After selling my cossie powered pug 205 it hasn't taken me long to start thinking about a new project. I know this has got sod all to do with a ford but there seems like a large audience on this site that might be interested in this project. I always seem to have a strange tendancy to go for cars that are light and stick an engine from another manufacturer in. I had a good think and discussed it with my mate whos going to be helping and the outline for the project was

• keep the cost as low as possible and use as many parts from either of the 2 donor cars. What I don't use sell and put back into th budget.
• Had to be turbo as std so it would be easy to upgrade.
• Preferably have a LSD as std.
• The finished car has to be light and RWD

After some consideration I decided to go for a Saxo VTR or VTS and put the running gear from a MR2 Turbo into the back of the saxo. Obviously this should make the conversion pretty straight forward as there will be no need to get special drive shafts made etc. Also there is no need to worry about trying to make the gear linkage work as that will have already been worked out and come straight from the donor vehicle. All I need to get started are 2 donor vehicles and after some searching and waiting I have bought these 2 cars.



























We have started removing the Interior from the rear of the saxo but cant pull the engine out until I find a buyer for it. I think the next step will be to start stripping the MR2 Turbo down. Unfortunately the MR2 has got a head gasket gone and has been partly stripped so I havent heard it running yet but there were so many goodies on it and the price was right it was worth taking a chance on. It'll give me a excuse to rebuild it before it goes in and also means the project can get under way properly.