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[HARBER07]

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That lot was just a smidge under £770

Edited by HARBER07, 03 March 2010 - 10:13 PM.

[HARBER07]

I've just had beans on toast for tea!!!

Real Heinz beans i hope?

[GreaseMonkey]

That lot was just a smidge under £770

[HARBER07]

I'm not worried - honest!!

Still lots more to get though unfortunately! The engine will be worth more than the car

[The Matt]

Dude, the engine is going to be worth it!

I spent about £1k on mine and that was a reeeeeally standard rebuild, just basically an overbore, a regrind, new Vandervell bearing shells, new oil pump, Mahle pistons, gaskets...... standard cack.

I got the SBD steel idler kit for mine, definitely a sound investment I reckon. I wish I'd gone to town on the bottom end and got decent rods and got the crank properly worked though.

Anyways, carry on!

[HARBER07]

Haha, cheers Matt! I didn't think twice about getting the metal idlers, after the plastic ones giving way on my dads V6 Vectra a couple years ago! Debating whether to get anything done to the crank, as it will probably be the only standard bit left . I sourced an early type crank which is already lighter than the late ones, so i might just get it balanced?

Don't really know yet, but they are meant to be pretty bomb proof as standard!

[HARBER07]

Stonechipped the floors today and removed another 106g of metal.

[mini_mad69]

That's very neat. It looks great!! Another row of holes to come out though I reackon.


If your getting serious about the weight loss, those alloy door furniture kit's weigh loads.

I reackon im going to go back to plastic ones on mine.


Is this car still in regular use by the way?

[Racer_Pete]

Im Liking the holesaw, Think ill have to get one!
Those pistons, look rather nice too !!

[HARBER07]

You reckon right there Ben . Bust my holesaw up on the first hole (as the wheel well is behind the valance in the middle!) so i had to weld another pilot bit in there to do that row

There will be more weight loss to come when i CBA really, hopefully on the doors. Car is behaving as my daily driver at the mo, so pretty pleased with that. Gave a merc a good run around coming home on friday

Cheers Pete Should have some nice forged steel rods to befriend them soon

[AndrewJ530]

There's another 20 easy grams to come off the exhaust by removing that bracket there, tom. Thought you were trying to lighten this thing .

[HARBER07]

I sat here and looked at that earlier and knew someone would pick up on it

[mighty mini jack]

Ah man I'm loving it.

Defo gonna attack one of mine with the holesaw now.

You seen them alloy door hinges on turbominis?

[HARBER07]

Yeah man, but if they are anything like the ones from carbon weezel they are TOO expensive!

[mighty mini jack]

Will find out the price for yas. A few from here are on the list for them i think!

Or just weld some of these beasts on the outer skin!