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Re: Road Rally 205 GTi
Well its been a little while since my last update..but me and misses have been busy adding to our collection of parts and making some progress with Pugsley.
Firstly we managed to get hold of some gravel tyres. We got 4 Dunlop tyres, 2 with 9mm tread left and 2 with 5mm tread left so there's plenty of life in them for the lanes. Best bit is we paid £60 for all 4 of them, result.
More tyres meant we needed some more wheels, so another 2 were purchased via ebay again for £20 for the pair. They are a bit tatty and have a nice spodge of red on them but they'll get blasted and then painted white along with the others. So we now have 11 wheels. 4 road wheels and a spare and we'll have 4 rally wheels with 2 spares. Claire, the misses, is doing the painting as Im no good at it and we currently have 3 wheels done in white.
Another purchase was a fuel tank guard. It looked a bit rough but a bit of sanding.... a fair bit of sanding actually and some paint and it turned out pretty good considering it only cost us £20. That'll be fitted at a later date.
Last week we both had a week off and the aim was to re paint the boot as it looked pretty bad and there was a small rust scab starting to form. So we got that done through the week and we decided we that the gray plastic trims were making the car look older than it really is so we decided we would give them a coat of matt black. Pics are below, so compare them to the pics at the start of the thread it looks like a different car, amazing the difference a bit of matt black does.
Next was the front struts to go with the rears so another visit to ebay and these turned up
The springs in the picture are gravel springs that were ordered from Peter Lloyd Rallying. So once all the suspension is fitted it should feel like a different car too. The final new toy that arrived was also order from Peter Lloyd on Tuesday. I was told it would take 2-3 weeks as it was out of stock... Next day this was waiting for me.
I finally got my hands on a cage, after several nearly 2nd hand buys we decided to bite the bullet and order a new one.
So there we are, all upto date. Once everything is fitted there wont be much work left to do untill its ready for competiton but it's looking like August is a realistic month for it to be ready for competition so roll on.
Well its been a little while since my last update..but me and misses have been busy adding to our collection of parts and making some progress with Pugsley.
Firstly we managed to get hold of some gravel tyres. We got 4 Dunlop tyres, 2 with 9mm tread left and 2 with 5mm tread left so there's plenty of life in them for the lanes. Best bit is we paid £60 for all 4 of them, result.
More tyres meant we needed some more wheels, so another 2 were purchased via ebay again for £20 for the pair. They are a bit tatty and have a nice spodge of red on them but they'll get blasted and then painted white along with the others. So we now have 11 wheels. 4 road wheels and a spare and we'll have 4 rally wheels with 2 spares. Claire, the misses, is doing the painting as Im no good at it and we currently have 3 wheels done in white.
Another purchase was a fuel tank guard. It looked a bit rough but a bit of sanding.... a fair bit of sanding actually and some paint and it turned out pretty good considering it only cost us £20. That'll be fitted at a later date.
Last week we both had a week off and the aim was to re paint the boot as it looked pretty bad and there was a small rust scab starting to form. So we got that done through the week and we decided we that the gray plastic trims were making the car look older than it really is so we decided we would give them a coat of matt black. Pics are below, so compare them to the pics at the start of the thread it looks like a different car, amazing the difference a bit of matt black does.
Next was the front struts to go with the rears so another visit to ebay and these turned up
The springs in the picture are gravel springs that were ordered from Peter Lloyd Rallying. So once all the suspension is fitted it should feel like a different car too. The final new toy that arrived was also order from Peter Lloyd on Tuesday. I was told it would take 2-3 weeks as it was out of stock... Next day this was waiting for me.
I finally got my hands on a cage, after several nearly 2nd hand buys we decided to bite the bullet and order a new one.
So there we are, all upto date. Once everything is fitted there wont be much work left to do untill its ready for competiton but it's looking like August is a realistic month for it to be ready for competition so roll on.
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