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 Member Posts: 66  Location: Torbay, Devon | Bought this a few days ago from a lad who had 4 vehicles. I believe his intention was to take it to the Nurburgring and maybe some track time inbetween. For whatever reason he never got round to it and it just sat gathering dust for a good few months in his garage. It came up for sale and I had to have it as selling my first Metro was a big regret. So it's an ex race car. Full weld in cage, fuel tank and battery in the boot, Corbeau bucket seat, Willans 5 point harness, perspex windows, 2 sets of wheels wrapped in Yoko Advans, grooved discs and a silly amount of things lost in the pursuit of lightness. Engine is a 143 VVC which is pretty much standard. I paid £800 for this puppy and don't think I've ever been happier about handing over that sort of money, my first task is get it through MOT, failure thread here: http://www.metropower.org.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=80195&posts=3 Then probably just give it some TLC with fresh parts and servicing before I dive into modifying further, not even sure what I wanna do with it. Any ideas? haha Also, this is my only vehicle so gonna be my daily driver  Anyway, here she is ^.^       Side note: This is in the car, wondered if anyone knew anything about this kind of racing?       Edited by MuffinMan96 1/3/2014 4:03 PM | ||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | |||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | I've joined the FB page aha, thanks for that. My MOT retest is on Monday, all problems with it have been resolved apart from the rear brakes. The brake fluid reservoir was low so topped it up and I'm hoping that will sort it, however, this has resulted in the fluid/handbrake light coming on, so wondering if anyone knew an easy way to whip it out for MOT? Haha I haven't had a look so don't know if it's a particularly obvious thing to do. If all goes well then will be able to post more pics and goings on. Side note: Tyre penned my Advans today, will get pics on car as soon as  | ||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | She passed MOT the other week, removed some of the sponsor stickers (they weren't bloody paying haha), put some ebay special yellow tint on headlights and got the matching set of wider wheels on...passenger bucket seat is next on the list, the missus does occassionally need a ride it turns out, whoops!     | ||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 664   Location: Herts | You could lose about 100kg if you removed that lorry battery lol. | ||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | |||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | |||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | Managed to make up some brackets out of a sheet of ali for a seat out of a phase 1 106 xsi...teamed with a Takata copy harness...not bad for 30mins worth of bodging     | ||
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 Regular Posts: 237 Location: Newcastle | Bet this is so fun to drive | ||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | yeah it is easily the most fun car I've owned, it's even better than my old 160vvc metro...gotta love track mods  | ||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965  Location: Under a car somewhere | |||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | |||
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| formerly p319 hok Posts: 1965 Location: Under a car somewhere | |||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | Are you serious? It's buckled on properly, as above, the cable tie is holding the excess out of the door. I was joking but obviously the term, 'live and let live' has escaped you sir ^.^ Sorry to be so aggressive but sick of people ranting about sh*t I do, if I wanted to hold it in with cable ties I would and it would be awesome | ||
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Member Posts: 66 Location: Torbay, Devon | Small update: gti wheels are now highlighter pink yo! I like black wheels, or bronze...nice and mature, smart etc...however, to me, this is a bat shit crazy piece of sh*te road racing slag and it had to have bright wheels! I went with pink, thinking about doing the other side a different colour like green soon  Love it or hate it? | ||
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 Extreme Veteran Posts: 586 Location: brighouse just shy huddersfield | Like the idea think a very bright mat red would be better than pink but that's just imo | ||
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