SVM 286
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He could still banger race it 
Or if he'd rather not, i'd be more than willing to do it for him.
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ed
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I would hazard a guess that you could repair that.
Though a new shell would probably eng up being easier. Having a light car pays off sometimes 
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All Torque
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 Thats just heartless Jim.
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Robin
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Originally posted by ed
I would hazard a guess that you could repair that.
Though a new shell would probably eng up being easier. Having a light car pays off sometimes
I think he thought it better to go for a new shell for simplicity, swapping bits over was easier than straigtening/respraying a shell.
And the LHD one has better braking and steering setups, as the servo is above the pedal box, not on the other side of the car 
Oh, and the driver offsets the weight of the engine on an LHD car too 
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SVM 286
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Thats just heartless Jim.
Why?
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ed
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Originally posted by ed
I would hazard a guess that you could repair that.
Though a new shell would probably eng up being easier. Having a light car pays off sometimes
I think he thought it better to go for a new shell for simplicity, swapping bits over was easier than straigtening/respraying a shell.
And the LHD one has better braking and steering setups, as the servo is above the pedal box, not on the other side of the car
Oh, and the driver offsets the weight of the engine on an LHD car too
Why did they put the servo on the wrong side of the car? That sounds like something that Fiat would do
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Robin
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Same reason the Nova has a silly bar over the back of the engine bay on an RHD car I suppose, built for the LHD market, adapted badly for UK
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All Torque
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Thats just heartless Jim.
Why?
Golf has just died and you're making jokes 
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ed
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I only say that because the Corsa seems fairly modular. It looks like I could change my car to LHD fairly easily. Might be wrong though
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ed
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Anyway, why has this guy built a track car and still using servo assisted brakes? Shouldn't he have sorted that out with a pedal box. In fact, didn't he have a pedal box for it with bias adjust?
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SVM 286
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Thats just heartless Jim.
Why?
Golf has just died and you're making jokes
It's not dead, it's still there.
And I wasn't making jokes. I never joke about cars.
Unless it's that one about the three minis that walk into a pub.
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Robin
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I only say that because the Corsa seems fairly modular. It looks like I could change my car to LHD fairly easily. Might be wrong though
Yeah, you could.
If you look in my garage at the pics of my Nova, you'll see how bad the setup is though
I think he was still using the servo etc because the floor hinged pedal box he made didn't work properly, so he had to use a standard top hinged golf one.
He also originally had the seat about a foot further back, but had to move it for this reason.
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mav
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that car looked so
pity about it now
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Cosmo
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That road has as much chance of being used for a hill climb as my ass has for a Keira Knightly double.
Still though, not good news. Most parts could be salvaged though, and means can move onto bigger and better things with the new one.
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jr
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jellys mk1 would be gutted
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Nismo
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the world lives on, shock horror 
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Marc
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I wonder what the mk1 Cupra Steve drove round there is like.
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All Torque
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I wonder what the mk1 Cupra Steve drove round there is like.
Slower than 106 GTi, Faster than CTR.
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