car looks like such a shit heap i fucking love it lol

Story of my life. :hug: Lol

Saying that though, I'd rather be 2nd class motoring rather than 1st class walking. Haha.

It's a heap, but it does me proud.

at the end of the day the cars different so atleast ur not being a sheep

keep it up matey

Lol istrangely love this car mate,stands out (y)

Info update of the day.

Started sanding the car down again today, which has proven to be a ball ache with it being painted with chalkboard paint.
I'll be re-doing it Satin black, not the classiest of colours..But far nicer on the eye than Rollered on blackboard paint. That coupled with my Compomotive Mo's being sent to the powdercoaters in a couple of weeks to be done Orange :D

Getting hold of some more bits aswell fingers crossed this week.
A 16v Jp engine, ready for a rebuild. A vts rear beam from a local lad, new grill and some Mirror caps.

Couple of pictures to upload, while I can be arsed..

I started sanding my car down the other day, but gave up.
Ended up spraying the Roof white as I re-painted my front wheels for the time being in white from yellow and pink until I get them powdercoated.


Looks alot better now. I think anyway.
Just waiting for my coil spring compressor to arrive with my air compressor then I can get onto fitting the lowering springs.

Edit: Pictures wont work for some reason, heres a link.
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Love it!
How much chalkboard paint did it take to do the whole car mate?

Hope to do my saxo bonnet in it soon, and just bought a shitter of a pug 106 to wreck so I'll be doing it to the whole car.

Also are they 3 stud comp mo's? Look just like mine! Suits the car well.

Erm.. Roughly 2litres. Definitely no more than 2.5litres though.
It's a bastard to sand back down though as its so rough Lol.

Yeah 3 stud Compomotives, :D Beastly wheels.

Will update with pics when I'm home in the morning.
But, :D

Went to Furio-Gazza's house today to collect a trim piece for the bottom of the windscreen and ended up buying his 60mm lowering springs while I was there too :D Also.. A gearknob.

Hopefully I'll have them on this week or next, aswell as dropping the rear to match. If that fails, I'll be paying someone to do it instead.
Next on the list is a half cage, and some Cam's and service parts for my other recent purchase.. Single plug 16v lump :D

Update, Yaaaay.

Photobuckets being a prick, so I have to use a direct link code for some reason, instead of an [Img] code. -_-

Had 'Boony' do my torsion bar for me, as I'm to much of a wimp to do it :homme: Can't recommend him enough, great guy!

Picked up my springs from Gaz a week or 2 ago, and fitted them on Tuesday.
Snapped one of ARB mounts in the process aswell :n:
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Driveshaft hub nuts wouldn't shift for shit, and I don't have access to any air tools at my mums, so only option was to pull them off with the struts and change the gearbox oil, Probably needed doing anyway, so no biggie.
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fronts on :D
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Also, had my college certificates/Qualifications through this week too.
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When I'm permanently living on the isle of man, I'll be re-spraying the car as I have a decent compressor and a decent area/workshop to spray it in.
I'm still 100% unsure of the colour I want.

Ideally I want it in the Renault storm grey,once all the bodywork is tidied up and perfected.
Or I could just do it satin/matte black which I think would still look relatively decent, and be far easier to do.
Meeh.

Collected a Rear spoiler, and a pair of black VT bumpers aswell from wales earlier this week.
Put the front on the other day, to replace my old one which got attacked with a saw.
And bonded & Bolted a Mk1 VTS spoiler onto the rear, It'll be coming off at some point though to be painted white along with the mirror caps.
Finally starting to look like a car now, rather than a heap.


* Also been busy building/fixing a Single plug 16v lump, before it goes into the car at a later date. Done the headgasket, water pump and cambelt etc so far. But need a set of cams- standard or preferably uprated before I can have it running.*

bet you come over to the IOM when I move away permanently.... :A: lolz

Good progress dude!!

Cheers man :D

Knowing my crap luck, thats probably likely. Lol

I was over for a couple of times briefly last month, to take some stuff over and sort my bike out. Think I'll be moving back over in mid september, So I'm assuming you'll be back at Uni then? FML Lol

leave on the 23rd/24th sept!! :y: should have shouted up, could have gone for a beer/lap of the course! Getting well quicker at driving now! Mountain is getting proper fun!

Woo! May be over there by then, fingers crossed :D

Iye, I would have done. I forgot until I got over there, Was at jurby with the bikes for a weekend so didn't have any time for the t'internet.

I'm not sure when I'll be taking the saxo over, may be leaving it at my mums for a while as I wont need a car that much over there, but can always use one of my dads or something. If I'm over before the 24th, we'll go for a lap in the Discovery! Haha

cars looking good bud, sure i recognise them bumpers and spoiler tho :/

Car looks nice buddy :y:

General update

Not much has changed on the car since it was lowered, although I recently picked up a pair of Citroen AX GT wheels from ebay, they were cheap so thought I may aswell for the crack. Just need another pair now- If anyone happens to have any :D

16v Engine conversion is finally coming together. Collecting a 16v engine and loom from Boony in the next week or 2, and a Fuel pump, Ecu and another loom from Stew( Sexy_gt)

Just need to get an Inner wing/ecu engine mount now to weld in my bay. Then I can start.
Picked up a set of 266mm Discs and Calipers to suit to have a play with on my 3 stud struts, as I'd like to stay 3 stud because I like my Compomotive Mo's to much. Haha. When I'm over at my dads I'll be playing with a lathe and some metal to try and figure out a bracket thats suitable for the calipers, and the best way to sort the discs.

Gotta represent :y: Dads company, SaxP, Dads solo & sidecar race team.

Had an *Incident* which ended up with me going sideways at 70mph due to ditch finder tyres. Cable ties always come in handy.



Picked up a new pair of seats from Saxdazza, and he offered me his cage as he's going back to standard. I couldn't resist so..
It needs some work, mainly to the mounting points.. Which will be box sectioned when I'm over at my dads.