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Spider has arrived.....

Postby davidmt » Sat Jan 30, 2016 5:09 pm

Or the transformer as it now known. Some initial photos.

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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby miles thomas » Sat Jan 30, 2016 5:54 pm

Well done that's great news :newbie Looking forward to hearing all about the car. Sign up with the club and feel the love.
Hope you enjoy this charismatic little car :up
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby eastlmark » Sat Jan 30, 2016 6:38 pm

nice ride height adjustable dampers.... where are you? that was sold by a local company to me.
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby davidmt » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:14 pm

eastlmark wrote:nice ride height adjustable dampers.... where are you? that was sold by a local company to me.


Thanks - I am in York. I believe the car was in Essex but hadn't sold for some time so I made a cheeky offer. Must have been at the right time as it was accepted and delivered the same day.

The condition is really very very good - it was actually better than I expected. Once on the road the engine is strong and powerful and sounds great. It has a replacement ECU and throttle bodies (along with some uprated internals) so more power then standard but no idea how much.

The ECU is Lumenition - I have downloaded the ECU software but need to find someone local as it could probably do with an update of the map just to check everything out.

I may see if there is a more modern plug and play or easy replacement as ECU's have clearly moved on since this was done and once you have a fully programmable ECU then adding further upgrades gets easier and I do like turbos!!
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby stephendell » Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:05 pm

adding further upgrades gets easier and I do like turbos!!


There's plenty of space :-)
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby PaulC1959 » Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:13 pm

::N ::I ::C ::E ::C ::A ::R

Well done on the purchase. Look forward to seeing it in the future :up
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby Keith Hall » Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:09 pm

Welcome on board from a fellow yellow Spider owner ..... :up

Did you look at many or was it an impulse buy ?
Just a Yellow Sport Spider...... ::N ::I ::C ::E
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby davidmt » Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:15 pm

Keith Hall wrote:Welcome on board from a fellow yellow Spider owner ..... :up

Did you look at many or was it an impulse buy ?


Didn't even look at this one - definitely an impulse buy!!

But I still smile when I look at it!
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby Keith Hall » Fri Feb 12, 2016 11:51 pm

davidmt wrote:
Keith Hall wrote:Welcome on board from a fellow yellow Spider owner ..... :up

Did you look at many or was it an impulse buy ?


Didn't even look at this one - definitely an impulse buy!!

But I still smile when I look at it!



That's the spirit.....hope you've got a good one then
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby davidmt » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:22 pm

Keith Hall wrote:
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Keith Hall wrote:Welcome on board from a fellow yellow Spider owner ..... :up

Did you look at many or was it an impulse buy ?


Didn't even look at this one - definitely an impulse buy!!

But I still smile when I look at it!



That's the spirit.....hope you've got a good one then


The body work and general mechanical condition is immaculate and the engine has been rebuilt by Andy Hill with a few interesting internal upgrades. Also the suspension is fully adjustable. Been SORN for many of its years. However the original ECU has been removed and remapped on a old Lumention with matching ITB's.

I bought it cheap so decided to bite the bullet and send it on a little French holiday to get the electronics modernised and fully remapped, brakes and few other little jobs. Should keep Andy busy for a few days.

Will report back when it is returned.
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby miles thomas » Thu Feb 18, 2016 7:52 am

Interesting
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby andyh877 » Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:04 am

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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby miles thomas » Sat Feb 20, 2016 3:53 pm

Very nice Andy what brake hoses are you going to use with them,will it be Hi Spec as well?
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby andyh877 » Sun Feb 21, 2016 5:10 pm

miles thomas wrote:Very nice Andy what brake hoses are you going to use with them,will it be Hi Spec as well?


OE Spider Trophy made by Goodridge on the front / or standard replacement Goodridge with modified connection, I will discuss with David when I collect the car and standard Goodridge replacement on rear.

if you want to improve the original brakes and prevent another statistic spider front end accident , first thing to do is change the brake lines and put good fluid in it....

I have a local customer over here in France..... he realised after two front end shunts he should do something with the brakes, the 2nd time his own spider hitting his F430 up the ass made him wake up and smell the brake fluid.
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Re: Spider has arrived.....

Postby rupert » Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:54 am

It's certainly true that the front brakes are a bit dead - lets say!
Has anyone ever tried fitting a remote servo that you know of Andy?
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