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Earplugs work very well, the yellow ones are best. Good luck at Le Mans.

Wheels now sold, mike.

Hi, I have got 4 minilight copies 13' all 8' wide with ford PCD and 12mm studholes. Any use?
cheers, Mike.

An update on Mk 5 K series / vw box. The road going car with carpets etc and some fuel is 630kg and so not much more ,if any, than standard imp. The handling is great and feels more like a mid engined car than rear engine. I have never driven an imp engined car. The base engine is completely standar...

I have similar headlamp treatment to this orange car but fitted 5 1/4 inch lamps so that I could fit perspex covers over them. No loss of brightness detected.
cheers, mike.

my road going mk5 with k series and vw box and 15litrs fuel and on a reliable commercial weigh bridge is 630kg.
mike colin.

It sounds to me that the Davrian is not too fussy about pressures. With 185/60 yoko 021's I am running 16--20. It feels great!
Regards, Mike.

I remember years ago we could not race with an ally tank unless it was clad with 2 layers of fibreglass, I suppose it was because if you had a bump and deformed the ally tank enough to crack the ally, the grp might keep the petrol in. The scrutineers were quite strict about this at the time (1970's)...

Lots of Mk 5's had sun roofs, including mine (since fibreglassed over by a previous owner) so I would have thought integrity was not a problem.
Mike.

Hi Mark, I think it would be fairly easy to lose the roof on an early davrian, the ones without the rear buttresses, but it would be hard to do a tidy conversion on the buttressed cars methinks. However, looking sideways at my MK 5, I think the way to go would be a targa top, in fact the longer I lo...