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Offline lemski

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #160 on: 31 October 2010, 10:09 »
Full suspension and wishbones. There's no reason it should be higher. Its strange. Unless back springs have stretched

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #161 on: 31 October 2010, 11:02 »
As liam says- all the suspension's been swapped over.  Including bottom arms as they are seam welded and polly bushed. Eibach a.r.b. And lower strut brace

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #162 on: 31 October 2010, 13:20 »
As liam says- all the suspension's been swapped over.  Including bottom arms as they are seam welded and polly bushed. Eibach a.r.b. And lower strut brace
That is strange then.... bang a VR6 in it then, that'll get the front down!  :grin:

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #163 on: 31 October 2010, 15:00 »
I like your thinking!

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I don't think a semi will give the same results

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #165 on: 31 October 2010, 17:02 »
Just had a good read through this and it seems you have my cars big brother!




Although mine is a GL with full digifant running gear  :embarassed:

If I was you mate I wouldn't bother converting to k-jet as it involves pretty much most of what I had to go through converting mine from carb to digi, you'd have to swap ALL your engine loom and believe me its a big ball ache as it all goes through 2 little holes behind the drivers side suspension tower and brake servo. And you won't see any increase in power or reliability realistically. While the K-jet is working, leave it alone  :grin: Although all my digi's have proved better on fuel than the old K-jet  :undecided:

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #166 on: 31 October 2010, 17:12 »
Swap it to digi. Just gotta move the master cylinder to get the wires through. Easy as. Then blueprint engine = awesomeness :D

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #167 on: 31 October 2010, 17:17 »
Just gotta move the master cylinder to get the wires through. Easy as.

Are you having a laugh?  :grin:

I had the engine out of the car when I swapped looms, I undid all the pedal box nuts to move the servo and MC forward and it ws still the biggest pain in the arse out of the whole conversion. You have limited movement of the MC as all the brake pipes are connected and can't be moved a great deal, then theres feeding the looms through, well thats another kettle of fish......

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #168 on: 31 October 2010, 18:01 »
I've also done the conversion and I know how hard it can be but it only took a few hours for the wires to all be plugged in and were they should b.

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Re: project £500 new wheels pg 12 :(
« Reply #169 on: 31 October 2010, 20:16 »
only took a few hours for the wires to all be plugged in

 :grin: these few hours were too long