I've had the car for almost 4 years and been on PF for a good while, one of my favorite bits of PF is looking at the restorations rebuilds and projects that people have going, many of the things I see inspire me and help me decide what to do to my own car. With this in mind I've decided to start a thread of my own.
The only pics I have of the car when I first bought it are the ones on the advert so I have scanned them in, and there not great quality.
the car was stage 1 had a new t3 with 360thrust brand new gearbox from ford, lowered on standard shocks and was siting on new bk 17" alloys
engine bay had only a k&n pannel filter dump valve and strut brace otherwise standard. The car also had a mongoose exhaust, full service history and every mot from new, the top end was a bit tired and it used a bit of oil, more than it should have for a 92k car.
The first things I had done where to get it de locked and remove a few spots of rust that where appearing
bootlid under spoiler
delocked doors
next thing on the list was new brakes all round as the disks that where on it where well past there sell by date
I opted for ebc all round, reds frony and greens back with grooved and spotted disks, they where a great improvement on the knackered standard stuff
the next things to get done where a secs monitor and some gauges to keep an eye on the essencials The carbon wasnt there at the time but I dont have any older pics
next on the list was a change of colour from red to blue for the rocker cover and some blue silicon hoses and some alloy tanks a carbon cam belt cover and a breather system
next was some koni shocks and polly bushes, did all the bushes except the rear arms which is as I understand a bit of a bonus as the standard bushes are better for the rear arms.
ford fair 2003
after this I was very bored of the 17psi that I was running so decided stage 3 was the way forward, I bought a set of greens a 3 bar map sensor a stage 3 chip and an rs500 cooler all from ebay!
The car lasted just under a year on the 23psi I was running it, and then on the way back from ford fair playing with a TVR it kind of melted!
