South east meet

[GroovyCarrot]

Shame you couldn't make it calvin.. in the end we had 4 cars there, two of which came from 10 minutes down the road from me (He says after driving 40 minutes to get to south mimms services ). Never mind though, all were nice guys, and good to meet a few people from the forums at last. Must say I felt slightly out of place with my standard mk2 alongside two 6n2's and a 9n, all nicely modded up, but hey Hopefully see all you guys around.

[polopowah]

heh yeah would of course been better with more cars, but hey was nice to meet a few new people from the forum
and groovy ure car was sweet mate, you've put alot of time and effort into that (as opposed to bolting bits on like i do!) and it showed, spankingly clean interior well impressed
as for jon well, i couldn't quite keep up wit you
nice too meet you too sib, nice mk6, nice rear lights n side repeaters and the black badges which i really should get for mine considering its dark
i'll get some pictures up soon!
cheers
-Ben-

[SiDaBa]

Despite the small turn out it was all good and it was good to put some faces to some "names" .

GroovyCarrot - your car is wicked, quite amazed out how smoothly it works and it looks great. Lol and sorry i didn't see you on the way home, my mate pointed out it was you but at the time i couldn't understand what the hell he was going out about. . Would have given you a hoot and a wave otherwise .

[bstardchild]

2. Bstardchild (if he gets his brothers engine back in the MGBGT on Sunday Morning)

Well I didn't - well not by mid morning Sunday as planned - nightmare weekend - finally got home at 8.30pm Sunday Evening.......

Apologies for missing the meet but while you we all chatting (hopefully enjoying a coffee or two) I was still up to my armpits in MGBGT Engine and clutches....

Here's a brief summary of my weekend - It's a 1972 MGBGT BTW (in case anyone wonders)

Sat midday arrived and started work - engine out by 2.30pm - clutch had completely destroyed itself, bits everywhere inside the bell housing.

2 tins of Gunk and a jet wash cleaned the bell housing out
3 tins of Gunk and several jet washes cleaned the engine up

Dried engine with fan heater and installed new clutch whilst it dried

Painted complete engine once dry and went to bed after a couple of beers before midnight

Sun Morning started at 10am and by 12am had it installed (sitting on new engine mounts) and then Bruv produced a complete stainless exhaust system from the garage loft

Got that fitted in double quick time but getting to Sarf Mimms was now getting doubtfull - then it wouldn't start - leads on the wrong plugs didn't help (thanks Bruv )

Finally got it running about 4pm (rough but running) and then strobe timed it up only to find big puddle of oil under the car - bugger - still dark brown oil shows up real well on a freshly painted engine eventually traced to split hose leading to oil pressure guage (didn't have a spare so he'll have to fit that when he gets a new one delivered) It had been split for a while so kinda explains his oil consumption problems - the underside of his car will never rust

[GroovyCarrot]

Cheers guys, must say you've got some sweet cars yourselves I've got something to aspire to when I have the money for something a touch newer now

SiDaBa, noticed you on the way back but I was too busy being stuck in the slow lane behind some old dear to realise you were going past until you were gone

B*stard (always feel a bit uncomfortable calling you that ), shame you couldn't make it along, but hey, sounds like you got to play with a lovely old car there There's something special about old MGs.. going to have to lay my hands on one one day..

[jon_poloV]

hey people, had wicked time seeing you all and your cars,
super new polo with some trick mods and some very nice wheels!
ben your car is mad. how you have it that low who knows and it looks like a gocart going along bumping up the road and i tell you it looks mean as in the rear mirror! groovey your polo is seriously tidy! good to see someone doing this to thew engine themself. i would to my car if it wasnt all electronics etc. sometimes id prefere to have mine mint to a t than modded up.
hope all is well il try put some pics up when i can
see you all soon
jon

[CalvinGTI]

After reading all you guys comments, im a bit gutted i couldnt make it

Sounds like you lot had a bit of a giggle at the meet, I have peronsonally pimp slapped my flat mate for being Captain Longfoot.

Calâ„¢

[polopowah]

some pics of the meet.........








cheers
-Ben-

[carmadaaron]

jon, what size is that zorst? looks mental!

[SiDaBa]

big enought to shove your foot in as demonstrated

[carmadaaron]

(depends what size of shoe u r )

[jon_poloV]

its 6 x 4 oval. quite mad i think suits quite well as its chubby like the rear of the polo.
jon

[jon_poloV]

jon

[carmadaaron]

ah right.....ic


so i think ill need a 7x5 then for my 9n since it has a bigger bum!

[SpikeyG40]

hey, if anyone is interested i'm gonna hopefully be organising a meet up in january somewhere around dartford if anyone is interested.

will probably be the same kinda thing as this years one!

what do you guys reckon?