The Modified, horrors and honeys, opinions and pics please

[George-Roper]

  On 23/04/2013 at 08:40, mk1_4dr said:

I like tastefully modified cars. I prefer cars modified for power, with no aethstetic changes even more.

 

This is how escRot sat the day I collected it...

 

 

How it sat the last day it was on the road.

 

Last day!. Looks a good car w.t.f happened to it?. Theft?

[outlaw118]

No, IIRC it was involved in a bendage incident.

[AnthonyG]

The Jaguar XK8 looks like it might have done when new for a Arab sheikh of suchlike, kind of like one of those 80's Swiss efforts on a MB 500SEC. The black XJ6 is horrible, if it was a two door in Matt black it would have a bit of a mental 'Mad Max meets Coventry' vibe, but as a 4 dr? no thanks.

[Skoze]

Bumping this back up again, I actually had a good look around that black Jag at a meet over the summer - the amount of work gone into it is just incredible. All steel, the flairs even go into the rear doors (all opens up properly) and the engine is plain ridiculous. Serious bit of kit, if not to everyone's taste. 

[Station]

I loved this the first time I saw it:

 

[outlaw118]

Why wasn't this made as a factory option? MG RV8GT. I reckon it looks luvverlee. On ebay, £"8100 RNM

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MGB-GT-COUPE-/141133729342?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item20dc39ce3e

[Squire_Dawson]

Modifications? Pah. What does it mean these days on modern cars anyway?

 

When cars were real cars and men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real well you get the sodding gist of what I'm trying to say. When a fag lighter was an optional extra and a heater would cost a fortnight's wages. Those were the days when a car could really be customised with useful and interesting shit from a dozen manufacturers, usually British firms based in obscure parts of the Provinces, would cater for demand.

 

Useful shit, too. Car kettles, mudflaps, extra gauges, Peco exhaust boosters, furry beige seat-covers - that sort of thing.

 

I like modifications which are in taste and 'period correct' with the car. Not when you get some nobber with 5-spokes on an Ital SLX, for instance. Mechanical modifications are often interesting and beneficial.

[fordperv]

^ completely agree i love period modifications, but please dont confuse my statement with period bodges i definately dont like sills and chassis rails full of tomorrows chip paper and lashings of isopon

[outlaw118]

Dragged up again....

Laydeez and Gentleman, I give you....

Being sold as a Volkswagen Dyane, it's basically a rebodied Beetle. If I every meet the creator of this, I may be going to prison for a long time.

Agree or disagree?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221337971396?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[Sloth in a bowl]

  On 24/03/2014 at 21:21, outlaw118 said:

Dragged up again....

Laydeez and Gentleman, I give you....

Being sold as a Volkswagen Dyane, it's basically a rebodied Beetle. If I every meet the creator of this, I may be going to prison for a long time.

Agree or disagree?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221337971396?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

This is a difficult one for me

 

I like that it is different to what I have seen before

 

I don't like that it looks like a hydraulic suspension conversion that has gone tragically wrong

I don't like that it has VW bits in it, why not put in a nice PAS, FWD motor though space and cooling could be tricky

[Negative Creep]

I actually quite like it; at least it's something different. I'd never own it, but seeing it drive past would put a smile on my face.

[Split_Pin]

Who'd actually want it though? I like Dyanes and I like Beetles, but they should remain separate!

[Wilko220]

Can't copy the pics for some reason but worth a look...

 

http://www.rootes1725cc.info/board305/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1376

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I have seen quite a few XJ40s with an engine swap. It seems quite popular in some countries, particularly the US and Australia. Generally it is done for more power since whilst the AJ6 engine is virtually indestructible, modifying it is a very expensive business. Generally it involves a big Yank V8, such as a Chevy small block - I have even heard of one being fitted with a Chrysler 440.

 

This guy took a different path; a unique combo of stout English build and Polish engineering ingenuity. Out with the 4 litre twin cam Jaguar six; in with err... a 1.8 litre Ford diesel 4 pot. He has done a very neat job of it, but forty-odd bhp per tonne must be quite an experience.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Jaguar XJ4 1.8d!

 

http://www.carscoops.com/2014/04/this-polish-jaguar-xj-runs-on-18-liter.html

 

 

[rml2345]

If you looked up "Doing it wrong" in the dictionary there would be a picture of that XJ.

It's bloody well done though, even if the gearknob looks like a tightly wrapped pie.

