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[BlAck0ut]

Sorry to jijack the thread slightly,

but could I have smudgers website please, I'm looking into getting a C/F bonnet

[F1 Mini]

Sorry to jijack the thread slightly,

but could I have smudgers website please, I'm looking into getting a C/F bonnet

Try http://www.curleyuk..../Carbon RRP.htm

Don't think you will find them cheaper anywhere else....

[The Matt]

smudgers is smb composites or summit similar, do a google search for that and it'll find it

[Alburglar]

Have got rid of all those pesky DZUS fasteners.
They were C**p and kept popping off! This is a little annoying and a bit hairy along the motorway, so:

I fitted some locking ones at the rear:

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[Alburglar]

Backing plates were rather too large for my liking so I chopped em to same shape as the Dzus ones.
They are a bit rough at the moment, but the light was fading and it was christmas eve so they'll do for now.
They look better on the car, but I've neglected to take a pic yet.

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[Alburglar]

And Dzus fasteners have gone on the front, being replaced by some nice mountney stainless steel bonnet pins. Very sturdy, safe and easy to get on and off.
I think they look the business too!

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[Alburglar]

The threaded upright part of the pins were too long so I chopped em quickly with me grinder. I then felt a little bit warm on a cold day, which was pleasant...
...until I looked down and my nob area was on fire!

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[Alburglar]

Note the slight singeing of my boxer shorts. Teehee.
Engine is being a bugger though.
First it knackered a lucas coil and lumenition optical eye because the alternator failed battery lost all oomph eventually and sent the two items above loopy!

[Alburglar]

It has now killed another lumenition eye! I must have a positive earth problem or something. So car is off the road for a bit whilst I overhaul my wiring loom. So I might as well do a few other bits and bits on my days off after the weekend.

[bluebottle]

al, where did you get your new eye from?....and how much was it?.....i'm after a standard eye, as i have an old lumenition i want to fit to my car, but the old (very old!), eye in broken, and thats all i need to finish the installation.

[Alburglar]

£68 for the everything, but I bought it at cost (ish) from swiftune because i was there fixing the engine and they felt sorry for me. They don't deal in bits like that normally tho.

[bluebottle]

was that just for the eye, or a full kit?

[Alburglar]

Full kit. Dunno if you can buy just the eye?

[bluebottle]

yes, you can buy just the eye, i had to buy one for the sport kit i've currently got in the car, that was £80!!!!!
it looks like i'm going to be selling the car soon, and i was going to fit the old standard set of lumenition i've got, its all there but the eye is broken, a mate in work said he bought just the standard eye last year and it was 30 odd quid. i'll have a bit of a phone around next week, see if i can get one.

[Alburglar]

As usual with this bloody car. Progress is one step forward, two steps back!

I took this fan off the rad on the old 1330, in perfect working order.
Spent ages on thursday doing a really good job making a mounting bracket out of aluminium, so that I didn't have to attach the fan through the fins of my horny new 4 core alloy rad.

Even though the end result doesn't look too thrilling, getting the hole cut in the aluminium to match the odd contours on the opposite side of the fan wasn't easy.
...and getting the holes drilled in the car with no space under wings or in bay, without removing engine and rad, was close to impossible!

excuse the lack of photo's because the site doesn't seem to load up at the mo.