General Guff II

[panda panda]

I have a car looking thing on my drive again.

I still think orange bumpers would be too much.

You can never have too much Jaffa colour!

I bought a sunstrip similar to yours but in black - was like looking through a letter box so it never got off the drive

Are you going to to spray the window rubber blue to match the rest?

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Tempted to stock up. That's just their stock though I assume, I susepect autofraud (sorry autoglass) probably has their own supply

 

[Didge3]

only used £12 of petrol yesterday and I wasn't hanging about.

It amazes me how little fuel Panda's use. I use so little fuel in my 750 and I drive it with my foot to the floor most of the time.

 

[homeward]

The best way find out would be to ask. I'm about to fit the screen to Guff II so we can rat run it if you like. I collect the screen from Norwich and you pick it up from mine or fit it here. A run to Norwich and back only used £12 of petrol yesterday and I wasn't hanging about.

Thank you! That's a very kind offer....!

Sadly, you're already well over 100 miles away... -- and, for health reasons, that's not a journey I can do there and back in one day in the 750L....

I shall have a look around here for suppliers; and see if I can get them to do a price match....

Watch this space.... :wave:

 

[Liquid Knight]

It amazes me how little fuel Panda's use. I use so little fuel in my 750 and I drive it with my foot to the floor most of the time.

Back when Petrol was £1.09 a liter I filled my tank and drove three hundred and forty miles to Glasgow before the fuel light came on. That was flat out most of the way as well.

 

[homeward]

£95 plus VAT if I called them out to do it on my driveway...

Just been quoted £100, including VAT, to have it fitted at home, by the local manager of Fast Fit Nationwide Ltd: who added that "This is a blast from the past... -- I used to fit quite a few of these in my fitting days."

Having discovered another small chip right in the line of my vision -- although not yet noteworthy enough for it to fail its recent MOT (or even be noted as an advisory) -- I think I shall probably go for it....

 

[Liquid Knight]

Thanks to David Beckham retiring...

...I have more gutter tabloid to put to good use.

The problem with blue paint is the inconsistency in the pigment making it nearly impossible to mix the same colour twice.

Bugger! Due to this bluer blue I had to spray the whole car. Sadly I didn't have enough time before the damp evening air set in so the final finish is...

...more duff than Guff.

I'll give it a couple of weeks and polish it a bit to some kind of finish. I can't blow any more budget on paint and I'm trying to make the car as light as possible so another Kilo of Cellulose won't be helpful.

 

[Liquid Knight]

Freshly painted cars tend to attract birds...

...dizzy birds in Corsa's mostly.

 

[Liquid Knight]

Woa woa and thrise woa. The £999 Challenge has been canceled this year.

So all my efforts and the Alfa 145 I bought as a back up have been a waste of time and money.

You'd think that but what it has done is afforded me more time to get the brakes, suspension and build another engine FrankenFiat II.

Wooooooaaaahhhh-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaa!

There's a £999-ish track day is September so that's my new deadline.

I think I'll spend the week I booked off in July either on a beach or touring some interesting roads in the Alfa (unless I sell her for something Panda shaped and with more driven wheels that is).

 

[VmanC]

You may be be putting a positive spin on it but I bet that's going to p!ss a few people off.

Did they give a reason?

 

[Liquid Knight]

Did they give a reason?

Lack of interest.

 

[Liquid Knight]

Yes I am annoyed about it.

 

[purple haze]

That is annoying..... ( did you hear we went to panda camp??... Been good to see the fantasia)

 

[Liquid Knight]

I couldn't get the day off otherwise it would have been great fun.

 

[Liquid Knight]

FrankenFiat II

This one is kind of pre-built but for the price of a cam' and clutch £120 I've got practically a turnkey unit.

So what we have here is a Punto 60 1242cc engine...

...866 Punto 75 cam' and black box distributor (that may yet find it's way into a skip)...

...nearly new clutch...

...and a Golf Driver 1.6 carb' 36 instead of 32.

I'll give the bike carb's a go at some point but the Golf carb's have been balanced to the engine and used a standard Panda/Uno airbox.

I'm thinking of fitting this engine to my Fantasia so I can strip clean, and rebuild the original 999cc FIRE engine as part of the cars restoration plan. I am still undecided as to use FrankenFiat II in Guff II as it's pre-built and technically cheating (the car could be up and running in a few hours if I do use it and I have until September 9th now).

Once again, many thanks to benwyl.

 

[Bartpanda]

What kind of carb is that again? weber 36 tlf instead of the 32 tlf or some pierburg? from golf? VW golf ?

 

[Liquid Knight]

What kind of carb is that again? weber 36 tlf instead of the 32 tlf or some pierburg? from golf? VW golf ?

36 tlp from a Golf Driver 1.6 1982-1988 it's the carb' I was looking for when I first thought of the FrankenFiat idea before the TDM carb's turned up cheap.

 

[Dragon Man]

hmm wonder if the 1.6 VW Jetta TX has the same carb... its a H reg and theres one in my scrap yard.

worth a look maybe

 

[Liquid Knight]

hmm wonder if the 1.6 VW Jetta TX has the same carb... its a H reg and theres one in my scrap yard.

worth a look maybe

I think it'll be the twin choke jobbie from the Scirroco and Golf GT. The Jetta was a bit heavier so the even though the engines were the basically the same the fuel was set up for torque to carry the burden.

 

[Dragon Man]

yeah google searching fetched those results. oh well.. it was worth a shot. i dont want a bigger carb.. just want another for "backup" purposes. i'd keep in the car till i meet some one at an event with a 32mm carb that i can swap.