Awesome vid mate, you look very quick

Just seen it now. Car look to be going well. You can tell your comfortable with the track now too. Awesome.

Ah, and enjoy your b'day dude.

Thanks guys, theres still more to come off the lap time as i've only done 30 laps so far, according to the 'experts' you need to have done around 50 laps to know the track reasonably well, and over 100laps to know the track well!

By far the best saxo ive ever seen :P

The lap of the ring looks minted aswell :)

give me your seats josh :P

i cant wait to get a suzuka in mine, are they awkward to get in and out of?

Ash you've already asked me that at the end of the last page ;)

ahh fail.

stilll... give me your seats :P

SO....

Moving onto 2010

Well...what do i do?

I need:

- Cage (prob go full custom cages weld in & get them to fit it)
- Seat bars welded in
- Sound deadening all removed from interior
- Interior spraying
- Mintex 1144 pads & new disks for the rear
- Replace one of my R888's
- 5 x Black centre caps for the pro race 1.2's
- Passenger 5th point suicide strap for the harnesses

Ive collected a few bits and bobs so far....

Alu Cobra sidemounts



Also got a steering wheel cover from TRS/Colin, thanks bud!



And my gearbox is coming apart to have the quaife fitted to a 1.4xsi FD....



Still gotta fit my single fan system as well



Progress will be slow as usual as im over in Sydney still, but once im back home permanently (which should be some time towards the end of this year) expect things to speed up!

Once all the above is done i will start concentrating on a new NA j4 engine build which ive already started collecting parts for ;)

And a couple of pictures i bought from the ring 2009 trip to remind myself + everyone else what the car looks like Lol

Can't wait to see a nice cage go in !!

Looks awesome on the track, the new engine build sounds interesting!!

Gut gut!

Tell me more about the cage dude... ?

You will love the gearbox. :y:

So the car is all stripped out now eh? The way forward! :D

Good progress mate. I wish I could progress on mine, but the coffers have run dry. :(

And me mate, im going to try and get the cage done before the ring trip, although i doubt it will be done tbh as

1) I have a fair bit of traveling around Oz left to do which is going to take up a large chunk of funds
2) Doubt Sam/Dad will have the time this year but we will see....

Toad - you know how the car was in Germany? thats exactly how it is now.... I dunno about progress.... the car hasnt moved or changed since the end of august lol, Ive just collected a few bits and bobs here and there!

Over the weekend I ticked off another part from the list...

Slightly worn rear disks & rear Mintex 1144 pads

Ah, OK.

Was curious about the cage choice. :)

plans look good josh cant wait to see the car up and running again, let me know when your back in the uk and we'll have to meet up again it been ages lol its been that long im pretty much married lol

Sweeeettt

I know its been ages, im glad your back on the scene though :D Ill be back a few days before the ring trip in August!

Quick update: Dad started it on Sat for the first time in a couple of months and it still works, started first time :D

Thats all, i've starting putting some extra plans together (a few of the lads know) but nothing will be happening for a couple of months yet!

Where abouts did you get your carbon mirror caps form mate?

Get the old codger to take it out for a spin a couple of times a month.

I'm sure he won't mind! ;)

Scan read a fair bit of this thread. I love it!

Would you ever consider selling it?

well its insured & MOT'd mate, just not taxed lol

Not even considering selling stinky, I still have lots and lots of things planned for this car yet! Few big changes coming up over the next few months to get it ready for the ring trip again.

And then more changes over next winter once im back in the UK and can actualy work on the car on a day to day basis instead of relying on dad/sam to fit in work when they can.

How come the single fan system?

iirc you have a twin fan, right or is that something i made up? lol

Wouldn't a twin fan be better?

Just purchased some expensive metal tube



Thats all.... :D

19kg light weight :D you hero!!!!!

Not a bad purchase there josh lol

Lol Alex, hopefully should stiffen things up nicely! Did you end up selling your cage in the end?

Cheers Lee, 19kg indeed, should be good! Its being ordered in from Italy on Monday so i'd imagine it will be a couple of weeks until it arrives. Gearbox should be done by then, so dad will pop it up to Matts for fitting, then down to Bic....

you hero josh.

nice structural gains and a nice weight saving above your head winner!!

can I have your carpet please..... cheers mate :)

Carpet is staying :P sound deadening is being removed obviously ;)

you suck. griptape your footwells it's lighter :p

Nice Josh! Will it be painted yellow? :ponder:

:D

yea it went man
might buy another one though now I'm working lol!

looking great josh, your sneeking all this progress in and when it comes for you to actually see/drive it youll be shocked of how much has changed..

niice motor mate!

What type cage is that Josh? clicky to cage link please, looks similar to mine:D good cages these OMP's are:D you having a carbon roof fitted with streamline carbon:D?

cage will be good when fitted, nice and stiff lol, wot you having done to the gear box? diff i bet? sorry not read the yhrea lately, will have a check back through the pages i havent read tommorow wfter work, car looks the sex as usuall josh, especially under the hood.

Yeah im hoping so mate, basically hoping the weight saving will offset the weight of cage near enough so will keep it reasonably quick, and then obviously cage will stiffen up things and improve the chassis. Thats the thought behind it all anyway!

Thanks mate!

Its the 19kg omp weld in mate. Heres the link

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AB-106-129AEW-...item5190215d23

Yeah roof will be done within the next couple of months once gearbox & cage is done.

Thanks! Nah box already had a quaife mate, were changing the final drive from a vts/gti to a 1.4xsi as even on the ring i wont need the top end of a vts FD.

josh you will be so pleased with the box once you have a nice short fd in there! it makes such a difference to the way the car pulls and drives!

oh and not bad cage :P

ooo my miss this update, cage should help stiff the chassis up, also a carbon fibre roof!!

this will be crazy!

i keep looking at this.

Epic car jp:y:
Keep up the good work ;)

I drove sams xsi over christmas mate, i can only imagine another 60bhp through the same box, should be good fun :D

haha Andy your crazy! I will try and keep it up to date :)

Thank mate :y:


Anyway.... seen these to hang off the central mirror the other day....couldnt help but buy them for the mango haha!

So is it going to be painted yellow or not?