My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

[Lurch]

Can't wait until the A500 has a birthday ;-)

[Lurch]

Its a 5 door 1989 KE Ford Laser.
Was a carby engine, but its had a transplant from (I believe) a Jap spec BF Mazda Familia.
Same engine as the locally sold Ford TX3, but the ecu should be setup for better fuel than what we had in Australia in 1989, so it's meant to do 110kw stock, compared to 100kw for the aussie version.

That's all well and good but how many Mips does it do? ;-)

[Lurch]

Looks tasty in that shot :-)

[Lurch]

http://youtu.be/iUQ84PTMswI :-)

[Lurch]

As we're trying to have an 80's theme here I thought I might post me (a lot bigger me) standing beside my first car in 1987 :-)

[Lurch]

Here's a shot from the 80's of my mates triumph, mint on the inside. A shame we don't have any photos of the inside.

My beast AW11 MR-2 in the back ground.

[Lurch]

..and just to keep it on topic :-)

[Lurch]

Miss it a lot. Was originally designed by lotus :-) Although had a nasty twitch so if you pushed it too hard around something like  a roundabout it could do a 360 spin :-)

[Lurch]

I have a really heavy A500 PSU which is the lower wattage. I also sold off a couple of the lighter ones, they are so light that it feels like there's nothing inside them :-)

[Lurch]

Not really sure then, I could have another look as I haven't used it in awhile as I started using an ATX PSU :-)

I've boxed it away somewhere, buried under other stuff as the other half wanted the dining room table clear for xmas...

so depressing putting my Amiga gear away, I need a man cave :-) LOL

[Lurch]

Why not just play some music/sounds on it? If it's bad then it'll sound bad??

Pretty low chance of two SID's failing, could try a working good SID from another C64. Or try the "bad" SID in a known good C64 :-)

[Lurch]

@AmmoJammo Very nice!!!! :-)

[Lurch]

One thing about playing old games some just don't live up to what they were when you were a kid.

You think to yourself what am I doing! :-)

But then there's a couple of games that are amazing that you never played as a kid and have just discovered :-)

One game is ruff'n'tumble... blew me away when I tried it a few months back.

[Lurch]

A600 makes a great A500plus replacement :-) My A1200 get's a lot of attention lately, although at the moment all the mods are hanging out the back.

I end up sitting down to mod it but end up scratching my head on how to fit it all in the case :-(

[Lurch]

Congrats on the 600, how did you end up with two sets of front rotors???

[Lurch]

Man that sucks, at least you can refund it but still annoying. Don't they check before sending???