So I've had a couple of Saxos, an Icelandic grey 16v VTR and a black 8v VTR.
The black one died so I rebuild my Icelandic and then eventually put a 16v in... A week later driving a bit too fast on a corner I crashed it.
Lesson learnt.
I still had the black saxo and was going to put the 16v in that and put it through an MOT as it had no rust at all and a good axle.
Anyways, was browsing the forums and seen this car up for sale for £350 with a knocking engine running on 3 cylinders, standard bar an exhaust and 6x9s.
Paid £330 with tax until January and MOT until may.
Took the risk and drove 150 miles there, paid the lad and had a look at the engine, turns out the spark plug wasn't screwed in on cylinder 4.
Off to a local b&q picked up a 16mm spark plug socket (couldn't find mine)
Screwed back in, started and ran perfect, bargain.
Drove about 130-140miles home, pulled off a roundabout "spiritedly" and it sounded funny and a little down on power, pulled over and spark plug had popped out, turns out it's take the thread out....
So ordered a few bits to repair it for about £10 and should be with me soon.
Here's some pics :-
My Icelandic
The GTi
So the plan :-
As you can see from the last pic the laquer is peeling and the roof is wrapped matte black, I'm possibly going to get this resprayed.
Get it lowered 40-50mm, then get some B8s/Gaz coilovers.
Respray my VTS alloys anthracite and fit
Get a 2" pugsport
Wrap and fit my 4-1 manifold
Fit my omp Corsica steering wheel
Fit omp upper brace
Fit linkages
Get a new lower brace
Strip it
Fit my buckets + harness... Possibly buy new ones.
Full cage.
Set of cams.
Then track it.
Slightly longer term I plan on the following:-
Track alloys and AD08s/R888s
Fully polybush/uprated mounts
Itbs + predator ecu
Satchshift
Polycarb/Perspex windows
Make it a weekend/balls out track car.
This is more of a thread to follow my own progress but will be interested to see what others think.