well after spending thousands on my mk5 rs2000 track car and still not being built i lost interest in her and i decided it was time to go which involved me breaking it all back down and selling it off keeping a few trick bits of course for my next project after looking around i managed to find another crystal blue sapphire cosworth and after checking it out i was happy to take her on.

2 miles later i fill her up with fuel ready for the 130miles back home and gets on the open road and there was a real bad fuel smell............. so i pulls over to have a quick word with my mum following to see fuel fucking everywhere under the car so she came home on an AA truck (6 weeks ago now) and i thought as its broke i better start taking it apart to clean it up and built it to a better spec (it was standard) my plan was to run about 300bhp and track it but that went out the window in the first week

its already gone ott so here some pics ect




oh yeah it did come with some nasty wheels



nothing a bit of black paint cant sort out and when they have a set of proper wet tyres on i wont care
I striped it out the first day it was here to find the floor and sills ect in near perfect condition and when i dropped the tank out the rear chassis rails ect was mint too


the engine bay was boring as you can see



but its getting very interesting now




i have loads of bits to get but my nice new painted up rocker cover will be on her soon



heres a one of my gauge holders with push button start which got my famous black paint on it



oh i got a incar boot release from an old late spec scrapper sapph so i could lose the boot lock and debadge it but i hit a big problem once the badges came off some fucking dick painted the boot and masked the badges up




spec so far is
T4 turbo
light blue injectors
grpA head gasket
standard and its original 2wd engine bored to .50 (until it breaks lol)
rs500 air box (thanks rapid cossie)
3ins mongoose exhaust
rs500 baileys dump valve
6 paddle AP clutch
909 tarmac spec coilovers front and rear (500/200 front 350/130 rear)
cobra imola2 bucket seats
3 sets of 17ins wheels (road/slicks/wets)

loads of other bits and pieces to add as and when i can afford it as i`m currently out of work

 

christ, those hoses went on quick

 

oh yeah forgot to say i had blue water hoses ect from some old white 3dr a lad was scrapping cheer Ryan the rest cant go on yet until i can afford a big intercooler then the rad can go in and away we go

 

could not stay away eh.

get it booked on Donno for December.

 

Very nice Dean, do you a turbo and injector swap you know you want to!!

 

how long till this goes the same way as your RS2000

just kidding looks nice mate

 

is there space dave???? she`ll be sort be then for sure so would be up for it

sorry john the answer is NO

kitchy this one aint going nowhere mate unless something even better came my way

 

Good to see ya last night mate, I'm liking that rocker cover

pmsl about the boot badge, fancy masking around it

Now get it back on the road, otherwise it will end up like Dans pampered one

Cheers

 

Looks better on the hocks, the old ones were shocking

 

mate those wheels are nasty but black paint fixes everything

Shaun it wont end up like Dans mate as i will use mine

My new grpA fuel pump arrived today so the cars got a brand new fuel tank + strap and a new pump and filter back there and i`ll sort out some better wiring back there too and then the back end is almost sorted

 

well i went to do some work on the car today but ended up not as usual

went to fit my grpA pump and filter but the rubbers that hold the bracket down have all busted and have no way of bodging it up so thats one job fucked up

then my camshaft oil seals havent arrived so it pointless me doing the cambelt i could have had the car running today but now its another wait

one thing i did do is get my exhaust fitted up plus i have taken the rear numberplate surround off......... what do you think???

 

looking good mate

 

shes another step closer to being sorted this weekend after my cam oil seals turned up durring the week

yesterday the weather wasnt lovely but it wasnt raining so the job was on, I took the cam cover off ready for my painted one (cunt glued the gasket on which took 10 minutes to clean off replaced the cam oil seals, put on new half moon seals and a ford cam cover gasket and put on the new cover, while that was going on i also painted my pulleys (black of course ) and clean up and few more bits and fitted a new cambelt and a tensioner i had, then with that job done i could then put the new alternator belts on and power steering belt.

heres the pics i`m in love with my cam cover

 

Looking Good Dean
Glad to see her coming together, look forward to seeing her going, just like old times
Not sure if its any good but i do have an old fuel pump tray, the tray itself is past it, not sure about the rubbers tho ?, will try and remember to have a look next time i'm down my garage.
Catch you later mate

 

Hi Ian long time no speak, shes geting there budd but its slow and painful at the mo hows your cossie coming along????

cheers for the offer on the fuel pump bracket but i think i have found replacement bushes which hopefully will do the job

 

 

wow love the cam cover Dean, looking sweet!!

