Project Truck Turbo MkII, gathering dust

[Jenkosowls]

Alls good then matey time to get setting the lad up once its on the road

[ozonehostile]

Alls good then matey time to get setting the lad up once its on the road

its going to be on an extremely mild tune until i can get some forged rods, wouldnt want to undo everything ive done so far immediately lol

[Pugmarshall]

Running thanks to who?

She's going to be interesting, that's for sure...

[ozonehostile]

Il hopefully get the next big chunk of work on it done 2moz after sorting the sedan out, had a week off from it and pugfest is fast approaching!

but yeah thanks luke! haha

[ozonehostile]

Man i havnt updated this for ages....

anyway, been working quietly away in the background, not huge amounts of work have happened due to busy times with work and the trouble i've been having with the sedan after destroying the suspension in a pothole, anyway, bad news

It won't make pugfest or fcs. the car is 99% done apart from aesthetic things like lowering and bumpers but the sad fact is that I simply cannot afford to get it on the road this month. we can all thank the government for that for raping £123 of us for 6 months of tax, add mot and insurance to that and its just impossible to get it done by next week anyway.

its not a bad thing however, as a couple of you I talk to regularly will know I have some pretty awesome new developments in the works that might happen sooner now that the pressure is off to get it finished this month. watch this space

[Frosty]

Shame it won't be done in time for the shows mate! We will defo have to sort a meet when both of us have got the d turbos finish

[ozonehostile]

Ooh I haven't updated this for a while.

Anyway. The car is 95 percent done, it runs, it's full of fluids, it's on 4 wheels.

Still left to do is finish the wiring, finish fitting the brakes, lower the beam, fit intercooler and pipes, paint some bits, fit bucket seats and harnesses. Tax and mot. Done.
How it stands now

[Ricky]

Have you sorted a V60 or whatever its called out yet? I keep forgetting to get it sorted!

[Frosty]

And that's 95% done lol. Still got a few bits to so then. When you think you will have it on the road?

[ozonehostile]

Have you sorted a V60 or whatever its called out yet? I keep forgetting to get it sorted!

No, I forgot about it too until now lol. The cars moving to my dad's workshop soon so il sort it out then

[Piggy]

you were 99% done a few posts ago...
what happened to the 4%¿?

[silverzx]

Looking good mate, will be good to see this flying up the gorge with (the wrong) smoke clouds.

[ozonehostile]

you were 99% done a few posts ago...
what happened to the 4%¿?

Fabrication issues haha

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And that's 95% done lol. Still got a few bits to so then. When you think you will have it on the road?

I've just bought a 106 rallye to be going on with, but truck tub should be finished by September :-)

[Frosty]

Ideal, I hope to have my d turbo on the road for 1st September

[Piggy]

1/9/13 for me too!

[ozonehostile]

Ideal, I hope to have my d turbo on the road for 1st September

I'm so copying your intercooler setup btw :-)

Jimbo is sorting me out a phase win black front too so will look a little more finished with a front bumper back on

[ozonehostile]

Finally an update of sorts.

Basically why this has taken so long is that I've fallen out with my brother in law who I was sharing a workshop with and consequently access to the car and my stuff has been somewhat difficult.

Finally rescued the car and my parts last night and got it to my own unit.

Really pissed off about the battle scars the truck tub now bears as a result of the disagreement, no pictures of it, but my last update it was running but has gone backward from here as a result of having a wheel and driveshaft ripped off in an act of retaliation and ran without an oil feed connected which has resulted in the sump emptying £50 of race oil onto the floor.

Back in my hands now at least.



Battle scars


Lots of deep scratches and scuffs on the roof too

And in a safe new location


The estate helped too lol

[Midnightclub]

Wow.. what a bellend! Take him to small claims and get him to pay for the repairs, petty vandalism is no way to solve an argument..

[ozonehostile]

Wow.. what a bellend! Take him to small claims and get him to pay for the repairs, petty vandalism is no way to solve an argument..

We've come to an agreement that he owes me £1300 for the stuff he stole off me which is what this was about anyway, add a new rear bumper, ester synthetic oil, coolant and gear oil to that and possibly respraying the roof

[Midnightclub]

Shame it came to it but at least you're gunna be getting you're stuff back anyway, be good when this is finished man

[ozonehostile]

Shame it came to it but at least you're gunna be getting you're stuff back anyway, be good when this is finished man

Yeah I'm much more enthusiastic about it now it's by my house :-)

Just sucks having to repair things that weren't broken originally. Feels like such a setback

[Midnightclub]

Think of it this way, at least you'll be 100% sure there's nothing wrong with them! Instead of getting the roof painted.. could get it wrapped?

[Piggy]

what a retard.

shame despite him paying for the stuff.

[Dum-Dum]

What a bastard, hope the engine and turbo are ok having been run out of oil.

[puglove]

ohhh dear this is why you should always have your own work shop :/

[Frosty]

Good to see an update mate. Shame to hear about the other bits as well.

You got a date in mind for this being on the road?

[ozonehostile]

Good to see an update mate. Shame to hear about the other bits as well.

You got a date in mind for this being on the road?

Whenever it's done really. I planned to have it finished by November really but I'm so disheartened about having to work backwards and sorting bodywork etc that I'm just gonna work away at it until it's done I think. Be pretty quickly though considering it's round the corner from home

[Ricky]

Poor car :-(

[ozonehostile]

Spent an evening working on the car, really not much left to do now



all wiring is pretty much done, fans, lights, gauges etc
suspension all sorted, just need to pick up some new droplinks on payday

also need to wait until payday to do the brakes as I need some copper pipe to replace the line that snapped trying to undo the union

getting there though

[Piggy]

I got a gti front arb with two new links for sale

well done with the progress chap

is your turbo mani just bolted onto standard xud manifold??