Thanks Wally! They look pretty good. How many Kilometers are on them? I wonder how they would hold up under boost.

Dozens of hours of trackdays. And I really mean a full trackday, so hours in a row of continous 'Nigel-driving' (his foot is heavier then mine), mostly with passengers onboard as well.
Twice his V-belt of the alternator/cooling did come of and a full lap was done before noticing...the engine was soo hot, it pinged at idle...
New belt, exhaust bolts reattached (they came out because of the heat) and it started directly and went on for more laps and track days...

They have been tortured I just want to say!

Its during 'events' like the overheat that quality stands up to be counted, cast pistons, or even poor quality forged ones would have seized or collapsed completely.

Yeah, I agree spanner. His heads weren't fractured either. It didn't came as a surprise that most exhaust studs and a few rocker studs were loose though...
Only after having witnessed that (his engine keeping running so well like it did after all the torture), I was confident enough to consider a set of billet heads for the street for myself. And further strengthening the believe in how important alu cylinders are in shedding heat.

Thats very impressive!

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4,03 kg :mrgreen:

Cool! looks like my flywheel!

Hi Wally, I still can't seem to upload pictures on germanlook.net. Back in November I showed my car at the NEC Birmingham and have some pictures I would like to upload. Can I email them to you to see if you have any luck uploading them?
Cheers
Dave

Yeah, of course Dave, we'll do it the same as last time ;)
It turned out so awesome, I'am sure we all want to see more of her!

Next time we meet up, I'll show you personally how it works with photobucket and their links for being able to show pictures :D
You're coming to Action this year?

You still have my email?

Wally, Yeah the NEC Classic Car Show was great. I was on the Meguires' Showcase Stand and the car went down very well. I do plan to do Action (it would be nice to have some side by side drag action with you) and also plan to come over to Spa this year. I have tried to email these pictures to you but they keep bouncing back as undeliverable. I shall try and sort this over the next few days.

Yeah, I noticed you tried 17Mb sending to me, which is over my email box limit. Could you try 10Mb at the time? That gives me time to reroute the pictures.
Thanks!

After long time saving and a very long waiting time, my new Koni coil-overs arrived: up-side down aluminium bodied beauties with top and bottom ball-joint (sp?) attachment points. Hopefully they function as well as they look the part...

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Nice! You're going to be quite happy with those I think. If I ever build a "proper" Germanlook, ie one used on tarmac exclusively, it will with be Koni's at all four corners.

We use a loop of Bicycle tube to keep dirt out of the adjustment slot. Easy enough to move it to the side for adjustments, but keeps the dirt out.

-Dave

Tnx for that excellent tip Dave!