Charly's garage diary..
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moved from the Introduce Yourself thread...

John and I been busy this weekend on Charly :)....

Edited by Mike on 8th Jun, 2005.

i'll post updates here from now..

BTW, Charly is the name of the car not me. :)

Top job - looks excellent.

What did you use to cut the front off, and where did you get the brace bars?

Cheers

Neil

It looks lovely

thx :)

i borrowed a air body saw, was so impressed think i'll buy a load of air stuff myself.



it gives a really smooth, clean fast cut and can defo recommend borrowing one if u can.

The brace bars were from minispeed, they are the clubman bars MS106 i think. And the nuts and bolts are all stainless i got from out local shop for a fiver. I'll be putting the original steel front back on as the flip.

Nice :) Will be shopping for a compressor at some point so will look for one that will run air tools

go for a big one, then u can use it for pretty much all air tools incuding a grit blaster

you can buy them electric as well, saves buying a compressor.

you butcher! that shell looked pretty mint, and you cut through a proper ripspeed sticker!

ya must have done a lot of charly to decide to cut tha front off!! te he

quick update, he gets trailered away for some works this weekend, a fellow estate owners owns his own garage near me so i'm entrusting him to fit my turbo box and weber box. While the cars away its a good time to get the turbo's sorted.

Cool !

Why's it called Charly?

sorry i didnt mean to sound negative in the last post, its looking good though, should be an interesting one

What's a prodigy?

they are a band arno, pretty good too.

Pretty good?????


Understatement!!!!

alright they are feckin brilliant

i'll second that!!!!

““A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.”” - Jeremy Clarkson

well, got round to finding a way fitting the old front end, and it fits a treat :) It come's off completely with a slide to the right.



now thats done i can get the turbo box and weber box welded in.

Also, yesterday the ECU arrived, the sensors arrive monday.

Edited by Mike on 19th Feb, 2005.

Looking good mike.. whats the weber box going to be for ??

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

just as "while i'm there" and to give some more room around that area in general. :)

looking good mate. must be hard working on a car when you spent the whole weekend doing charly though lol
DAN :)

y good stuff /sniff :)