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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965     Location: Under a car somewhere | Hi Guys ! As some of you know I recently moved back to the midlands, fancied getting up to my old tricks - so I bought another metro !! I acquired Laney's shell - 111SLi would be proud; she was heading for the scrap yard, but I convinced him with beer tokens to let me have her instead, as shes got a really solid shell, just had broken windscreen, no bonnet, knackered wings, no interior, no front subframe blah blah blah, was pretty much a bare shell. On the upside its a non-sunroof, carb model so no emission issues for me  ! Heres a pic of when I collected her  ** going to have to bear with me and use the links until I photobucket everything** Edited by p319 hok 15/9/2013 6:55 PM | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | First job - new windscreen  Then cleaned all the engine bay up, which was beautiful  Treated the bay to a coat of paint  Bought a very nice flywheel  Fitted my lovely low-mileage vvc, supplied by the ever popular itsonlyme - top bloke  Stripped two PG1's, built up one box with fresh bearings, 4.2 final drive and type B LSD and C4 gearset  Sand blasted the gearbox mount and gave it a lick of paint, made a tapered bush with a top flange to trap the rubber bushing, making the original much stiffer, original tube on the left, my beauty on the right   Edited by p319 hok 15/9/2013 7:02 PM | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Hubs before sand blasting  Hubs after blasting - PING  Blasted arb's and linkages which mr Luti kindly made up for me  Painted up the cage which is going to be welded in next weekend and have some extra bracing fitted across the B pillar hoop  Trial fitted MGF clocks  Edited by p319 hok 15/9/2013 7:05 PM | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Got a fair bit more done gentleman - been slogging my nuts off to be fair ! Ive fitted a whole new lock set thanks to AK Motorsport - all locks and filler cap just £45 !!! Ive removed the head, which was spotless, has had regualr oil changes as there were no deposits in the head and every oil way and coolant passage is really clean. Started off by opening the ports up from a lousy 35/36mm to the full 40mm capacity of the gasket  Found the casting for the coolant ways around the liners to be poor  Tidied these up best I could  Lucky enough to have a really nice mill and tools at work, so gave it a heavy skim to try and save some compression from the thicker MLS  Ive also flatted all my tappets to have a nice fresh face, ready for this badboy to bed in ( ok its only a bp270 exhaust cam, nothing exciting )  Fitted the new Landrover uprated oil ladder  Dropped a sump baffle in while I was there - be rude not to !  Bought a Janspeed exhaust manifold to take advantage of its 39mm I/D primaries and let that porting work its magic  | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Rebuilt the head with brand new seals throughout and got it back on, just like the pro's do it - on a wheelie-good workbench    Bought some brand new calipers at a bargain price, then got a deal on some brake caliper paint - so bought two colours for a subtle paint scheme...   How she stands at the moment - forgot to paint the HCU, so got to take the plenum back off    | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Got a really nice TF rack from itsonlyme - top banana from Tony again !! Also fitted all new suspension joints, wishbones are polybushed as is arb and droplinks. Also treated myself to GAZ adjustable shocks and drilled & grooved discs.  Got some nightfire wings and bonnet - big thank you to metro190bhp and todd123  Made some carbon-effect door cards which look really good for the money !  | ||
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 666 Location: Bicester - Oxford | Really nice build mate! Well done on saving the shell door cards look very simular to mine got some real nice equipment fitted, like it! | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Fitted a spoiler I was given - nice one Laney ! (who I also owe a lot of thanks for, for providing me with lots of the bits going in)  Relocated the washer bottle to the boot, much smaller capacity and only one pump for front only   Removed the original fuel tank  Bought a new tank to fit inside the car  Going for a lift-pump to swirl pot then injection pump setup  Bought some beautiful seats, brand new - but managed to get a spot of dirt on the bottom when I brought them home, what a c**k !!   | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | laney - 18/9/2013 8:09 PM Looking good mate, I am pleased I didn't scrap it now, shame about the seat, is it dirt or oil? not sure think its dirt, ill have a good rub a dub scrub when theyre bolted in, hopefully this weekend | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Done some more work, not many photos as ive been doing lots of wiring, fiddling and boring stuff. Been all over the shell with my magnifying glass and my top mate (funnily also called Tom) and his magic rot busting thumbs. Found two small holes in my rear outer valance panel, one at either corner, then Toms huge thumbs smashed in a nice crack in the centre of the panel where it wasnt too nice, so weve cut a big letterbox in the centre to make sure its all good metal. The inner valance panel had several little holes and scabs all over so I figured seen as were so well practiced at doing rear valance panels - well have the lot off and made a hole new inner valance panel ! As its not a business my mate almost seems determined to do everything the most dangerous way, so my car spent a day jacked up on a trailer, on fire - for most of the day !  Thanks to Martin @ Mart and Design https://www.facebook.com/MartAndDesign?fref=ts I now have some really nice VVC stickers on my door cards, also found some really swish door pulls which happen to sit lovely on the inner door skin inbetween the old door pull holes, so you can give them some real welly and not worry about them falling off !  After all of our nasty welding escapades we got to weld some really nice 3mm thick stress plates in to give the cage a really good foundation, the improvement in strength is HUGE, I ca now jack the floor underneath that plate and theres no movement at all, added these in both floor corners, the rear arch to inner rear quarter and got some going in on the b-pillar by the seat belt mount points going onto the cage aswell  Old dash had two guages where i really didnt like them  so that had to go quickly, when I pickled up the dash it was painted black but was all cracked and flaking as someone forgot to use plastic etch primer so after 3 hours of gentle sanding, cleaning & 3 coats of plastic primer and 5 coats of satin black gave me this  | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | Come here often ??  Edited by p319 hok 2/10/2013 11:37 PM | ||
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