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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:11 pm 
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those rockers are the sexiest thing ive seen in ages. i must be very sheltered..... :eyes4u:

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:29 am 
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those rockers are the sexiest thing ive seen in ages. i must be very sheltered..... :eyes4u:
Oh your poor sod, :mrgreen: :|


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:51 am 
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I thought the sexiest rockers are in prison somewhere in Syberia?????

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:39 pm 
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those rockers are the sexiest thing ive seen in ages. i must be very sheltered..... :eyes4u:
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I thought the sexiest rockers are in prison somewhere in Syberia?????

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i'm currently on the floor in stitches. brilliant!

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Volkswagen Golf MK3 Gti....R301UUJ. RIP 22-5-13
Volkswagen Golf MK4 TDGTI 150 MM53VNT Sold 7-8-17
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BMW 330d Touring M-Sport WN63 XPY - best daily ever

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:13 am 
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Been lurking here for quite a while now, especially as I am in the process of building a new Sprint engine for my TR7.

Some great info here on this forum, and a very nice job you're doing on that engine :wink:

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:15 am 
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Been lurking here for quite a while now, especially as I am in the process of building a new Sprint engine for my TR7.

Some great info here on this forum, and a very nice job you're doing on that engine :wink:

*waves* welcome to the forum! :)

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Volkswagen Golf MK4 TDGTI 150 MM53VNT Sold 7-8-17
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:30 pm 
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Will introduce myself in the general section :wink:

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:04 pm 
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Some updates.

I did remake the loom to have more different groups, 16 fuses in total and that was 10. The petrol injection system has it's own fuses and power and the lpg system also. No overlay, only one main component a fuse to have things working when something minor does shortcut. Also brake/indicator/reverselamps, blower and wiper have their own fuse. All the ground wires i did take out of the loom and had some multi ground spade connectors on the chassis where all the grounds can go on. The enginebay loom had seperate looms for the engine/injectionsystems and the rest. I did split up the loom again and all illumination has one seperate loom. The relais have a coloured tag on them for what it is. The colours do identify the type of relay and these are interchangeable so you can replace a major function one by a minor function one if a main one fails easy.
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The dash has a new layout and looks a bit as my rally gp2 dash with the switches around the steering column. All peroid parts this time. My terratrip 303 out and the first terratrip model in. This i bought non working but it was only a loose wire internal. It had an option for a remote so i did made one on the passengers door. I did use a grey spiral and grey connector for the '70 look. The only modern gauge is the air/fuel gauge but i did manage to fit a smiths bezel around.

The rev counter does almost look the same as my mechanical one for my rally car. I did not want to fit one in this car because i didn't want a take off on the head. So i took a smiths speedo from an old brit bike what has the same dimensions, bezel and needle and i did fit a modern electric revcounter in the housing with a dail from a smiths rev what was laying around so it's almost the real thing.
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The shiftlight is an '80 item mad by microdynamics, the company that also makes the lumenition ignitons etc.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:09 pm 
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The pedals are grayston ones but an '80 item. The only modern is the footrest and the passengers footrest. These are modern OMP's but i did paint them black. These are cast alu and the best. Not as these floppy sheet alu things.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:27 pm 
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Another story is the audio system. I had a modern radio in the glove compartment (what fried two times due to a leaky screen) and a period not working on the parcelshelf. When i replaced the brown interiour to black i did also fitted period speaker covers over modern speakers. A flat sub is going under the frontseat. It's not a boom boom car but a very decent sound at normal volume level. You do not have to oversteer your "normal" speakers to have some low tones. At my work we do fit Caliper rcd110 radio's a lot becasue of the classic look. But they do look too '60 for a dolomite. Too much chrome and the knobs were too retro.

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They are also in black but these are too black and too high gloss. I did spry with some plastic wrinckle effect spray the fron housing and the parts where the knobs are at just to leave a tiny chrome edge. The knobs i replaced by knobs from an period old radio so this way it suits me total in my Dolomite.
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At the rear i already did weld the brackets for the 5 link rearsuspension. It is a bit of a try out for my rally car and see and feel how that goes on the gravel and forest. The dash has the main gauges and switches also on the same spot as my rally replica so i can used to it where to look.
I hope to finish the interiour and loom etc. in about 1 month and then start working at the engine, gearbox and rearaxle again.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:26 pm 
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What I want to know is "will it go back to the future when it hits 80 mph?"

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:42 am 
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Sorry John, didn't manage to find a genuine '85 flux condensor and i do not want to fit a cheap chinese aftermarket one.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:40 am 
I think it needs more gauges.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:20 am 
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A drivers temp gauge maybe. :D

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.... At the rear i already did weld the brackets for the 5 link rearsuspension ...
I presume that means 4 parallel links and a Panhard rod :?:

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