bantambunny

Cheers guys, you'll both more than welcome to come out for a spin in it :) I still haven't had chance to put that cheque in yet Allan (i put it on the firepolace at the new house and put it away somewhere but can't find it! :headvswal )

Fantastic! The block's ready to be collected! :hyper: Going to pick it up tonight so i'll get it straight round my gran's house tonight and get stuck in cleaning it :)

Okay first update in a while. Firstly thanks to all you guys who've helped me out, i'm still awaiting the block to come back from the engineering shop so i've had to decide whether i'll have time to get it done and back in the car. The answer is no unfortunately, i need at least 2 weeks to build the engine and get it in and the garage needs to be empty on the 28th so i'll have to resort to plan B. The engine parts are in the garage at my gran's with enough room to build the engine but not put it in the car so i'll crack on with that as soon as i get it back. In the meantime i decided it was a good time to move the shell to the new house. I borrowed a solid towbar off Slick Pete yesterday and got the car prepped to drag over to measham. Bearing in mind i've not driven the car on the road since october and i've completely reworked the subframe and suspension design so i had no idea how it was going to handle. The other problem was steering alignment which i had no idea where the wheels were at, it was tipping it down with rain and the car was fogged up. I have to say it was probably one of the least pleasant drives i've ever had in my life with being able to see about 3 foot in front of the car, the mondeo taking up all the view and hanging out the window like a dog in the summer being hit with crap off the road, gravel and hard rain. The car handles brilliantly, steering is solid and there is absolutely 100% no bump steer so looks like my design worked spot on! :hyper: The car is now sitting on the driveway of my new house so in the meantime i'm going to crack on with rewiring and piping my engine bay as well as tidy it up in preparation for the engine coming back. More to come as it gets done folks :)

Thank you mate, the offer is more than appreciated. Still no sign of the block but check the 600zx thread to see the latest update :)

Great stuff, something to test out and if it works i'll remove the ariel completely before the respray :hyper:

I'm very easy to find :D Let the onslaught of "who the hell is that?" friend requests commence! :rofl: http://www.facebook.com/bantambunny :dance:

That sounds fine to me buddy, I think grammatically it's spot on, it's polite but to the point without being aggressive. I'd probably reword this paragraph slightly: Good luck mate, hopefully that should get some attention and wishing you the best with getting a full time contract.

Oh bloody hell, why is it these things always come up when i'm supposed to be seeing the missus :( It's our valentines weekend so i can't imagine she'll want to go and spectate a car going round silverstone when i said i'd take her to london for the day :headvswal

Haha, that's ace! What a random place to add a picture of a zed :rofl:

hahaha that's brill :lol:

Bugger that's not good news matey, hope it is only something simple like a PCV but does sound like piston rings :(

:rofl: was another good episode i have to admit - the car chase was very well done. I have a feeling the police cars were more than likely driven by the Russ Swift driving school again from the live show :)

It's looking great buddy, well done :) Only the bumper and trim to go and you'll be on the road! :hyper:

I've just moved to THE quietest neighbourhood i've ever lived in and i'm petrified of what the neighbours think when I finally bring back the V8 and my brother gets his mini with the straight through exhaust back on :rofl: I still haven't introduced myself to the next door neighbour but he's incredibly quiet. The place i've just moved from the guy and his wife are big car fans so loved hearing the mini burn off in the mornings and he was round the night i finally got the V8 started up bless him :) I'm going to miss them but i know what it's like when you get some ****ers as neighbours. At my parent's house the next door couple had 3 horrible noisy children screaming and banging around at 6am and during the day to the point you thought they were being murdered but as soon as you put any music on they'd be round within 60 seconds to say the kids were trying to sleep and could we not make any noise. Bunch of c***s :rant:

I'll be up for that later on this year. Could be a great little run out for the V8 :)

And might i add a huge thank you to the amazing guys that helped me out the other week to pay for the engine work i needed on the V8 - believe me it wouldn't be finished for months otherwise and i'll be eternally grateful :hyper:

I had 50mb Virgin Broadband and i was really happy with them, the speed was nearly always 46meg when tested and fantastically quick. Towards christmas we found it was getting dog slow, going from 0.6meg to 6meg and rang them. After 6 attempts (on the last call when i threatened to leave them) they said they'd changed something in the network and it wouldn't be fixed till the end of january. So we said we're not paying for 50meg broadband and got it taken down to 10 meg and a couple of months refunded back to us. As Sir Charles said, great performance but when it goes wrong the customer support is shocking. Unfortunately we don't have cable in Measham at the new house so it's back to dodgy old adsl (or dial up as i call it!)

Just moved house and bought the whole shebang through sky including line rental with the HD box and got it for £58 a month. They're supposed to be installing the TV on saturday but say in their email and paperwork that i have to have a working telephone line that dials out and receives calls (!) then the phoneline won't be installed for 3-4 weeks and another 2-3 after we finally get broadband. I don't get the logic personally and now i'm awaiting an email back to tell me what they're going to do about it. From what i understand you can get away without a phoneline to activate it IF you pay them an additional £25 or £35 on the day. That's when my phone has a dial tone and a number attached so it's obviously connected to the exchange and they've organised it in that particular order so i don't see why they have to make me wait so long for a working line. Not too happy so far and still no work back from them 3 hours after emailing them :(

Absolutely stunning, and nice work with the subtle modifications :)

Congratulations mate! :hyper:

fpmsl :rofl:

That looks absolutely mint! I must admit i'd love to have a low mileage 99 spec as a 2nd zed in totally stock form :)

That'll teach you for changing your car every 3 months :tongue: lol It's a bugger when they do that, i had the same with a car i borrowed off my dad - the policy with Adrian Flux was £360, i paid £160 and after 5 weeks i had to cancel and they wanted £90 more off me to end the policy(!). I ended up refusing to pay until they stopped bombarding me with letter and we settled at £30.

That's awesome! I thought the little yellow one i had in my shorty was cool but that looks ace! :)

That's great buddy, always a pleasure to read through this thread and see what you've done next! :) Keep up the good work, it is crap but i got a gas bottle powered fire which took the chill off and made working in my garage more liveable