Trophy's new home and new parts...

[nathanH]

Hello all

I havnt been on for a while due to changing jobs and completely relocating! I now live in Melton Mowbray (the home of pork pies and stilton cheese). Moved into a 2 year old 3 bed semi with my Mrs (who as also changed career and relocated with me) but the most important part... it has a decent garage thats already been painted, wired up and has a boarded and insulated ceiling!

The T has got into a bit of a state over the past 6 months and since Ive started my new job 'in the trade' the cars ran out of MOT and tax and just sat in the garage as Ive got a company car... so with a few pay cheques under my belt I splashed out on some service items; oil, coolant, plugs, filters, HC's, TRE's, Lower ball joints and a labia splitter ( I refuse to pay £££ for a pretty much identical splitter from reno) I also need a new O/S driveshaft... I fitted the spiltter the other day but instead of cutting off the ends of the splitter I kept one end intact and then trimmed the long end and glued it on, looks pretty good if im honest:

I also stripped my Sachs', The N/S damper being fubar'd! and missing an adjuster! need to get them booked in to be rebuilt, shot blasted and coated as they are very rusty... and get them unpinned!

Stripped the rear brakes too as there shot too lol

Im hoping to get it all sorted for next month so I can get some track days in again this year. Cant wait!

Nathan

 

[st3ve]

Good work, well jealous you've got your own garage.

Have you sorted the damage to the bodywork you picked up at Cadwell last year?

 

[nathanH]

Kind of... One of our dent chaps made it look a million times better but still a few scratches etc but... meh

 

[Feirny]

Get it how it used to be!

 

[nathanH]

When I moved in

Loving the profile pic Greg!

 

[Feirny]

Cheers man, thought about changing it the other day, but love it too much.

 

[.Andy.]

Looks good! Welcome to Leicestershire mate! Hope to see the T out and about soon!

 

[nathanH]

Not one to start a new thread for the hell of it...

The Albi:

Been rocking it for nearly a week, first impressions... I didnt think much to it tbh, but as I drove it more Ive come to like it, still has the same issue as the Mk2 and thats that the top of the wheel is tilted away from you but other than that I cant fault its handling, its balanced and agile (non cup pack), you really need to keep it on the boil to get some pace out of it tho. Sadly its bogo spec, no climate or xenons etc but thats ok... its only a company car

Also, inspected my dampers a little closer, leaking seal, there was loads of dirt and grit around the shaft but ive wiped it off, you can see a little puddle of fluid on the floor where its been leaking since its been removed.

Ive also noticed that the dust cover on the damper thats leaking had no end of cracks in it, no wonder its fubar'd! Also to show that the damper still has its 4mm gap so that method cant be trusted when looking to see if they are worn:

Also a pic of the new ball joints and a random one of the stripped rear brakes to pad this post out with.

Laters!

 

[maynard]

Very jealous of the garage, looking forward to seeing the Trophy healthy again!

 

[Nick_P]

FLOL at "labia splitter"

hahahha.


Good work, looking tidy now