Northy
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| posted on 2/10/03 at 05:52 PM |
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Bem, how did you get an XE for £90? 
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing! 
"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 2/10/03 at 06:03 PM |
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From a mate 
It was running, but needed a new waterpump 90k miles
didn't matter on condition cos i was going to rebuild it whatever! But it was a goodun anyway ! plus coscast head
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Northy
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| posted on 2/10/03 at 07:39 PM |
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Bugger! Er.. I mean well done fella! That was Low-cost!!
If you find another one at that money, give me a shout! 
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing!
"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 2/10/03 at 08:04 PM |
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Know a breakers that does them for £150 i think ?!?!?
Think Ned knows the details !
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craig1410
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| posted on 2/10/03 at 10:55 PM |
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My budget is £2500 (achievable I think) and my time estimate is 15 months (03/2003 to 06/2004) which may not be achievable.
I subscribe to the theory that it takes 3000-4000 units of either time or money. I hope that will be £2500 + 500 hours but it could well be £3000 +
1000 hours by the time I get there...
Simon, I didn't realise that you were such a smooth talker with the ladies
By the way(Simon) you are right that my website is behind the times. I have been making progress but it is not so visible (seam welding and grinding
etc) and hence not worth reporting on its own. I am going to see a V8 engine tomorrow though which I hope to purchase and perhaps get at the weekend.
That would be worth reporting!! I'll email you in the next week or so to update you.
Cheers,
Craig.
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ned
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| posted on 3/10/03 at 11:44 AM |
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I'm afraid i think that engines already spoken for! though they did have another one with a hole in the block, but a coscast head...
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Simon
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| posted on 3/10/03 at 12:09 PM |
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Craig,
Look forward to hearing about engine. Hope it's a good'un
Agree with your comments about the welding, spend hours and hours at it and only a few less holes to show for it.
ATB
Simon
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craig1410
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| posted on 3/10/03 at 09:12 PM |
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Simon,
Went to see the engine earlier this evening and managed to get it running. It hadn't been run in a year or so so it had no fuel in the carbs and
the pump had siezed up. I primed the carbs with some high-tech gravity fuel feed techniques (ie Fairy Liquid bottle and plastic tube) and off she
went. The exhaust is totally gone so it was very very noisy and difficult to hear if it was running correctly but it's close enough for me to
make me part with £175. For that I get anything I want from the donor car except for the gearbox so I can get all the wiring and hydraulics, pedal
box, accelerator and choke cables etc etc. Seems like a decent deal to me.
The car was a ruin due to rot but the engine looks quite clean and with no signs of goo inside the oil cap. The oil on the dipstick was black but not
"really" black if you know what I mean. It didn't look bad at all in fact. It's just a shame that the exhaust was stuffed or I
could have spent more time getting it running properly. As it was I was in danger of upsetting the neighbours...
So I'm helping to extract it next weekend which gives me a few days to finalise my engine bay welding and grinding. Then I can start building
stuff around the engine.
Cheers,
Craig.
ps. Sorry to be off-topic, won't happen again...
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Ben_Copeland
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Top stuff !
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