The Road So Far on my Black, Track, jp4 itb'ed saxo!!!(custom cages roll cage fitted pics on p2)! - Saxperience

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 19:22

The Road So Far...

Right then... Beanie & Moo have been on at me to start a progress thread so here we go... ( apologies on the lack of pictures to start with, my old phone that had all the good pictures of the car in the early years on it went kaputt and am just waiting on rescuing the pics but I'm sure you've all seen a standard Saxo before )

In the beginning.... June 2010
I bought my second and current Saxo vtr after flipping a corsa c in april 2009, 1 month after having a licence lol and crashing my first vtr also in 2009 lol :s*
I'm an enthusiastic driver lol. I then spent just under a year driving a work van around saving up for another Saxo.

My vtr is black and was completely standard when I bought it.
Once I had it home a few days, I went out and got a new radio, sub and amp and fitted it all the same day. The car then stayed like that for about 2 months until the end of august when I set about fitting some -40mm spax springs and dropping the back end to match.
Also having my manifold fall off going over Clifton flyover earlier in the mounth, I set about replacing the whole exhaust system...
4-1 raceland manifold
De cat supersprint centre section
3" inwardly rolled piper back box
Also I debaged the front bonnet grill and blacked the head lights.

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 19:23

Then....
In march 2011I decided I was going to try and build a show car ready for fcs 2011 also my first year there.
I had the seats relined in tan/cream leather
Suede roof lining
Black 106 abc posts
Componat speakers built into the door cards
Smoothed out front number plate
Smooth jets from bonnet and fitted in wipers
Smoothed aerial
Debaged tailgate
De locked and smoothed plinth and doors
Coulor coded side strips
Re textured bumpers
I unfortunately ran over fcs and ended up taking a filler car to the show, you may have seen it lol.
After the show, the car got it's planned paint job and I also bought some shelby cal 500s. It took me a further month to get round to getting them fitted lol.

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 19:23

Then...
I had a right piss around with fitting a whole new rear axel in one night before I had to drive to Kent on holiday with gf's family. During august I had also bought a gaz coil over set for the car rear shock got fitted with the new axel but the front had to wait until September. That was fun month ( bit of sarcasm there) I had the front part of the gaz kit fitted by a local garage as I was so busy at work unfortunately this did not pan out well they really messed up the job read following thread http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho....php?t=398104*
As you will have read in that thread I did after a couple of month or so finally get the car back on it's wheels.

I also bought my self some nice bride fixed bucket seats but these did not get fitted until January.

Ready for winter... I repainted my vtr wheels in gun metal grey to use as winter wheels.

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 19:24

Then...
The involvement of the beanie and the moo!
During all cars past mods I always had the plan to get a 16v in and eventually use the car for track days as my real love is to drive the car as fast as possible lol as i said enthusiastic.
I had also fell in love with beanie moos Saxo clean bay creation.

So I started to gut the car and contacted Chris & moo to sort me out with nice new looms to clean up the cars looks.

I also saved a massive amount of money and spoke to Chris about helping me build my new engine. As you may or may not know every single job to this point I have had to do was my very first time at that particular job and i had to teach my self or use the forum to learn things but for the engine i knew I'd need experts to help. They have now become good friends

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 19:26

The engine So Far...
Went down to beanie & moos to get a nice engine built up...

"Don't know what! He's doing behind there" lol

You can't see in the pic but there's two engines in the back there so my van was a triple engined van for 1n1/2hr trip back to Nottingham lol
The engine had to go on pause there as I now had to build the car to put it in.
The spec So Far...
TU5 JP4 engine converted for a Saxo
Gas flowing head
Newman Ph4 cams
Wossner high compression pistons
PEC forged rods
Arp bolts
To be added
AT power itbs
Custom inlet mani
Custom exhaust mani
Emerald k6 ecu
The rest TBC.

AlexB^p · 26th February 2013, 19:27

Chris and mike are awesome i bet thisll become a quality car with their help

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 19:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexB

Chris and mike are awesome i bet thisll become a quality car with their help

Fitting a cage next week at beaniesport

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 20:35

The engine bay So Far....
Strip it...

Weld it up with a friend... Big thanks to Chris for coming up two late nights to do this. Cheers mate

Grind it back ready for filler...

Filler and smooth...

Primed with zinc based primer to help stop rust....

Paint and shine...

Add decal....

Tom5190 · 26th February 2013, 20:38

Looks good ill keep an eye on this chris was telling me about it.

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 20:42

The looms ...
Moo & beanies hard work on my looms...

Thanks a lot guys

but bad news moo were taking it all apart again to strip it down of all the bits I don't need now the car is track only

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 20:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom5190

Looks good ill keep an eye on this chris was telling me about it.

All good I hope

Chris_O · 26th February 2013, 20:47

Looks to be a very nice build mate, an n/a screamer! Will keep my eye on this

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 20:50

My new daily drive
B7 Audi a4 2l tfsi Quattro s line...

P.s not my house, these are the pics from auto trader lol

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 20:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris_O

Looks to be a very nice build mate, an n/a screamer! Will keep my eye on this

Thanks a lot matey!!!

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 20:58

Now we are up to date

yay!!!

First time for the car out side the garage for 1 year and my first day back on working on the car lest weekend ...

Started removing all the glass from the car to get it ready for fitting the roll cage down at beaniesport...

And i had a bit of a tidy up in my garage

Thanks for looking guys, To Be Continued...

Beaniemoo · 26th February 2013, 21:16

You finally put up a thread!
Whoop for peer pressure, it always works
The car is looking promising, I look forward to seeing it down the BeanieSport workshop next week for the cage fitting.
We should go for a pint again soon

Gary2707 · 26th February 2013, 21:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beaniemoo

You finally put up a thread!
Whoop for peer pressure, it always works
The car is looking promising, I look forward to seeing it down the BeanieSport workshop next week for the cage fitting.
We should go for a pint again soon

Yh defo

you don't know it yet but ill be staying for top gear this Sunday lol