sharonandmatt
New Member
well to start with we recently bought the car from ebay as an no MOT rat rod project.
a trip to stevenage from nottingham to tow it back was loads of fun! had to remove the prop shaft so it could be towed the plan of this taking an hour or so backfired a bit with 4 of the bolts refusing to let go, so after 3 hours of my mate and i lying on our backs slowly sawing them off we were ready to go, nothing like being towed on a short rigid bar for two and half hours in the dark, possibly the most terrifing experience of my life as the tow mounts didnt match up on the rover dead centre the BMW doing the work to the left hand side so that made for an interesting run.
next on the list was to replace the prop shaft and prepare her for the MOT, the prop went back in with very little problems and a progressive check of the car revealed a few small problems which we soon put right, then it was off for her MOT test time, we went to the garage with no real expectations she would pass more as a plan to give us an idea of what needed doing first but shock horror she was road legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With our newly aquired road legality we took the girl out for a drive and discovered a real tendancy to misfire when engine under load this has now been traced to a possible leak in the manifold, and then the plans to rod her out began to take place!
well the plan for her is:
new holley carb and inlet plenum/manifold
new custom exhaust as the present one is terrible and grinds on the floor getting onto our driveway
fix the rat rod look to smarten her up
remove the terrible blue window tint and glue (mostly done now just need to finish rear window)
repair the only areas of rust (bottoms of the doors and a little in the drivers foot well)
upgrade and lower the suspension
full custom interior including all interior trim and dash board
once she gets through all these points the plan is to continue improving performance until she can make a respectable turn out on the strip to show up all these blue ringed pops and anglias
so any help and advice on areas to look out for whilst up rating everything would be appreciated
a trip to stevenage from nottingham to tow it back was loads of fun! had to remove the prop shaft so it could be towed the plan of this taking an hour or so backfired a bit with 4 of the bolts refusing to let go, so after 3 hours of my mate and i lying on our backs slowly sawing them off we were ready to go, nothing like being towed on a short rigid bar for two and half hours in the dark, possibly the most terrifing experience of my life as the tow mounts didnt match up on the rover dead centre the BMW doing the work to the left hand side so that made for an interesting run.
next on the list was to replace the prop shaft and prepare her for the MOT, the prop went back in with very little problems and a progressive check of the car revealed a few small problems which we soon put right, then it was off for her MOT test time, we went to the garage with no real expectations she would pass more as a plan to give us an idea of what needed doing first but shock horror she was road legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With our newly aquired road legality we took the girl out for a drive and discovered a real tendancy to misfire when engine under load this has now been traced to a possible leak in the manifold, and then the plans to rod her out began to take place!
well the plan for her is:
new holley carb and inlet plenum/manifold
new custom exhaust as the present one is terrible and grinds on the floor getting onto our driveway
fix the rat rod look to smarten her up
remove the terrible blue window tint and glue (mostly done now just need to finish rear window)
repair the only areas of rust (bottoms of the doors and a little in the drivers foot well)
upgrade and lower the suspension
full custom interior including all interior trim and dash board
once she gets through all these points the plan is to continue improving performance until she can make a respectable turn out on the strip to show up all these blue ringed pops and anglias
so any help and advice on areas to look out for whilst up rating everything would be appreciated