Recent content by bigJ

let me know how it goes, i think i might be doing it, been looking around and there's no end of cheap 1.4 gearboxes, i'd quite happily loose a bit of top end for quicker acceleration. how often do you really ever get to top out your car...

does that mean then that a 1.4 gearbox would fit a 1.7 and would mean quicker acceleration but slightly lower top end?

Question is as in the title, this is quite literally doing my nut in! I need to change the wheels and there is no sign of the locking wheel nut key anywhere! Is there a standard place that I haven't found?

So today went well...given this is being done on a weeks holiday things were being done at a leisurely pace (and accompanied by the odd beer!) Managed to get the 6x9's in, and start on the sound deadening, got the speaker boxes done atleast and the InPhase 6x9's i've slotted in work a treat! So...

that's a good looking knob you've got there, i wish mine looked like that.... *snigger snigger

Yeh, i'm pretty pleased with it apart from the little suspension issue - in the last 15 months its only done 1300 miles too and had some work done on it. Will get to finally get the wheel off tomorrow and have a proper look...hopefully fixable with a couple of tools! The clutch is pretty harsh...

cheers tekz...who knew lightbulbs could be so complicated!

This might be a really stupid question but I'm thinking of putting some Xenon's in the front and according to the manual I need HB3's, which I can find, but there are loads of bulbs being advertised as H1's and H7's and saying they are compatible. Are they? Any other comments on Xenon's as I've...

Cheers spartan, good to know, will see how I get on with these first, velvet has arrived at other address so haven't seen it yet, photo's will be up at some point next week. Looking forward to a few days off work and a bit of messing about in cars!

another job for me to be doing next week, busy busy!

Herro!

Ha, yes they would, and to be honest that's kind of where I got the idea about the silver from and I did consider buying them...but, given as i've got 9 out of the next 14 days off work and I'm using this project as a learning project so I want to try and do as many things from scratch as...

So, i'm on to my second Puma now which was a bargain I picked up on a spur of the moment thing due to the price and the lux pack. I currently have 2 puma's sitting on my driveway with the silver one to be sold so let me know if you're in the market for a silver one. So after a banzai run...

They seem a bit cheap....http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FK-LOWERING-SPRINGS-KIT-FORD-PUMA-1-4-1-7-97-60-40MM-/260786777999?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3cb81a6f8f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just bought Puma number 2 and quick drive around revealed a small issue with drivers side front suspension, on inspection it seems that it might not have been tightened properlly...maybe. Essentially the comparable difference between the two sides is that on the offside the bottom of the strut...