New Member from France

[guigui697]

Yes, but I must change the two front tyres which are chinese (Rapid P609), so rubbish, on wet it's really dangerous.
I will put Michelin pilot sport 3.
And more important, as soon as possible buy this:
http://quaife.co.uk/shop/products/qdf7z-7

[speedline]

Sure will need proper tyres if fitting one of those

[guigui697]

Hello, some news of my FRP, since the last time I came here, so many things happened, I change the original exhaust manifold by the piper exhaust manifold:
The old


It was completely rusty
And the new:


Since the replacement, the car looks better, sound better and when I flat out like Colin, there is no more hole.
After this, the engine died, so I had to find an engine, thing that I did on Lyon, for 500€, nearly £400, and the engine is in a quite good condition.
My father comes to withdraw my car.

This is my dusty car, ready to the repair:

Before the replacement

Without engine, I make use of the opportunity to clean the engine compartment

Without engine from below

The broken engine on the floor

Before the transplant

During thé transplant

Inlet manifold cleaned, I will polish it:

[speedline]

You look to be making good progress changing the engine.
Piper manifold is nice and is interchangeable with the original exhuast system and has the fixing points to use the heat shield on it.
How long until you think you can drive it again?

[guigui697]

I don't really know, because the car is at my father's home, and the car was completly reassembled, but the engine isn't working smoothly, and in fact after searching during an afternoon, we found the problem, two valves are twisted, so I must disassemble all the engine an other time...
So I'm a little bit disappointed, but I still continue to rebuilt the car.
For example a photo of my polished inlet manifold.
Sorry the photo is a little bit blurred

Last edited by guigui697 on Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[guigui697]

And maybe the FRP will be back in England in a few time, because I would like to live in England, normally in 1 or 2 years.

[guigui697]

My FRP has been resprayed, and it looks really nice now :d





With personalized plates(In France we can't chose our numbers and letters)

[V4FRP]

Absolutely superb great to see yet anothe FRP returned to glory look forward to one day seeing it back over this side of the bit of water keeping it on mainland Europe

[lisafrp]

That's looking really good, great to see another FRP being brought back to great condition.

[red]

It's looking great! It might be the light but have you had it sprayed slightly darker?

[guigui697]

No, it's the original color, also it looks like darker because the paint on my car was use by the sun.
And in february, I will come in England to collect two seats for my Racing Puma.

[guigui697]

Hi,
I'm back in France after a trip in England for 4 days.
While I was in England I bought seat for my FRP
My old seat damage by the former owner



And the new ones




I will take a photo of the car but it really looks better with the new paints the seats...

[lisafrp]

Wow the old seats are very worn! How many miles does your FRP have on it?

[guigui697]

My FRP did 75k miles, and these seats were already like this when I bought the car

[lisafrp]

I'm just surprised that they are that worn for a relatively low mileage car!! They must have been abused by the previous owner

[guigui697]

Quick shot from France after a cleaning.

[Paul0008]

Has it been resprayed?
The colour looks a shade darker than the blue on the inner wing tops and the door shuts.
Or is it just the light?
Looks very nice though
Paul

[guigui697]

Yes it has been resprayed in december, it looks like a bit darker, but I think it's the light.
I really try to make it as good as possible, the next step is the braking system, I need all discs and pads, and I will recondition brake caliper( paint, seals...)

[Hyperford]

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