Martin's rally car rebuild

[martinpallot]

Spent all bloody day doing the stupid anti roll bar, As usual when you buy something that isnt meant to fit - it ends up damn dificult making it fit. But I got there in the end and it appears to do its job. good thing with this is that there are different stiffnesses available at only 19 quid a pop. The only problem now is that the brake fitting for the calipers just hits the tip of the ARB blade a fair bit before full lock is reached. No matter what fitting I use there doesnt seem to be a way around this, so looks like I have a decent excuse to go for some 300mm discs!





Will hopefully fab up the bracket for the battery and the header tank tomorrow. After that I can send a load of bits off for blasting before I paint them

[270bhps14]

Keep up the good work

[martinpallot]

Cheers mate, I'll try.

Header tank bracket and battery tray done, hopefully the last of the fabrication

[Jhonno]

Loving the work still.. Bet you can't wait to drive the bugger..

[martinpallot]

Shell with most of the one-off parts now for sale: http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&t=204446

[nickso]

That's a shame. Are you going to start again with another one or had enough?

[martinpallot]

Bit gutted but I had fears of this happening the last couple of months. Up until very recently everyone was convinced that the rules wouldnt come into efffect, but how wrong they were!

Bought a mint facelift 316 auto shell last night, together with a brand new safety devices cage, a couple of medium case 4.45 diffs and a z3 rack, will have this stripped down and moved into my store by end of september. should still be a nice car, just wont be be as flambouyent. Not gonna bother giving the shell the full treatment now that It can only essentially be bolt on upgrades, just weld the cage in, some seat rails and off we go.

At least this way it should be finished in next to no time and I'l drive it faster cos i wont be so woirried about bending it

[nickso]

Yeh I think I would be scared of bending it too. Having said that I did do the sums to see if I could buy it Sadly a new roof on the house must come first.