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It's hardly an unobtainable aspiration. 
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Mark's 1.0L
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Some of the other stuff, both shonky old tat, and really nice:
RR Gatecrashing Classic car night at the Ace
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http://www.nosmokenopoke.com/2013/01/meet-retro-rides-at-ace-cafe-london/#more-1985
It would appear that I received 3% of the votes in the RR end of year poll in the best car post 1990 category. Which I suppose is pretty good considering I was pretty bewildered that the car was even nominated
Some of the other stuff, both shonky old tat, and really nice:
RR Gatecrashing Classic car night at the Ace
Lookin good bud
, What wheels are they?
skymera
Brutal Honesty
Weller steelsLookin good bud
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Brutal Honesty
They're cheap, attractive but in some cases seem to be made of tinfoil.Ahh, i hate this website, just as soon as i see one thing i could put on my car another pops up and distracts me haha
Some of the other stuff, both shonky old tat, and really nice:
RR Gatecrashing Classic car night at the Ace
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I don't like standard micras
I can remember when I was looking into buying a car and my rules were "I'll take anything but a cinquecento or a micra" and look at me now haha
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Haha. When I was doing driving lessons I was "eyeing" up a Cinquecento because it said sporting on the boot and had aftermarket speakers on the parcel shelfI can remember when I was looking into buying a car and my rules were "I'll take anything but a cinquecento or a micra" and look at me now haha
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haha its funny things you look back on considering purely because you want your first car asap
i went and viewed a Clio which was an absolute state, moss and dampness growing along the roof lining and chairs , fag burns everywhere, rusted to fook and i was just like 'its fine , just needs a little tidying up' and they were wanting 850 for it , glad i came to my senses and got the micra
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I can remember when I was looking into buying a car and my rules were "I'll take anything but a cinquecento or a micra" and look at me now haha
I rather like cinqs too, but then I'm a bit of a fiat small fiat perv.
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I've been getting an ebay cheepy deep dish steering wheel on over the last few days. One problem I had was that the horn ring on the eaqually cheepy boss was in the wrong place to cancel the indicators. I came up with a plan to use an OEM ring from a stock micra steering wheel.
First I had to turn a spigot on th end of the boss - this fitted into the moulding of the horn ring.
The interference fit was pretty good, but I re-enforced it with araldite.
Then tidied up the outside with some plastic pipe covered in matt black vinyl.
I've also fitted a tow strap.
There will be some more yellow at some point.
First I had to turn a spigot on th end of the boss - this fitted into the moulding of the horn ring.
The interference fit was pretty good, but I re-enforced it with araldite.
Then tidied up the outside with some plastic pipe covered in matt black vinyl.
I've also fitted a tow strap.
There will be some more yellow at some point.
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The wheel has still got it's sticky pad on the horn push. It's a bit too large a diameter for the fruit machine button I thought I could stick on there, so I'll have to think of something else.
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Fresh Mark! what wheel is that? does it feel nice to drive with
The wheel has still got it's sticky pad on the horn push. It's a bit too large a diameter for the fruit machine button I thought I could stick on there, so I'll have to think of something else.
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Cheers Scott. De-bumpstrip is a definate must do. Though i've never been 100% about the Super-S bumpers, though they work best with ongoing "plans" than the black stockers.
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Oh jesus lol does it bend like a biatch?
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You should paint the bumpers black Mark, thats what i was gonna do
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Strip the paint off - I'm pretty sure that they have the same texture as a base spec bumper under the paint. I saw a pic of a march once that had what looked like unpainted super-s bumpers.
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That would be cool.. would be a hell load cheaper aswell, could just regulary use back to black then
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I've never tried to bend my biatch, she'd clobber me back. The wheel does have some flex though. Hopefully if I crash it'll bend out of the way rather than knocking my teeth out. The boss will do that job.
I will defiantly do it soon
. Really? I think they look much better than the stock ones. I got a front super s bumper but its green . I might just fit it and see what it looks like anyway.
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Lol fair enough! tbh tho mate.. it does look smart, for that money i might try bend my mrs aswell!
This is a winner in my eyes
Just noseying through your blog...is this your old car mark? If it is where did you get the side mirrors? Would love a set
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The turquoise LX? Yeah, that's my old one. The wing/fender mirrors were bought from a Thai seller on ebay.com. Just search "fender mirror datsun" and you'll start comming up with some hits.
Cheers , I'll keep looking, sure I'll come across a set eventually!
Any chance you're willing to sell yours, if you've got them?
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I've made it go prarrrrp. A lot.
