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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:53 pm
by sladey
Got my PB fronts on - really like them - currently got a set of rears in the garage waiting to be fitted

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:08 pm
by hot66
I've had elephant bushes since Jan 2006 & like them a lot :)

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:10 pm
by Ferry Man
Mike wrote:The nipples are facing forward, slightly angled apart from each other and no problem to get to.
I can't believe Mike wrote that and no one commented...
Things are slipping around here. Where's the schoolboy humour? :)

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:25 pm
by sladey
Good point(s) well made Paul - while we're at it (fnarr fnarr), I suppose
I've had elephant bushes since Jan 2006 & like them a lot
Shouldn't pass (ooh-er!) without comment either

Cheers

Mark

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:55 pm
by Mike
well to help anyone suffering restoration withdrawal symptoms while Paul is away on holiday, thought I'd better bring my thread up to date! Progress came to a halt as Neil broke his foot, so only just on the go again.
Last week finished off the suspension and brakes so just about up on it's wheels 8)

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Anti roll bar arms will be changed for adjustable RSR one's that are being fabricated at the moment.
more later.......

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:27 pm
by sladey
Good stuff - will stop me going cold turkey while turkis-boy jets off to the land of the free

Having looked at this just after Paul's - can I just check - so you've got no underbody protection on your at all then Mike?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:43 pm
by 912uk
these cars are looking too PCGB next we will have a how to polish your coil springs post :?



does look good Mike.. I have now just put my anti roll bar links in the to be plated box as that does look very nice..
8)

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:00 pm
by Nick Moss
so you've got no underbody protection on your at all then Mike?
That's fine, Mike never drives his cars :lol:

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:56 pm
by Mick Cliff
:lol: :lol:

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:21 pm
by Ian Donkin
nick-moss wrote:
so you've got no underbody protection on your at all then Mike?
That's fine, Mike never drives his cars :lol:
He won't need it when he fits the wheel arch liners :lol:

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:51 pm
by Mike
sladey wrote: so you've got no underbody protection on your at all then Mike?
Hi Mark, damm, knew there was something I had forgotten to do!

No it has no underseal, that's what I spent all Christmas and New Year last year scraping off, not a job I'll rush to do again but it was worth it to see the finish now. The 'werks' cars which this is fashioned after and the RS lightweights ran with no underseal, it's heavy stuff and as has been said, it's not as if I'm going to be driving it.........:lol: :lol:

Here's the rear set up at the moment. Would like in the future to go with proper RSR calipers but in the meantime the trailing arms have been modified so the 930 ones sit in the right place at the back, and using the turbo discs to give me a handbrake. Standard spring plates now to be 'period correct'

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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:06 am
by letsrollbabe
Mike:

These pics look like they are out of a Porsche sales brochure for an RSR. You are putting the rest of us knuckle draggin' parts washing types to shame.

I want you to leave something on the car that I did....maybe just print my name with a magic marker on the bottom somewhere....

Beautiful work! Keep the pics coming...they are truly inspirational.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:00 am
by oliveR
Great Mike !
Any pics of rear arms mods ?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:31 pm
by Mike
Dropped in my favorite part the other day for a trial fit, just got to do the strap fixings and put in the sender unit.

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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:40 pm
by 912uk
8) got to hand it to you Mike it's looking great 8)