Project Wedding Sax - car #4 Rallye resto - Page 8 - Saxperience

Stissy · 29th August 2017, 14:35

With the interior of the black Sax out, we could start fitting the new one

The original carpet was water damaged to the point where it couldn't be reused. So we got some yellow paint and decided to paint the floor.

At the same time we started the PlayStation glovebox build

Neon gas tubes:

Sub gain control:

We mounted a front camera to the outside of the black Saxo.

Floor painted

Saxrob · 29th August 2017, 18:56

Pleased you got PWS finished in time. Keep the updates coming!

Rob

Stissy · 29th August 2017, 19:01

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Originally Posted by Saxrob

Pleased you got PWS finished in time. Keep the updates coming!

Rob

Cheers mate. And I've not forgotten to send you a message once the Gavin and Stacey goes up for sale. Which will hopefully be sometime in September, after the honeymoon.

Stissy · 4th September 2017, 20:54

Continuing with the black Sax

We had some custom brackets made for the 90s Cobra bucket seats

And painted the seats with fabric dye

Which turned out perfectly...

At the same time we continued the wiring

Finally we added a volt gauge in the glovebox

And started to remove the front struts

Saxrob · 6th September 2017, 21:41

Looks like food was a big part of this adventure, and why not

. Just out of interest who came up with the ideas as to what to put in, or was it a brain storming contribution from both you and the best men?

Stissy · 8th September 2017, 19:05

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Originally Posted by Saxrob

Looks like food was a big part of this adventure, and why not

. Just out of interest who came up with the ideas as to what to put in, or was it a brain storming contribution from both you and the best men?

We offered free food and beers to anyone who came round to lend us a hand haha. The cars were a combination of what we would've driven at 17-18 and whatever came up locally at a reasonable price. Despite the ridiculous rush towards the end they turned out really well.

Stissy · 27th September 2017, 20:07

With one side finished, we started on the passenger side strut of the Icelandic.

New springs:

New droplinks and pinch bolts:

We ground the spring off to make it easier to remove.

Once it was out, we found that the top mount was completely sized.

So we went back to the grinder to remove it... and with being over excited, also went through the tread.

Stissy · 14th October 2017, 16:38

We bought a ground loop isolator and low noise 230v inverter for the PS2 to reduce as much of the noise as we could, and allow us to play the PS2 though the cars speakers.

We abandoned the Cobra buckets re-drilled the custom brackets to fit some E87 BMW 1-Series Sport seats we picked up last year

9Freedman9 · 16th October 2017, 15:04

Are they BMW 1 Series seats?

Stissy · 16th October 2017, 19:26

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Originally Posted by 9Freedman9

Are they BMW 1 Series seats?

Yeah man. From a 2010 E87 Sport.

Stissy · 17th October 2017, 20:08

New tyres, a replacement driveshaft and replacement struts.

We had a bit of trouble releasing the top mount nuts as they were sized. So we fitted the strut to allow us to release them.

Struts out

Quick break

Struts in

Front lowered

Stissy · 18th October 2017, 20:10

With the back low, we started on the front struts of the black sax.

By this point we were running out of time. The springs we had were 50mm, which would be too high for the back. So we decided to redneck it and cut the original springs.

New bootlight:

Having realised cutting the springs wouldn't work, we decided to fit the 50mm springs, in the dark and rain.

aaronjoyn · 23rd October 2017, 01:16

This is looking like a good thread. About time I found an up to date project that's still ongoing, keep it up!

9Freedman9 · 23rd October 2017, 10:54

Enjoying reading this.

How comes you went for those seats out of all available? If you've got to mount new frames did you not think of something like nice leather Recaro's out of an old Ford or something? Although they'd be a pretty penny thinking about it!

Keep it updated, as I said enjoying seeing an active progress thread!

Stissy · 24th October 2017, 16:36

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Originally Posted by aaronjoyn

This is looking like a good thread. About time I found an up to date project that's still ongoing, keep it up!

Cheers mate. The wedding has actually gone, it was on 26th August 2017, but I’m still playing catch up with the progress. I try to update the thread as often as possible but it takes time to sort through the pictures. We’ve got big plans for the Icelandic though – so we’ll keep this thread going for a while yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 9Freedman9

Enjoying reading this.

How comes you went for those seats out of all available? If you've got to mount new frames did you not think of something like nice leather Recaro's out of an old Ford or something? Although they'd be a pretty penny thinking about it!

Keep it updated, as I said enjoying seeing an active progress thread!

Thanks man. We originally bought the 1990s Cobra seats to go in the Saxo, but we didn’t like the colour and when we tried to dye the fabric, it was too bright and it failed completely. The reason we got the BMW seats is because we spotted them on eBay one night, they were local and had no interest, so we bid £20 and ended up winning them. After that we thought we might as well fit them.

9Freedman9 · 26th October 2017, 09:38

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Originally Posted by Stissy

Cheers mate. The wedding has actually gone, it was on 26th August 2017, but I’m still playing catch up with the progress. I try to update the thread as often as possible but it takes time to sort through the pictures. We’ve got big plans for the Icelandic though – so we’ll keep this thread going for a while yet.

Thanks man. We originally bought the 1990s Cobra seats to go in the Saxo, but we didn’t like the colour and when we tried to dye the fabric, it was too bright and it failed completely. The reason we got the BMW seats is because we spotted them on eBay one night, they were local and had no interest, so we bid £20 and ended up winning them. After that we thought we might as well fit them.

That's fair enough, bargain for that money and they are a comfy seat to be fair! A lot better than standard.

Going through this thread makes me want to get another Saxo!

Stissy · 26th October 2017, 17:35

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Originally Posted by 9Freedman9

That's fair enough, bargain for that money and they are a comfy seat to be fair! A lot better than standard.

Going through this thread makes me want to get another Saxo!

Yeah, they’re in really good condition too, the rears look like they’ve never been used. There are sets of E87 seats the same as ours on eBay at £300+, which is probably more than the car is worth haha.

Do it man. Our VTS is going up for sale shortly…