Shady Goings On

This great looking GTM Spyder kitcar was listed on eBay uk yesterday.

It’s the totalkitcar magazine project car and has had plently of money spent on it since it’s registration in 2005.

Engine is Honda VTEC 1.6, which had 168.9bhp (verified) in standard guise. We then fitted Jenvey throttle bodies, Piper cams and an Emerald ECU. Result is a sweet as a nut 200bhp 40mpg pocket rocket that drives beautifully on Team Dynamics 17in wheels and almost new Toyo T1-R tyres. Brakes are front MGF Trophy 4-pot calipers, 304mm vented discs and new EBC Yellowstuff pads. Rears are 240mm Red Dot drilled and vented discs andYellowstuff pads. They stop the car on the proverbial sixpence.

Suspension is GTM’s ‘new’ rear trailing arms and adjustable 22-click dampers and anti-rollbar at the rear, with adjustable dampers and ‘ARB’ on the front.

Today I found this tutorial for making a hot wire cutter, handy for making plugs for fibreglass moulding.
Via Makeblog

Lately we’ve been thinking about what we can do to improve the driveway as it’s not very good looking or practical. We have patchy gravel with a concrete flagstone path made from at the moment we also have a manhole cover for the surface water drain and a few flags covering a drain access that doubles as a vehicle inspection pit.
There are a few options available: fresh gravel, concrete, block-paving, tarmac or pattern impresssed concrete.
Gravel won’t really acheive any of our aims as it’s what we already have.
Concrete is quite plain but it’s quick and easy to lay, cheap and extremely practical. We can also do this ourselves.
Block-paving is next up the list price-wise and is very practical too, it also looks very smart. It can be time consuming to lay though as some bricks have to be ‘chopped’, for instance round the border.
Tarmac is also a good solution as it’s practical and quick to lay, however persitant weeds will push through over time and engine oil will cause it to degrade (so not good for working on the car).
Lastly there is pattern imprinted concrete which is basicly the same as plain concrete but they put a colour on top and use a rumbber print to make it look like real stone.

So far it looks like we’ll be having either the block-paving or pattern impressed concrete.

A few links:
www.presscretenottingham.co.uk
www.cedarscape.co.uk
www.leicestercobblecrete.co.uk