Ell Diablo - Hydraulic Clutch In

[306Dan]

You gonna have a go at seam welding the subframe first?? Been wanting to do my spare one for awail.

[Poodle]

Aw you should have asked mate, i could have turned your underside purple in about thirty seconds!

Looks mint though mate, any plans for the boot lid so you can bring back the race fork?

[Grant]

You gonna have a go at seam welding the subframe first?? Been wanting to do my spare one for awail.

Of course. Would be rude not to

Aw you should have asked mate, i could have turned your underside purple in about thirty seconds!

Looks mint though mate, any plans for the boot lid so you can bring back the race fork?

Haha I dread to think.

Not too sure yet. Tbh it drives so much more comfortably without it. For the 4 minutes it takes to change it I'm tempted to just put it on for track days.

I can kind of hear myself think when I drive it now lol

[Piggy]

love the purple...

but going by the underside of mine...be ready for stone chips and pigeon heads to damage the paint

[Just Sean]

and copious amounts of oil!

[Grant]

love the purple...

but going by the underside of mine...be ready for stone chips and pigeon heads to damage the paint

Haha yeah, fully expecting that!

and copious amounts of oil!

[floz123]

Looks good Grant... Now buy my engine! Haha :-)

[Grant]

Would you and Niall stop trying to get me to spend my money! lol

I have enough problems with doing that as it is, without being pointed in the direction of more things.

[floz123]

Haha sorry but it had to be done sure you don't want it...special deal for you (said in a typical foreign phone sales voice)

[Jonny b]

Set of bodies here for cheap!! Just saying!!

[Jonny81191]

This looks fecking horrendous, why would you bother putting so much effort into a frecnch shitheap?

[Grant]

Set of bodies here for cheap!! Just saying!!

Define cheap lol

This looks fecking horrendous, why would you bother putting so much effort into a frecnch shitheap?

I know mate. In just gonna cover this turd in glitter

[Dum-Dum]

Looks mint though mate, any plans for the boot lid so you can bring back the race fork?

Not too sure yet. Tbh it drives so much more comfortably without it. For the 4 minutes it takes to change it I'm tempted to just put it on for track days.

I can kind of hear myself think when I drive it now lol

Your missus must be devestated lol



Anyway the purple looks really good against the black underseal background

[Ed Doe]

Looks good buddy one thing though, I'd get some dust boots for the Rose joints on the droplinks. You'll get all kinds of swarf in them and end up with knocking droppings if you're not careful!

[Grant]

Got some on order mc gill were useless twunts and dispatched the wrong boots.

[Grant]

So after what started as a silly conversation, I am now in a few minds as to how I progress with this:

-Drop a 1.8/2.0'6 hybrid engine in and boost it
-Space frame the rear of the car, drop a rover v8 in. I was budgeting for a roll cage anyway, so no major additional costs on the space frame. Rover v8's are cheap enough to pick up on fleabay. They aren't the most powerful of V8's in the world, but sound epic and are cheap to buy. Thinking logically about it, if the space frame and engine were in, theres not a HUGE cost left, besides machining down driveshafts/geabox adaptor plates.

As I said, started as a silly conversation, but I reckon it's doable for the same price as boosting a '6 engine, and would sound fapping epic

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrupygp077A

[Dum-Dum]

Would be epic but there's space to fit one in the front and IMO front engine RWD would retain the 306s handing alot better.

[Grant]

So you're saying get it up front, keep the original drivetrain and run it down the exhaust tunnel. Have suspension mounts welded into the rear, run coils on the rear and thus inevitably meaning I would need side exit exhausts because there is a drivetrain in the way?

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Its a lot less work that way TBF

[Just Sean]

side exits ftmfw

[Grant]

Been looking into servicing and maintenance costs on these;

An OE quality HG set is £54
Alternator £70
Dizzy and leads £35


List goes on but the seem pretty cheap to maintain. Just the petrol costs to consider! haha

[Just Sean]

cant be much worse than a boosted 6

[Midnightclub]

Sooo many better V8's out there man :/

[Grant]

Any suggestions Danny?

[Just Sean]

how much do m5 lumps go for?

[Grant]

£1500-£2500 lol

Although it would be epic win, out of my budget

[Midnightclub]

Whats the budget.. and I'll give some suggestions

[Grant]

£550

[Midnightclub]

Probably.. either a 1UZ-FE or a M60B30, both pretty cheap and make substantially more power

[Grant]

Fair suggestions there mate, thanks.


One main attraction to the rover V8 was the fact it was mechanically timed, hence making life a lot easier. Just got the setup/balance the carbs and pretty much thats it ready to go.

[Curt]

Please do this... Who cares how much power it makes when it sounds like that!

Used to have a V8 Disco workhorse for carrying shit around/pulling trailers here, it was shit, slow and rotten... but sounded awesome