Danny

Are you sure it should actually be oil and its not just old grease thats turned to liquid? If its a brushed motor then running it covered in oil probably isn't the best idea as its fairly flammable. Give it a good blast with some brake cleaner / contact cleaner.

Not a lot to look at really, check you've got power to the coil and check inside the dizzy, if its original it will be points so it would be worth checking the gap / replacing those. Check its got some nice fresh fuel (mine barely runs on fuel more than few months old), put some half decent 20/50 mineral oil in it and give it a crank over and see what happens.

Is one of the callipers sticking and returning very slowly?

As you say from memory they had the lip machined off and were held in with a circlip. I can't help on size but i'd suggest you get the longest one available. You should be able to measure the shell size.

Flange

Hummm crusty whats the rest of the car like close up?

I think the death sentence for most is rot. Mine was pretty scabby towards the end. I made fairly decent money breaking it though, a good chunk of the parts went abroad. A working transtop is really cool for its age:

I think there was a NODIZ group buy on TMF when it first came out. Why all the haters on turbominis? Gotta be better than all the wanky old EDIS stuff with mega jolt.

Just buy a new wiring loom and get it on the road Tom. Can’t be any worse than the yank tank. I finally got mine back together this weekend (new rear subframe) but it needs the engine ripping out next winter for a tidy up and all the leaks fixing. I also bought IMM tickets for Bristol this year

@Tom Booth new stuff is massive mish mash. I bought a new servo master and the fittings are metric, its kind of scary too because UNF fittings screw into metric fine and tighten up but are baggy. I suggest having a handful of each and using whatever fits best.

Too embarrassed to drive it in that colour?

Shame it completely failed to self renew.

Fixed, sorry about that

Hahaha i don't think @monkeyseemonkeydo expected pics in a million years.

Prawn sounds nothing like i expected him to.

No video?

That looks epic, shame you can't drive it like that without the front wings. I think i've asked this before but remind me again, how come you are rebuilding all the suspension? Whats the standard setup look like and how have you improved it?

You too. Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you are not all too battered by now.

Awesome as ever. Loved all the classic footage from the early 2000s when this site first got going.

I missed it but where do we donate?

I really need to get a rattle gun. I’m in the makita eco system battery wise. I think they do a stubby one similar.

Did you get a deal on the box? It’s similar to mine (I think mine is the hd plus). Halfords have a pretty good deal on today (£479) https://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductMobileDisplay?catalogId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=255214&productId=1473219&storeId=10001

There’s going to be another episode dedicated to the machining in a few weeks they said on patreon. They also messed up the settings on the last video and gave it to everyone for free. @Tom Booth @monkeyseemonkeydo I hope it’s more than that for their sake. They are doing it full time now.

I’ve had 2 non fault claims (one of which my car was parked) and both have affected my premium (and the wife’s).

I bet you can’t drift it