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CoolC said:
A mount for what? what have I missed?
A friend of mine wants to put double anti-roll bars on his MGF to stiffen the chassis up a bit. So he needed a set of clamps to lock the two arb's together and wanted some made out of billet. I suggested box using a picture from my Lent Project bike and MS Paint. Needed to post it here for the thumbsnal link and send it to him. Don't worry I'm not taking the grinder to the Rover (yet). 
Friday the 13th. Unlucky for some eh? 
Poor Rover.
The other car came off a lot worse though. So instead of fixing dads Corsa today I have some pannel work to do.
The spare wheel saved the boot floor at least.
Most straighening in around the inside of the tail light cluster.
Looks prety bad from underneath.
Bent bumper bracket saved the main rail.
Once the bumper and bent bracket are off (two minutes with a hammer sorted that) the rear pannel doesn't look as bad as before.
Hmmmm, bottom lip of the boot or slam pannel? I'm off to get Kev's hydraulic press. The insurance company have said if the car cost more than £200 to fix it's a write off so D.I.Y to save the car (again).
Poor Rover.
The other car came off a lot worse though. So instead of fixing dads Corsa today I have some pannel work to do.
The spare wheel saved the boot floor at least.
Most straighening in around the inside of the tail light cluster.
Looks prety bad from underneath.
Bent bumper bracket saved the main rail.
Once the bumper and bent bracket are off (two minutes with a hammer sorted that) the rear pannel doesn't look as bad as before.
Hmmmm, bottom lip of the boot or slam pannel? I'm off to get Kev's hydraulic press. The insurance company have said if the car cost more than £200 to fix it's a write off so D.I.Y to save the car (again).
Well.....
..the first push was from the bumper mounting plate and the upright....
...until the trim lined up.
Then because the bootlid wouldn't shut I pulled the bottom lip by hand until the trim along the bottom met the numberplate trim.
Closed but with a "clunk". So next I put a brace across the two struts and pushed the centre of the slam pannel at the top.
Then I pushed the boot floor back so the bottom of the spare wheel well was level with the now straight(ish) slam pannel.
Cleaned the area with some WD40 and refitted the bumper backets....
...made sure the spare wheel was a drop in fit instead of being wedged in and put the bumper back in place (a few marks and a little paint transfer but the whole car's being re-sprayed after I do the sills).
The dent in the bootlid isn't that major and I'll get to it when I do the sills and other twenty odd year old car dents all over.
What colision?
..the first push was from the bumper mounting plate and the upright....
...until the trim lined up.
Then because the bootlid wouldn't shut I pulled the bottom lip by hand until the trim along the bottom met the numberplate trim.
Closed but with a "clunk". So next I put a brace across the two struts and pushed the centre of the slam pannel at the top.
Then I pushed the boot floor back so the bottom of the spare wheel well was level with the now straight(ish) slam pannel.
Cleaned the area with some WD40 and refitted the bumper backets....
...made sure the spare wheel was a drop in fit instead of being wedged in and put the bumper back in place (a few marks and a little paint transfer but the whole car's being re-sprayed after I do the sills).
The dent in the bootlid isn't that major and I'll get to it when I do the sills and other twenty odd year old car dents all over.
What colision?
The repairs need to be less than a third of the write off payout to justify doing it. So £200 repair for a with an agreed value of £600. Plus my insurers would get their admin' and other costs added on it would have been a least £1,000 for the Saxo driver in the end.
All this pushes everyone elses premiums up and I would be looking over my shoulder for the next five years waiting for a personal injury claim from the Saxo driver because as soon as there's no record of the accident in the insurance/Police databases (three years) there's no way of proving the accident wasn't my fault and flipped over onto me.
Someone who'd found the end of his bell tried that last year for a colision back in 1998. Luckilly I photographed everything and it got thrown out before any fraud could happen.
All this pushes everyone elses premiums up and I would be looking over my shoulder for the next five years waiting for a personal injury claim from the Saxo driver because as soon as there's no record of the accident in the insurance/Police databases (three years) there's no way of proving the accident wasn't my fault and flipped over onto me.
Someone who'd found the end of his bell tried that last year for a colision back in 1998. Luckilly I photographed everything and it got thrown out before any fraud could happen.
Thanks Rob.
Here's pre-facelift 213S on the south coast.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Buy it now for £350 or start bidding at a bargain £150. A bit too far for me to travel but you're more than welcome to join the SD3 club.
Here's pre-facelift 213S on the south coast.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Buy it now for £350 or start bidding at a bargain £150. A bit too far for me to travel but you're more than welcome to join the SD3 club.
james_tigerwoods said:
Liquid Knight said:
Thanks Rob.
