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Sooooo, have another post where I chat to myself.



The Ally arrived, 3 sheets of it and a 7m length of angle, not a bad way to spend £120


Lets cast our minds back to this bonnet bulge thingy which served no purpose. It was removed right at the start of the build, along with the 623 rivets that held it on.




I had to replace the rivets to fill the holes. Also the bonnet has strengthening ribs underneath which are also riveted on, plus what looks like low profile window sprayers and also 2 random holes at the front edge that had been chewed in at a guess. The 2 inch holes I could deal with, despite being pretty useless.




I had the ally custom cut to size, I was going to buy an 8x4 sheet which worked out very similar in price, but I don't have a guillotine to make nice cuts, so it was a no brainer


Look at that, look at it! How clean does that look compared to above




I've decided to PU the strengthening ribs to the underside to try and keep the top clean, I hope it's strong enough, though the even if they came off the bonnet would stay put so meh.







I'll leave you with a shot of single garage life #EvenSmolCarsTakeUpRoom

Any horsepowers will work with the correct gearing


You can get a 75cc suffolk punch engine with the mower attached readily on fb marketplace for £30. You'll only be doing 15mph mind, depends on how much you do want to damage yourself.


The Mobility scooter I built was 13.5hp, geared to do a smidge under 40mph and that had the power to lift the front end easily.


I reckon the safe bet would be a gx160. Or if you have £200 knocking about, get a turnkey pitbike engine. Should be able to get a 110cc complete new engine for that sort of price. Then you have it all, gears, power, all that jazz. Saves faffing with centrifugal clutches, jackshafts, gear ratios etc

1;MrSpeedy - Mercedes S124
2;pete127 - Toyota Celica(gen 6)
3;Matestelle120 - Land Rover
4;GavinJ - MGB Sebring or MG Midget
5;sowen - Land Rover (probably again)
6;Rosie - Vauxhall Nova
7;Ty - MX5
8;LowStandards - Scamp

Just making a list here of things to do before RRG


Repaint roll cage - it's rusted under the paint due to lack of previous prep

Fit Hi-Los to the front end, so I can finally set the ride height

Fit another seat?

Make a new bonnet that does away with a thousand holes and rivets and doesnt use whatever the hell these hinges are

Paint the inner wheel arches black

Paint more of the 'interior' in bed liner

Make an exhaust that actually exits the middle of the car rather than a jaunty angle

Refit the dash so it doesnt buckle in the sun, also use stainless bolts as the current ones have rusted

If there's time look at some sort of tambour door system for the load bed

Sooooooooooo, I was in the pub the other night, had a few, was talking cars with me mates.

One thing led to another and I sold the Yaris to one of them


It did seem a shame to break an up and coming future classic right...



As part of the deal I did get a Micra engine and loom




Turns out we have that there RRG in a month or so, so I went and got an mot. She'll without a doubt be there under A-Series power as I just don't have the time at the minute

There's not much wrong with her tbf, fuel filler, droplinks, pair of tyres.

My brother just wanted a new car and the mot failure was a nudge.

The pass side needs bodywork, dented rear arch and weird paintwork on the door

Ive bought a Gen 1 Yaris T-Sport for it's engine


I have everything none engine related for sale really, but the fun bits and most suited to this forum would be the T-Sport goodies to slap on your povo 99-05 Yaris


I'd prefer the bodykit to go as one, front and rear bumpers, skirts and spoiler

Full T-Sport interior, seats and door cards

T-Sport alloys, 2 good tyres, 2 not so. The kicker her is I need her to be rolling


Obviously there's the normal bits that they all share, lights, panels etc



She's Thunder Grey, as per these pictures

This morning I got a call from my Brother, his car had failed it's mot.

The garage wanted £700 to fix it, I had a look at the fail sheet and advised I could do it for £200


He rang me back an hour or so later, he's decided to buy a new car. The garage offered him £100 for his car.



I now own his car for £100




Now the car. It's a 2005 Yaris T-Sport, worth a decent bit of coin especially having such low miles. The problem is, someone hit it when I used to own it and the repair down the whole of one side has now made itself known, he also clipped a wall damaging a wheelarch.


So, I spent exactly 30 seconds deciding i'll be having the engine for the Scamp and breaking the rest of the car and returning the money raised to my brother.



So what do I have?

Toyota 1NZ-FE
109bhp
104lb-ft
VVTI
6400rpm Redline
Aluminium engine coming in around 110kgs




As mentioned, I used to own this Yaris and it was hella fun, the Yaris weighs 995kg and hit 62 in 9 seconds
The Scamp will be what, 500-550ish Kgs.

Have a 'shop I did.

I've had one, they drive awful, I mean really really really awful.

And they rot so much.

And parts are hella expensive.