my ph1 gtt - keeping the dream alive

[jimmy_b]

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ive only been in the world of r5s for just over a year now but my bros had a few so knew abit about them.

ive been loyal to vauxhall since i passed my test owning a 1.2i nova, 1.6 gsi corsa and then a 2.0 16v corsa running 250bhp, then i did something i said i would never do and bought a 5 gt

its a 09/1986 ph1 electric blue 5gtt. i when i bought it, it already had the tarmac front bumper, scorpion exhaust, t25, ph2 seats and clio williams wheels.

i cant find the pics of when i first bought it but this was after a few mods
(vnt, fmic, avo coilovers, interior, side exit, bonnet, yellow samcos)












christmas day 2008, melted a heater matrix hose on the way to christmas lunch



after a quick clean at work. std rusty bonnet was fitted whilst the silver bonnet was getting painted. also the addition of red tinted rear lights





i noticed the front bumper was loose, resulting in the mount still being attached to the bumper and not the car as it should be. this was the start of the rebuild ............








bonnet back from being painted, also a ph2 spoiler





and new powerflow 2.5" system as the sidey was catching on everything



smoothed ph2 front bumper as the tarmac bumper is horrible







cleaned so took it out for some pics (miss it looking like this now)






time for inspection of the sills as the inner sill was rotten and falling out









welding it at work









new wheels, borbet a's off a e30 bmw (7.5x16" et15 )
after some machining they went on













quick idea before fcs09 but it kind of stayed









fcs2009



not much room in those arches



new "flat cap" centre caps





modified live as snetterton 2009 with my bros 5





now the fun started. moved out of my parents in nov09 and as i had a garage i decided to bite the bullet and check it out fully to see just how bad the rust that i has been ignoring was.

i'll upload the next half soon

[Os8472]

Nice to see you on here bud, I miss your williams wheels but I gotta say what you've done to it at first scared the hell out of me till I saw it, looks the muts nuts

[dangerous dave]

hmmmmmm, another set of wheels i want..

[Wallace]

[Os8472]

hmmmmmm, another set of wheels i want..

Wait till you see what he's done to em, they looks mad but totally suit the look of the car now its all back together

[markey b]

finally on here bro!

the build thread is epic!

[jimmy_b]

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the rust ..........................























an afternoon with the angle grinder and a couple of chissels









before i started to cut it all away, i had already bought all my new panels
genuine front bumper,grill, wings, inner archers and inner wings, and patern front panel and cross member

new panels trial fitted





wings, headlights etc fitted to check alignment





then stripped again to rebuild the front chassis legs







front cross member cut to move the fmic higher and further back





new panel welded on







another rust hole sorted



sealed





undercoat + new scuttle covers

[Shane P]

Epic build thread, and you managed to get a FMIC that big behind the stock bumper, simply fantastic !

[jimmy_b]

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the engine

when i bought the car i also got alot of spares with it including a complete engine + rebuild parts

new engine spec :

new pistons and liners
piper 285 cam + vernier
fully balance bottom end
lightend and balance flywheel
volvo clutch
uprated headgasket
high tensile head bolts
vnt turbo
custom oil cooler pipes
cool running stat
blue samcos
fmic
custom boost pipe run

maybe more lol














heatwrapped manifold





diy polishd alternator





engine bay

smoothing







primered











first coat of paint



finished and awaiting engine













engine in









new boost pipe run

[TNT Tricky Nicky]

I have to admit I've been sneeking onto the other site to follow this project since your bro gave me a link for it. I admire the amount of work you've put into it thus far, good on you for keepin it alive.

[jimmy_b]

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where i am now and it runs (thanks to my bro mark and oli)

first time its seen daylight since november, and quite alot has changed!
i shall let the photos speak for themselves













and back in to the garage for final finishing (wiring, and finishing touches) before i get the panels back from the bodyshop, take it to work and sort the tracking and finally the MOT



then my new manifold arrived



out with the old



in with the new







and thats where its at

currently im awaiting a new oil filter bolt and then its off to work

[Wallace]

Some serious effort gone into that..............quality

keep the progress pics coming............

[Pete@Backyard Racing]

top marks for effort m8, alot of people wudav seen the rust and broke it for spares rather than repairing it.

imo i liked it with the willy wheels, grey bonnet and without the checkered graphics (abit like my car really)
(i need to hurry the powdercoater up with my willy wheels, they look great in black)

[Pete@Backyard Racing]

ps r5gtts are not supposed to have a cork sump gasket they shud be sealed with thixo paste or similar

[benj88]

Excelent work there mate, the engine looks mint! Do you no the size of your tail pipe? Iv got my car bookd in to get a backbox thinking of 3n a harf outroll yours looks about that?

[philg]

If i buy another gt it will be in this colour, i have to agree on the checkered bits not my cup of tea, but fantastic effort


phil

[jimmy_b]

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Excelent work there mate, the engine looks mint! Do you no the size of your tail pipe? Iv got my car bookd in to get a backbox thinking of 3n a harf outroll yours looks about that?

i think i might be a 4". i chose the one that fittd the exhaust cut out the best.

[5alldaway]

love this

[xenon]

superb work, which you made!!

currently my WHITE GT, and in restoration, and its even subject justifies as hold it !!