Here's pre-facelift 213S on the south coast.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Buy it now for £350 or start bidding at a bargain £150. A bit too far for me to travel but you're more than welcome to join the SD3 club.
[Father Ted] That'll tap out [/Father ted]Here's pre-facelift 213S on the south coast.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Buy it now for £350 or start bidding at a bargain £150. A bit too far for me to travel but you're more than welcome to join the SD3 club.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Poor car.
A bit of a metalist thinking the headlight's worth £30 when there are new old stcok ones on eBay for £4.99.
Poor car.
A bit of a metalist thinking the headlight's worth £30 when there are new old stcok ones on eBay for £4.99.
I didn't win the two 213S's so I bought this for mine instead....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
...and have been looking a 2.3 Honda Preludes again. Must; resist; tuning!
Having said that the Vitesse front spoiler could direct air flow into an intercooler.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
...and have been looking a 2.3 Honda Preludes again. Must; resist; tuning!
Having said that the Vitesse front spoiler could direct air flow into an intercooler.
It's been a hard week for the Rover this week. A four-hundred mile to Bath and back to collect my £10 eBay bumper and skirt.
The journey there was rubbish, mostly motorway and on a "private" streach (officer) the car indicated 110mph and the sat' nav' confirmed 99mph (down hill). Met one of the nicest chaps I have ever bought anything from and got a free pair of Vitesse wheels to go with the bumper and skirt.
Sadly however thanks to the hills you get around Bath and extra weight in the boot the cars clutch went from a bit slippy to extra crispy. So I took "A" roads home and drove like I had Miss Daisy in the back. There was an interesting convoy on the A605; a animal transport (from the smell I'd say pigs), a Voyager running on used oil and smelled like a chip pan fire at a Kebab shop, a SAAB 9-3 with a knackered oil seal blowing white smoke out every gear change, my stinky clutch and an Audi A5 convertable with the roof down.
I think it was the first time I have ever felt sorry for an Audi driver.
Luckilly it's a Honda bit so.....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HONDA-BALLADE-1-5-ROVER-213-...
...eBay to the rescue again. Bloody expensive eh?
I'm looking for a Mini Clubman to put the Honda/Rover engine into as I have been offered a 220 turbo foe a very very good price.
The journey there was rubbish, mostly motorway and on a "private" streach (officer) the car indicated 110mph and the sat' nav' confirmed 99mph (down hill). Met one of the nicest chaps I have ever bought anything from and got a free pair of Vitesse wheels to go with the bumper and skirt.
Sadly however thanks to the hills you get around Bath and extra weight in the boot the cars clutch went from a bit slippy to extra crispy. So I took "A" roads home and drove like I had Miss Daisy in the back. There was an interesting convoy on the A605; a animal transport (from the smell I'd say pigs), a Voyager running on used oil and smelled like a chip pan fire at a Kebab shop, a SAAB 9-3 with a knackered oil seal blowing white smoke out every gear change, my stinky clutch and an Audi A5 convertable with the roof down.
I think it was the first time I have ever felt sorry for an Audi driver.
Luckilly it's a Honda bit so.....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HONDA-BALLADE-1-5-ROVER-213-...
...eBay to the rescue again. Bloody expensive eh?
I'm looking for a Mini Clubman to put the Honda/Rover engine into as I have been offered a 220 turbo foe a very very good price.
Got a quote for a T16 Turbo powered SD3 with apropriate brake and suspension upgrades. A deposit on a country estate would be cheaper so I'm thinking of fitting the turbo bits to the Honda engine instead. Apparently the septics do a kit for the 1.3 Civic/Ballade and I can use the turbo and bits from the T16, sell the engine and gear box to pay for the incidentals. Would be a blow through set up so an MG Metro Turbo sealed SU, modified manifold and low boost due to standard CR would be reliable and good for over 100bhp.
I was only thinking of the Mini if I could was going to fit the Tomcat to the SD3, but it would be cheaper to insure a Lotus Esprit V8.
I was only thinking of the Mini if I could was going to fit the Tomcat to the SD3, but it would be cheaper to insure a Lotus Esprit V8.
MGJohn said:
Liquid Knight said:
I have Wisbech Engineering up the road and AN Racing in the next village so 400-500bhp would be even better.
You glutton.... It is rumoured that AN ( Andy Nicholls ) has reached in excess of 700bhp from a Rover T16... Good grief.
Just checked and I only won a Tenner last night so it'll have to wait.
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