Been out of action for a bit.....

[macspring]

Jeepers creepers

Wishing you a speedy and full recovery.

Take real good care with everything until things settle down again in your world.

A new shell is the way forward, just askin....are you sure you want a track only car though ?

Kindest regards.

[mackenzie50]

Cheers, well they say bad luck comes in three's so given the smash, scaffold disaster which could have killed me (head missed a pole by inches) and falling down the stairs knocking the complete s51t out of myself I hope that's it.

Anything to get out of fixing that car of yours ....

shame about your 'track car' project being a non starter

[volcano rs]

Cheers Jamil (finally got it right) hope to see you this weekend...that's if my legs feel up to driving 60 odd miles, hopefully they should do by Sunday.

the excitement of picking up the car and some of your suspension parts will have you up and running

[K Simmonds]

Anything to get out of fixing that car of yours ....

shame about your 'track car' project being a non starter

Cheers for all the good wishes guys, I'm trying to get through the PM's!

Now I have the car stripped I'm sorry to say that the damage to the near side strut mounting is worse than I first thought, it could be jigged out but it would take days of welding 2" box and pushing and pulling and even then I'm not sure I could get 100%. The blukhead is bent as is the floor pan and obviously the turret, it takes a lot for me to admit defeat but I think it's for the best in the long run.

So a few £K of the insurance it is, they'd already put the car down as a total loss and I have full proteteced NCD's so why not not start a fresh with another B3 platform car.

[K Simmonds]

the excitement of picking up the car and some of your suspension parts will have you up and running

Yeah mate, really looking forward to helping Charlie with the RS2 Saloon project, the nice thing about working with him is that he helps, takes in what I'm doing and get's stuck in himself once I show him what to do, kinda like being a teacher.

As opposed to other folk with no understading or aptitude who watch like gold fish, get in the way and make stupid sugestions, it drives me nuts, as I rule I hate people watching me work.

Give him five years and he'll be able to do pretty much everything himself, he's putting a smashing workshop together with a few pointers from me, got a cracking Record 35 vice last week on the way back from visiting you. Identical to the one I use, I find their perfect for heavy mechanical work, much better than the modern rubbish. An example of British enginering at it's best, the tools we made before the decline of some of our industry are generaly boom proof.

Plus folllowing your work should be trouble free, you must have spent a huge amount of time on the car and you don't do things by halves, one only has to look at your awesome SQ builds!

Nice one for digging out the suspension parts, there's so much cool stuff in your workshop they must have taken some finding! My word you've got some stuff! Hope you had a chance to have a sort out on your week off.

It's an awesome set up, the fabrication on the spring plates alone is second to none, not to mention the legs. The great thing is I can use it on any B3 platform if I get dampers sorted to suit, I have some stock ones I'm using in the mean time. However Andy P is going to hook me up with some B6's which need rebuilding anyway.

Oh yeah, I have at least one of the relays your after, got the 208 which is for the fuel pump....need to go through another box to find the other one but I'm 99.9 sure I'll have it. I have stacks of spares so you can think of anything else you want I'll try and help.

[K Simmonds]

Anything to get out of fixing that car of yours ....

shame about your 'track car' project being a non starter

Yeah it's a pity but I think it's best to start with a clean slate, I have three engines, two good 3B's as well as another block, 7A head, sump ect...in fact nearly all the parts required apart from rods and pistons so I'm plotting.....

[K Simmonds]

Took a punt on this monster...it's serious old school but it was cheap as chips and brand spanking new, it's stood next to a K24 7200.

I'll need to make as large as capacity engine as pos to power it and Nitrous will most certaily be on the cards.....it may end up on a V6/8...who know's

This is for furture use, what I want for now car wise is something sensisble and refined and it'll stay that way for a bit before getting the engine I was planning to install into my sadly departed S2. Got offered a 3B in need of love from another friend on here....hope I get a payout that covers it.

Then I'll make something mental useing the Eastern Eurpeon style approach.

Here's the monster, it a K36!

[LHD_Kid]

And here it is in it's natural habitat...

[K Simmonds]

And here it is in it's natural habitat...

Cheers Chris.

Is that a lorry engine or something from a boat?

It F'n massive but brand spanking new and was very cheap.

I'm looking into rebuilding turbo's as living, would suit my OCD head and the precision reqired. Am currently learning as much as I can from the internet and there's books I must aquire. I already have an original KKK K24/6 rebuild manual.

Am researching what machinery I require and if I can put together a good business plan my folks will help with funds.

Currently picking up interesting cheap units from eBay, either for parts or reconditioning, I'm going to need a good stock of compants for working on the old school stuff.

Got a totally crack free #6 hotside the other day when I took a punt on a Porsche K26, it'll also yeild other useful parts.

Going to specilise in KKK's but will obviously have to work on other makes as well.

Got serious luck the other day and purchased a genuine RS2 K24 7200 that had just been listed with a poor description, rebuilt by AET a couple of years back for £350! It arrived yesterday and is in fantasic condition, going to bolt it onto my RS2 to test it but I'm sure it's fine. It's only done 40K miles since being rebuilt in 2012.

I will still be doing work on cars but only for select customers, ie...folk who want a proper job and understand the job's and what's involved. I'll also be prepaired to work with some forum members together on thier cars, if they know what their doing.

I hate customers who have no idea of what's involved and don't understand mechanical work. That's why I left the trade four years ago and went back to carpentry.

[LHD_Kid]

Cheers Chris.

Is that a lorry engine or something from a boat?

I think was originally fitted to a DAF LT160 truck, but do seem to be used in both truck and marine applications...

[K Simmonds]

I think was originally fitted to a DAF LT160 truck, but do seem to be used in both truck and marine applications...

Thanks again for the info Chris, I don't see why it wouldn't work on petrol engine with sufficiant capaicity, the wheels look like much bigger versions of ones fitted to a K26. currenly have three of them in stock and two really good RS2 units as well as some other units and parts.

[AndyP]

Good god, is that ever going to spool up on a 2.2??

I think you're going to have to go stroker

[bilko0795]

Hi Bud
Glad to hear you are ok you must be practising to be a stunt man

[newsh]

Been out of action for a bit.....

Getting a down pipe off the back of that and past the rack will be interesting
Hope your luck is on the up now mate.

[Error404]

Holy ****! Are P&O having a shipyard clearance sale or something?