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Sept 11, 2023 17:27:50 GMT
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Right, the dash has taken a back burner till the winter and the varnish to harden so it will flat back nicely....... mainly because I tried very hard to remove the top of my left thumb and have been grounded from the garage for 2 weeks for the stitches to come out. Soooo, what have I been doing apart from sulking, apart from booking holidays, I have been making lots of enquiries about alloy front hubs for the Dolomite range, there are some available at some serious amount of wedge, according to Mr Shoey, Ford ones are only bearing away from fitting, and they are about 75% less than the sprint ones, and I'm trying to find out if there is any carryover from Vitesse to Dolomite for hubs, as many kit cars used to use triumph derived suspension, Why do I want new hubs?. the wheel I think I want to go with, are 100mm pcd, triumph are 95.4, technically its easy but I'm running out of Flange, if I move them outwards less than 3mm its very close as stock stud splines are already starting to expose themselves from factory, I want bigger brakes on the car, so bigger wheels are needed, the Dolomite/Toledo platform, although is RWD because it was derived from a FWD platform it uses FWD offsets the stock PCD sort of limits my choices to some quite horrendous wheels, not much option without the pcd change stock 13" dolly wheels some others I have acquired that I think will fit the bill, and I have them with a 6 & 7" stagger Very reminiscent of Mk5 Cosmics, I'm chuffed......
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Sept 11, 2023 14:19:45 GMT
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Mr Shoey, any progress on the front hubs & bearings
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Sept 11, 2023 14:12:42 GMT
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Got My Tickets last week,
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Sherpa 4x4?, they will be a parts bin job, companies very rarely get things like discs made, they will have come from something else and perhaps machined slightly, have you asked on a sherpa forum, Bigred might be worth an ask, What are the axles based on?
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Sept 6, 2023 13:10:03 GMT
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Just checked to serif my Toledo is ulez exempt, registered in 73, and it is registered as historic, but to be exempt it must be built prior to the 1st jan 73, fortunately the cut off seems to be rolling Is it not the same 40 year exemption for ULEZ as VED? Which would mean anything before 1983 currently is ULEZ free? Maths was never my strong point........... ;( ;( ;( LOL, well it means my Toledo is free, yippee, never even occurred to me that 40 years ago was 83, not 73 DOH from what I can see, as long as its registered as historic its free. although it lists it as having to pay... I might well drive it into south Kent and wait for the bill.
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Last Edit: Sept 6, 2023 13:13:59 GMT by v8ian
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Sept 6, 2023 10:24:24 GMT
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Just checked to see if my Toledo is ulez exempt, registered in 73, and it is registered as historic, but to be exempt it must be built prior to the 1st jan 73, fortunately the cut off seems to be rolling
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Last Edit: Sept 6, 2023 13:10:50 GMT by v8ian
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I nearly got captured when I got a letter telling me the car was out of tax, I never received a reminder in the post as you usually do, it needed to be sorned or taken off the road, 2 weeks out of tax, and 3 weeks out of MOT, I have owned the car less than a years the MOT auto reminder was never sent to me........ I would have checked the tax too, PITA as we were getting ready to bu-ger off to hotter climes, sorted now tho.
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Sept 5, 2023 17:17:41 GMT
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Sept 5, 2023 13:14:03 GMT
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Sept 5, 2023 13:08:25 GMT
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Getting ready to acquire bits to build a better mousetrap, C20xe, might even be a c22xe, not sure yet. What choice of better coilpack do I have, I'm running what appears to be a stock GM style thingy, from looking around, they seem not to exist, however, I can get (shhh ford) Edis style coilpacks, is it just a case of switching over to the edis style plug? at the moment I'm running a MBE mapped ignition on 45s, Is the MBE even capable of running an Edis coilpack, obviously the internal windings of the coilpack will have a different resistance, or are they all switched within the coilpack by SSRs
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Good man, Daytona. a place like no other, How's the weather, no hurricanes due?
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Well done that man, its a big step forward, now for the never ending snagging.......
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Sept 3, 2023 19:53:45 GMT
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Sept 3, 2023 16:45:44 GMT
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Sept 3, 2023 16:16:13 GMT
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Last weekend, at a car show, My son in law managed to totally p-ssmeoff, the words were.you are going to hate me........... once you see it, you cant unsee it, some sort of a mind worm that he kicked off............ give him his due, that evening he searched Ebay and delivered me a replacment unit this afternoon. he is back in my good books now, all I need him to do is find some more problems on the car and get them sorted FOC
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the runners look like capri ones too
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Aug 29, 2023 15:01:12 GMT
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I fully understand the stock seat issue and needing a bit more support, I have a pair of those Astra Recaros, I'm about to have them stripped and recovered in Vinyl to match the Toledos interior, its already mis-matched with some sort of BL sportscar seat that has about as much support as your cav ones, The thing about those early recaro seats is the bolster is low enough to make getting in and out the car not to much hassle, I used them before in my cortina, again vinyl covers sans headrests, best seat for the job.
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not sure why it happened, I tried twice, but there was an external link attached to the post.
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A little glitch I have come across this morning, I posted a comment, then thought I wanted to add a bit more, so went to editor and the edit box was blank, it dosent seem to retain your post you want to edit, so I had to rewrite it.
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Last Edit: Aug 29, 2023 5:55:58 GMT by v8ian
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