Quote: Tone wrote in post #46Those boots, are they Yoko's M?
Yes Tone, and fingers crossed they'll see the road again in April
Have you been for a spin with them fitted?
Had them on my Lotus but kept losing the arse end, fitted Eagles and they were like snot to a stump!
Yes T, had them on 6-7 years, although in that time the vehicle has probably done less than 10K. Although i'm rear biased, it does have all 4 wheels working unlike the Lotus
Quote: Tone wrote in post #52Oooooooooh! Not only are you a clothes snob, your a facking wheel snob!
And I fully expect them to be on the motor another 6-7 years
Your not wrong, my guess is they'll be changed due to perishing rather than wearing out!
She's helped me last weekend to finish off the rear brakes and is now moaning that the car deserves a new interior ffs, there will be no money left to drive it at this rate
As for a wheel snob, those alloys had to be bespoke made in Italy and cost me a small fortune
Quote: Tone wrote in post #54Like I said, wheel snob, could you have not made do with some Wolfrace slots?
Short answer no!
The long winded answer summarised for you, Group B banned, new rules for Group A, Lancia had a road car in the form of the Delta 2.0 HF4WD, given to Abarth to make into a rally car, it wins comprehensively, head of Fiat so impressed he gives Abarth carte blanche to build what they want for the next season, and Lancia the company to do as Abarth wants. Abarth builds the Integrale and charges Lancia with building 5000 of them for homologation purposes, now you have a motorsport division calling the shots!, hence the reason the Integrale was only LHD, Abarth had no need for RHD, the early cars didn't have ABS, not required for rallying, every part of the Integrale is built for one purpose right down to the headlamp surrounds which are perforated to allow more cooling capacity, something the HF4WD struggled with. Now to fitting any old wheel, not to much of a problem, until you get to the rear hubs which are stepped and have spacers fitted, hence the reason for either genuine ( i waited for years for a set of 7j x 15's to come up ) or a bespoke option
Quote: redmond wrote in post #61What’s left to do to it, what did it go back in for ? Has it brought you to tears yet
Got it back in February had too much going on and it was put in the garage six weeks later i got round to looking at it and wasn't happy so back it went, returned a couple of weeks later and back into the garage it went, again too much going on and the weather (snow), got it out about month later and was happy, but again too much going on so back into the garage it went, then couldn't work on it due to the weather (to hot), so only really the last couple of weeks i have had it out and made a start.
Loads to do, a depressing amount if i'm honest so i'm just chipping away, usually make a step forward then three backwards.
Stick at it, you have no choice, I know where your coming from, you need to keep it, suppose on the upside, although you won’t get what you’re putting into it back, at least it can only go up in value,
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Quote: redmond wrote in post #64Stick at it, you have no choice, I know where your coming from, you need to keep it, suppose on the upside, although you won’t get what you’re putting into it back, at least it can only go up in value,
Nobody could ever compensate for the amount of effort and pain i've put into it... Just a recent example. Managed to find an original set of R/H/D SEIM & Carello headlights for it, so decided to fit them, need to remove the black plastic outer covers ( 4x allen head screws ), pop headlights off there fixings and replace, 5-10 minutes tops. Removed headlights, screws seized into backplate posts, soaked them and gave it a week, soaking them everyday, still nothing, bollocks, ok apply some heat very gently remembering plastic outer covers / surrounds, nothing, bollocks. Grabbed the backplate posts with a pair of mole grips and sheared the fixing screws, excellent, now all i've got to do is drill out the remains and re-tap, nope fucking screws are hardened, 2 broken drills laters, i grind off the posts and have 4 new ones made and new stainless fixings, whilst i'm there i might aswell clean up the back plates and repaint them. Eventually go to reassemble them, removed the dust covers from the old headlights and put the bulbs into the new ones...the bulbs don't fit, the new headlights although correct for the integrale the bulbs fixing aren't. Spent a day trawling an old catalogue i had from my time in the motor trade finding the correct bulbs. So a 5-10 minute job, takes 3 weeks
Another quick example, told the body shop when it went in, that if they broke anything to let me know ASAP ( it's a 1980's Fiat, they where going to break things such is life! ), TBF the fabricating lads did tell me and i've managed to source everything, but the painters / sprayers didn't. When the car was returned it was returned with 3 cardboard boxes of fixtures and fittings for me, the idea was to keep the cost down. Found a packet labelled door courtesy light switches all fucked. So that required a day on ebay.uk, ebay.de, ebay.it looking...nothing so another day emailing UK, Dutch, German and Italian contacts i now have for the switches, easy, nope because emailing the foreigners requires a day spent with google translate. Upshot is i have found 3 of the switches and i'm just waiting for the 4th to be placed onto ebay.......when that will be god only knows
Everyone knows some dopey bird is gonna rear end him 2 months after he's finally got it finished after 10 years of toil.... right?
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Progress so far is painfully slow, i have moth balled it over the colder months, i'm working on the plastics and 30 year old plastics are brittle even in the warmer months, in the colder months i only have to look at them and they break, not sure i'm not breaking a few things just thinking about them, most of the plastics are made out of a rare substance called unobtainium, like the rest of the car really. If breakages occur i can wait weeks, months, years for the right part to pop up, sometimes you have to wait for an American to decide to 3D print new ones... Anyway i have a trip booked to Holland in early March, before Brexit to grab hopefully the last of parts made out of unobtainium. The reason for travelling rather than having them posted is there are so many very slight variations between 8V, 16V, 8VKAT, 8V Evo, Evo, EvoII etc that i need to make sure i get the right ones as i'm getting really pissed off with return postage to Europe and i have a huge amount ot collect including some rare Abarth GrpA stuff that i'm not sure will fit anything other than a works GrpA
Quote: redmond wrote in post #72Be dry summer roads only for me, any progress with it ?
That's exactly how it will be used S, but as G said you can be the best and most careful driver in the world and all it takes is one arsehole and it's all over, personally i'm not sure how or if i will use it as i'm not comfortable with having that amount of coin invested in 4 wheels, and i'd certainly never do it again, life is way too short. I'd restore a vehicle no problem, just wouldn't attempt another Lancia, they're just too rare
Rare for a reason (rust) av always fancied the s2 coupe, had the 20v Quattro and wished I had kept it, needed an estate so bought the v6 then an s4 back to a diesel quattro, 170 good car but not a fun car
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. Although i'm rear biased, it does have all 4 wheels working unlike the Lotus
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, those alloys had to be bespoke made in Italy and cost me a small fortune
. I'd restore a vehicle no problem, just wouldn't attempt another Lancia, they're just too rare