Come on, this is Rods car what have you been doing, everybody in the world was watching out for his results to be posted.

 

this car just gets better &better

 

 

very pretty now get ur arse around here an wire mine

 

Rod will speak to you very soon about my new ecu loom, cheers

 

god that cage looks great.top job by the boys

 

lookin rude mate!!

 

Looks great Rod.

Cage looks almost factory too!


Mart.

 

rofl Tarquin owned AGAIN

 

Rod do you run with this splitter on high speed atempts?



only reason i ask is that mine decided to depart from the car one day whilst traveling quite briskley and that was nowhere near 200mph, lol

 

Yes all the 200mph runs have been with that splitter in place, it is securely rivetted in place, have broken the side fixings , lost an indicator & bowed the bonnet edge, but not broken the Splitter .

 

lol, god knows how mine came off then, I nearly shat myself to say the least, lol

 

Looking good Rod


Look forward to seeing it back up and running again !

 

great effort here Rod, loving the gauges and the cage

 

Have decided to only run decals that I have agreed to run on the car so most have gone, looks much better IMO. Also may do the MAD logo as M.A.Developments to match the X-Sport decal slightly small as well to match, good idea or not.
a bit of a lull at the mo cos im returning the car to X-Sport for a bit of fettling on the cage to give me exactly what I want, it has nothing to do with the main components of the cage just a little mod that came to light when I tried to re-fit all the trim.

 

Going back to X-Sport today for minor refettling before being returned to MAD for the engine to be installed.
Rod

 

Very nice rod. What size wheels and tyres are you running on ?

 

Are you still linked with Toyo tyres Rod?

Mike

 

Id say put the MA Develpoments sticker where your opie oils one is and put the opie oils on the sill just in front of the rear wheel.

 

Yes & No.

I did appear in a promotional video made recently, which ive kept quiet about cos i hate doing things like that, however untill I have a running car & have something to offer its a link that means nothing.

 

Yep!! I like the sound of that, it may well happen.

 

On the road 205/40/17 Toyo 888 (they measure 213) & 235/40/18 (they measure 242) on the rear again with Toyo 888.

For Topspeed runs the rears go up to 19" with 225 wide tyres I have used Dunlop up to this point but if I accept advice from Toyo they will choose the tyres.

 

Nice suttle list down the C pillar would look good Rod & maybe lose the pin stripe.

 

I agree on the pin stripe, perhaps have all the logos on the bottom of the doors under the door strips?

 

Double post

 

Looks better with the decals like this Rod

 

Best u remove that rear view mirror as everything in it seems blurry

I like all the gauges looks neat and tidy

Did you use that bumper you had of me?

Paul

 

Looking good Rod. That cage is fantastic; wouldn't know it was there. What would happen if the rear spoiler was removed? Hmm.

Benni.

 

Well !! after 2 weeks break got out there today & did a few odds & sods.
At last the car is ready to be returned to MAD for its new engine. It will have a refurb of the underside & requires work to brakes/abs & Clutch. Not sure how long that will take before its ready to roll & then off to RR.

The car was taken off the road on 11th Febuary 2006 so thats 3years & 1 day todate .

 

no rush getting it finished then,

 

can mark fit his lanky arse in it now the cage has been modded rod

 

yep!!!!

 

Get a move on i want a race

Russ

 

looking good rod, i think if you put big mad door sticker level with the side skirt it will look much better

 

Good progress Rod

 

well!!
The cars ready for Mark, but Mark aint ready for the car .
Only 12 cars at a time in the MAD workshop so im waiting for a slot, prob is as soon as 1 goes out their are at least 2 to be booked in. Hopefully a slot will appear within the next 2 weeks until then I have to wait .

 

I can relate to that, my Escos has been off the road nearly 2 years now, people just don't appreciate how time (and money and effort!) consuming these sorts of projects are, all the "little" jobs probably take longer to do than the "Big" jobs ..

Looking forward to seeing the car Rod, keep going

 

Woot no boxes or strenghtening at the end of the cage tubes?

cage really looks nice with the rest of the interiour

 

The cage will have a plate bolting/welding down to the floor under the carpet i would imagine.

Rod will this cage make a noticable difference to the handling...should you wish to chuck it around some corners a bit?
Do you have the frame connectors already?

 

Despite what people say that my car is for Topspeed only the old girl has all the bits to be a great handling car including frame connectors etc.