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Re: Lord of the Ringies! Fellowship of the Spirit!	Fri, 24 September 2004 02:53

YARR avast the Fellowship of the Spirit Yes the mighty spirit when i first saw it was a folorn looking plain white KE70 Spirit, with cow print seat covers. Bodywise, she was ok, but the engine.... well, it ran. Just. A quick trip around the block with scriber and hydra getting whiplash from the bunny hopping, it was soon discovered that the timing was out to the shithouse. SO, return to Hydra's place, rip up the bonnet and go to work. After guesstimating that the timing was about that much out, i proceeded to undo the securing bolt and wind the distributor back about half a turn. Retighten bolt, throw bonnet shut, jump in, and off we go Well, talk about a difference. That expert timing job got it from being a bunny hopping white piece of junk to white lightening, the smooth, sleek rocket that it is. Later that night as mentioned before, scriber and myself attacked it with a wad of newspaper, some masking tape and a tin of high gloss black paint. End result... Spirit with attitude! How 2 big fat GT stripes up the bonnet, over the roof and down the boot can make a difference is amazing. High spirits were abound after the GT stripe episode, and thoughts soon turned to exhaust noise. Or appropriate lack thereof as it were. No dramas, up to my place and out comes the handy hacksaw (how handy) and off comes the back muffler. Wonderful! We now had GT stripes AND noise! There was just one problem. Lack of mounting brackets and basically F@*%ed exhaust system! Sure enough, well into the wee hours of the night on a sojurn thru the hills, the rest of the exhaust fell off. Bugga. No dramas, pull over in the rain, rip the bastard off, throw it in the boot and burn home. Next day, down to profix. New manifold flange gasket, welded up join, and a 2.5" tip section and $60 less and she was all fixed. The exhaust bloke told us it would be stupidly loud with only 1 pissy little muffler, and oh how he was right!! From that day on, the more revs and the more noise the better! After that episode, my input into the spirit sadly declined as i had to move interstate for uni. Anyway, i still get to drive it occassionaly, and its still a beast! LONG LIVE THE LORD OF THE RINGIES - FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRIT!!! [Report message to a moderator]

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