Well, I'd been without a 'project' car for a while, passed on my 3.5l E30, sold the campervan and the space outside the flat was beginning to look a little dull. Mission, something. But what?
Dunno, the target was, the loudest, nastyiest black car five thousand of my English pounds will secure. Looked at skylines, meh, amazing, but, they don't cause enough upset to look at, I even thought about a stupid engined Mk2 golf (I've never driven one....) and was considering all sorts when this caught my eye...
Surely not, it's a stupid idea, it hasn't got any pistons, you don't understand, they blow up, it's in an awful area, it's not even a very good one. Naturally, I bought it. , I wasn't one for taking photos, so all I have is this from the petrol station when Stanton and I avoided death and picked it up....
Actually, not only did we only just avoid the local 'characters', a serious problem reared its fucking dangerous head. This car had NO damping, the test drive was in the wet and I couldn't tell, honest, anyway, turns out that putting cut Tein springs on standard dampers isn't the way forward... oh dear, what a bargain. If you've ever driven a properly quick car on marshmallow then you'll know what this was like, if not, suffice to say, it's like a 17 year old emo girl, exciting, but terryfying.
and this from the next morning's text message: "look what I did lol". etc.
(photos tell lies and that photo tells a lot of lies, it was and is a bit err, rough
And,dear reader, you know what happens next, well, I NEED new shocks and HKS coilovers are so much better
but with that new stance, new wheels are needed...
but 9.5 ET 15 isn't just going to bolt on:
and whilst we're at it, lets have the front off
and see how much travel there is,
oh, there isn't. meh, it'll be reet..
anyway, you get the point, an awful lot of this:
and it was looking just so:
So, the motor was looking ok, ish, it sounds absolutely disgusting and it really upsets the neighbours. PERFECT, one thing, it's a bit practical, let's see what we can do about that:
oh, I should mention, that halfway through this I decided to competely renovate a house and for a worryingly long time, this crap was in the bedroom, sorry about that love...
of course, this too was a labour of pain and late night wrestling sessions, it's not a big space in that car and the cage is a 'tight' fit.
and OF COURSE it doesn't fit without a fight.
I won though.
Decided to leave it alone for a while, and then, one fine sunny day, I washed it for the 1st time, took a jaunt up the motorway to the quite excellent PLAYERS show
and shit the bed, do you know what.
That actually happened, totally unexpected but well chuffed anyway.
Now, to fix the exhaust and sell it before it blows up...
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on October 24, 2009, 6:28 pm