lodgeman
03-06-2005, 17:34
hi
new to the club and as yet have not had the bug to replace the engine yet, bought a 87 mk1 acouple of months ago ?300 ebay bargain.
mot failure :( usual things rust and brakes- head gasket.thanks to paul for his email surgery now back up and running :P . having read the posts for the last few months the site seems to be for nutters and nuclear physicists - i seem to come somewhere in the middle not quite nutty and definately not a nuclear wotsit- i can cook though :lol: so far my achievements are confined to a filter and a exhaust system of my own making- inspired by you lot!! not yet computer literate to post pictures yet - i was brought up in the pre calculator era with ink wells and free milk. but exhaust looks good downpipe but shortened,flexi pipe into a 2" to 2.5" stepped piece into a stainless 15"box with 4"exit in the centre of car. noisy but sounds like a motorbike :D so if youre in surrey and hear a noisy white mk1 give us a wave- you never know i might wave back!
just a question have fitted three spoke 14" wheels from a corsa they have a tapered seat on the stud hole so have changed nuts but on the motorway seem to have a nasty vibration over a 100mph( illegal i know) wheels have been balanced so is it the spigot rings that you all talk about or is it something else?
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new to the club and as yet have not had the bug to replace the engine yet, bought a 87 mk1 acouple of months ago ?300 ebay bargain.
mot failure :( usual things rust and brakes- head gasket.thanks to paul for his email surgery now back up and running :P . having read the posts for the last few months the site seems to be for nutters and nuclear physicists - i seem to come somewhere in the middle not quite nutty and definately not a nuclear wotsit- i can cook though :lol: so far my achievements are confined to a filter and a exhaust system of my own making- inspired by you lot!! not yet computer literate to post pictures yet - i was brought up in the pre calculator era with ink wells and free milk. but exhaust looks good downpipe but shortened,flexi pipe into a 2" to 2.5" stepped piece into a stainless 15"box with 4"exit in the centre of car. noisy but sounds like a motorbike :D so if youre in surrey and hear a noisy white mk1 give us a wave- you never know i might wave back!
just a question have fitted three spoke 14" wheels from a corsa they have a tapered seat on the stud hole so have changed nuts but on the motorway seem to have a nasty vibration over a 100mph( illegal i know) wheels have been balanced so is it the spigot rings that you all talk about or is it something else?
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