coop needs a fixing.this is my new badger that needs quite a bit of work on her, is this anyones old coop? still original turbo and clutch after 120k,, huge part list needed.<moderator> Hint: there's a parts wanted section.


got a electrical issue as the wipers dont work, can bananas spot the problem

Has it been running without an undertray?

I ended up getting my rad support powder coated for longevity and I always use stainless fasteners on non critical bits, again to stop rust being an issue later, but those are the rustiest oil pipes I've seen!

Good luck!

That's a good set of "before" photos.
Are you taking it apart or did it come like that?

Jason - did you buy this from Swansea area by chance?

Hmmm...seems familiar Dan .....lucky escape I think

It was the wheels Jon, and the tidy looking exterior. Not the dogs dinner interior

This is the most expensive car I never bought....
£250 cost of travel to and from Swansea
£250 show in London compensation for the wife for dragging her halfway across the UK for a complete waste of time.
Seeing the photo's of the rust...priceless!

Jason,

I believe this was the car I viewed back in October...it was advertised on PH and after a number of long discussions with the owner about how good the car was...I took the decision to travel from Crawley to buy the car..the plan being to drive it back....

Needless to say I didn't buy the car...not as described has never been so true.....I hope you paid significantly less than it was advertised for...good luck with your project

haha well guys this is interesting.. yes swansea area,, this is the coop that blew its turbo big style all of a sudden after a week of owning it,, rust is pretty shit on the parts shown,, otherwise shell is super,, and yeah got a super price on it,, what was it advertised at on PH top off your head though, haha

oh and im currently taking it apart,, it came running, but blew the turbo badly a week ago skinflint
oh and by the way. Barnacle haha changing one of my words to banana was pretty funny

From memory, I think it was £1500....I didn't expect too much as I was after a rolling restoration.......however when you turn up to buy a car...you at least expect the vendor to be there rather than leaving it with his wife..

...oh and that the car would at least have legal tyres with a decent amount of pressure...and the battery to have some life....when I eventually managed to get it started, it was chucking large amounts of water out of the exhaust and had very little coolant in the expansion tank.

The dash was interesting with the centre console being a lovely sticky mess and the interior smelt of wet dog......apart from that it was ok body wise (shot blasted bonnet excepted - never seen so many stone chips).....and the slam panel...I put my finger through it oh and the rad was leaking .....not quite as described

right. so the parts list to get this badger running again.

all brackets need sanding and metal plating as they are shagged

all belts.
changing it to non aircon for ease of working on it. i am tired of removing the aircon pump everytime i work on my coupes.(like my space) should have bought a diesel golf.
turbo- 360 bearings
radiator-valeo
coolants hoses-viper
boost hoses- fixed 5 leaks before i gave up(including flexi)
lower radiator cross member-primed and good to go
front discs-standard discs
battery tray- mint 6 speed tray with cable brackets
thermostat
temp sensor
water pump
oil cooler pipes- cooler is fine
front bumper-only if its a bargain- steel grey please
both battery terminals- both are mashed
every hose clip i can get to.
new horns


every bolt that i have taken out needs replacing wither because i have had to drill them out or use the moly grips on them. it would be horrible to put any of them back in. including earth connections which were a state.
rust proofing the engine bay.

lots of other bits. cant get the bumper off to get the slam panel off as the phillips screws are rusted well and trully.

New radiator arrived this morning. Thanks ruebs for pointing me in the right direction, its so beautiful.
I'm going to be an even more excited mess when more interesting things start arriving.

That is a fair old project you've taken on! Good luck mate .....

Thanks matey. Good news on your Mot aswell. You have pm

Bumper off today and apart from snapping the lower rad crossmember in half because the bolts are to rusted. All is well.. towers holding both coolers are surprisingly good nick, hopefull next job is engine mounts then get the cambelt changed and scrub that off to do list. Any cleaning tips for scrubbing an engine clean that's had an oil leak?

How did you get the bumper screws off?

I tend to use a pressure washer on thick oil. It just cuts it off to leave shiny paint - very satisfying

Hi..I just got rough with the screws with a pair of water pump pliers, and lots of wd40 to wash rust out as bolts were coming out. There's not a bit of shiny paint on this attrocity lol and everything is very water sensitive right now so can't use a pressure washer.

I use Gunk/Jizor or similar and a variety of stiff brushes. I have a litre bottle of water...the type with a top similar to a washing up liquid bottle....that allows me to direct a restricted jet of water to dilute the cleaner. I wrap any liquid sensitive companents in a plastic freezer bag sealead with a wire twist and cover any area i want to protect with Copious amounts of rags.

With a bit of elbow grease...it works pretty well for me...

Jon

rust treatment started today old lower radiator crossmember
oil leak straight down and filled the intercooler up

Get those wheel arch liners off.

Get yourself some blue steel, cover bare areas or rusty areas and it will never rust again. Amazing stuff.

rust has been removed with good old elbow grease and primed over front right close up
looks ok to me. front left
front right

and thats all i could manage today before i got annoyed and fell asleep. just the top bit has been done. im scared to touch the cooler pillars.
and i still have to drill out the lower rad crossmember bolts. all 4 of them,

spent an hour today just finishing up the corners and sanded down the new lower rad crossmember. then primed and painted it,.
cambelt change is happening on tuesday once i get a day off. and then try and get the new turbo and decent cooler pipes picked up so i can swoon over them.

This is good stuff, keep it up!

you should put this in the projects thread area mate. good work doesnt look to bad after all

Well I have asked the right people and was put off by being recommended to use photobucket to host pics,. However now with new job means I can use a computer all night.,. oh well I don't have a problem it being here, it might get moved now and then I can remove the stupid title of rust bucket.

