly fitted about them; but he must have thought there was something very wrong with them as thats about £200 pistons he gave us! so the first job is to work out exactly what i have here, and how they have been fitted wrongly. i also need to check its correctly machined as when i measured the bore it was 80.6mm, which when i looked in the book is .4mm short of what it should be to take +1 pistons!! i have also pretty much decided to run in modified production class to allow some of the body mods i want to do, but more on that nearer the time. |
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Mr K
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not updated this in ages, bassically i chopped the floor out to drop the drivers seat for head clearance and to improve the driving position - this was back in november. college etc got in the way, and it wasnt until a few weeks back that i was able to stick the floor back in. it looked like this in november:  and then a week or so back i got cracking again and layed up some section to fill in the gaps created by lowering the floor:  and all glassed up:  and seat in:  much much better to drive! well worth it! on to the next job, battery box; not a requirement for the regs, but stops anything shorting the terminals in the boot and tidys it all up. i also intend to put the fuel pump in the boot shortly, and maybe a swirl pot (I'm having some starvation problems with anything less than 1/4 tank) so its probably best to keep the petrol and battery seperate.  its a cheap battery box from rally design; although the lid is not air tight, the original 1600cvh battery tray is a perfect fit in the bottom (with the legs cut off) to mount the battery onto. trimmed the floor around it, i was going to cut it tight around it, but the floor had already been cut to fit around the battery and the whole was too big.  started stripping the paint off the new doors, after about 15mins i got sick of it, got quite a bit striped, more soon i expect:  I have since taken the centre console out, and am in the middle of tidying it all up, painting the top of the tunnel, fitting the kill switch, and making somewhere to mount the oil temp and oil pressure gauges. i orderd a full cage from protection and performance at the end of january, which should be dispatched tomo, I'm also booked in on the rolling road on the 30th March to get it setup, and the first sprint is on the 19th April. its not going be pretty, but hopefully it should be quickish, meet the regs, and good fun! |
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Mr K
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Mar 16, 2009 14:35:34 GMT
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a big update is brewing, but until then. heres a sound clip of a run from 0-65mph, it gets bogged down off the line due to the huge lack or torque and general poor running upto 4k rpm (its no the cam, its the fueling and ignition), hopefully the rolling road will fix that. www.mediafire.com/?mne1izyzmze |
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Mr K
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Mar 18, 2009 13:59:20 GMT
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Big update, this dropped through my letter box:  a full 6 point protection and performance roll cage! so reliant_reviver popped round and we got cutting into my floors again and got front mounts on:    then it was time for tank out to fit the rear stays:  Cage in (its been in and out quite a few times in the process of fitting it!):  fitted with phils fuel tank, as it needed a shortened tank to fit between the rear stays, which phil happened to have lying around.   we marked where to cut on the rear deck my using a lazer held upto the rear stay, by making a series of lines we could see where the hole needed to go:  so we could get it to fit like:  might use black silicon or something to fill the gaps. all thats left to do is sort the breather on the tank, and then pop the battery, boot liner, and seat back in and glass up the floor where the front feet are. |
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Mar 18, 2009 14:31:32 GMT
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thats a big letterbox you have. mine had to wait outside for me, lol!
Excellent fitting, nice work with the lazer sight. Would a large gromet not be a neat finish as apposed to a bit of silicone? mk3 Cavs have some huge gromets in the firewall which may suit the task?
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Mr K
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Mar 18, 2009 14:45:39 GMT
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you think the letter box is big, you should see the size of the door its in!
a bit gromet would do the job, i will have to have a dig around! i agree, silicon wouldnt be ideal, was just the only idea i came up with. i tried a bit of door seal (the stuff with the sealing section on top, not to the side like normal door seal) but it didnt like the curves.
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Speedle
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Mar 18, 2009 14:49:58 GMT
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impressive work looks awesome with the cage in and the roof off |
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) Like the floor idea, looks good.
