The Invisible Car Part II

[Renrut]

Without doing something to the front I think a foot wider at the back would make it a like a Robin in corners

Turbo conversion makes the most sense IMO as its so well trodden and documented.

Carbs + lairy cam if you could get it to keep supplying the spark at high revs might be an option - Megajolt as per this months article perhaps?

I quite fancied testing out the internet claims of it still running at 14,000 rpm but then my cursed brother offered me an engine that revved to 11.

[Relentless Rob]

I would love to sink my teeth into the Fire engine. I have done before but time and budget are against me this year.

Today I discovered something more irritating than the Lady Gaga edition of Glee. Sheered brake nipples.

Easy outs are ironic to say the least, snapped three sets. Also snapped three of these....

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...the "Snapon" one has been sent back and the draper one picture has been refunded the third didn't snap as such the handles bend and the centre rounded off.

I'm done for today but next time I'll be welding the nipple holes shut and bleeding the calipers from the flexi-pipes. Grrrrr!

[Relentless Rob]

M.O.T FAIL

Due to extensive chassis damage.

When I took the front inner wing dust covers off I noticed the front end damage under the drivers side headlight also extended to the "A" pillar. The car had passed two M.O.T's like it before and didn't worry about it. So I was expecting a "fail" as I haven't done the rear brakes yet but the test was stopped before they got that far and it was so bad I had to get the car towed home. The driver side front wheel is about a centimetre further forward than the passenger side one.

Old car old bodges eh?

The curse of the £999 Challenge (that killed my Panda with two weeks to go) strikes again.

Options/
1/ Run the Rover.
2/ Sell the Rover and buy a Cinquecento, Seicento, Uno, Panda and swap bits over.
3/ Sell the Rover and buy someting quick.
4/ See you next year after some grinding jigging and welding.

Grrrrr!

[Rob Bell]

Can you get the chassis pulled in time Rob? What a shame!

[Relentless Rob]

Can you get the chassis pulled in time Rob? What a shame!

I could put the plastic covers back on and get the car M.O.T'd somewhere else if it wasn't competerised.

I don't know. Cutting the front off could be adventageous for next year though. I have over half the budget left and can get a rip snorter of an engine and semi-spaceframe made up.

Every cloud and all that.

There is always the weird rod option.

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[Steve33]

The buy something quick option is a good one.
Volvo t5s seem cheap on ebay

[MFrV1]

Real shame: This has been one of my favourite builds (I'm a Fiat nerd).

[Relentless Rob]

I've got a little over £500 of the £999 left and twelve months to do it.

I'm not done yet.

"Guff" will not die.

[Rob Bell]

We'll start a petition to number 10 if you do!

Guff has been brilliant - you can't let it die just yet!

[Relentless Rob]

As well as promising I would do so, I would like to do a video guide to swapping rear drums for discs similar to the Punto GT front upgrade guide.



So the brackets are clean and painted....

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...as are the calipers.

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Ready to go as soon I can find an equally inappropriate piece of music.

[owelly]

Stop being a fanny and run it anyway. If you win, you can be disqualified for having no MOT....if you don't win.....what? Still no trophy?

[Scrappyloz]

Just take it to another Mot station.

[fha772]

Run it anyway!!!
It's what Smiler did last year with his 5 series.

[Relentless Rob]

We'll see.

Today we went from this....

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...to this....

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...find out how soon.

[tommi]

you going to run the wheels from a coupe?