I thought about doing the bumper tuck myself until I removed the trim strip. Long short, I changed a lot of things in the end over a period of 5 years so far. Car currently has or will have - Carbon roof, manual windows, Tillett carbon shell seats, fully debumpered, screw-in tow eyes, Hella 80mm fixed position projector headlamps x4, modified Serie Speciale air dam, customised series 1 indicators, custom grille, horn outlets blanked off. I also got rid of the original open diff, gearbox internals bar 5th, distributor, speedo cable drive, fuel system, inlet and exhaust manifolds, camshaft, tach, speedo, wheels, and a ton of redundant wiring. Fitted instead : Jenvey 40mm individual throttle bodies, Bosch wasted spark ignition, Omex stand alone ECU, Bacci lockers, Bacci close ratios, Bayless high pressure fuel tank, Kent cam & adjustable pulley, custom exhaust, custom inlet, big valves, 11:1 compression, flowed head, portmatched, lightened and balanced rods, crank, flywheel, fly cut pistons, Image billet ultralite rims, Gaz coilivers, Faulkner springs, SPA tach and speedo, Sassone clutch.
@@ELDESTBuilds hope you get inspired and yes, imo white is the best colour for an X1/9, I'm envious because in the UK white was an option and it's very rare to find a late production example in white.
I thought about doing the bumper tuck myself until I removed the trim strip.
Long short, I changed a lot of things in the end over a period of 5 years so far.
Car currently has or will have -
Carbon roof, manual windows, Tillett carbon shell seats, fully debumpered, screw-in tow eyes, Hella 80mm fixed position projector headlamps x4, modified Serie Speciale air dam, customised series 1 indicators, custom grille, horn outlets blanked off.
I also got rid of the original open diff, gearbox internals bar 5th, distributor, speedo cable drive, fuel system, inlet and exhaust manifolds, camshaft, tach, speedo, wheels, and a ton of redundant wiring.
Fitted instead :
Jenvey 40mm individual throttle bodies, Bosch wasted spark ignition, Omex stand alone ECU, Bacci lockers, Bacci close ratios, Bayless high pressure fuel tank, Kent cam & adjustable pulley, custom exhaust, custom inlet, big valves, 11:1 compression, flowed head, portmatched, lightened and balanced rods, crank, flywheel, fly cut pistons, Image billet ultralite rims, Gaz coilivers, Faulkner springs, SPA tach and speedo, Sassone clutch.
That sounds awesome, Send some pics.
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Thanks, I'll check it out
@@ELDESTBuilds hope you get inspired and yes, imo white is the best colour for an X1/9, I'm envious because in the UK white was an option and it's very rare to find a late production example in white.
@markbowden7238 check out these
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good improvement, is the a/c any good on these cars?
This one was blowing 48° at the vents on a 100+ day. Right up to the time I blew the head gasket. Not related to the a/c just a 40 year old gasket.
Not sure what you are trying to do. What do you mean “tucking” the front bumper
I believe your answer is in the video
So I know you also did it in the 124-the drilling I meant-question is: could I do to the 124 what you did here? Drill them in place?
You can do it this way on the 124. I just did it the hard way that time.
…but i do remember a rod being inside those shocks…so maybe not doable this way
It's not long enough to interfere
Could you do the rear bumper the same way.
Sure, here it is
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I'm doing engine swap k20
@johnlowe9940 I overheated this one. The motor is at the machine shop for upgrades.