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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Harry2a Date: April 6, 2013, 5:27 pm
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Took it up to Northumberland for a week away, based from there
we went up to Scotland, down to Penrith, Hadrian’s wall, all
over really.
Did a lot of snow driving, where it faired well and I was glad
to be in it because of the weather.
Fuel wasn’t too bad split between 7 of us, however it averaged
around 17mpg
Here are some of the pics in no particular order:
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Harry2a Date: April 6, 2013, 5:31 pm
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Rob1769 Date: April 7, 2013, 4:05 am
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Good too see a group of young Lads out having 'proper fun' my
III has LPG and it actually makes it useable without the worry
of ££££ on petrol... go for it!
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: LR Owner Date: April 8, 2013, 7:44 am
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Looks like some kind of "Boy Band" maybe "Wrong Direction"
Looks like your having fun and thats what its all about.
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Rob1769 Date: April 8, 2013, 10:31 am
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'Band in the Mud' ??
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: MikeLR109 Date: April 8, 2013, 1:44 pm
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From one end of the country to the other! Great stuff :thumbs:
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Harry2a Date: April 20, 2013, 1:12 pm
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Certainly is Mike, got a winch coming up from Dorset at the end
of the month!
Decided to press on with the LPG conversion.
First things first, with the help of chippers, I have picked up
a 90L LPG tank
The tank fits between the rear axle front spring hanger
outrigger and the original secondary fuel tank front
outrigger....just.
One of the problems with fitting the tank is that the sill rail
that holds up the seat box, floor, and bolts to the
bulkhead/outrigger, and the tub didn’t allow enough clearance
for the tank, so last weekend I set about overcoming said
problem.
The options were to:
1. Cut the side that was sitting past the edge of the seat box
2. Make a new one that was thinner, to save the original
3. Make a jack able sill that incorporated the seat box/floor
rail, strengthened up the body by mounting from the outrigger
and bolting to the body all the way along as well as where the
rail used to be.
I went for the latter, father extended the rear axle spring
hanger outrigger out to the same length of the front bulkhead
outrigger, and I fabricated the new sill.
Extended outrigger:
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New Sill
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Before the door seal went on:
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In place
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And that’s where it’s up to ;D
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: mistericeman Date: April 20, 2013, 3:37 pm
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Unistruttastic mate .... >rock<
You bringing it to LATP ...assuming you may be coming along
:thumbs:
I'm downloading some Lost prophets just in case :smilewide:
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Harry2a Date: April 21, 2013, 2:04 am
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Cheers Ian,
I certainly hope to attend LATP, can have a good chat about FFRs
:smile1
Sounds good......... ;D
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Re: The new to me S3 FFR
By: Harry2a Date: May 5, 2013, 4:22 pm
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quick update,
Test mounted the tank, 90L of potential LPG goodness with no
loss of load space or ground clearance!
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