The pipes actually exit right i the middle of the bumper cut out, they just look really off centre with the angle of that pic. Video will come at some point.
Here's a pic mid build - I'll post a couple more when they are off my camera. The axle hump actually ended up rotated away a fair bit further. I managed to re use the front hanger of of an oem back box which got welded on about half way down the stainless pipes.
The pipes actually exit right i the middle of the bumper cut out, they just look really off centre with the angle of that pic. Video will come at some point.
Here's a pic mid build - I'll post a couple more when they are off my camera. The axle hump actually ended up rotated away a fair bit further. I managed to re use the front hanger of of an oem back box which got welded on about half way down the stainless pipes.
Shotgun style... i like it a lot!!!!I've made it go prarrrrp. A lot.
The pipes actually exit right i the middle of the bumper cut out, they just look really off centre with the angle of that pic. Video will come at some point.
Here's a pic mid build - I'll post a couple more when they are off my camera. The axle hump actually ended up rotated away a fair bit further. I managed to re use the front hanger of of an oem back box which got welded on about half way down the stainless pipes.
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There's not much boso going on there, more kyusha/shakotan (without enough lows). I think that it's not supposed to extend further than the bumper, but I'll chance it for now.
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Trim rings?
I seem to have hut my back washing it earlier - otherwise the wheels would be well on their way to being black by now.
I seem to have hut my back washing it earlier - otherwise the wheels would be well on their way to being black by now.
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I mentioned that I had some pics of how the pipe came together, well i finally got my camera out and uploaded them.
First off the stainless pipe ends were cut at 67.5ish degrees, and two short sections of mild were cut to 67.5 one end and 45 degrees the other. This meant that they could come together in the middle.
After the angled joiners were welded onto the lengths of stainless pipe I laser cut a couple of jig pieces out of 4mm MDF to hold the pipes parallel while the end pieces were welded. These were joined on the top and bottom - but all the way down the v of the join couldn't be welded at that point because the nozzle of the gun wouldn't fit.
Once the splitter section was welded the end was cut off to leave a circular-ish opening for the inlet pipe. This opening was also used to gain access to the inner part of the v so that the join could be fully closed.
After a quick trial fit to check the angles the over axle pipe was welded on. This had been extended because with the original back box the inlet is near the top, and outlet near the bottom, the extension meant that the pipes would be positioned in about the same place as the stock tail pipe. A lot of this was very lucky guess work because I just didn't have time to keep going out and test fit.
This is just before I welded up the remaining join on the extension piece. I then welded on the original back box rearmost hanger bracket - but upside down so that the V shape dropped the pipes down slightly. I didn't get a pic of this because I was rushing to get the exhaust back on the car and it was about 15mins to the start of Y10 parents evening!
First off the stainless pipe ends were cut at 67.5ish degrees, and two short sections of mild were cut to 67.5 one end and 45 degrees the other. This meant that they could come together in the middle.
After the angled joiners were welded onto the lengths of stainless pipe I laser cut a couple of jig pieces out of 4mm MDF to hold the pipes parallel while the end pieces were welded. These were joined on the top and bottom - but all the way down the v of the join couldn't be welded at that point because the nozzle of the gun wouldn't fit.
Once the splitter section was welded the end was cut off to leave a circular-ish opening for the inlet pipe. This opening was also used to gain access to the inner part of the v so that the join could be fully closed.
After a quick trial fit to check the angles the over axle pipe was welded on. This had been extended because with the original back box the inlet is near the top, and outlet near the bottom, the extension meant that the pipes would be positioned in about the same place as the stock tail pipe. A lot of this was very lucky guess work because I just didn't have time to keep going out and test fit.
This is just before I welded up the remaining join on the extension piece. I then welded on the original back box rearmost hanger bracket - but upside down so that the V shape dropped the pipes down slightly. I didn't get a pic of this because I was rushing to get the exhaust back on the car and it was about 15mins to the start of Y10 parents evening!
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Ace Mark! i think the wellers suit white quite well!
Have you got a vid of the zost yet?
Have you got a vid of the zost yet?
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Yeah, I've all the toys of a fully equipped workshop and barely any time to play with them. Since there was a small incident a while back that resuted in me having to discharge a CO2 Extinguisher in the store room, I'm now not allowed in to play on my own at the weekends/holidays
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I've recreated a photo from a few years back this afternoon....
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MUCH better wheels the first time round! I really miss those slots. I'm sure they must still be out there somewhere, though I think that they moved on after Shaun and McK had them.
And the pov spec bumpers......