[nisfan]

Ok then whats your thoughts on this french turd? Was going to get scrapped, then saved. Then it was going to get broken, saved again, ignore all the shit around it.

 

[outlaw118]

Love 18's in any form, and those RIMZYO look GR9.

 

What about this....SVM porn or just NO.

It's obviously had some serious dough waved at it, but ultimately it's a V70 AWD from 2003, via JApan.

 

I would, but is it worth £9999?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CUSTOM-MODIFIED-VOLVO-V70-R-LTD-2-5-TURBO-AWD-AUTOMATIC-TAN-LEATHER-OMG-/351205884765?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item51c580835d

[brickwall]

That just looks awful

[Bren]

  On 12/08/2014 at 17:40, Magnificent Rustbucket said:

I have seen quite a few XJ40s with an engine swap. It seems quite popular in some countries, particularly the US and Australia. Generally it is done for more power since whilst the AJ6 engine is virtually indestructible, modifying it is a very expensive business. Generally it involves a big Yank V8, such as a Chevy small block - I have even heard of one being fitted with a Chrysler 440.

 

This guy took a different path; a unique combo of stout English build and Polish engineering ingenuity. Out with the 4 litre twin cam Jaguar six; in with err... a 1.8 litre Ford diesel 4 pot. He has done a very neat job of it, but forty-odd bhp per tonne must be quite an experience.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Jaguar XJ4 1.8d!

 

 

http://www.carscoops.com/2014/04/this-polish-jaguar-xj-runs-on-18-liter.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

I bet it's slower than a month on remand.

[Jikovron]

Even despite gaining loads of space in the bay it still manages engine top trumps in the weight department if the springs up front are stock

[Rusty Pelican]

My Singer , theres so many mods on it ive lost count but ive used period stuff available at the time or no later than the late 70s if not . Wheels are late 70s in case you were wondering .

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I saw this tonight on the M1 and I can confirm it goes and sounds as purposefully as it looks. I don't think I've seen deep dish ' Mexican hat' Merc allys before and those flared arches shouldn't work ,but in my opinion do.

The driver was a German straight out of central casting; 70ish,grey crewecut ,steel rimmed glasses etc I bet he'd got a fencing scar and was in the Hitler Youth too.

When the traffic cleared,I struggled to keep up and it only stopped accelerating when baulked at probably almost 30 mph over licence losing speed.

[sierraman]

I once remember seeing a series 2 xj6 at the Hereford steam rally about 15 years ago and it had been converted to use a Perkins diesel possibly a phaser, it had this awful scoop mounted on the bonnet, grafted out of grp and presumably copious amounts of Isopon p45

[NorfolkNWeigh]

In response to me sending him the Pagoda honey,my brother sent me this horror

Hopefully it's photoshop or some such bollocks.

[cyruspower]

Something I'm working on with my old man at the moment:

[vulgalour]

This should be a horror, on paper at least, and it is an opinion divider.  But I think the builder has done a rather good job of blending modern bits into an old car with the exception of the door mirrors.

 

 

Taste?  Doesn't even come into it with this, I just reckon its totally awesome and would like to meet/drive/own.

 

 

 

 

 

[cms206]

That diesel XJ40 reminds me of a fella in Canada who repowered his Dodge Caravan 3.3 V6 with a VW 1.6TD out of a Jetta.

[dieselassist]

  On 19/11/2014 at 11:15, vulgalour said:

This should be a horror, on paper at least, and it is an opinion divider.  But I think the builder has done a rather good job of blending modern bits into an old car with the exception of the door mirrors.

 

 

Taste?  Doesn't even come into it with this, I just reckon its totally awesome and would like to meet/drive/own.

Im sorry but that Vauxhall just looks completely redonkulous IMO - theres no defense council out there that can argue hes improved anything aesthetically there; mitigating circumstances of being 'heavily under the influence at the time', might be a mitigating argument - but hes 'banged to rights der, 'yar'onor' - its an abomination man!!

 

The Granada Id roll that!!

[cms206]

  On 19/11/2014 at 12:05, cms206 said:

That diesel XJ40 reminds me of a fella in Canada who repowered his Dodge Caravan 3.3 V6 with a VW 1.6TD out of a Jetta.

gives one of the conversions; from memory he did two using the same engine & box.

[Rocket88]

Like the Voxall [apart from the wheels, Granada is horrible