Well this is how I bought the car back in 2007.
It had a t34 hybrid, 360 thrust bearing, cut back blades. an rs500 intercooler, oil breath system, -31 actuator, group a dump valve, all the blue samcos catalouge, big k&n air filter, koni adj suspension at the front and bilsten at the back. grooved and drilled brakes all round, although i put ebc yellow stuff pads on after wards. front strut brace, pace radiator, 17 inch super lagera alloys with and currently toyo t1r proxes, stage 1 chip 270/280 bhp with 324 ftilbs/torque. the car had a retrim about 6/7 years ago, with black as the main with light grey piping on the edge of the seats. plus the dash was done the same as was the roof lining. the rear parcel shelf also had the leather treatment with the piping also aswell as the speakers front and back.
I bought it for 5 grand,
And to date i have spent another 6 grand modifying and maintaining (repairing) it.
It does have the usual saph problem, "rustitis" on the rear arches and tiny bits hear and there which at the moment i am keeping on top of but later this year will be sorting out.
I took the car to alan jefferys initially to get a fuel leak sorted out then saw a car on the roller and thought hey why not and put her on.
She didnt do very well at first with the fuel pressure regulator way to low and boost right down and only produced a pathetic 190 bhp. <_< with a tweak here and there though it finally made 228 bhp, but the actuator was bust. but as i said in another thread i sorted that out and the car is running 18psi or there abouts so it should be running stage 1 power
I next wanted to change the standard skanking green rocker cover as it looked past its best and bought this one and painted the main bit of it black, the ford bit blue, and the rest of the lettering red. also fitted a set of uprated ht leads and a group a coil
Next I got as a birthday present form my brother
an airtec turbo cooler. i highly reccomend these type of things. they dont half keep the water temprature down going back into the header tank from the turbo.
From there I had the usual cossie woes and bits and bobs kept braking. just the standard oe stuff mind which had got knackered with old age and milage lol :blink:
I did my first show at silverstones ford fair in 2008. with the car getting a bit of attention, which I was happy with considering the amount of time I put in getting it ready for that weekend lol. Took me ages to get this photo lol.
With the devon rsoc stand
The owner before the last owner had put a false bulkhead in behind the back seats with a 10 inch hole so i made good use of it and fitted it with my old sub and carpeted it to neaten things up a little
I then bought a rs 4 spoke steering wheel for the old girl as i think they suite the saph so well
I then fitted this which is a sender for my water temp gauge which is with an oil temp and pressure gauge above my head unit. pics of them to follow
Next after a massive hunt in tinernet and finally finding one on ebay I got my hands on this a secs monitor. It goes inline (parrallel) with the ecu wiring and reads out engine temp,air flow temp, throttle position,battery voltage and boost, with alot of other functions to display each type of reading.
This is were it sits also a pic of were the gauges are.
Next I bought a boost gauge pillar pod which again was a pain the the RS to find. i also fitted a 8mm red led which i wired to the sec monitors little led (which is next to the monitor) so i can see if i have any thing running to high ie boost temps etc etc, with a 12v buzzer too
After reading a thread on passionford (cossiesonfire) myslef and a dozen people bought an extinguisher just incase lol
Here are some more of the interior that has been retrimed.
I have also done the Cornwall RSOC regional weekend with the tour day
and the show the day after
Then RS Combe regional day at Castle Combe
Wheres the fire extinguisher?
I have yet to fit my GAZ coil-overs
And the sandwich plate with the oil temp and pressure senders
And the oil cooler bits and bobs which goes with the other sandwich plate and the cooler itself which will sit behind the front bumper air duct.
I have fitted a racetech air fuel ratio meter to with 19 led display and a omp rear strut brace which has improved the handling like mad. will put a pic up of them sometime too.
Hope you've enjoyed reading this thread on my "money pit".
cheeRS