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just thought id show you lot what i just bought, with out the missis knowing400 bar very standard. needed bonnet, grill ,front bumper, seats, carpet engine and gearbox luckely over the years have collected a few spares. it has no rust and is a very straight shell. and best of all no sun roof.
Looks
Just wait till the mrs finds out
agree,it looks
Looks tidy, is that the rolling sheel cgb had for sale?
if it is dam you, you beat me to it!
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cheers fellas. im dreading the day the missis finds out, but hey its worth it.
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yes it is mate i had to save it from them guys it was a long trailer ride back to pompey though.
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oh yeah ill also be the 5th owner and has 86k on clock not sure how accurate this is but have a few old mots and the condition its in, its quite beleivable., i thought 5 owners was pretty good considering how many some of the ones ive owned have had.
i tried to buy the doors off that car
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glad ya never mate lol.
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not the most interesting update but look at the differenc a bit of polish makes, alot of polish actually,
I have a soft spot for glacier white with the OE decals. Looks niceOriginally Posted by Yellow
Bloody hell that is ground in dirt! it looks like you have just washed it and missed the area on the door with your sponge!
looks like mine.. i polished half the roof and it was like a new car. the white comes up unreal after a clean
seeing those pics has made me decide not to sell my OE decal set after all
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I think if you have a white turbo it has to have the decals on it, it oozes class. I'm in waterlooville just outside pompey. Next weekend I'll be starting to strip and clean then rebuild an old engine I have knocking around, oh yeah if any one has any original seat bolts 5 off would be well appreciated.
managed to get hold of a bottom end, started stripping yesterday. thinking of painting the block white, black timing cover and black sump and a full set of red hoses. wille i wait for the new piston rings gonna have a crack at refurbin the wheels gloss black with the rim polished not like a raider,only the thin part of lip. shoud like nice with some bright red calipers sat behind.
Looks nice m8, just down the road from me too. Have to have a local gathering at some point.
Sounds good mate over the next few weeks will b chucking a few bits at it .
Looks good mate, mine is fre reg's after - H676
started on bottom end, coming on nicely. waiting for chain and tensioner and a valeo green box clutch. then hopefully get the box on. then on to the head. cant wait wont be long ill finaly be back in a 5.
just a couple more photos. been a busy weekend with my mates clutch going on the way back from picking my head gasket set from gsf in southampton
looks real nice, i like the red block
phil
I was gonna do it black give it the oe look. It's the first engine I've built so least with the red I'll be able to see any leakages when I finaly get round to turning her over.
small update, not gonna be ready for the pod next week but is looking good. i got a full set of silicon hoses from china, have heard good and bad things about these but for the price it was worth a punt. also have had probs with dodgy starter motor but cheers to phase 1 16v for having a look and getting a replacement now is turning lovely. i also made a good carb out of 2 bad ones. only a couple more bits and ill have her running for the first time since owning her. ill keep posted on hoses they fitted alot better than expected and only trimmed a couple of water hoses and will have to do the breathers but we'll see.
finaly the motor is tax and tested and has done 500 trouble free miles. all thats needed is to have the front and back bumper blown in and also giving back the bonnet which was borrowed and replace with the standard one and get wheels refurbed and should be a very tidy motor
just wondered on peoples thoughts on the wheels. runs standard suspension at the moment but will be slightly lowered in the near future. porsonaly i love em.
win
Cool. I was gonna stick with 13s but didn't like the tyre choice you get with them so I think gonna stick with these you don't see the 19 wheels very often unlike the Clio turbines.
looks great now
Cheers fella. getting there now mate got 1300 hundred reasonably trouble free miles now.
managed to adjust the torsion bar and fit some yellow konis to the front looks loads better me thinks. in two minds to have the wheels refurbed black or keep them stock there in very good nick as they are.also be refitting the bumper strips and need to fit some 45 profile tyres. also my chinese hoses havent missed a beat leaked or split. bargain.
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i have went for black
Rich aka GTTnutter put the same wheels on my old Tungy he had them refurbed black with a polished lip,
https://www.rtoc.org/boards/album.php...&pictureid=313
For me black went back out of fashion as soon as it became widely adopted by everyman and his modified dog.
Refurbed anthracite for me.
Looks absolutely top atm anyway. I had these wheels on a tungy GTT 12 years ago, loved them then and love them now
I'd also be tempted to go clear fogs, indicators and repeaters and then leave it at that.
Cheers for comments lads. Have had a few gtt's grey red and a black phase 1 but this is what I've always wanted mine to look like. Might leave how it is for the mo and just work on getting it set up with a bit more boost and running ok. It's my daily driver and gets used to do the shopping in and does the school run. I had a yellow r26 with gloss black wheels and loved them so we'll see.
Shopping =
School run = You are crazy
Crazy, yes.
the megane didn't smell like this. Just a quote I usually get from the kids.
i recently had the car hooked up to an afr meter thanks to fishead, it showed that when cruising the gauge would drop straight off the scale to 10 and more then likely lower,im a bit of a novice on the subject of afr's but was told this is very rich and not good. i had built the carb from 2 bad ones so to save the ucking around arranged a new refurbed card and set up to run a bar of boost. the car is now sweet as a nut and runs 100%better i cant stress enough to get your car set up with an afr gauge.
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