Paxo's Mk1 VTR/S Turbo - all parts for sale! - Page 6 - Saxperience

raunchz · 9th June 2010, 15:41

EDIT - just seen the title

Looks awesome !!!! Can't wait to do mine - would love a picture of both of our cars together when both boosted !!

paxo89 · 9th June 2010, 16:12

haha cheers man, they do look very similar. I'm guessing you were asking what charger i went for? I had a chat with john about it and he reccomended the 74 for what i want out of the car

paxo89 · 30th July 2010, 16:16

Let the cutting and welding commence. For the record, safety devices are shit. Every single bar needed some sort of modification to fit, been at it all week and i'm shattered!

Pictures are in a muddled order but cba to organise them. The cage is fully finished now and the car's back home, just needs painting, but that can wait, had a 5 hour journey from pembrokeshire back to london so i'm off to bed. I'll upload some pics of the finished article later on

raunchz · 30th July 2010, 16:21

cage looks pretty substantial !!!
look forward to seeing competed pictures !

paxo89 · 31st July 2010, 20:51

Cheers Raunchz! Was a lot of efffort to get the bastard in but i'm glad it's done now, can concentrate on the charger next

raunchz · 31st July 2010, 21:42

Looks a hardcore cage !! Looking forward to the charger next, i'm slowly getting there with mine !!

It go through to the front suspension turrets ?

What's it like to get in and out of?

Anthony · 31st July 2010, 22:11

Nice progress thread fella just read the whole thing. Like where this is going! Keep up the good work.

paxo89 · 1st August 2010, 16:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by raunchz

Looks a hardcore cage !! Looking forward to the charger next, i'm slowly getting there with mine !!

It go through to the front suspension turrets ?

What's it like to get in and out of?

Cheers man, i've got th front traingulation bits but didn't fit them, would have been a lot of extra work and i had to be back before saturday. May fit them in the future though.
It's not too bad getting in and out of, once you get a technique sorted out

Looking for a runabout atm though so the sax can get some serious work done to it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ant809099

Nice progress thread fella just read the whole thing. Like where this is going! Keep up the good work.

Cheers mate, it's slowly coming together

AndySAXO^p · 1st August 2010, 16:25

is this car used as a daily drive???

if some i bet you soon will get annoyed with the cage with door bars like that!! lol

Tufty · 7th October 2010, 08:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndySAXO

is this car used as a daily drive???

if some i bet you soon will get annoyed with the cage with door bars like that!! lol

quality cage mate, been in this car and tbh, its not that bad to get in and out!

I want to see that charger coming along now, get a bike and get the bitch off the road!

3cott · 7th October 2010, 18:29

Epic bit of progress m8

neil_PCS · 7th October 2010, 18:44

superb progress, makes me "NEED" to get out in the garage and get it sorted

are you keeping the MA box when you fit the new bits on the engine or are you going to change to the BE conversion?

parello9 · 7th October 2010, 18:45

nice mate

paxo89 · 16th October 2010, 01:16

cheers for the replies guys, lost a lot of interest in the car in the last few weeks, and to top everything off some pussy keyed all up the drivers side last week which was the icing on the cake.
Progress is officially on hold until i decide wether to contine or not...

DannyVTS · 22nd October 2010, 21:30

This car is quality keep up the good work mate

So so so similar to my own car, thinking of morettes myself!

tay56 · 15th November 2010, 10:42

That cage is mental! Bet those door bars are a bastard when getting in and out

shannon-ob · 15th November 2010, 10:53

car look the business mate, you spraying the cage at all?

paxo89 · 15th November 2010, 13:11

Ha cheers guys, yeah cage is sprayed up in matt black, i'll update the thread later with a few new pics and a bit of info later on when i get in from work. regained my interest in the car over the last week or so lol so things will be happening once again!

Tufty · 15th November 2010, 15:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by paxo89

Ha cheers guys, yeah cage is sprayed up in matt black, i'll update the thread later with a few new pics and a bit of info later on when i get in from work. regained my interest in the car over the last week or so lol so things will be happening once again!

I like this!!

paxo89 · 16th November 2010, 13:48

Right, car's been off the road for the last month or so, just been sorting a few bits and bobs out on it for the winter.

Found this under the fuse box in the engine bay

So we cut it out! Got rid of all the shit rusty metal.

So made a plate to fit the hole

grinded it down, put a little skim of filler over it and primed it up, you'd never know it was there

Also had rust coming through between the rear arches and the boot floor on both sides, so same process, got rid of the shit rusty metal and put a new plate in.

Only got 1 pic of the back but it gives you an idea of how bad it was!

Anyway as of now, all 4 wheel arches are cleaned, de-rusted and fully undersealed, car is off the road, not driving it through shitty rain and grit again

Got a few bits and bobs to do over the winter but gona hopefully start seeing some real progress once with weather gets a bit better and i've got a bit more cash coming in