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by **dazzler** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:11 am

Jaffa........................................... i like it, i must be getting old or gay!

by **V all hail to the 8** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:03 am

Tiz good, me likey...

mucho potentioni there mateypips...

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:38 am

Everyone has suprized me tbh.
I thought me and my new oap softop were in for a real slating.

just neen a T16 turbo and PG1 lsd now.

found a few forums discussing it. but no one who has done it yet.

'Apparantly' the entra 45 kg or so wil really unset the handling of the car.

No one seem to mention the entra 80bhp upseting the handling.

by **hillbillyracer** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:00 am

Get in there! I'm sure with a few subtle mods you'll have any OAP/hairdresser/niceboy problems dealt with.
The folk telling you the extra 45kg of the engine will bugger the handling of course have some sandbags they put in the passenger seat for travelling solo to keep the handling the same as when they have a passenger?

by **Invalid Boy** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:41 am

It will affect a mid engined car much less than it would affect a front or rear engined car.

This may help you be stiffer and less floppy:

http://www.mgf.ultimatemg.com/group2/body/index.htm

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:49 am

I'm liking that link

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:50 am

forgot to mention.

i have never actually finished a car project that I started, to if the wheels don't turn, how can it upset the handling [:D]

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:22 am

read the article, angle iron required for bodged bracing [:D]

by **Cornishrob** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:06 am

that leather is terrible, it makes you wonder what kind of a person goes to a dealer, buys a brand new car, then asks for options like that. its like the hideous colours you see some XJ jags come in. Here sir you can have the leather in black, tan, grey, cream, OR for the complete imbecile we offer crimson.

Cake or death? uuuuhhh death please...

seriously, charge it and start it, what is there too loose

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:01 pm

I posted on Locost builders site for a few opinions, and some seem to think stick with the k series.

Would it be better to repair the one i have, maybe turbo it, add a little nitrous, lsd ?

or kv6 perhaps (not very cheap tbh) and just as heavy as the T16

by **dragonface78** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:34 pm

Cars like this cease to be gay once they are equipped with turbos and or nitrous

)

You've got to have a blat with it as it is before transforming it into an unfinished project!

) They are actually quite fun to drive....

I'd go with the T16 - you'll already have spent much of the cost of one fixing the HGF and a vvc has 60 bhp less that a T16. Plus it's cool and different. 45kg is nowt in a mid engined car - I trust it will be getting stripped any how. Surely 45 kg is about the difference between a fat bloke and a skinny bird anyway. Well one of them.......!

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:44 pm

When you say 'fat bloke' and 'skinny bloke' are you some how refering to Mr Owelly, and myself? He's got a heart you know (its somewhere under the fat , I think) Only kidding Mr O, i will in need of your help soon.

Yep the car will be lightened in some way. Do not know far as yet, but I am liking the look of the windscreenless prototype thingy.

I am far too easily swayed by those locost guys, they some some strange views on how to do things. They try and do things that work and handle, and are technicaly correct.

On the other hand, ppc blokes, go for the biggest engine they can get, throw it in, weld where it touches, add a turbo and nitrous.

So similar then [:D]

by **rooskle** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:17 pm

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Trebuchet, Arial,Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">But this one has suspected headgasket failure.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
i don't think <i>suspected</i> applies to a k series when accompanied by the words head, gasket, and FAILURE![:D]

jaffa, check out metropower, a chap called ralph has fitted a rv8 into his metro, in the back(!)
and call me when you want to sell those mgf seats, exactly what i'm after...

by **Jaffa** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:29 pm

I was hoping someone wants the seats, they are about they only half decent thing on the car.

One small mark on the drivers bolster, touch of red leather dye required.

The rest of the car is shocking. Foutunately, a good friend of mine bought me a rechargable buffing type machine about two years back that has not ben out of the box yet. (don't do washing)

looks like it will be on charge, and aeuro canister of t-cut or colour magic ordered.

Website · by **owelly** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:35 pm

You big baggy fanny. Just kick it until it works and we can do a Thelma and Louise............

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