My money pit. Or at least one of them. This is a small soundbite of the last few (many) years. The car has been a complete legend reliability wise despite me screwing the life out of it at every opportunity.... I have to clean tyre rubber off the bumpers FFS. It just sucks it up and asks for no more than routine maintenance.
I dragged this car from a scrap yard after a fire around the turn of the century.
Then I bought this disaster:
And shelled it into the crispy fried one.
Retro car show main stand a few years back after it was featured in the magazine:
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It was then left stood for long enough to go mouldy after the arrival of childrens (expensive little buggers aint they!). I bought my firstborn back from the hospital in this car:
I bunged a rather large intercooler at the front:
New Plenum:
Lobbed a bucket seat in and stripped the inside out.
And made this from the leftover leather seat, for GT5 fun:
Not quite sure what I was doing here:
I do, however, know what I was doing here(Yes, 4wd) :
2L NA front end fitted as the 2-cell Turbo lights didnt fit with my intercooler:
Milestone (ish):
Relocated battery:
Filled battery space with a swirl pot and pump:
Changed the brakes (again) after a disc nearly broke in half:
Decided I best upgrade the brakes. The car is wholly too fast for measly 285mm discs and i'm really struggling to maintain high speeds when chasing my buddies F-RS/Atom/Fezzer/RS4/Vantage.
It also has a 38mm external wastegate and screamer pipe, mild hybrid T3 with a cossie back end with the wastegate welded up, a 3" turbo back mandrel bent exhaust and a few other tweaks around the car.
Coming back from Scoff's place after the Adaptronic was wired in, finally. I say finally, as I bought my unit almost ten years ago when Dave G was dealing them. It's taken me this long to get it fitted
So. It's running on an internally standard J7R, OE management, OE fuelling and everything. The engine has never been apart from leaving the factory. It pulls like a nutter....I took this but the delay on the camera lot me a few mph after I lifted off. I hit the button at 150....and it does this regularly (on a private road of course).
Bazzing around France with it's friends:
The new engine destined for the bay has been around about eight years in development and building, mainly because of the cripplingly expensive, bespoke parts, and the arrival of a mortgage and 2 kiddies along the way.
More to follow shortly.
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