clubstylus

Hi there!

First of all I'd just like to introduce myself being the proud new owner of an RT!

Lacking spanner skills and patience I've bought ready built so first let me doff my cap to all of you self built drivers!

I hope I've bought well though, it's the yellow Nissan turbo powered car built by Paul from Bristol which was briefly owned by young Ollie, also in Bristol, before being quickly released into my own care and crossing the bridge back into Wales as of today!

The car is quite quick having a 280bhp unit in it but is going up to Tim shortly to make sure it's set up right and get a new dash fitted, a new full leather interior from Inatrim will follow.

At the moment I'm torn between going the obvious carbon route to which the RT lends itself so well or, in-keeping with the more sixties feel of it's cousin, fashioning it more period Le Mans racer style? Any suggestions gratefully received. Also any photos of dash layouts out there for inspiration? My email is greg.myers@ntlworld.com or post here, and thanks in advance if you do!

That's about it for now, cheers, Greg.

Just to say thanks to Rob for sending me some photos, much appreciated.

No problem Greg , that's what the forum's all about. Rob.

Congratulations with the buy. I wish I my car was that far I could think about building a dash for it, but the engine isn't even in it at the moment

I read the article about the car and are the horrible seats still in it? If so, I can imagine you would like another interior.

Hi Werner,
The seats have been changed to Intatrim units but are soon to be swapped again for the Elise ones in the parts for sale section as I've bought them from Simon.

To be honest there's an awful lot to do on the car it seems and I spent nearly five hours yesterday writing a cautionary tale for prospective owners looking at buying ready built but when I tried to post it it disappeared into the ether...I don't suppose it will be lurking somewhere that only you would have access to would it?

Anyway I then took a deep breath and started rewriting it...this time in email to copy over... and four hours later just as I was literally typing in the last fact, which I'd just had to check with Tim, my missus decided to move a lamp and unfortunately unplugged the pc by mistake...wiped again!

A few more deep breaths and a couple of large glasses of red later I let her back in the house!
Only joshin...was just a tiny bit annoying though! I'll start on it again and post at some point soon...