New old member with a new old car

[Drax]

@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

[Hagland-BB4]

That would be great drax, Im sure I can get it refurbished somewhere

[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

[Hagland-BB4]

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

[vanzep]

maybe make an offer - that might get his attention

[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

[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

[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

[Tusker]

@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

[Hagland-BB4]

Thanks guys, trying so hard to save this car