Project hopeful, no will power

[bashbarnard]

It was all fresh. Never had an issue I the sedan. The shell of this car I basically bought off some guy living in a trailer. God knows what he was running it on before me. Thankfully the engine was buggered and i swapped it out for my written off sedan.

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Also its had a full tank of derv through it now so back to veg on Sunday

[bashbarnard]

WOOP HAVE SENT PAYMENT FOR THE 2.1. LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT.

[Dum-Dum]

Yay, welcome to the club

[Piggy]

Sod off Dumdum! We kicked you out when you turned to gasoline

[bashbarnard]

im buzzing for this to arrive. its gonna suck i have to wait until my insurance is up plonk it in. i think its april sometime

[Toms306]

Nice one! If you want a hand with it feel free to ask.

[bashbarnard]

plan is to build it all up. then when ive got which weekend in april im putting it in at my garage. im sure i can invite a few peeps up and get a disposable barbie going out the back.

[bashbarnard]

Few things today. My engine is now with the courier on the way. cant wait.

Replaced a seatbelt for mot purposes. Although my boss is determined to find something wrong with my car. Which he wont.

I've now sanded two wheels down out of four. Hammerite is a horrendous ungodly paint that should never touch wheels. Also got the rest of my paint through for them.

Also going to fit my spare brakes tomorrow as I've got some 266mm lying about. Which I'm sure will be good enough for the 2.1 with good discs and pads

Also got my spacers on the way. Hubcentric of course.

[7057sam]

Yeah used to used hammerite,but just found it impossible to work with even when I was getting it free from work.Just gave to my mates in the end.

I did use a mouse type sander which was excellent,really did save so much time.

A bbq/engine meet sounds epic I'm shure I could get will to come down aswell.

[bashbarnard]

So its here. The 2.1. Its sooo preeetttyyy. pictures later.

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Also got my gt2259 for sale to fund my front mount I need.

[bashbarnard]

So got this onto my "bench" and started stripping bits this evening cause I had an hour spare. Removed belt covers and checked timing was ok. Wound her over by hand to check no valves hitting the pistons. Will take head off anyway. Removed Bosch pump that was on it. Removed all the auxiliary's and brackets that I don't need on front ready for my phase one setup I have to go on.

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Benched engine

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Removed the bits I don't need.

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Also spare Bosch pump now. I now have three.

[bashbarnard]

Phase one lower bracket on. Bosch pump bracket on alternator on. Pas pump on. Productive dinner break id say

[Frosty]

Good to see you got the engine ok. Your not wasting any time with cracking on with it

[bashbarnard]

I've got 6 weeks of dinner breaks to get it done ready to go in. I'm assuming the head gasket was ok. Wondering arm if its worth pulling head off.

[Frosty]

It should be fine but if it was me i would prob take it apart and replace it while the engine is out. Just depends how much money you want to spend on it

[bashbarnard]

I have limited cash atm. Hopefully my turbo will sell freeing up some cash.

[bashbarnard]

So I'm rocking the 1000 mile between washs look and the horrid wheels as I need legal tyres while I'm refurbishing mine. Soon to be back clean and awesome.

[Paul_13]

Nile estate fwends

[bashbarnard]

So the wheels are now in primer. These have taken basically an entire week to sand the hammerite off and prep. 24 hours wait to flat sand these and spray top coat on getting there

[Dum-Dum]

Sod off Dumdum! We kicked you out when you turned to gasoline

Shut it slag, I have the best of all worlds.

FWD petrol high reving hatch
RWD turbo drift bus
4WD diesel tow/rescue truck

[bashbarnard]

Drift bus? Have I missed something?

[procta]

Drift bus? Have I missed something?

his bit trike he made,

[bashbarnard]

Obviously. Forgot about that. Though it was another car for some reason. Love a good drift trike.

[Piggy]

Yet he is still single and lonely

[bashbarnard]

So trying to get insurance quotes with the engine change declared at the mo. we will see how that goes. cheapest on comparison sight was £900 im sure we can do better than that with some modified company's. have mailed greenlight so far. thats it

[procta]

brentacre a call

[Piggy]

Second for brentacre. Those guys know what your talking about! Email greg@brentacre.co.uk and say I (James Rewell aka piggy from 306oc) reccomended them. Hope we (306oc) can get a discount code at some point!

Forgot to mention. Take the rear lower thermostat out! Just run the usual xud type one at top!

[bashbarnard]

I'll email brentcare with my details tomorrow.

I am taking the rear one out. Was going to see if the rear housing from the xud9 fits on it as well as I have a spare.

[Piggy]

Er no.

[procta]

I'll email brentcare with my details tomorrow.

I am taking the rear one out. Was going to see if the rear housing from the xud9 fits on it as well as I have a spare.

They should be able to cover you mate, I think I have been with them for 3 nearly 4 years now. Got the two motors through them now.
What they will do is cap you on engine mods, ie set a certain BHP, that you have to stick to and that's it.