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Brendan - someone saw you coming there then mate. Sounds like your "new" wheels were reject rubbish fitted by a ham-fisted idiot, and so were the inner tubes. Pity! To use that experience to opine about wires generally is wrong though. I went out with a woman once who didn't want to sleep with me. VERY strange I know, but that one incident didn't put me off women. Much. And to suggest that if you drive "properly" Bradley, you can flex wire wheels noticeably enough to tell from the drivers seat, is insulting not just to me but to the intelligence of anyone who reads it - a fairy tale worthy of the Princess and the Pea level of fiction. Still, you're not listening and I'm not here to persuade you, so you can have the 'Hugh' role on this one - there's a vacancy! Wires - pretty but more fragile than steels and alloys and not available in a wide range of sizes. I'm not wedded to them - I've had steels, revo's and mangels on my Spit, but I've experience of wires on five different cars (including my V8 MG and my V12 E-type) - and I've been banned twice for driving like a knob, so I know they're difficult to destroy. Alrighty? If you don't like them, don't buy them. Simple! :)
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They certainly look like 5's, from what I recall of having embellishers on a cheap set of 5.5's I once threw out. You can read it on the wheel faces I expect, Freddie, it's stamped on them.
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4992 wrote:If you think the wheels flex a lot in the corner now you wouldn't like wires. Bradley. Because of course you'd feel them moving around and bending on even the slightest curve. (whistle) You mustn't tease your Uncle Smithy Bradley (Wim's doing that already!!). That's an old wives tale perpetuated by people who don't have wires on their cars.
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4526 wrote:Revolution's ?? :P :P :P :P ;D Yes, sounds like it's time for some nice modern rubber. With whitewalls. :)
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I like your current wheels! White walls and embellishers? What's wrong there? Wire wheels are expensive and a lot of work.....
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You better let them take it in turns, otherwise there will be a bit of a hula-baloo. See what I did there? It's comedy genius I tell you. Right. Must pop out and get some coconuts, while I'm thinking of them. Here - aren't those the famous Hula-Quads though? Joined from the waist since birth?
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3122 wrote:If I put it on the right way round (and Smithy knows this, he's just winding me up!) then it just falls out! :) :K) :K)
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Aaron, you need to put that wheel centre boss straight. ;)
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Now he tells me. :-/
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Jason - I'd like to see a side shot too, since mine's a Mountney (are you reading this btw peter? Mines a Mountney!!!) - and it fits just fine. I'll take comparison shots for you if/when.
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esxefi wrote: piffle,...i bet you wouldn't turn down a free TVR cause it has a 'silly' exhaust :P Absolutely right. That ferny bloke has no taste whatever when it comes to the "Starship Enterprise" look. :P
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Choose the one you like the looks of, if it's too loud, take it to bits and re-pack it.
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I have one of those old QWELTY keyboards too, easily done. :) I did my chassis with nitromors and then painted it with hammerite, back in the day. It's still fine now, so I think there's a lot of fuss made about it, to be honest. Just so long as you use a decent rust inhibitor, no worries.
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Good work mate, ah how it takes me back. Re: 6059 wrote:.... before using POL 15 (I know people have their views on the different chassis treatments!) ...yes a lot of people use POR 15 instead, but if you like the "L" version better, off you go. ;)
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Good, but not as good as that other one he did where he put the engine back together IMO. There's a thread on it here some place.
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Amen, Paul. I once had a tiny section from a piston ring shear travel right along the crankshaft - the damage was major.
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timbancroft61 wrote:I still believe that a std GT6 will cope with the std radiator.... Quite right, as mine does. :X
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Yum yum Ram Air filters.
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Well so do I. Except for the bit about the lathe. I bet he has a very large wood-burning stove, too. And some monumental kindling.
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Barry_McGrath wrote:The shell is not strong enough on its own, you will have to weld in a heap of structure. Good luck with that, I was considering the same. B :X ;D Blimey Barry - you're a radical roof-chopper on the quiet too, are you?? I have to confess I was joking. J - I will get back to you I promise, it's been a bit of an hectic couple of days! :P
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Freebie - some tilt, some don't. (Mine didn't). Caveat emptor emere rectam sedes, or something along those lines. :)
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Ah! Interesting. My door seals were also new a couple of years ago....
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Scott - yes A-post side same as B-post side, panel fits full-out to edge of the door. These were quite thick when new and only developed that indent where they close over time; having slept on it I now think all the door cards I've had have been the same (three sets down the years I think). 3mm ply which is then covered with something (and I bet you made them nice and plush didn't ya? I would have) would be considerably thicker I suspect. I suppose if you don't want to cut down your beautiful cards then you could indeed go after the seal instead, and perhaps replace it with something skinny. Who'd know? Salutations Smithster
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Lazy lot of buggers - and embarrassed to show their crap door cards. Or still rebuilding and haven't got 'em fitted yet, I suspect. On mine the door seal DOES seal against the card and not the outside of the door, and I've the indents to prove it. I also had to adjust the door when I put them had (the doors had been adjusted without them) and adjust the doors again when they settled in. Not for aesthetics you undesrstand, but because they rattled. Measurements would be superflous IMO then - they're as big as the door. I suspect this is generally the case - but these are after-market cards (no really? yes honest!) and the fit may be different for others. Here's some proof. The silhouette of the bunny rabbit is for free. I did a crocodile on an earlier one but it wasn't as good.