Bit of a milestone for the car yesterday, I finished fitting the subframe, crossmember and suspension and towed it back up the garden to its new "home" a 3mx6m car port. But before I tucked it away I gave it a good wash
I think it's off a FH12 although could be wrong haha So after fitting my be front brakes I realised 15's weren't going to clear at all so swapped the gottis for some 16" schmidts which I have now split down. Fronts were 8's and rears are 8.5's so rebuilding the 8.5's and buying 3.5" lips for the 8's. Got some gold spike bolts and flat caps coming for them too. And after a good polish up with meguiars all metal polish:
Well it's been a while since I last posted, mainly due to saving up again to buy more parts. The schmidts were sold and some 16" BBS RS faces, waffles, nuts, bolts, centre caps and hex's were bought, they are 5x114.3 so will need plugging and redrilling to 4x100. I then tested them on the wilwood 6 pots Since last time I also bought my PnP lugtronic management and 830cc injectors Then I have slowly been buying parts to finish the engine and gearbox so that includes a TT 2mm oversized valve kit, new lifters and I'm looking at DRC 268 cams. I then found on Facebook a kamei bonnet scoop and hella spoiler going cheap so jumped on them and found Julien, a guy in France making fibreglass wide arches which will enable me to run 10j all round with low offsets and meaty tyres Also bought an OBP pedal box so I need to weld up the master cylinder and clutch master holes in the firewall. Can't think of anything else but more proper progress shots coming soon!
Project is looking serious Have you got any better pictures of teh wide arches? pretty damn intrigued??
I'm sorry mate but I haven't got any more pictures, I haven't even unwrapped them yet. If you go to www.ninety-parts.com all the info is there and that is where you can buy them from. The guy is called Julien he's French and the arches are basically exact replicas of the voomeran arches. Cheers
Well today I didn't do a great deal as my arm is still recovering but I welded my turbo oil return bung onto my sump and give it a lick of paint.
Not really a great update but I'm currently spraying up lots of parts and also these arrived so I can finish building my engine Got a 2mm TT big valve kit, under drive pulley setup and some DRC 268 cams Also bought this so I can ditch the brake servo and clutch master cylinder
Thanks mate stuff is starting to get going again, Finished painting up a few pieces today but lots more to go....
Started building the engine up again today, got the oil pump bolted up and sump on and then built up the crank and flywheel ends of the engine. I then finished off with the accessory bracket and water pump.
Well I didn't get any pictures but my cylinder head is away at the machine shop getting the new seats and big valve head kit installed, they have also taken the 02m diff to drill the rivets out the crown wheel and also reinforce the shift forks. I have ordered a wavetrac diff with ARP hardware from my good friend Matt at onlychargeddubs so will get pictures on the rebuild.
Last few days I had been thinking long and hard over the engine bay and whether I had done the best job I could of done and the answer was no lol So with that I have decided to flat back the bed liner and spray it properly with the new car colour, but since I was starting to put a lot of effort back into the engine bay things spiralled and so I have now been welding up all the holes on the firewall including the heater box, brake servo etc Progress is slow but I feel as if the engine bay deserves some colour and I will feel better every time I open the bonnet
Got the bay grinded down and first lot of filler laid down, sanded and quickly etch primed so I can see what else needs doing, been a productive few days but a long way to go yet Came home to find these though Schimmel oil filter housing so I only get clean oil to the turbo and can use spin on filters along with their short runner ht leads
Only a little update I'm afraid, got most of the engine bay in high build primer but finished late and the lighting Is rubbish for a picture. My dutchbuild front engine mount arrived today and very pleased with it.
Bit of a late update but I have taken the plunge and I'm going to be fitting a complete haldex conversion into the car. I have bought the complete running gear out of an Audi s3 and will hopefully be collecting a shortened haldex rear cradle which is fully polybushed and the correct width for a mk2 Also sprayed the bay in a coat of high build primer ready to work on it again on Wednesday.
Finished sanding back the bed liner and sprayed all the engine bay in two coats of high build primer, a little more sanding and one more coat it should be ready for colour
