Suzuki GSXR 1000cc engine K5 or K6 model with wiring loom, ignition etc. If there is a damaged bike that you know of that can have the bits salvaged, please let me know.

Ford Sierra RWD - any model as long as rwd and doesnt have power steering. If XR4x4i or 2.3D model then even better. Needs to be in good mechanical order but dont care about bodywork or interior.

If you dont have the above, could you please keep an eye out for me?

More of a recommendation... need a decent tool kit, particularly sockets and wrench, open and close ended spanners. Doesnt have to be cheap as chips as want something decent that will last.


Also... does anyone have a car trailer? And would be willing to bring back a car for me to Worcestershire area? Looking for anyone in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Birmingham, Staffordshire area.


Cheers

cant help in any of the bits and bobs or the trailer, can suggest that if you have no tools at all then you look at buying a multi peice tool kit from the likes of Halfords or screwfix, you may not get every tool you need but it will be a good grounding point to start and build from.

old skool Suzuki is the best place to look for Suzuki engines

Tools.. buy the best ratchet and screwdrivers you can afford, the only Snap-On tools i ever owned was one of there rachets and a 10 and 13 mm socket, but it saved a lot of skinned knuckles, specially if your taking old cars apart!

hexagon sockets, not the ones with multiple edges, I used to use Draper stuff mainly coz i got a good staff discount , but it did the job

mmmmhhh.. who's building a kit car?

"Halfords Profgessional" range are good tools and a pleasure to use. The spanners are strong but slim, ideal for working in small spaces on bikes, and they don't slip off the nut cos they're strong, likewise the sockets. My Draper sockets aren't bad but they don't feel as good as the Halfords ones.

Ah come on, I'll show you mine if you show me yours......

Kit cars that is!

Sockets, got to be single hex for old nuts and impact for heavy work, try not to get too thick a wall wall or you often cant get in. Deep and std length.

Windy guns, great for sticky nuts,

Oxy gear for the bits that still wont budge (the gas spanner as the fitters seem to refer to it)

Grinder + cutting disks

Spanners, anything with a decent lifetime guarantee <sp
Decent chrome vanadium and with good quality chrome, it hurts like feck when a sliver goes under your skin. My haldords ones are still going strong 20 years later.

Ratchet decent one with replaceable pawls if your budget will stretch to it & a breaker bar for when the going gets really tough & you need a bit extra leverage. Again Halfords lifetime Guarentee ones still going after 20 years, only split 1 socket

I always used 1/2 inch gear for cars but with decent kit, britool/snap-on etc you're fine with 3/4 for most stuff

A decent 4" vice and bench.

And a few of Haynes special tool number 1
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HAMMERS!

Refer to my post about what Haynes say and what Haynes mean before starting anything

http://www.ukbikeforum.co.uk/forum/index.p...st&p=253323

And Pauls post about tools and their uses

http://www.ukbikeforum.co.uk/forum/index.p...st&p=290647

You'll be prepared

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Cheers Nige. I have considered investing in some snap-on stuff but wasnt too sure what to get and what not to.



cheers BG - did a quick search on google and found quite a few recommendations for Halfords Professional.



lol Van... love those links. Cheers for the info re: tools. As for the kit car... I'm considering an MK Indy with a GSXR engine in it. So whats yours?



there's always one!!!!!




so, now that I have tools sorted... anyone know of a sierra lying about getting rusty?

A proper A to A car

I've got a Marcos Cars Mk4 Mini Marcos built on a 62 Cooper S tucked away at the back of the garage, like one of these.

http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/memcars/index3.html

And an Mk4 Ultima Sports with a 5.7 Litre Chevy bored out to just below 6 litres as well

http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/sports/

Bike engined cars are Check out these guys. They bought a mates ultima striped it and then did this to it

http://www.zcars.org.uk/ultima/index.htm

lol Van... love those links. Cheers for the info re: tools. As for the kit car... I'm considering an MK Indy with a GSXR engine in it. So whats yours?

Vandeen has a little run about Kit car. Ill let him post, I'm sure he will (Show you his)

we having a doctor who moment with this thread then?...

Vandeen can type faster than me, The sod.

no engine, but i have got all the running gear you need.


























unfortunately its all tied into the chassis on my morris minor project-the one with the 5.7 litre oldsmobile v8.

why limit yourself to a gixxer motor?
zx12r is a much better choice.

the closest thing i ever got to a kit car was one of these in 1980
http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/...91;p=1218624927
but it was a bit beyond me to restore at the time and my parents where moved house so i had to sell
The guy who bought it had the shell and chassis on his garage roof for years! i dunno what happened to it after 1990

I've rewired a few Marcos, i think the last one i did was CooperS engined one in red, was in the Northallerton area, also done a Nova's, Dutton's and original Lotus 7's

you have a PM DP.


Van... thats an awesome BEC link. Cant believe they managed to do that.