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Wow folks - thank you for the warm welcome (or should that be hot given the record weather!)
Indeed Ian - lol - my wife certainly thinks I'm in the Mad House.
Really appreciate your comments. The Griff is a 1996 with just over 40k on the clock. To say I am thrilled with the colour combo and the condition is an understatement and suppose its fate that I held out for the right one. She looks good on the surface and indeed has a very decent chassis too, just some surface rust which I'm tackling. Must say the seemingly overload on cable ties probably did not do many Griffs much good. There is much to do in the bay and some tidying up of details which I'm doing day by day. Body is good but is still in need of a DA exercise which I'm planning when the weather (dare I say) cools down. A great credit to mainly its last owner of many years.
Re ride height - I agree entrirely - tis a bit low for my liking but am very conscious on the routes taken whenever I'm out in her until I get a chance to get it sorted. The fronts are 15s and rears 16 as standard - probably just the impression the pics give. Advice re the sump plug and exhaust noted too - thank you FFG.
If I concur with some of you fellow black Griff owners that blacke ones are indeed fastest - hopefully the rest of you won't hold it against me
Roof down weather indeed. Hope to start a thread soon on the progress, detailing and mods etcs. Thank you again.
Indeed Ian - lol - my wife certainly thinks I'm in the Mad House.
Really appreciate your comments. The Griff is a 1996 with just over 40k on the clock. To say I am thrilled with the colour combo and the condition is an understatement and suppose its fate that I held out for the right one. She looks good on the surface and indeed has a very decent chassis too, just some surface rust which I'm tackling. Must say the seemingly overload on cable ties probably did not do many Griffs much good. There is much to do in the bay and some tidying up of details which I'm doing day by day. Body is good but is still in need of a DA exercise which I'm planning when the weather (dare I say) cools down. A great credit to mainly its last owner of many years.
Re ride height - I agree entrirely - tis a bit low for my liking but am very conscious on the routes taken whenever I'm out in her until I get a chance to get it sorted. The fronts are 15s and rears 16 as standard - probably just the impression the pics give. Advice re the sump plug and exhaust noted too - thank you FFG.
If I concur with some of you fellow black Griff owners that blacke ones are indeed fastest - hopefully the rest of you won't hold it against me
Roof down weather indeed. Hope to start a thread soon on the progress, detailing and mods etcs. Thank you again.
Edited by Storm Guy on Wednesday 1st July 19:43
neutral 3 said:
Storm, is she an HC ( she should be on that year ) and is your chassis painted Silver in color or the pearl white powder coat ? I've had my 98 one up on the ramp for a couple of days touching up a few chassis rust spots.
Yep, she is an HC with the silver chasssis. How bad is your rust - just surface and what have you used to treat it?Thank you all for the advice and welcome.
Thanks Moycie / ESDavey - these ones are Nitrons also but unfortunately no adjustment.
Good to know nuetral3, thanks - I am in the process of stablising the small areas of rust (dotted all) over with Dinitrol until I start stripping components in the future.
This has a stadard hex sump plug so will look out for the round one FFG, thank you. It also looks like the small hump where the sump plug goes has indeed been lightly scraped at sometime in the past. Will watch out for this.
Thanks Moycie / ESDavey - these ones are Nitrons also but unfortunately no adjustment.
Good to know nuetral3, thanks - I am in the process of stablising the small areas of rust (dotted all) over with Dinitrol until I start stripping components in the future.
This has a stadard hex sump plug so will look out for the round one FFG, thank you. It also looks like the small hump where the sump plug goes has indeed been lightly scraped at sometime in the past. Will watch out for this.
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