[jimmy_b]

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is now safely tucked up at work. drove there earlier even if it was a bugger to start.
bumpers are back from the bodyshop now and rest should be back tomorrow

[jimmy_b]

everything is now back from being painted. new paint is slightly lighter and noticeable but i dont mind, the rest needs paitin anyway and can be done at a later date. spent a couple hours after work today messing around with the 5 putting some of the panels back on.

start



wheel alignment





first wing on (you can see its not the same colour but i prefer it to the old colour)





next wing





bumper





engine bay with its blue frame



rear bumper



drivers side with skirt temp fitted



phase2 rear arches



finished for today

[Matt Cole]

Awesome effort mate and well done for keeping with it. Im with the others though, lovely wheels, but the checkerd bits!!??

Keep up the good work!

[TNT Tricky Nicky]

maybe without the roof being checkered you could keep the wheels, mirror and wing mirrors (if they make their way of marks raider!) and it wouldn't be so over powering.

The one thing that really annoys me about my car is the fact i have a white engine bay in a blue car, but if you can live with it and keep it clean then

the new paint has definitely freshened it up

[Os8472]

Dude you weren't kidding when you said the new paint was lighter, yikes not good

[jimmy_b]

im thinking that i might ditch the roof chequers when i get te rest of the shell painted. they were only a temp thing for last yrs fcs, but they kind of stuck.

hopefully it will be mot'd this week. ive got fri off work so it might make it to frog of the pod but not sure yet

[Os8472]

DO it, you know you wanna

[jimmy_b]

couple pics of my old cars back in the vauxhall days

my first car - nova 1.2i spin







corsa gsi



turned into this



corsa 2.0 16v on throttle bodies

[img]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1493807_n.jpg[/img]

[Os8472]

I remember that red one, we'd never met at that point but I remember seeing it somewhere

[jimmy_b]

small update, passed its mot on wed with only a brake light bulb needed.
small problem on way home though resulting in a snapped rocker shaft
main thing is its got the green ticket and ive got all the spares to have it back in a few days

i'll update pics soon

[jimmy_b]

engine problems

i think the liner seals have spung a leak





snapped rocker shaft clamp





head off to inspect for any damage, and all seams ok





sump removed to clean out and gain access to conrod bolts to remove liners



will remove liners one eve and inspect them and refit everything

[TrixNFlix]

Oh dear, that looks a mess

[markey b]

that'll be up and running by the weekend dont u worry

[jimmy_b]

almost there now.

put it all back together and the oil and coolant were still mixing. found a crack in the cylinder head

luckily i had a spare head so sent it off to be presure tested and then skimmed. thats now back and its all fitted. tomorrow nite i shall see if it starts and runs once again

[jimmy_b]

finally its there. all up and running. taken it for a small drive this eve and all is going well so far



it'll get its first wash in 7months tomorrow

[boysie]

thats one nice looking mota! to pull it back from that condition to what you have now is some serious achevement

jeez with projects like yours and jerpa's im going to have to pull my finger out now!

[HAndy]

glad you sorted it james thought it was the head or liner seals ,top job cant wait to see it on the 19th

[gimme5]

being looking at your thread,i replaced front end on mine and it was quite a big job
and i worked in a body shop at the time and had everything to hand, and you did all this in your garage hats off to you looking good keep it up

[Wallace]

being looking at your thread,i replaced front end on mine and it was quite a big job
and i worked in a body shop at the time and had everything to hand, and you did all this in your garage hats off to you looking good keep it up

Couldn't agree more - had to do a fair bit in my garage, and it's been nothing but a funking pain in the arse...........

Out of interest, did you paint the bay yourself?? - if so what did you use?

[gimme5]

yer i did, i used standox basecoat and clearcoat
picture of it on profile

[jimmy_b]

bit of an update for you all -

the running in period is going well. roughly 200miles covered now (almost a full tank already!)
its first proper drive was to fcs so it was abit of a test for it after a few teething problems. luckily the journey there was eventless

heres a few pics from fcs10













also last nite i picked up some new seats for the 5. i plan on getting them retrimmed in cream leather with cream suede centres



and after a clean, heres my current interior









and the 5 safely home again (wheels havent got too dirty yet)

[philg]

Where did you get the ducts for the fog light?



phil

[tom t]

hadnt seen this thread till now. looking awesome. the rebuild of the front end is superb. quality job

[markey b]

Where did you get the ducts for the fog light?



phil

you want some of these

[jimmy_b]

Where did you get the ducts for the fog light?



phil

got them from ebay. cant decide if i should get some yellow fogs for it or not though?

[SCHWARTZ]

demon tweeks sell some ducts like those in various sizes dont know if any of them will fit a nicely tho. amazing build btw.

[philg]

got them from ebay. cant decide if i should get some yellow fogs for it or not though?

Yeah get the fogs, i will have the ducts off you, give me a shout if you do get rid of them.


phil

[jimmy_b]

nothing much has happened lately really to update about.

just been driving it and getting some miles on the new engine (400ish now)

the chequers have now been removed from the roof also and i hope that soon it shall be going in for a full respray with maybe some more suble changes.

why is it that you have loads of ideas on what to do, but by the time you actually get to do them, you have new ideas but its already too late?

[R5TURBORON]

amazing keep up the good work

[jimmy_b]

finally got round to sorting out the oil leak now ive finally found where it was from
it was leaking from the oil cooler sandwich plate and the radiator where the lower oil cooler pipe goes.

thanks to my bro it was an easy fix, as he gave me his external oil cooler as he was unlikely to use it.

will get some pics up tommorrow.

as for the respray, im still awaiting to hear a date when i can drop it off

[jimmy_b]

the pics

oil cooler sandwich plate with new unions



proposed position



all mounted and pipes routed