A few developments. The nights are drawing in so I have taken the pillar mounted boost gauge off and consigned it to the eBay skip.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262610610391?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

The blue illumination is brighter than the dash and made going round right hand bends in the dark ridiculous. Also pillar mounted pods are a bit 1998 and not really in my taste. :silly:

The Alfa wheels the car came with were sold on eBay to someone from Uruguay even though they were listed as "Collection Only" and I clicked no international bidders.

Gave the chap 48 hours to get in contact before canceling the order and relisting.

Some new arrivals.



The V-band on the flange is roughly 1mm wider than the rings...



...so I was going to have to either grind the flange ring or weld around the ring lip and grind it flat to make it fit.

From the back of the turbo flange face to the alternator heat pipe is 9.5 cm. From the V-band flange face to the end of the ring piece is also 9.5 cm. So as predicted by members of the GT owners club it will not fit without either relocating or removing the exhaust from the alternator and wrapping the down pipe to dissipate the heat away from it. The funnel section of the V-band flange is 4 cm from the face so I could use it with a ninety degree bend that's less than 5 cm from end to bend.

This won't give me the flexibility of a V-band set up but it will be a damn sight better than the down pipe that's on there at the moment. That's so crap I'm not even sure I should use it as a template.

Strut brace sold and pair of wings (that aren't dented to Dudley and back) bought. Ready for some redification.

Winging it today...



...two hours hand work in twenty minutes...



...I'm never buying sand paper again.

thats one epicly cool table you have there lol

blu73 said:

thats one epicly cool table you have there lol

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I've got to find some use for it.

Nothing to report apart from 205-40-16 road legal track day tyres are crap in the wet.



I may go so far as to looking for "winter" tyres on 15's with a bit more sidewall.

So the 205-40-16 road legal track tyres are crap in the wet and as I'm working in Thetford this weekend and the A134 is a tram line I need some sensible-ish rubber.

So I was looking for 15's with a meaningful side wall and possibly for the first time in my life "Winter" tyres.

Hmmmmm... buy tyres or use the ones in my shed that are the least knackered?

Easy choice. I've never been a fan of these Coupe square wheels. They're a faff to balance, porous after a while and heavy so the steal power from the road and you need to think about braking sooner. Looks aside the 205-55-15's have enough of a side wall for the car to be exactly the same height from the floor as before. So I will only scrape the exhaust as much as usual.

always thought them wheels look perfect on a mk1 myself... never held one but i am sure you are right when you say they are heavy though lol

Hmmmm. This is kind of awkward.

My Punto my become a donor to a Uno.

Rather than faff about welding the new sills on a new straightened floor someone has offered me an immaculate one owner Uno 60S five door with a broken 1116cc engine.

So a five door Uno sleeper in an engine bits swap away or a load of bodywork welding and prep' for the Punto?

I'll think about it over the weekend.

Just as well I used the Coupe paint code to get the red for the Punto as it could find it's way on the Coupe now.

From yellow to white primer...





...just in time for a potentially brilliant change of plan.

Someone suggested I should "get bent" so I did. 90 and 70 degree bends. Just need to get the tape measure and welder out.

OOooooo shiny

(Longer version of my last post, sorry I was busy at the time)

More new arrivals this week.



As the V-band won't fit I'll have to chop the outlet part and weld a bend to it...



...a bit like this but within the 90mm gap from the turbo to the back of the alternator.

I do like a nice compact set up like the Mini ERA, Metro, Uno and Punto turbo but sometimes I would give a kidney for the space to work you get from a crossover had set up.

my god, the PGT can be a nightmare to work on when it comes to accessing things i will give you that. The amount of times you go to change something simple and the internet tells you that you have to dismantle half the bloody engine just to get at one bolt is simply amazing. Still, I loved mine and wish i had never sold it!

blu73 said:

my god, the PGT can be a nightmare to work on when it comes to accessing things i will give you that. The amount of times you go to change something simple and the internet tells you that you have to dismantle half the bloody engine just to get at one bolt is simply amazing. Still, I loved mine and wish i had never sold it!

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nice white gt on eBay [emoji6][emoji386][emoji386][emoji386]

i had a moment there thinking you had put yours up for sale Steve...

well that is certainly a looker that one, has almost the same numberplate as my old one too which was S246 ACB

link?
thx

just go on ebay and search for punto gt, c'mon lad this is easy!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-Fiat...314585?hash=item2ef49b4ed9:g:D5sAAOSw8w1X4Bnj

Easily one of the best in the country and unlike the orange one this has been owned, not dragged out of storage, MOT'd and mopped (polishing mop).

If this is a 100 point car then mine is optimistically 20-25 points.

Liquid Knight said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-Fiat...314585?hash=item2ef49b4ed9:g:D5sAAOSw8w1X4Bnj

Easily one of the best in the country and unlike the orange one this has been owned, not dragged out of storage, MOT'd and mopped (polishing mop).

If this is a 100 point car then mine is optimistically 20-25 points.

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I would check out it's MOT history, some of the things it's failed on in the past would put me off.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/ Reg is S535ACB