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Should the top half of the doors & 'D' posts be cream or green?
Cream 51%  51%  [ 21 ]
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Mad Mart
 Post subject: Re: Track Sprint Resto
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:29 pm 
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Wow Mart, just been looking at your pix and I reckon mines better than that, at least from the waist up! Steve
Could be Steve, from the window line upwards at least. Good luck with yours though, looks like a lot of welding ahead. I will follow your resto closely.

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Right, I think I'm about finished, subject to Jon having a quick look over it before it goes off to the body shop.

Removed the servo, door handles & locks. Made some holes a bit larger. :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Track Sprint Resto
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Here we go folks....hang onto your hats it's another Mad Mart resto topic. Image
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Here we go folks....hang onto your hats it's another Mad Mart resto topic. Image

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I took the DA to the whole car today. Got all the glue off the roof...

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Found another hole in the front passenger door...

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Not sure if I'm going to do any more to it tomorrow, I'll see what I feel like.

Jon the sprayer will hopefully be picking it up early next week. :D

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you could do with some carbon :D
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No panels left is still lighter than carbon. :D

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:lol:

I wish.

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Jon the sprayer's transporter has been waiting for an MoT so he had to borrow something else to pick the track Sprint up just now...

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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 3:57 pm 
Be seeing you.... :bluewave:
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Wow Mart, just been looking at your pix and I reckon mines better than that, at least from the waist up! Steve
Strewth, I thought the topic was still centred around Mary for a moment there!

Can I sell this early shell to someone else now then?
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Yes, sorry Alun, I should have said something. :oops:

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I bet your neighbours loved you when that transporter turned up. :lol:

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No worries, I've been hawking it to anyone who'd listen anyway :wink:
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After stripping the engine down on Saturday I made a start on rebuilding the head this evening.

Lapped all the valves in...

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Valves all cleaned up...

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New valve springs! :-k As you can see the new springs (right) are a couple of mil longer than the old ones, no surprise there. Then as I went to fit the first one & orient it the right way up I noticed there wasn't a right way up. ie. it doesn't have the closer coils at one end. These springs were given me a few years ago and on the box they are labelled for a Sprint & Stag. Question is, should they be ok to use?

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