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New old member with a new old car
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 7:47 pm
by Drax
Hagland-BB4 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:29 pm
@Drax
Cool,
More further inspection toady and there has been a load of bodge jobs done to this car.
Got a bit depressed today, everything I touched today either fell off or was loose, the worse thing is I have noticed someone has taken the LSD gearbox off which is what I wanted most.
Got to the point today where I thought I might just scrap it. Manifold has been spot welded twice and is blowing through one of them.
I fitted a brand new battery and good quality dizzy to her before I sold it on. I also fixed a lot during my year with her but the arches were never great in the first place, my bb1 is far far worse
The reverse gear on the lsd box broke while I had her, managed to get a free 5g box as a temp to while I fixed it but I never had the time/money in the end - the box is still in my garage if you'd like it back to repair
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 10:15 pm
by Hagland-BB4
That would be great drax, Im sure I can get it refurbished somewhere
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:46 am
by vanzep
dont know if this is of any help but bodywork looks good on this car in brighton on gumtree - you could consider looking at that and maybe do an engine&gearbox swap with auto to manual conversion
lots of work but you do have the parts. Red ludes are epic
https://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/%C2%A34 ... 1344454435
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 7:24 pm
by Hagland-BB4
vanzep wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:46 am
dont know if this is of any help but bodywork looks good on this car in brighton on gumtree - you could consider looking at that and maybe do an engine&gearbox swap with auto to manual conversion
lots of work but you do have the parts. Red ludes are epic
https://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/%C2%A34 ... 1344454435
Thanks for that,
The guy isn't replying which is very annoying
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:11 pm
by vanzep
maybe make an offer - that might get his attention
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:37 am
by Drax
Hagland-BB4, if you were to buy that 2.0 auto, would you do the engine and transmission swap yourself or pay someone to do it?
im just thinking costs of getting arches repaired/replaced vs auto - manual conversion plus engine swap costs
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:59 pm
by Hagland-BB4
@Drax
I think I would use it for parts to save mine.
I have had a quote for £1600
That is for putting the new arches in then a full respray
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:56 am
by JEBB4
I’d save the bb4 mate, keep a true bb4 chassis alive.. I didn’t know the gearbox had failed!
get the m2b4 back and fix it, makes a difference to the way they drive for sure..
also the exhaust manifold was cracked when I bought the car, I got a mate to weld it and heat wrapped it never blew for me but it’s a cheap eBay manifold I’m pretty sure, I’d probably just buy another if your going to do the rest of the car.. I hope you get her back up to spec mate
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:48 pm
by Tusker
Hagland-BB4 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:59 pm
@Drax
I think I would use it for parts to save mine.
I have had a quote for £1600
That is for putting the new arches in then a full respray
That’s a good price IMHO
New old member with a new old car
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:27 pm
by Hagland-BB4
Thanks guys, trying so hard to save this car