Who exactly did you ask?

Had an hour today so thought i would put my new manifold studs in.

to start things off the other day when i was taking off the exhaust manifold they were brilliant.
it is as if they were put on yesterday, undid with ease and not a spot of corrosion to be seen,
i just cracked them and then undid them with my fingers. certainly beats some which i have seen.




and then i abandoned them as it was going so well and i was getting bored to play with boost pipes.
clipped up my guage feed to the max ,, no leak here sir

Rocker cover gasket needed big time .

i wish my manifold studs came out that easy 2 broke before i even got the manifold off let alone taking the rest out of the head. but joe got the job done in no time and i was driving home before it was dark.

Hang on, you asked for a project thread and were going to give me some photo's to show me before I gave you permission. You said you only had access from your phone, to which I said you should be able to host the photo's via a photobucket app. You told me you would get back to me next week, which you didn't and removed yourself from the PM discussion. Nothing like missing some key parts to the story!

Surely the cost of bringing this back to health is gonna be way more than buying a good example for say £2k.

Hope you got it for a few hundred quid.

All in it comes up to around 2k. I know what your saying, wish I had abit.

Managed to get my cambelt done today. Beatiful day for it. Took me about half an hour.longest part of it was locating a tip X pen to mark the belt up with.. Kaboom
I also got all of the rust proofing done aswell giving it all 2 coats of primer, 2 coats of silver and 2 coats of clear, and it all looks great now,

Roll on friday when things can start going back into it,
Please can a mod change my pics with img popper as my phone is so gay its taken me best part of this evvening to load everything up. This is why I got hot and bothered at the mention of photobucket Begbie Thanks
Ps only top and middle pictures work,

Today managed to heat proof paint the manifold, and not a lot else.

Edit: The reason the 2nd 4th and 5th images don't work is that you have missed the end of the full photobucket link.

I think it was all that oil that made them come out so easily

That was what I thought. Suits me just fine having an oil leak if that's the end result.

Painted and looking brilliant,

New slam panel before refurb

these bolts took me half a packet of fags to get undone, using a pair of water pump pliers. pretty tough on the old forearms. lower rad support legs.

half way through the refurb, just after i had finished the top coat of clear i decided to kick it over and then try and catch it mid flight, missed! and now there is a hand print, huge smudge mark and a tear in the paint, that is when i finally gave up. i miss my coop

new stat and temp sensor

finally some holes that arent full of bolt


lower support beam fitted



more stuff fitted. stupid slam panel. everything is going back in now.





picked up new turbo yesterday, oil cooler pipes. , boost hose, coolant hoses, other bits and bobs should be running by friday i hope

she is now a non aircon coupe. not worth the extra effort of doing it i might add. unless you are extremely stupid or get joe to do it lol i wouldnt do it on my drive way again anyway.

well i have started doing all of the loom whilst i await the new mount.
or rather my girlfriend has, lol slam panel and bits fitted how the slam panel looked before i got ahold of it for a refurb. how it looks now.

lower cross member fitted

Looking good

Thank you very much

Very good mate!

Just don't remov the sum!!

What do you all think?

good work ..im doing the back of my car look under the rear arches behind the plastic tell me what you see

think some bits are missing

before anyone points out my

header tank return pipe hiding behind the injectors being wrong.
but thats how i want it. that stupid plastic panel clip on thing is gay,



as we stand today. everything is waiting on the cast mounting and water rail arriving, guy that i bought it off has gone MIA.

so i am just doing silly little jobs to burn the time away. like wrapping the loom,
do you have any idea how many cups of tea i had to make my misses whilst she was doing it haha

Arch liners
[/stuck record mode]

Looks good so far though.

lol what is with you saying take them off? i took one off to change the cambelt; why both?

Because they rub the body work at the front and back and that allows water to touch the shell and create rust.

Hence my car being full of holes and off the road and my house full of more coupé than I thought possible.

so your saying take them off? probably the last thing i would do, are you actually serious?

When Jef Jack talks about rust he goes very quiet, slightly quivery and deadly serious.

Check: >> Tin beetle Attack!! <<

Not permenantly just remove them, remove any rust, underseal them and then put them back on...

ah got you now. yeah ill do that tomorrow then as i have nothing else i can do until this crazy cat gets back in touch with me about my parts i have paid for then heard nothing back.thanks for pressing this home jef/mario

see one
two

to change the clutch or not? hmmmm i dunno, is there an inspection hatch in the bell housing?

10/3/11 COMPRESSION TEST
1. 168 psi
2. 170 psi
3. 171 psi
4. 169 psi
5. 169 psi

25/3/11 CAMBELT + TENSIONERS fitted


Parts fitted 27/3/11

GT28B hybrid TURBO-staggered seals,360 degree bearings.
Radiator (valeo)
SMIC – off a 55k coupe
Front discs and pads ( Brembo)
Oil cooler + pipes
Thermostat + temp sensor (aftermarket)
Non air-con Cast mount (Not arrived yet)
Non air-con water rail (Not arrived yet)
Flexi boost hose
Coolant hoses
Boost hoses 8mm
Lower crossmember
Slam panel
Battery tray
Fan bracket (powder coated)
Boost guage

Thats the parts list so far

probably looking at a clutch once everything is running and she is remapped