Ginetta G20

[Scottyb28]

Do you play Sunday football? Did I spot this in the car park of your home pitch a couple weeks ago.....?

If yes, might be seeing it this Sunday for the return leg at our place..?

[pilchard8]

Saw this at PH Silverstone Sunday Service, unless theres two about. Looked very clean.

[RacingPete]

Nice car... be careful when you are on track as the G20 can snap when the tails out, that releases and spins you off the opposite way - watch the juniors racing for opposite way spinning, but always loved racing them - and such an easy car to work on!

Enjoy, it looks great.

[Matt97]

Scottyb28 said:

Do you play Sunday football? Did I spot this in the car park of your home pitch a couple weeks ago.....?

If yes, might be seeing it this Sunday for the return leg at our place..?

I don't play myself but my brother plays left back, i did take it to a game a couple of weeks ago i won't be at sundays game though, should be a close game. I guess you play for toga?

pilchard8 said:

Saw this at PH Silverstone Sunday Service, unless theres two about. Looked very clean.

Thanks very much would of been me you see at Silverstone.

RacingPete said:

Nice car... be careful when you are on track as the G20 can snap when the tails out, that releases and spins you off the opposite way - watch the juniors racing for opposite way spinning, but always loved racing them - and such an easy car to work on!

Enjoy, it looks great.

Thanks for the advise, good to hear from someone that's had good experience of the car and enjoyed it! Everything does seem quite accessible and being a lot of Ford parts should be quite cheap on the basic parts.

Regards,
Matt

[Scottyb28]

Matt97 said:

Scottyb28 said:

Do you play Sunday football? Did I spot this in the car park of your home pitch a couple weeks ago.....?

If yes, might be seeing it this Sunday for the return leg at our place..?

I don't play myself but my brother plays left back, i did take it to a game a couple of weeks ago i won't be at sundays game though, should be a close game. I guess you play for toga?

Yes I do, car looked fantastic, real head turner

[Matt97]

Scottyb28 said:

Yes I do, car looked fantastic, real head turner

Thanks

[Matt97]

Not updated the thread for a little while, mainly because I've just been enjoying the car! The weather has been quite reasonable so I've managed to use it nearly every weekend since I got it, including going to the Stoneleigh kitcar show with the GOC a couple of weeks ago. Although the extra 2.5 hours to get home wasn't fun! Only had one issue so far which was a faulty air bypass valve, quite common on this engine but not an expensive fault to rectify.

Stoneleigh...


I had no history of a cambelt change with the car so today I put a new cam belt kit on the car with a work friend. Quite happy as it's the first cambelt I've done. Removing the bonnet was needed to make the process even easier...



Regards,
Matt

[Krikkit]

Nice, easy cambelt and plenty of access, living the dream!

Car looks great, any plans for track days etc, or just enjoying it on the road?

[Robbins]

Lovely looking car - bet its an absolute hoot to drive! You're braver than me to go (permanently) topless though.

Proper PHer (y)

[Matt97]

Krikkit said:

Nice, easy cambelt and plenty of access, living the dream!

Car looks great, any plans for track days etc, or just enjoying it on the road?

Thanks, Can't really go wrong once the timing is locked and with the front off there's miles of room, definitely living the dream! Was hoping to get on track later in the year but I'll probably put it off until next year also the current tyres aren't suited to track use so I'll want some better tread before heading out on track as well.

Robbins said:

Lovely looking car - bet its an absolute hoot to drive! You're braver than me to go (permanently) topless though.

Proper PHer (y)

Thanks, it's great fun as long as you don't mind going without pretty much everything! Although I'm probably no braver but a lot more stupid than you but the last two weekends have been warm enough to drive with no jacket or coat which was nice. Role of the amazing summer we usually get!

Regards,
Matt

[Craikeybaby]

This is brilliant!

Does it have a tonneau cover or anything? Or at you just left exposed to the elements?

[Andy_sx]

RacingPete said:

Nice car... be careful when you are on track as the G20 can snap when the tails out, that releases and spins you off the opposite way - watch the juniors racing for opposite way spinning, but always loved racing them - and such an easy car to work on!

Enjoy, it looks great.

Thanks for the advise, good to hear from someone that's had good experience of the car and enjoyed it! Everything does seem quite accessible and being a lot of Ford parts should be quite cheap on the basic parts.

Regards,
Matt

Awesome car, at any age, let alone so young, congratulations!

As Pete said and you seem to have found out, they are easy to work on, nice and spacious, even for dragging loads of gravel out of it after someone drops it in the kitty litter at brands...

[Fury1630]

Excellent choice sir!
If you want to get out driving, you can do no better than the Southern Kit Car Club. Local runs & bigger adventures (one group just back from Germany, another doing the NC500 in a couple of weeks. http://www.southernkitcars.com/ or the forum's here http://southernkitcars.com/forum/. No membership fees, just banter, help & driving.

Here's my car
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Matt97]

Craikeybaby said:

This is brilliant!

Does it have a tonneau cover or anything? Or at you just left exposed to the elements?

Thanks , no cover/roof just have to watch the weather forecasts carefully!

Andy_sx said:

Awesome car, at any age, let alone so young, congratulations!

As Pete said and you seem to have found out, they are easy to work on, nice and spacious, even for dragging loads of gravel out of it after someone drops it in the kitty litter at brands...

Thanks very much for the reply, I've found even just driving on the road I collect a fair amount of grit/stones in the front so I can imagine the amount you would collect if you went in a gravel trap!

Fury1630 said:

Excellent choice sir!
If you want to get out driving, you can do no better than the Southern Kit Car Club. Local runs & bigger adventures (one group just back from Germany, another doing the NC500 in a couple of weeks. http://www.southernkitcars.com/ or the forum's here http://southernkitcars.com/forum/. No membership fees, just banter, help & driving.

Here's my car
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Thanks for the information and that's a nice car you've got. We're you at Gurston Down earlier in the year? I'm sure I see a very similar car to yours there

[Fermit The Krog and Sarah Sexy]

Well done. That's all.

[Matt97]

Been a while since i updated this thread so thought id put a post up. I've now done nearly 2,000 miles in the car and to the surprise of a lot of you on here I haven't crashed or damaged the car, so some of us youngsters can look after a nice car . Only thing that's gone wrong has been the coil pack, a common issue but an easy fix also replaced the HT leads at the same time just for my peace of mind.

I've also managed to pick up another set of wheels which came from the father of the 2012 G20 champion (Matt Flowers). Tyres are in really good condition but I would need to give the wheels a refurb before I would put them on, although I bought them as a spare set for the future anyway.

Also managed to do a couple of longer distance journeys including a nice drive down to Wilton house for the roof down wake up and also down to Castle Combe for a blast both completed without an issue and great fun had on both occasions...





Other than that just been enjoying the car when I can, only other item i've replaced is the exhaust tip as it was looking very tired and bugged me whenever I looked at it...





Kind regards,
Matt

Edited by Matt97 on Friday 26th August 06:17

[spikedjack]

Very cool road car, especially at 19! Enjoy!

[Matt97]

spikedjack said:

Very cool road car, especially at 19! Enjoy!

Thanks very much!

[jfl008]

Matt

nice car,

could you email me as i want to ask you some questions about the G20, i have the chance to buy one.

[Matt97]

jfl008 said:

Matt

nice car,

could you email me as i want to ask you some questions about the G20, i have the chance to buy one.

Thanks, feel free to ask any questions on here or send me a message.

Regards,
Matt