Pugsley-Marie

[P-Courty]

Its bin a while so thought i'd make a progress thread, so here's the story so far.
Had a 1.1 saxo as my first car and when that died my cousin offered me her car for £400, 45000 miles, x reg, 1.4 meridian. Decided to buy it of her and use it as "just a work car, no messing with it". Didn't last long took it straight home and started seeing what i could utilise before scrapping the Saxo.
Get ready for a major pic whoring.

1st stop petrol station









Thats how i baught her now for the picture heavy updates ...

Debadged, dewipered

Induction from the saxo

Light upgrade 6500K

Magnex back box (yes looks huge but fits perfect)

Cut the old olive off

Weld it onto the new exhaust for a straight fit

Weld the old hangers on again for a straight fit

Decided to put the Saab Ronal alloys on with spacers and extended bolts, exhaust on aswel


A few pics
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Started a bit of painting with the old paint left over from the saxo.








A few subs won't harm too much

Couple more shots



Bye bye centre box


Left the car outside work and got the tire stabbed

Heading to a meet in preston an the coilpack gave in

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Just a big tree at Cheshire Oaks

Oil breather filter on

Dvd player from my old saxo

What the dash likes to do on cold mornings

Few photos after a good clean

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Oil breather filter ripped through its own hose (should of known really, Halfords)

New green cotton one will do also some nice stiffer Spax shocks

Oil breather fitted

Sticker bomb

Angel eyes

Decided to fit them as it was getting dark (as you do)

Found out why my car looked like a jeep, the spring clamps didn't work so had to use a hydrolic clamp at a mates garage to get them off

Looked a bit better, needed alloys again

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And then this happened fire started down at the gear box earth which, not until after this happened, i found out the crimps come loose which is common. It was sparking against the gearbox and must of lit something. It basically welded the driveshaft and gearbox together and melted the wiring harness and a bit of the inlet manifold.

So got towed home on a 17 mile journey by my mate who decided this sign would liven things up!

Thought that while the car was off the road would start changing a few bits of colour







I then baught a little Tigra to get around while i tracked down a gearbox, loom, inlet and driveshaft to get it back on the road. This took 6 months!! mainly finding the gearbox for the right price.

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Skip forward from 2012 to 2015-2016 (as can't be bothered trawling through the pics on the laptop of the other bits, only really painted the bottom grill purple to match, and baught an Escort estate for work, car was kind of on the back burner for sometime) I had white vtr wheels on which didn't look right, and then decided to start doing things a bit different.

Alfa Romeo 156 T-Spark (momo oem) did have the rears in aswel but took them out to make room for something else Had to remove the rails off the Alfa seats and use some lengths of steel to make a subframe to sit on the pug rails as the Alfa seats funnilly are wider but the rails are closer together, all in all the fronts were in in just a day the rears though took 2 weekends measuring, cutting, test fitting etc. will try and find a pic with them all in, and they would fold down aswel still fully functional. Also the fronts slide on the pug rails and height adjust on the Alfa lifter, also the seat belt tensioner fits on the side perfectly.




Got rid of the old springs after they snapped and upgraded a bit



Following on with the outside new wheels bolts etc all happened back in 2013








Inside




Still got the old drivers seat, made some great use of it

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Preparing for Pure Rally London to Edinbrough 2016






Also it has done this a fair few times since 2012 just thought i would add on, who needs a van anyway but rear beam is looking a little worse for wear now.

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Finally upto yesturday, this is what my day consisted of

Seens as the car overheated at the tip the other day and took a pee all over the floor i decided i've had enough of relying on the air con/blower/temp sensor to switch my fans on. This is the third time they have decided not to come on at a crucial moment.

So i have a print out of the wiring and parts, looks nice and complicated, so decided all i want is the fans to have 3 options, off, half speed, full speed, and will get rid of the air con rad (as like most of you know it never works!) and get 2 slimline fans instead.

So basically the fans are wired in parallel for full speed off seperate fused supplies and the crossover relay is there to switch them to a series setup (power split between both motors) creating half speed to both.<br />

On the phone i have an active trial circuit setup to work on how to have both half speed, both full speed and both off.