my weekend with a tank

[Grim Reaper]

as most of you know, i bought a tank not too long ago, with no intention of doing any mods for it i done a small amount of modding this weekend with more to come

first thing i really wanted to do was to change the headunit from a gastly ripspeed one for a lovely sony one that blends in nicely was previously in my golf ripspeed one makes me wonder how old the previous owner actually was

as you can see the genious before me had spliced the wires


old HU now out, its still temporarily here while i still look for a big hammer


and the lovely sony one



will get more pics of the volvo later on (maybe tomorrow if i have time)...tis not a perfect car, but makes me happy

oh and sorry for the poor looking pics, my phone struggles when it gets abit dark

gonna do some more mods on the inside (engine is running sweeter than a nut ), engine mods to follow (hopefully this summer )
this is what i want to do with the inside, accept i want the HU where the hazard switch is and visa versa if you get what i mean


this is what i would like to do externally...either go for more of the rough look with wide ass wheels or go for the cleaner look but i think i like the wider wheels more ...will show why i want the rough look tommorrow (a clue is dirt )



thank you all for looking

[Gordon Livsey]

i like the estate one, what colour is yours again, is it dark blue

[Grim Reaper]

nope...silver and mine is also estate i just love the wheels on the saloon

edit - mines exactly the same as the saloon, bar the wheels/suspension/saloon back end

[specks]

go and make it a rat,rough as hell,low as you can ans silly wide wheels,you know you want to.

[Drizz]

Retro cool!

[Lugy]

id have it looking standard save for uber low, and wide wheels.

not into the rat look. but then id think about some sort of slippy diff and something a bit beefier under the bonnet

[Nemesis]

[LEE69]

Rat look estate v.cool

[Grim Reaper]

its looking abit rat right now im deffo gonna invest in some wide wheels and possibly a 10mm spacer for the back as the wheels are abit to "in" for my liking

not going rat on this ...there were plans for the nova to be a rat 2.5 or even a 3 V6 but i gave up nova is structurally not up to it so its bye bye time this weekend gonna try keeping all the stuff i can off it to help remind me of all the fun times even had a written off vectra in pretty bad shape but i ended up scrapping that engine gave up the ghost while i was trying to take it out, thought i would hear it running for the last time and it ran like crap so i thought sod it

also got the golf that i wanted to get rid off but my mum likes it too much (more than the volvo )...cant blame her for likeing it as it was so fun and nippy to drive, so im just gonna respray it and give it to her i cant see it go either as it was my b-day pressie

but there are more plans for the tank, jack knows

nem - thats actually a sparky mix in there its the classic mix

drizz - thanks

lugy - getting a spare diff but dont know if the ratios are gonna be the same for my new plan

[Ed]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

[Grim Reaper]

who are thew steps BTW??? never been into the gay trance fast beat stuff that nem is into

well, done more progress today (more phone pics unfortunatly )

cleaned the engine bay a little
before:


after:



the bracket that holds the air box on was in pretty bad shape



so i sprayed it with some anti rust spray thingy

it was going to get sprayed satin black but i changed my mind as it looked nicer like this

then remembered that one of the fuses had gone, and it really did go with a bang, burn the panel thingy that goes iver it


more plans are to get the engine steam cleaned as there is some stuff that is really really hard to shift and also clean more on the inside, and remove the rear seats in the boot so i get my hiding space back

[Grim Reaper]

well, finally got me an update today
first thing, park it where we can work...a mates driveway


observe, we have one exhaust, fairly straight...pretty boring


and turned it into...






all i can say right now is, my sub build is on the hold as this is far better loads of people double taking, pretty loud on full throttle, shakes you when your sitting inside but when just driving normal its not overly loud (how i usually drive, was flooring it around just for the vids)

vids should be coming tomorrow (if i can be bothered to upload them but they arnt the best of quallity, camera was held outside of the window but in one vid but you can still hear me going past ) will try to make an in car tomorrow, see where i can mount it
for an example of sound, imagine a 2.1 pinto engine on twin 40's and a straight pipe

[Drizz]

boys eh!

[Ed]

Cool

[LEE69]

Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

mines exactly the same as the saloon, bar the wheels/suspension/saloon back end

so it's nothing like it
ovlovs are getting real popular now we had a 360 GLT many many years ago was a cracking reliable car.

[LEE69]

Originally Posted by Drizz

boys eh!

lol you can talk i swear you did an astra the same or were thinking of it?

Is that ovlov really that high

[Grim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Drizz

boys eh!

guess who i get the ideas of then??

Originally Posted by Ed

Cool

thanks vids should come later on

Originally Posted by LEE69

so it's nothing like it
ovlovs are getting real popular now we had a 360 GLT many many years ago was a cracking reliable car.

yeh they are getting abit comon, but you dont see many modded, only modded ones i see are 340s with renult lumps in for drifting, and only once saw a V70 estate modded (might be the one that lewis was talking about).

and yes, i can crawl under vovlo without a jack

[LEE69]

This was at our local motor show in 2004

[Grim Reaper]

dont like it

ride high, yes
bodykit no
wheels no

[Grim Reaper]

right, vids sounds like a V8 when driving past sorry for bad quallity, its of a nokia n73 and it was help outside of the car

the car it was recorded from was a corsa, now rolling on 18s with NO mods and he was doing about 75 (give or take 2 with sat nav testing)




theres another vid that im waiting to recive it (recored on a better recording device ) and i should have that in a few days proper hammering it around

and this is what happens when 5 guys are bored stiff ou of their minds and came back from a 4 hour drive around high wycomb picture was taken at around 3.30 when i thought i would let people go back to sleep

incase no one makes it out, its me being silly and wanting to be like jesse james (monster garage host) was covered up like that because it was cold, and we couldnt be bothered to go inside because we wernt aloud to make any noise

[MSG]

Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

incase no one makes it out, its me being silly and wanting to be like jesse james (monster garage host) was covered up like that because it was cold, and we couldnt be bothered to go inside because we wernt aloud to make any noise

That truely looks like you: Grim Reaper

[AL]

You have a side light out

[Drizz]

Originally Posted by LEE69

lol you can talk i swear you did an astra the same or were thinking of it?

Is that ovlov really that high

Yes because its all i had to hand to bodge one and needed an exhaust on it that night

[Grim Reaper]

@ msg

Originally Posted by Drizz

Yes because its all i had to hand to bodge one and needed an exhaust on it that night

AL, me know, bulb has blown tried a different one and it lights up but doesnt go brighter when i brake, so new bulb time tomorrow...losted my 70 pences now

[Grim Reaper]

got an update, not that many of you will give much of a toss really...

AL, got new bulb in and works a treat, now the one in the middle has stopped working *sighs*
painted the rusty hub silver and the caliper red, looks orange and it actually did turn out to be orange but it says ****in red on the can more money wasted on a shade of paint i dont bloody want


behind the wheel


got another update in the next few days and another one in about a weeks time...