Cherry Red Throttle Bodied GTi Build

[Marv_106]

Painted my wiper linkages satin black, refit them lot along with my powdercoated wiper arms.







Then I fit my catch tank and ran the lines. Stupid money were all the hose and fittings





Hate taking pictures of the bay with that minging gearbox

[iSlayeR]

Still looks great! I'm in the process of getting my engine bay painted

[luthor1]

This car is fucking cool. The end.

[j40mek]

Love cherry gti's

[pug_wug]

Ah Marv! I have found you over here to! Haha looking good as per dude! Carnt beat a a ITB cherry not that i am biased in anyway lol!


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[MR_N]

I do love this!
I know what you mean about the silly money on fittings.

[Marv_106]

I even opted for cheaper torques fittings over earls which my brake lines are made up of, still £££

Looks the part though

[jpsaxo]

Very tidy mate... same seats as me too, how do you find them? Yours the standard suzukas or the carbon / kevlar ones?

[ashs_saxo]

Saxo morrettes +1

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[Marv_106]

Originally Posted by jpsaxo

Very tidy mate... same seats as me too, how do you find them? Yours the standard suzukas or the carbon / kevlar ones?

I love them, can sit in them for hours and still be comfy, and they hold me really well.

They are just standard fibreglass, I'd love carbon/Kevlar, but they are out if my budget

[Marv_106]

I made a list of everything left to do, not as much as I realised, if I really set my mind to it I could probably have most of it done in a weekend





Took a look at my LSD last night, stripped the box again afew days ago.

This guy is missing half of himself, an his brother has gone to ball bearing heaven.

They sit in grooves on the crownwheel and a little dimple in the LSD to stop the crownwheel from spinning. Fingers crossed that the noise it was making when the box was on, and the reason why I had limited drive. Going to ring quaife today to try and get a couple of new bearings and put it the gearbox back on the car to see whether it's cured

[Marv_106]

Update on the diff front, rang quaife today and they are sending me the correct ball bearings free, can't be bad.

Also an alternator turned up, just need to clean it up and get it on

[JacobLongman993]

Dame!!! That's one nice looking engine bay!

[Marv_106]

My ball bearings from Quaife turned up Friday, so I'll have a go at getting the box sorted and back in place one night this week...



Also, I fitted the new alternator and that's cured the charging problems. Got a picture of it while it was jacked up, love how it's so solid that the back wheel picks up almost before the front one even though I jacked it at the front.

[Marv_106]

Not exactly a massive update, but the little things count



Old washer bottle cap was cracked and discoloured, much fresher now.

[Marv_106]

Better bring this up to date...

I ordered some new 90mm trumpets from Jenvey





Then I decided I needed some of the nice cool air from the scuttle, so inspired by Tommy's car I got to work.

Bonnet off for easier drilling, wiper motor etc removed...



Bodies masked up and engine bay covered over as much as possible...





Borrowed a very handy tool...



First out was the bracket for the wiper motor, still going to run my wiper motor on this side, just going to run it on the top two bolts rather than using all 3, made a bit of a meal of it as it was hard to get a decent angle, but we got there...



Then I set about working out the centres for the holesaw, and drilled some pilot holes...



after adjusting my pilot holes a little to make sure I didn't drill through the seam I ended up with some metal discs...



and a couple of holes...





Then I decided instead of just doing 4 holes, I'd be much better making a full envelope, so out came the masking tape...



Covered up the car ready for grinding, more old bedsheets



5 minutes later I had a piece of metal, and a big hole.





Drilled some holes for some mesh, and touched in all the bare edges...





Then I made up a piece of mesh to stop larger bugs and leaves getting through, and put some edging round it to try and make it look a little neater...





Fitted the 90mm Jenvey trumpets after trimming the tapers at the top a little, and put the wiper motor and bonnet back on...



Should allow a nice bit of cool air through, and in my opinion looks much neater than just butchering a lump of the scuttle out





I also fit my new/old steering wheel. I sold my sparco wheel to seph when I had a phase where I was fed up of the car, but with him breaking his, I bought it back, well chuffed as it's part of the car I really missed, much better, just needs a clean...

[Marv_106]

Had a little impulse buy, this came up for sale very local so I snapped it up. Not keen on the finish so I'm just going to spray it heat resistant black for now and look at getting it ceramic coated in the future





Made up a throttle pedal stop, I can't claim to have done much other than paint it and supervise mind, my uncle sorted it for me.
We decided a nut welded on the side of the pedal with another nut and bolt through it would be good as it would be adjustable.



in action...



Painted the new supersprint mani with VHT matt black to try and tone it down a little, the silver finish on it before so was bright and in your face, not my cup of tea.



Also gave it it's monthly warm up and wash, iPhone make it look so pink, shocking.



Fitted the supersprint this morning, another job off the list.





Since I have finished mounting the fuse boxes and ecu under the dash, and tidied all the inside out.

Mapping is booked for 14th April, then it's tax and mot time

[MY95]

Really nice car you have there, id say in my opinion its the best colour Peugeot have come up with, enjoy!