Looks sooooo much better in person aswell..... Mango man, mango man does whatever a mango man does lol
Awesome bro :)

Yeah it was mad prep, the masking for the cage spraying has been near enough as bad lol!

You can tell me that again, I can see why body shops charge so much now!

cheers Chris, it's so true mate, but like you say... Made so many good friends through doing it, and keeps us off the streets as they say lol. Get well soon bud :)

Cheers buddy, not a shame, just means I'll not get cold feet or wreck my new paintwork at the front :p

Yeah will be coming fcs mate :)

Impressed.....looks good, keep it up!!

More masking for spraying the cage tomorrow...

Sweeeeet mate cant wait to see the results :)

looks good mate. using base and clear or 2k on the cage?

Cool Colin, hopefully see you on sat :D

Mark - nah gonna carefully rattle can the cage, see how it comes out, mainly because of all the tight angles etc it's basically impossible to do with the spray gun, well the equipment we have anyway :)

looking good mate!!

defo be ready for the weekend yea??

cages are a pain in arse to spray tbh, if its a weld in i tend to jus do it all the same colour or, do cage 1st then rub down the over spray mask the cage up then spray rest, should look sweet anyways mate

Sprayed the cage this morn as it's nice and sunny, looks awesome!!!!

Lea - hopefully mate, if weathers good tomorrow and Friday then I'll easily get it done :)

So plan now:-

Remove all masking tonight
Fit loom & carpet tomorrow morning
Start cutting up the new dash to fit around the cage & fit that tomorrow
Fit all little bits and bobs, harnesses, seats etc on Friday

That looks hot! Nice work buddy. The spray tent did make me giggle, reminds me of the days you did the bay the same way.

Looks sweet josh! :)

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET looks really good nice one josh top job did you do that bit with s spray gun also?

that looks awesome now Josh top work mate!!!

Do really like this car. Cage looks awesome :)

rather nice there sir

Making some great progress on the interior mate, masking and prep is such a ball ache but the results are great. Will look forward to having a nosey round it again soon :)

Thanks for all the comments lads,

Tom - nah cage was rattle canned, interior was sprayed using the gun, oh and the 106 was looking good tonight :D

Mr_n - lol! That was a home made jobbie all those years back, this is a proper gazebo lol

Willsy - yeah will be good to catch up mate, it's been too long! I'll let you know next time were down the pub :)

Mango's are full of WIN :) Yours is just the best though :)

Ah I dunno mate I'm sure there is some better mangos out there somewhere, but yes I do agree mangos are full of win :D

Few nearly complete pictures...





And a couple of pics from Bolton Abbey meet





Oh and a trophy :D

Looking good!

You need some inner rear quarter panel covers though.
Some carbon ones will do nicely;)

well done with the trophy! well deserved

looks lovely

looks really good mate, love how u just manage to have one of your other trophys just to the side:P.... do you eva go to these events and not win everything :P

saw this at bolton abbey it is very nice and sounds awesome

Thought about getting some of those but tbh it's just another thing that vibrates so will annoy me eventually

Cheers Gav :D

Thanks nick, means alot :y:

Haha I put it next to my other trophy mark

thanks buddy, which one was yours?

as said the weekend josh, car looking VERY VERY neat.

cant wait to get some trackdays in with you asap.

very mich deserved trophy! :y: love this car!

Thanks buddy, means ALOT coming from you :)

Will be awesome taking down much "bigger" cars on some track days, my next one is at Donnington 23rd may with lea, Matt & Olly. After that I'll prob do the 3 hour open pit @ fcs & then ring. After that I'm not sure what I'll be doing but I'll let you know if and when I decide to do another day mate :)

Just make sure the 8v stock hatch saxo's don't overtake you!
That WOULD be embarrassing!

dude i love your car, its just perfect lol

Haha very true, had fun embarasing a couple of clio 200's and a brand new corsa vxr on the way home from the meet lol!

Thanks buddy, where are you in Leicester?

Reason i say that is i was embarrassed for most of the day at Brands Hatch till the last hour or so once i'd got the hang of it! Actually they were still faster than me then! I'll blame it on the fact they have a roll cage :D

Them corsa vxr's are a load of wank tbh. The clio's are brilliant though but either the drivers don't want to crash them or they can't drive them as everyone i've come across has suffered :D

How is your spare wheel held in btw?

Yeah the clio 200's are good, I prefer the look of the 197's though tbh!

It's a 3 point trs spare wheel harness mate :)

I know what you mean. The front end on the 200 isn't as nice but the gloss diffusers look better than the 197's matte one's.

I will own an RS clio of some variety one day. Test drove a 200 and loved it!

Where does the strap attach to?

car looked the bussiness at the meet mate cant get over the roof man love it and like danny said it sounded mean as when you came in, have you got a btb system on it? and cheers for showing me how the kms unit worked mate gives me a better idea of where it should be at when i put the engine back in :y:

place called birstall if you've heard of it?

It attaches to two harness type buckets and I've clipped that into 2 eye bolts, pm me and I'll take a picture for you mate :)

Yeah it's a BTB full system including BTB 4-1 manifold! Basically the kms (if mapped correctly) should have a target value of 14.7 for the wideband, therefore when your driving along and keep it on the same load you will see the wideband adjusting the fueling towards that 14.7 target, then after you've driven it a few hundred miles connect the kms up to the laptop, download the wideband "corrections" onto the map and so on and so on. In theory it should keep the map as close to the ideal fueling as possible.

Yeah I've heard of that mate, I'm over towards Market bosworth mate :)