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[Purple Tom]

Took it to its spritual home today too:



Its nice Allspeed being on the way home

Had a drive of Rob's Equinox (the one I'm parked next to), and lets just say I've got some ideas for what to do next......

[TJenkos]

Im loving that equinox! Silver and black looks really nice on it!

[marc]

That equinow is a great car, it made me buy the kit, havent driven it with the coil conversion on the front yet though but rob couldnt recommend it highly enough.

Fancy building mine before you go to germany tom??

[rob mini]

nice one Tom, glad to see it all came together. Mine is pretty much in the same state as when i was in germany last year, not good lol. You really should bring it to japfest and go on the track - annoy the hell out of the scooby and 200sx drivers

[Purple Tom]

That'd be quite tempting!! When is it?

Marc - I'll help you when I get back!! You should aim to have it finished before christmas

Tim (Flappyplasticbits) came round yesterday and we sorted out the speedo sensor on the rear drum, and he also removed a really annoying lug on the gearbox that was causing all sorts of nasty vibrations - cheers dude!!

Just got a couple of little bits to finish off today, then I'm going to give it a wash and a polish ready for Germany Can't wait!!

[Madmax]

tim said he was going to come see you, he asked if i was free, but alas i was working i'll come see it soon!

[TimS]

All I can say is its very quick! Lovely and torquey. And Tom must be having an excelent time at the ring! Iv already started saving

If you need any more hlep at all Tom let me know and I shall pop down. Was good seeing you again!

[Purple Tom]

Well it got me there and back - again!

There's a few teething problems - a couple of oil leaks which are quite annoying, they're definitely from the engine but I'm not sure where - first thing is going to be a new sump and sump gasket, as the original one is quite damaged - probably not helping matters.

Its also smoking on the over-run and when down changing, however its smoke-free under power so I think the valve stem oil seals are going to need doing. When I take the head off to do that I think i'll take the opportunity to fit a mild cam in there too, we'll see though.

At the hotel on the way home I had quite a serious coolant leak, turns out the weight of the fan on its small supporting lugs (which anchor through the fins of the rad) had worn through one of the waterways, however the leak only showed itself when the engine had stopped. Luckily a bodge with some araldite and a bottle of radweld sorted it.

I'm having intermittent problems with the throttle sticking closed, I think this is just junk in the throttle body so easily sorted. I'm also getting a sticky clutch which is to do with the re-designed pedal, so I need to sort that.

I've also decided (after a lengthy discussion with Sam) to do away with the 'Clubman 1293' stripes, but not fit any new ones. 'Clubman 1598' doesn't seem right to me, so I think I'll leave it stripe-free, for the time being anyway.

Oh yeah, and I'm also going to start building the centre console to cover the Vauxhall shifter unit, I'm going to try to incorporate a couple of 12V sockets in there too, for charging phones etc, I might also fit a couple of courtesy lights down in the footwell too, I think that would add a nice touch. We'll see though!

Anyway, thats enough to be going on with.

[Sam]

Stripe free looks cool

Thanks for taking me out in it tom, loved it mate.

[supermotolee]

oil leaks dont say that one of the reasons i want to get rid of the a seris is oil leaks haha

looks the nuts tom! better without the stripes

lee

[Clubby1275GT]

What a brilliant read, ive just spent an hour reading through this, and im supposed to be at WORK!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[Dom]

Oh yeah, and I'm also going to start building the centre console to cover the Vauxhall shifter unit, I'm going to try to incorporate a couple of 12V sockets in there too, for charging phones etc, I might also fit a couple of courtesy lights down in the footwell too, I think that would add a nice touch. We'll see though!

Sounds good tom, looking forward to seeing pictures of your build

[minivanman]

I'm really thinking hard about doing this in my van, so I've got a few questions...
Where do you get the box for the bulkhead? mine alreay has a turbo box, will this be enough for the gearbox to clear or will I have to put another in?
Does it create as big a grin factor as an a series?
What is braking like without a servo? I've seen one 8v with a mini servo shoehorned in as well, it just looked like there was way too much stuff in there.
Finally I've seen you say you're planning on doing a 16v, could I have first refusal on the engine? *
Thanks

[marc]

The box for the bulkhead is part of the kit from allspeed, can be bought seperate or you could make your own. As for the turbo box, i dont know as i've never seen one.

I drove the allspeed equinox and that doesnt have a servo, brakes seemed fine during normal driving, dont know about under racier conditions but i think they should cope fine, i'm going to be using metro turbo discs/callipers without a servo so i'll see.

I keep seeing you driving around in it Tom, wheres my drive!!!!! Lol.

[TimS]

After being in it, Toms brakes have more than enough stopping power without using too much force! The mini servos arn't really that affective anyway!
Iv run my 1330 on the Nurburgring without a servo at it was fine!