Monty the Rwd R1 engined tarmac eating Minus by Alburglar

By diyauto
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2 minute(s) of a 160 minute read

9-3-2004

Had the car on the road yesterday with the sc gears and rally clutch with orange diaphram. It went like a rocket but started to cut out on idle and now wont start at all. Bugger!

I'm gonna upgrade to high amp battery wire (as car is fibreglass and has to earth on the engine. Also gonna get rid of elctronic ignition as it is awfull.

Need to change clutch master to because clutch disengages when foot is almost on the floor. Bit dangerous, don't wont to blow my gearbox up.


9-10-2004

Then I fit the carbon fibre wing mirrors


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Cool aren't they


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and here is my Eaton M45 supercharger


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9-19-2004

I'm having such bad luck recently.
After my garage being burgled whilst at MITP 45, my girlfriend reversed into Minty and destroyed the wheel arch. Then that very same day I come back to him after work to find a dead flat Yoko and all the others have got loads of stones in.


Cheers pick up,
Fixing the arch itself will be pretty easy. Painting them on the other hand will be pretty impossible. because everything but doors, boot and bonnet are blended in. Therefore paint needs to blend in perfect or it'll look awful. But I have warned girlfriend that if a full re-spray is needed then she will pay and then some!
But she has refused an@l


9-21-2004

Looked through about 1500 Fiat green colour samples today. It only took about 5 minutes to match it. It's nothing like the others.

Need a stroke of luck after last week. Especially after my exhaust got ripped off on a speed bump too!

That was a blessing in disguise tho, because it then became fairly obviuos that nothing had been sealed with exhaust paste and the link pipe drums against the remote gear box.
Once that's sorted should be loads quieter



Comments

Very cool build!

Posted by Diggymart on 2/5/20 @ 8:09:06 PM