I have a coupe in with me now thats on the original:-
Radiator
Turbo
Thermostat
CHOD
Clutch
Cambelt

And is on 135K.
I have never seen a cambelt in such poor condition.
But who says they arent reliable
Other than the clutch slipping,the cambelt shredding,the Chod leaking,the turbo smoking,the thermostat sticking open and the radiator leaking all the above are as good as new

Ps did you manage to get the PS pump off?

Hi mate, got the pump off no problem, its just the alloy mount support that I can't still get off

Your battle against the tin beetle is going well, keep it up Zimpy

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

trying to put as much together as i can without actually having 2 pretty relevant parts,
i think im giong to be happy with this coupe after this is all finished. wont be a show piece but she will be good nick

Is that your internet banking calculator pin thingy on the rocker cover?
Costing you that much already ey

looks like a barclays Pinsentry R082192203.

Maybe he's trying to connect startrek to it for a home made reading.

I hear you can reset the airbag light is the R082192203 Model

Jesus, that's amusing, NO I'm not using my pin sentry as star trek FFS

So what you using it for
Flat edge?

Sanding block actually lol

coupes just been sat there today, with me looking at it greedily, nothing more i can do apart from sort out some minot paint issues on the slam panel.

Im so bored. i want to get a move on with it. And i cant because an engine mount is taking ages to get to me,.

so iv decided to keep her off the road a bit longer than planned, do some extra work,
do the clutch,
get some new shocks and springs on her,
Try and find an intercooler that meets my requirements.



make everything look really nice in the engine bay,
and then maybe just about catch onto the end of SPA.

Youve got a lovely colour there zimpy

loving this thread Zimp, bet youre getting lots of satisfaction too!

Iv found the intercooler I have been looking for. Its sitting in my kitchen picked it up today

Given the, um, lack of distinction between household and garage items in your house, it's probably being used as a plate-rack by the missus already!

well after humming and harring about it, iv finally decided to do the full monty,.

on taking out the gearbox today i thought i would take off the inlet manifold and shine it up,. took off the cooland hose of DEATH, and just look at it>>


my coupe COULD HAVE DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
totally unexpected.

That should be ok to put back on mate.

Do as I did with a boost pipe... cover up with Tec7. Although mine was meant to just take me home.

im sure the water pressure at 100 degree celsius is slightly more than 1.2 bar that your air hose would have seen lol

plus or minus so far, engine mount and water rail still not arrived yet.

I've been dogged by waiting for various bit 'n' bobs. Reading this thread is like my own blog (see below). Most of the front end done but having to replace the petrol tank due to straps rusted away at the moment.

Found loads more rust on subframe and rear suspension on removing bumper to access the tank easier when will it end

you know whats really wierd is i found your blog a while back mate,. looks good.

no meat at all left on this plate. and it was falling apart


this box was quite a pig to get out,

here is a few pointers if you are thinking about doing your own clutch.
when taking out the drive shafts, the 8 mm allen key bolts, dont bother playing around with an L shape allen key,
get down to halfords and buy a 1/2 inch drive allen socket, did the job in 10 minutes where it had taken me half a day to get 3 bolts out.

follow the how too or workshop manual and leave the mounts on till the end.

buy a rather big lever,crowbar or big fat screw driver to help with the seperations

£140 for a Valeo clutch from buypartsby.

thanks dude, putting a GTI-r on here with the dream of running 300bhp so need something thats going to last many years at that power. got a 6paddle now

Cleaned up the fuel rail and plenum.

keeping the look standard.

you need to do that, other wise you can hurt your self!!



you should be able wiggle but a screw driver/leaver will help!!

new 6 paddle clutch

I take my hat off to you for your sheer determination and tenacity Jason....having seen the car close up before you bought it...and walked away, you were a brave man to take it on!

Good luck with the beastie...I'm looking forward to seeing you and the car at meets this year

Jon

Look what I found on youpoop. A video of our own Zimpara.

Coupe Video

And look what I found

Slam panel looks great here, right? http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204316.jpg

But close up http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204334.jpg mmmmmm, painted rust. From the rear http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204433.jpg

Mint rad cross member? http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204539.jpg

Nope, you guseed it, more painted rust http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204544.jpg

Everything is painted, even the gearbox lol http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204355.jpg

Which does beg the question what was he going to use this for? http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204448.jpg thank christ I got to her before he used it. I do wonder what he was going to paint luminous pink though. Anyone?

Battery relocated neatly in the boot http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204621.jpg

Boost gauge seamlessly integrated in to the dash http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af176/jhollingsworth78/2011-07-09204517.jpg

There's more but this will have to do for now

After what he did to his Bravo it doesn't really surprise me to be honest

Good greif. I hadn't seend that before. Staggering.

LOL.

Joe, where did you get those pics?

Joe has now got the car, so has taken the photos himself

Any reason he bought it?

That's the same fluorescent paint I painted 2 of my Spa wheels with Joe!

And those that have seen my car can vouch for the quality of the finish this gives!!

He chopped it in against Laura's Porto, which is probably lime green by now and had a lada riva front end grafted on.

Has it got the team dynamic wheels still?

Yes mate they're in the for sale section.

Hold on for a second, is this a piss-take?

No its not. But also it should'nt be.

How do you mean?

You're right 'magooagain' it shouldn't be.

I didn't realise the point of the thread.

Why did he get rid of it after he did all that work to it

It never ran again.



In fairness pal,sympathy for him has gone now from a stunt pulled recently to a member.

Also at least this coupe is keeping others on the road..and as far as we know laura's is still running.