This is pretty much the set up I want in my back garden…fingers crossed on those lottery results then!
If you don’t watch it all, make sure you check out 2.00 and 4.00 mins: Serious driving!
More Meihan party HERE
Archive for February, 2010
28
Feb
10
Mei-han Kinda Party
27
Feb
10
Who’s Nateee?
27
Feb
10
Project MK1 Cavalier: SOLD.
I was really looking forward to rocking around in this car over summer; Hittin’ up shows and having something I could actually get some camping gear in. It’s a full-blown windows down, steering with one hand mobile. Alas, I had to let it go; I really need to get a place!
The good news is I still have the banded steels as the new owner took it without them…I might have to throw them under the Roadster for a giggle.
27
Feb
10
6″ drops & 6 Cyl engines
I thought RWB had the 911 game sewn up…Maybe not…
27
Feb
10
Still Hungry, even Off Season!
16
Feb
10
Project KP30: Strut-Out
Two crashing tubes of leaky awfulness is pretty much all that is holding up the front of the KP these days; 34 year old internals and no OEM replacements are not conducive to a well damped suspension. Having rebuilt them more times that I’ve dragged the exhaust over a speed hump, I decided action was required.
A couple of emails to Gaz suspension (I’ve ran Gaz stuff on my cars for year s and it’s always been good) and they confirmed they could do what I needed: new internals whilst retaining my top mounts and coilover stuff. Good times.
With Spring only just round the corner (hey, I’m an optimist…) I stripped them off…
…boxed them up and shipped them out.
See you in 2-ish weeks….
Spent rolling around under 20 year-old…
…is what I’ve got to look forward to in the not too distant future! After waiting for it to die for 2 years (it’s always been a bit on the noisy side) the Roadster gearbox is finally whining and groaning enough for me to swap it out, before it leaves me at the side of the road!
That said, despite the interesting noises coming from it, it still shifts sweet and has been spot on! But, without wanting to tempt fate too much, I picked up this 60k mile box locally. As soon as I get chance, in she goes!
Between coilovers, winter roads, potholes and bad luck the Roadster’s tracking had slowly crept out to a point where it was driving me mad. None of the local garages had any equipment to do the alignment without a rig hung over the wheel (the car is far too low and there’s no point raising it to get it tracked!) So, I dug out the the old “Wheel True” and some trusty string!
I measured total toe across the front and rear wheels, then moved the kit on to one side to measure the relationship front to rear. Once done for both sides it was apparent the RH front wheel had an extra 3mm toe out! That’ll be why it was pulling to the right then!
A quick track rod tweak, measure, drive up the road and remeasure and it’s straight as an arrow!
I’ll have to do the KP when it comes out in a few weeks too!
You can’t beat having a relaxing and successful day on the spanners!
06
Feb
10
Project MK1 Cavalier: MOT time
The annual Ministry poke under the Cav wasn’t due ’till the end of April, but, as I need to sell it, I took it in early to get it out-of-the-way; though not before I re-fitted the stock suspension and wheels (believe it or not, they are actually 40mm lowering springs!).
The good news is it passed first time! I was pretty confident it would as it’s like a new car, but you always have that niggling doubt! Don’t worry, it’s already back slammed and on the banded steels! Now, I need to sell it and get the KP back on the road in time for Spring.
