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went to tweeks today and picked up a set of spring 9 inches free length and 300lb rating recon this will give the front a 2" drop. Also am negotiating a price with the a guy who has a spitfire with a mini cooper s supercharger conversion, he is no longer using it as the car has been a right off.

Lets hope you get it for a fair price

£300 picking it up next weekend

Will it just Drop in so to speak ?
Or more work ?

£300 is that a bargain or a fair price ?

Glad you got it anyway

Verynice.

You have pm matey

Well have managed to get my parts back from getting powdercoating and have now assembled all of one side of the suspension with all new bushes etc also here is a pic of the supercharger kit which he got out of his shed lol.Think it is worth the money.

very nice.

looking forward to seeing it all fitted

just emailed the guy asking him what it was like performance wise and this was his reply

(re performance it will make more than the motor can handle, at santapod
it
did it in 14.85,, 0-60 5.8sec,
you will break the axles if your not careful.. i did, thats why i made
the
cv conversion)

If my herald come in at anything less than 8sec 0-60 I will happy but I will have be well chufed if it come close to what he has said. These figure where in a spitfire which is slightly heavier to.

sounds good.

dont like the sound of breaking axles though lol

Sounds like a good n

fitted the drivers side wishbones and suspension setup and it has really droped the ride height now to the point where I cant have my 7inch wide rims on the front anymore will have to go for 6 to clear the arches. Also every time I clean my car I am finding problems with the paint job, it has finger prints in the pasenger door and rear quater aswell as a load and I mean load of strange little bubbles, they are very small but are all over the passenger door and rear quater. runs of paint on the bodywork and two perfect ring marks on the bootlid like something had been sitting on it before being painted and under certain light it is really noticable am not to happy with it at the moment. Heres some pics

the bubbles could be fish eyes maybe? (often caused by silicon in the air)

looks sweet, theirs a hotrod swap meet in sheffield next weekend or the week after, i'll get you the details

cheersnever been to one so would fancy going

just looked at the pics of the charger, inlet looks like a jackson racing one (? used on the zetec s/charger conversions stateside).
Are the carbs coming with it? am guessing webers, am not sure if its blow-thru or draw-thru, but they sometimes need special seals in the carb, cos they can get distorted, and get funked up, and make the car run crap

you wanna think about getting an ARP bolt kit for your motor and trans, cos stuff like flywheel bolts go loads when you put power through them

(i blew the bottom end of my car, so just in the middle of rebuilding the motor, i'll pop round if its fixed (hopefully done for monday), been thinking of supercharging my xflow motor or going turbo, wouldnt mind checking out your kit, to see how it would all work).

If you want you can come with me next weekend when I pick it up.you right it uses a jackson manifold. and no the carbs arnt coming with it but I can get new manifolds on ebay for £55 and the carbs go for around £150. Let us know if ya want to come