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Looking brilliant mate! You definately got it up to a high standard now
Always liked the electric blue 5, best colour it come in
Looking real good
Niceone everyone much appreciated
Mark it will be even better once you have done that engine work for megot everything that you need
Car looking good, your going to run out of things to mess with soon.The stickers really finish off the look.
Still will be busy, my mate just bought a black gtt the other day needs a lot of work plus I have my Williams one that needs restoring but I'm not ready for that yet maybe next year
Got to love the stickers
Managed to change my steering joint and bottom ball joints also found out my rear shocks have had itgot some on order should hopefully be here today
Changed the shocks to some Sachs super touring, stiffer then standard setup saying that the shocks that came off were quite stiff, the passenger side was ok not leaking oil but the rubbers were fooked old Spax by the look of them.
Took my front pads out as they were so noisy when braking so gave everything a clean and put some copper slip on the back of the pads, I know up rated pads are noisy so hopefully this works
Also got some seat plastics as my inner ones on my car were missing
Fitted my inside covers so I now have all 4 the inside of my car is complete now
Gave the car and wheels a final gloss wax, car is now ready for FCS took it for a good spin all seems sweet
See you all tomo let's hope it does not rain to much
Cracking 5 mate
Looking good dude
I need to do the ball joints on mine soon, flagged up as an advisory on the MOT yesterday.
The seats arent supposed to have the plastic on the inside but it definitely tidies it up a lot
A bit off topic but that G3 Turbo Detailer is awful
Cheers guy nice seeing you again Scratcher retro day was a good day out
Right time to update a few pictures of the car at FCS
A few things I bought that day mostly of mike some switches new starter motor heat shield and a tow eye as mine are missing
On the way back I broke down on the m6 manage to get it started after half hour think it was tdc sensor playing up
After breaking down thought I would invest in a new tdc sensor
I fitted this the night before retro day at Santa pod so was hoping this was the problem as my test run was going to pod In the morningluckily I got there and back with no problems
Few photos at retro day Santa pod.
Great day out
So over the last 8 months or so I have been collecting engine upgrades
Hybrid turbo
Oil cooler with thermostat
Also got a piper 270 cam going in with this lot so with mark working his magic hopefully be getting a rapid little car back by next week
looking sweet
, decided to go your colour when i vinyl wrap my car, my monaco leather seats would look nice if the body was that colour.
Cheers mate look forward to seeing yours wrapped
Little update Mark still has the 5 as my liners were shot so I thought I would get some new liners and piston set also a bottom end gasket set, valve stem seals and a rev limiter.
So everything is now with Mark
So instead off getting it back and having a boost around I'm going to have to drive like a granny for 500 odd miles oh well better get road trip organised
New bottom end Dre, bet you cant wait to get it run in and give it large!
Been a while since i have updated got my car back a few weeks back engine all done also got Mark to change my gear box oil
i will start from a few months ago
when i saw my car when dropping some parts to Mark
some bottom end bearings
Refurbed mani as my studs on my old one had seen better days.
This is the update from Mark
Head is complete with new valve guides fitted, valves checked and lapped in, all new gaskets and new manifold fitted bottom end to do next.
As i said earlier car back a few weeks ago after engine rebuild and new turbo, cams etc fitted. I first done about 90 miles then changed the oil and filter plus I fitted a gold plug the magnet is super strong.
I then took the car for a nice drive before it went away for the winter months
Few pictures drive down to Brighton from luton then back up to my parents house in London where the 5 has a nice double garage to its self
Next was to give the car a deep clean so on Boxing Day I went all out and spent about 5 hrs on it
Months of dirt and grime
First i cleaned engine bay
next took off grill and washed cleaned wheels in the alley then clay bar the whole car
the goods
next resin polish and clean windows inside and out
then a final gloss wax and treat all my rubbers window sills etc
got some damp bags for the 5 to
Car lock on and away for the winter.
I have done 300 miles since the engine rebuild, going to change the oil and filter again at 500 miles next year when back on road then at about 800 miles I'm going to take it back to Mark to fully build my carb and up the boost
You treat it really well mate, stunning car as always!!
Thanks mate can't wait till Its fully run in and I can give it a good boost
WOW stunning love elecy blue, top work well done
Lovely car mate and there's more fun ahead!
The bay looks nice and tidy. Mark knows what he's doing in there
That clay looks rank! It must have been well overdue.
Originally Posted by James5
WOW stunning love elecy blue, top work well done
Woznaldo can't wait roll on spring
Hello mate yeah Mark took it all apart as it was in abit of mess lol done a good jobThe bay looks nice and tidy. Mark knows what he's doing in there
That clay looks rank! It must have been well overdue.
That was just the bonnet with clay bar bring that dirty lol
Jeez, you remembered to wash the car first... haha
It looks like it has a nice little den to hibernate in now, warm and dry.
Yeah washed it and leathered it before hand to lol the bonnet was the worse to the rest of the car to tell the truth.
Car has an nice place to live now Instead of having a car cover on it back at my house
Have to sort out a little meet and drive to ace cafe on a few months
Steve just bought a raider the other day to
Yeah, definitely. There's a retro rides meet in Milton Keynes that'll start up again when it gets warmer.
I'm tempted to go to Ace this month.
I would be up for going to a Milton Keynes meet to mate
What date is as cafe again been that long since I have been
Very nice and well taken care of
Cheers mate hopefully years of boosting
Lovely looking 5, I do like that blue colour....
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