Newbie in Maidstone
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:06 pm
Been meaning to introduce myself for a few weeks but the missus keeps hogging the pooter!! Wurlycorner put me onto this site, hope those bits you had are Ok Ian.
Picked up a nice looking 4G recently but sadly I know very little about cars so I might need your help and advice over the coming months. I've been into motorbikes all my life and with my 50th birthday rapidly approaching we decided on another trip to the Nurburgring. Unfortunately, I woke up one morning and felt my age!! Did I really want to travel 300 miles on a Fireblade, for fun?! So, all this happened to come up in conversation at work and a guy said he was selling a Prelude, and so I bought it.
So far I have only driven it about 5 miles for various reasons so the exact state of whats working and what isn't has not been properly assessed. However, the 4WS was working when I picked it up but doesn't appear to be now. I'm not too bothered about it working or not and would prefer to bin it completely so here's the first question. If i put a 2WS rear subframe on, is it a straight swap or wiil I need to swap hubs or anything else as well? Dont really want the wheels flapping about in all directions when belting round the Ring!
Another question, some of you might know the previous owner, Martin Hoskins, from Chatham, worked as a valeter for Lotus. Just wondered if anyoneknew him and could remember anything he might have said about the car?
I'll post some photos at when I suss out how to do it, I just hope its as fast as it looks.
Regards,
Pete
Picked up a nice looking 4G recently but sadly I know very little about cars so I might need your help and advice over the coming months. I've been into motorbikes all my life and with my 50th birthday rapidly approaching we decided on another trip to the Nurburgring. Unfortunately, I woke up one morning and felt my age!! Did I really want to travel 300 miles on a Fireblade, for fun?! So, all this happened to come up in conversation at work and a guy said he was selling a Prelude, and so I bought it.
So far I have only driven it about 5 miles for various reasons so the exact state of whats working and what isn't has not been properly assessed. However, the 4WS was working when I picked it up but doesn't appear to be now. I'm not too bothered about it working or not and would prefer to bin it completely so here's the first question. If i put a 2WS rear subframe on, is it a straight swap or wiil I need to swap hubs or anything else as well? Dont really want the wheels flapping about in all directions when belting round the Ring!
Another question, some of you might know the previous owner, Martin Hoskins, from Chatham, worked as a valeter for Lotus. Just wondered if anyoneknew him and could remember anything he might have said about the car?
I'll post some photos at when I suss out how to do it, I just hope its as fast as it looks.
Regards,
Pete
