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FlaFFy_91
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2nd Oct 13 at 23:43   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
A mate of mine has had this for a little while, we finally got round to getting it running and mot'd
not exactly the best time to get it out but it gives him time to sort out the paint and little bits over winter now we know it works properly

anyways, just a few pics after we had it running, snapped the throttle cable so we were midway through changing that





















As you can see, it still needs minting up, but it runs, drives and sounds beautiful!
SVM 286
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Ben G
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Is he a bus driver?
SVM 286
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FlaFFy_91
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Haha it's actually a lot Easyer to drive than you think.

I mentioned the wheel to him and he said it doesn't bother him because he learnt to drive in something aomething digger/tipper (I can't remember the name of it) when he was a kid and the steering wheel came straight out the floor on that.
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that is fucking cool
flybikeslee
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that wheel what motor is it?
Gary
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You got videos yeah?
micra_pete
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Yep, that's badass.
FlaFFy_91
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I do have a video. Nothing spectacular though mate. I'll get a better one next time he's round

Engine is a 3.5 v8, can't remember what carbs it's running and that but it's not a standard engine. Not stupidly fast but it is a nippy little thing. Scary as fooook to drive aswell
BluKoo
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Love it.
DaveyLC
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I must be the odd one out because that does absolutely NOTHING for me?

It looks like someone fitted the smallest V8 they could find to a babies pram?
alan-g-w
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I don't dislike it but kind of feel the same Davey
corsadonk
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Nice tub.
taylorboosh
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Love it, id sort that steering wheel though
FlaFFy_91
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3rd Oct 13 at 19:40   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
By sort you mean......
taylorboosh
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Try and move it/fabricate something less upright
alan-g-w
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I've realised I dont love it because it's more of a Munster's hot rod than a Boyd Coddington hot rod if you know what I mean
Ronson
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I get what alan-g-w means but his opinion is wrong.

That looks amazing apart from the steering position I lol'd like everyone else, but you can see how much effort he's put into it!
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I think when we get the engine and that back out of it over winter we will probably fab up the steering properly. Only problem being there is almost no space in the tub. So we may have to re arrange the pedals aswell
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That wheel arrangement is a fairly typical affair for a T Bucket in my experience.

I think it's done like that to allow more leverage, because of the type of steering mechanism the T uses.
FlaFFy_91
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4th Oct 13 at 00:08   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That could be why haha.

Small update. He now has no baffles in either of the exhausts, I've set up the linkage to the throttle flaps on the scoop properly. Had loads of slack and wasn't opening up properly.

Revs much smoother now
And I've finally got round to sticking a new engine mount on the nearside. Old one was goosed, could see the engine pulling over as you accelerated
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Any vids then?
FlaFFy_91
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As above mate I've got a video but it's pretty shit so ill get one next time I see him as I forgot last night.

 
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