Shit sorry mate missed your reply. Yes it will be painted.... after the ring because I dont want to paint it and then go drilling brackets etc out once im home which will then wreck the paintwork.

What colour? :D

Mango of course :D

Sweet... :D

Will the carpet be coming out?

of course....Not. Keeping it semi practical otherwise it will just piss me off tbh. Me & dad have come up with a smart idea for easy removable door bars for the cage as well :D

No point in having them in for a nice sunday drive, or the drive to the ring. But then once at the ring or a track day, wack them on, simples....

Removeable side bars? Meh. You need more practice at getting your leg over. ;)

:D

looking good Josh the S&M cage looks good

Lol Toad!

Cheers Gav, be good to meet up again once im back, must have been 2 or 3 years since we meet up to pick that gearbox up lol

dave if you see some of the texts iv seen....

I think josh gets his leg over plenty :p

haahahahahaaa Lee, our texts tonight have been quite reserved compared to usual lol

Forward them to me:

0800 DIRTYTOAD

Ta.

:D

lovely car, cant wait to see the cage in.

lols yea quiet reserved today josh for a change lols.

dave I couldn't forward over any texts 1 cause they don't make any sense 2 cause they have some seriously strange content

haha yeah in the Ford Ka of love with the "NOS"

Ah bummer...

few more pics....



old FD vs new one





Newer 9 ball bearing type bearing replacing the older type bearing



And finally the mango eyeing up its new prey :D lol



So the gearbox is all done, dads just putting the bits and bobs back together (like the procomp etc) today.

Cage is due to arrive tomorrow and will be going for fitting asap. Seat bars will also be welded in so I can ditch the subframes.

Along with that i got some cobra Alu lightweight sidemounts from Scott (thanks mate) to go with my cobra seats.



And a couple of 5th point harness spreader plates to be welded to the floor at the same time as the cage to connect the 5th point of my harnesses to.



Cheers

Josh.

Nice, er axle stands? :P

Always loved this car :)

Wow, fair bit of progress Josh.

Cage looks tasty.

wow love your car!

The gearbox looks very tidy. You'll love the difference the higher FD makes. :y:

Josh
get that german shit out of the way!!

Looks good progress man

We have them, dont use them when the car is propped up for long periods of time though. Thanks mate :)

Yeah its not too bad considering its only dad doing the work this year. Cage should add some nice rigidity, but not add too much weight!

Thanks :D

Yeah im hoping so, Dad took it out for a "short" test drive yesterday and said it is "savage" now lol!

Thats the plan Alex, its going to be pretty quick once dad get its remapped to 260bhp tho!

It won't be a match for the derv though
pure trooper car

IMO you should give the old girl a thrashing at the ring not your car!!

Lol @ the derv, that thing just keeps going and going, awesome motor, especialy for all the bumps in nuneaton!

agree josh i love my derv 10k's worth of abuse and happy.

hows the beach?

car is nice

This car has always been a personal favourite of mine ever since i saw it in French Car Mag.......and its now getting better and better!!!!!!!

Keep up the good work guys.

Looks awesome!!!

Wow, cage looks nicely fitted.

Is that Matt Newton's handy work?

cheers guys :D

More updates to come shortly....

josh.... your making me want a cage now...

Kev: DO IT!

I've been following this on shed, absolutely love it!:y:

After a 70 mile around trip i picked up the chrome moly tube to finish the cage off today. Ive also added some harness eyelets on spreader plates as requested by Josh.

Here is some pics of it finished.














Wooooop :D

Love it! Looks great. Bet you cant wait for 2 months time now?:)

you going to be painting it for the ring?

Nah it wont be painted for the ring Olly, will just brush some primer on it for now, don't have time and want to remove all the brackets and soundeadening etc before it's painted - will be doing a proper job with our spray gun aswell

I'm thinking mango for the interior and the cage in gloss black, what do people reckon?

Yes yes yes :y:

Cage looks awesome :D

Agreed on the interior colour scheme...however could be a complete ass masking it all off for the 2 colours

Cheers Tom, I thought it might be a winner! :y:

ah it wont be too bad tbh... nothing a weekends work wont sort sometime next spring when im actualy back in england more than a few days at a time lol