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Potential future colour scheme:



With the turbo arches and wheels. What do you think??

Obviously it needs less rot and more metal first...

nice but ......... the exhaust colour looks a shade camp!

lol. Exhaust isn't a problem, we have a chav cannon!

go for it

Ah Man!

if you do it you HAVE to stencil the old british telecom logo on!

and get a blow up Maureen Lipman for the passengers seat PMSL

I remember years ago a guy in Southend running about in an ex-AA escort van that had been dropped with a set of turbo alloys on it. he kept the colour and even the lights on the roof though

There is a Post Office Vehicles club with a chap who can provide BT Decals, so if we go down that route (quite likely) we are good for them. It should also have them on the boot and the van number on teh door (I have that somewhere too - helpful chaps at the POVC).

The general plan is that we will run/thrash it over the summer, then pull the engine to fix what we've inevitably broken. While thats out I'll replace the front end and potential the rear if I get chance. Maybe it will get a home brew paint job and a better body kit. That's all down to time and money I guess.

lol, it's bound to brake - I had a helped build it!

The crosswires will stay, until a set of Ronals appear for next to no money...

It will be a bused on the strip with it's track tyres on - well used A048s . They are bound to brake the gearbox

Ronals are great looking wheels, hope you get a set handy enough

On 12th Nov, 2009 Paul S said:

I think Gary OS has taken over my role as the forum smart arse

The colour scheme is missing something. It needs a picture of a bird on either side

Edited by Sprocket on 12th Mar, 2010.

The dizzy (and drive) is gone in favour of a Turbo Phil plug.



The dash is back in and the gauges plumbed/wired in.



The megajolt ECU is in it's permenat home and the loom is nice and tidy under the bonnet.





We've sorted a load of little ellectical problems out and done a long list of little jobs. Nearly there now...

Apart from one of the foglights and the telltale for it.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Very neat, but you seem to have nicked the horn from my car.

It's the original from van. Very chuffing loud when you've got your head next to it!!!!

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

nice, get some 80's colour schemes...

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

You could be clever and stencil the Telecom logo on, but modify it to read "Turbocom".

We have a slight problem with the rev counter dropping out at the moment. Reckon we are going to have to drill the tacho pin on the edis unit, which means unwrapping the loom

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Got a fair amount of the electrical gremlins sorted last night. Both rear fogs and the bulb in the switch sorted, rev counter running from the EDIS. Tidied the boot, put the alloy back on the front.

Unfortunatly it's not road legal, so we couldn't have a little spin in a side streeet. So I can't say that it drives well, makes boost and the drops make a good noise... ah well..

Just a million other PITA jobs to sort now

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

What trigger wheel you're using ?

I really like the fake names.

I got hold of a full set of the previous police scheme

I'm gonna use it and jumble the letters to write bOLIDE wich basically means fast car

Maybe not the best of ideas to keep police away from the engine bay ...

Rusty by nature

I think the trigger wheels is from MED (no doubt John will correct me), essentially the same as the one Tom offers.