Looks like shes getting there now allready whats left to do?

 

cheers guys

john i need an intercooler, t4 actuator bracket, 3 bar map sensor, chip from stu to run my spec and a L6 ecu and then a few silly bits and pieces mate

i have got a couple of weeks work now so hopefully i`ll have some coin to spend on sorting bits pretty soon.

oh yeah i bought a new runaround, it was going to be that mk1 fiesta i spoke about at the pub meet but i got fucked over so i got an e30 320i instead

 

small updates, i managed to find a set of 3 bobbins for the fuel pump bracket, they are not the same size (slightly bigger) but fit all the same.

they are actually vauxhall pump bobbins but by drilling the holes out a bit they fit and do the job fine

also i have fitted the gauges into the dash and routed them throught the bulkhead nicely but i havent got the right adapters to fit the engine ect yet

 

Evening Dean,

Looking very good, il second third fourth...... the comments on your rocker cover, lovely lil touch and works very well with the black.

Top work as ever, looking forward to seeing it all running soon and on track next year

 

Coming along well mate, keep it up , yours will be on track way before mine

 

cheers Luke cheers for the comments, as far as the black goes i gave Ryan my new header tank and my strenghtened rear arms for powder coating durring the week

this car will be running by christmas and next year i will get as many track days in as i can afford ect and hope to see you and Ian out there

 

the bits will be done this coming week dean

 

i reckon a nice set of Rouse sport skirts would go nice on there......

 

nice one Ryan

lennie your not wrong there budd but i just dont have any coin spare for things like that until the car is running once done i would buy them 100% as they do look the bollocks

 

need to put that number plate surround back on, back end dosent look right without it.

car looking good though mate, gash wheels

 

i will stick em to one side? or what you goit we can deal for|???

 

right heres some pics of my gauges and gauge pods which i must admit i am well pleased with






and heres my new lights thanks to bullett on here







hopefully i`ll have time to fit these tomorrow so more pics will be taken of course lol

3i gaz which wheels are we talking about pmsl black will fix em i know the back looks a bit odd but it looks better in person than the pics make out + its a bit different

lennie PM me a price as we never did get down to to business end of the deal

 

well i did get time today to play with the sapph and heres the pics






oh and heres a pic of my carbon fibre rear pillars (these are creative carbon ones so they fit spot on )


and heres a another pic for now reason other than me taking another pic

 

Brian

 

cheers budd

 

if your not gonna have the plate surround then put ambers back in!

the gauges look perfecto mate and also love the hocks, utter porn

 

looking better and better each week mate

 

ambers you say mmmmm i wouldnt mind trying em just to see what they could all look like........

cheers for the comments thought mate i must admit im proper over the moon with hows this motor is coming along

 

hi dean ,she is comein along now lovely color ,and them wheels do look sweet good on moday dean cheers for the lift
ps white on white fpmsl

 

its either got to be 4x4 lights and surround or ambers and nothing, a mix of the 2 is a bit wrong and rather gay jsut like them 2 stickers on the boot.

crystal blue saph on hockenheims is perfect though mate really is cant wait to see some more progress

also hope you've got a turbo dampener bracket ma bobba thingie for that T4,

 

yeah i have a turbo damper just havent fitted it yet

the sticker are on the boot to hide what i like to call a fucking lazy stupid ass paint prepers fuck up basically the car has had a bit of paint and the cunts taped round the badges rather than taking them off and as i hate the badges they had to go but i cant leave them off so i had to cover it over


fuck off gary with your sick and damn right disgusting white on white fetish

cheers luke

 

like the gauge holder mate, really fancy getting myself a saph next year but dont fancy the amount of cash i would throw at it

 

Hi kitchy how are you???

you`ll love it mate having a cossie means you have to spend money even on stuff you do really need

 

Really coming on leaps and bounds.

I hope you cut the sellers balls off so he can't have children and then in turn they will put disgusting wheels on Cossie's

That's if there are any cossie's left by that time