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Damn good that Sam.
Some lighter alloys and you'd be away. What are they 18's?

Yep there atleast 5 years old now and not exactly optimal size and weight
I think there 18x8 rear with 225 tyres and 17x7 front with 205 tyres but they are lighter than the original N/A wheels with bridgestone tyres that i tryed picking up the other day.

Sam.

[VXT Tim]

Damn good that Sam.
Some lighter alloys and you'd be away. What are they 18's?

Yep there atleast 5 years old now and not exactly optimal size and weight
I think there 18x8 rear with 225 tyres and 17x7 front with 205 tyres but they are lighter than the original N/A wheels with bridgestone tyres that i tryed picking up the other day.

Sam.

Fair enough bud.

So has your auntie driven it yet and what does she think?

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Damn good that Sam.
Some lighter alloys and you'd be away. What are they 18's?

Yep there atleast 5 years old now and not exactly optimal size and weight
I think there 18x8 rear with 225 tyres and 17x7 front with 205 tyres but they are lighter than the original N/A wheels with bridgestone tyres that i tryed picking up the other day.

Sam.

Fair enough bud.

So has your auntie driven it yet and what does she think?

Yeah my aunt had a go and loved it (as much as you can while your running an engine in), she has always wanted a GT40 replica and its probley as close as she,s gonna get to the sound of it for a while
Fingers crossed she,ll keep on saving cus i,d love to help build a GT40 replica someday

Sam.

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Hello

Originaly we was going to take the ABS out but my aunt has decided she would rather keep it now so weve resoldered the wire back on today (that i broke ) and we now have to also put an ABS light on the dash too for MOTs, oh well

Next step after that is to get the fuelling a bit closer before we take it to a rolling road.

I managed to get my uncle to go out for a drive today while a had the digi camera with me, its nothing special as its bearly done 100 miles yet and were still waiting on some new jets and needles to sort the fueling out as it running very rich across the whole rev range at the moment to the point of probley having some major bore wash.

Seeing as the next steps will probley take a long time i,ll leave you with a new video, enjoy

V8 VX220

Thats all for a few weeks

Sam.

[techieboy]

Do your Aunt a favour and replace that 'orrible wiper arm and it's sh!tty fixing for the blade.

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Do your Aunt a favour and replace that 'orrible wiper arm and it's sh!tty fixing for the blade.

I dont recall them ever saying they,ve had a problem with it but i,ll pass it on

Sam.

[Seb.F]

I would like to see this at some point

[VXT Tim]

V8 VX220

Sounds amazing.

[ferg]

Yeah my aunt had a go and loved it (as much as you can while your running an engine in), she has always wanted a GT40 replica and its probley as close as she,s gonna get to the sound of it for a while
Fingers crossed she,ll keep on saving cus i,d love to help build a GT40 replica someday

Sam.

Me too! One of these please. Unfortunately there's currently no way of getting a home built one registered over here.

Congratulations on a great build! The V8 sounds fantastic

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Well common these V8 VX220's

Note the proximity of the petrol station

[RobNA]

Note the proximity of the petrol station

I hadnt thought about that with the tiny standard tank the thing must only do 120 miles to a tank

[M3 BFG]

North Kent meet required urgently

[deano01]

Great thread well worth reading. A truely awesome sound from that VX-8 there.

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Yeah my aunt had a go and loved it (as much as you can while your running an engine in), she has always wanted a GT40 replica and its probley as close as she,s gonna get to the sound of it for a while
Fingers crossed she,ll keep on saving cus i,d love to help build a GT40 replica someday

Sam.

Me too! One of these please. Unfortunately there's currently no way of getting a home built one registered over here.

Congratulations on a great build! The V8 sounds fantastic

B,ah, silly damn laws, there must be a way round it. Maybe build it then get it registered in a neighboring country
Thanks, it sounds nice considering how little room there is for a decent exhaust

Sam.

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I would like to see this at some point

V8 VX220

Sounds amazing.

North Kent meet required urgently

Great thread well worth reading.

A truely awesome sound from that VX-8 there.

Thanks guys, nice comments make all the hard work worth while
I,ll see if i can talk them into going to a meet one day, i dont think there be going to one any time soon tho as it needs quite a few things sorting out still

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Well common these V8 VX220's

Note the proximity of the petrol station

Note the proximity of the petrol station

I hadnt thought about that with the tiny standard tank the thing must only do 120 miles to a tank

Haha spotted, i carnt for the life of me fiure out were that car park is. Also looks like the side indicator has fell out as its pointing upwards
Best not talk about fuel figures as its running rich at the moment too

Sam.

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Haha spotted, i can't for the life of me fiure out were that car park is. Also looks like the side indicator has fell out as its pointing upwards
Best not talk about fuel figures as its running rich at the moment too

Sam.

Its the big Sainsburys at Otford, I was on my way back from a drive and popped in to get some milk and a magazine. Saw another VX so thought I'd park next to it and it turned out to be your uncles one, small world

I spotted the indicator had fallen out but didn't mention it

Just incase its not using enough fuel I have these available for sale:

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Haha spotted, i can't for the life of me fiure out were that car park is. Also looks like the side indicator has fell out as its pointing upwards
Best not talk about fuel figures as its running rich at the moment too

Sam.

Its the big Sainsburys at Otford, I was on my way back from a drive and popped in to get some milk and a magazine. Saw another VX so thought I'd park next to it and it turned out to be your uncles one, small world

I spotted the indicator had fallen out but didn't mention it

Just incase its not using enough fuel I have these available for sale:

Ah yes otford!
Hmm those carbs are tempting but i think fuel injection will be the way to go tbh. How much better was your MX-5 on the EFI setup, mpg,bhp and torqe wise ? Also what size/spec Rover V8 have you got in it ?

Sam.

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Its a 4.6, I'm not sure what power is was making before as the carbs hadn't been properly set up for the engine when I got it, there wasn't even any airfilters or trumpets. I haven't had the fuel injection set up properly either yet as I have a cooling problem to solve first So to summarize no idea of power, torque or MPG for carbs or fuel injection

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Its a 4.6, I'm not sure what power is was making before as the carbs hadn't been properly set up for the engine when I got it, there wasn't even any airfilters or trumpets. I haven't had the fuel injection set up properly either yet as I have a cooling problem to solve first So to summarize no idea of power, torque or MPG for carbs or fuel injection

A 4.6 is a nice base to start from tho, we would of loved to use a 4.6 but it would mean running fuel injection and a cat. I was just looking at this westfield build LINK and he,s got some good figures with a 4.6 running stage 3 heads / piper 285 cam / high compression pistons and a cat exhaust.
Very tempting to go that route if we move over to the EFI setup with stand alone ECU, will have to see if our local range rover bloke has any 4.6s laying around for a long term build project.
We hav,nt had any cooling problems using a pro alloy large rad, electric water pump and a 82 degree thermostat, sits nicely at 85 degrees as long as you bleed the cooling system propley.
Maybe it has a leaking liner or something as thats quite common i hear

Sam.