see i would do this....but i would be fucked getting all those wires back in the right places...

Take plenty of pictures before you start ;)

Really like the cage in this. Decided on the future plans engine wise?

Paint it and leave it out :p the carpet has a good amount of weight!!!

He has plenty of power to make up for it. ;)

kEEP THE CARPET. lol

Carpet is definitely staying :D Its not like id notice the 3kg id save by leaving the carpet out anyway! May replace it with lightweight carpet some point in the future though :)

Depends how things go with my visa and how things go work wise once im back out in oz tbh (if i get the visa). Either full rebuild with over 200+ bhp NA, or lob a new sandy head with 734 cams in onto my bottom end and aim for 190/195bhp NA

Sounds good :y:

I am up there on sunday mate so i can pop it over then if you like then I will need it back the same do so maybe do it sunday morning and leave to dry?

get that top lot of sound deadening out :D
remember if you do need a hand refitting im always here :D

Tom - mrs gets here from Fiji on Sunday morning so not a good day really mate, could you leave it with me until your next round lauras and pick it up then?

I can bring it next Thursday evening and get it back on Sunday ?

mango mango man who wants be a tanned mango man :D

Lol, I'm not joking, I've just come inside 11:30pm, from finishing working on the car!

Perfect Tom, gives me a perfect excuse to take my time at spraying the interior and cutting the dash etc and any other bits and bobs I can do before fitting the carpet :) drop me a message on weds to remind me :)

looks sweet mate, having a bash at the sraying your self then? what spray gun have you got? also a little thing might be worth as your props doing it on the drive? add some rocket to the clear coat speeds up dry time

Okie dokie cheers for the tip mate, should dry pretty quick as it's going to be mid 20's here tomorrow :)

Car is pretty much ready for spraying tomorrow...





And all sanded down as well...

well more the touch dry time, so even with it been 20c.. and tbh minimum u shud spray in is 23c and then bake it at 65c... its pretty chill as far as painting go's lol. get some pics up once its done though.... one other thing might help you, if u have an old car rad fan stick it on a battery charger and place it near the car and shud suck all the misty shit away stop u choking.

Just noticed youve got the same cage as me!! i also want to have the rear 'X' bars as they dont come with the cage, where did you get the steel and does it have to be the same chromology stuff as the cage?????? cheers

Yeah the additions are all in chromoly as well mate. The guy who did my cage (Matt Newton) got it for me :)

Latest pics, taken me all day to mask off the cage, roof, doors, windows and front of the car, what a bitch!

masking paper, 18inch roll 6quid or 36inch roll 12quid ;)

looks sweet though mate, when he did the welding for u, did he tig or mig weld it? looks mig?

Fack!! effort an a half there!! will look good though worth the effort now!!

News paper if free, as is all the tape from work :p lol

Not sure on what he used, he does it for a living so he's pretty good!

Ready for spraying tomorrow afternoon now :)

Thanks buddy, it's taken me about 5 days and 50hours of work to get to this stage, about 15 of those were removing the bloody rear seat brackets!

i need to crack on and remove mine, is it just a case of drilling the spot welds??

got some nice carbon covers once there out :)

Yeah you can do it that way but I'm a fussy bugger, so drilled most of it then carefully grinded the rest off. Then once the brackets were off filled in the holes with a touch of weld and flatted it off, its not the neatest job I've ever done but it's certainly much better than having holes everywhere :)

Bet that took a while to get ready for paint lol

Might have missed it somewhere in the thread but what colour is the cage going to be?

Get it painted whilst the weather is good......

Thats a really nice job there josh, when can i book mine in? :y:

Wow, that looks great!

Looks good man, shame the carpet going back in!!!

looks sweet mate cage gona be black?

p.s i wont your both:p

wow nice one josh what colour is the cage going to be?

nice mate nice engine bay

We did our best for a "on-the-front-drive" jobbie lads, there's a couple of runs and a couple of bits where it's reacted but it's the best we could have done so I'm happy with it :)

Mark - yeah swap you for your set up mate haha

Tufty - no chance am I doing another one, you wouldn't believe the amount of hours of prep work that have gone into this lol

Mark & Tom - yeah cage is going gloss black, I'm thinking once my new dash is cut I'll send it to get flocked, what do you reckon? As at cadwell I was getting some glare off the dash!

haha, very true, preparation is mad! If you are getting glare then i really would get the dash flocked, not overly priced and will be a good addition!

yer the prep works a pain in arse, insides especiali as its not straight or mooth anywhere, da's good with a form pad to push in abit more, also mini 3" da's are good also the foam backed sand papers good. looks good though mate

awsom josh,so makes me wanna do mine again now :( lol

grate to see another job done right :)

people dont seem o realise how long it all takes - i think if we actually knew how much time and money "moddifying" would take we would not do it,but hay ive met some awsom mates and lots of fun and experience comes with it all imo :)

super job

top job there boss! :y: looks ace! as said...shame the carpet is going back in.... ;)

Yer dig spraying fun I just done my engine bay.. Plus to fact I can't stand waiting to it to dry!

Is it cone to Fcs? I can't remember if you said you was or not?