As some of you may know I have recently broke my saff to fund the purchase of K60SSE from Neil A . The car was one I'd allways liked and I had missed out on the car when it first came up, though due to the buyer dropping out of the sale at the last minute I had the chance to get the car.
The car as a whole was out of my budget(due to its high spec) but as neil had just started the brake the car this was perfect as it ment i could pick and chose what parts i wanted with the rolling shell.This will also hopefully work out cheaper in the long run than buying a whole car, as I would be changing/upgrating most of the car to get it to the spec i want.
I ended up with-
Rolling trimmed shell( not seats or door cards)
K60SSE no. plate.
Gaz coilovers
front strut brace
adjustable rose jointed TCA's
65mm pro alloy rs500 intercooler
touring car rad, 60mm i think.
Twin pump and swirl pot fuel system
Bara box
AG hydrolic clutch conversion

So after a very:headbang: long 1000mile round trip from poole, dorset to leven,fife its was mine.

 

First thing ive done is to remove the old knackered rear beam that was fitted purely for transport purposes , so I can start to clean up the under side ready for my beam.
The rear beam i'll be using was in my 2wd saff so I know it has a good 71/2" diff , polybushes and 4wd brakes, just needs a clean up and a lick of paint.
As you can see from the pic the under side is in quite good condition and is allready painted due to the car being used for concours by one of the previous owners.


the current state of affairs




Filthy from the trailer ride home.

Bara box with hydro clutch conv.:icon_smile:

 

Parts I have allready collected or kept form my saff
swedish inlet
83lbs blacks
ryan loom
rs500 turbo hanger
rear beam, diff 7.5" , polybushed with 4wd brakes
stack afr gauge
header tank
rs500 alt drop bracket
coil pack conv. leads, amps ect.
and I have a good head which has been flowed to be capable of 500hp+ . (though I cant really say who did it as its a private job done outside of the tuner he works for )

Plan is to build for 70% track use and the odd bit of road use to shows or poss ring trips.
I've made up my mind on what i want spec wise out of the car and i'll stcik to it as its cost me to much on other cars from not doing so.
It will run a roller bearing T4 and whatever power that can make.

 

Good luck with it mate will be keeping an eye on this thread

 

cheers.

 

good luck with it mate!

Neil, Its one of my good mates who will be inspecting your possible new set of wheels

 

Nice one mate didnt know you got the bara box as well

 

Nice one fella good luck with it.

 

Good luck with it mate !!

 

Nice one bud, will be a very nice car again once its done.

Passenger ride once shes finished please mate.

Oh and you Fanny using an Engine crane to get the beam off the pickup .................... wish we had one Saturday night

 

fanny, piss off i had to do it on my own.

 

glad it went to a good home.will be keepin an eye on this one mate

 

So did I, some weak fucker was no use at all

 

Nice car m8, a good project, will be watching the rebuild

Steve

 

nice escort keep updates coming

 

you dont hang about do you mate

going to be a good 1 to to keep an eye on

 

i have got to have some of them rims

best of luck with the build, loved this car, im sure it will be just as good

 

nice one mate will be keeping an eye on this

 

bizarre,i have the beam off of this car and i picked up an orion the other week from bournemouth dorset,and i notice you have a c20 wth number plate,i have c11 wth!

 

great shell,will be watching this

 

Ah, you have it at last, good luck with the Build

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good luck with the build mate
keeping a eye on this

 

Great base to start with

 

Good luck ive seen this car a few times at shows.

 

At last and Alex guess what sensors I need for it as well????

 

What wheels are going on the car mate? you decided yet

 

RL7's (white,black or anthr.) for track r888's and silver or white 18" monte's for the road. I think so far.

 

Sounds spot on mate

 

will be watching this one..good luck with it

 

Cool project

 

Ok did a bit last wed night and, well it could of gone better tbh.

Started by removing these which im not a fan of.



And at this point I must warn anyone else who may want to remove some of their own car DON'T.
Not to mention the fact that they are razor sharpe and Im now missing half of two fingers , they also do not come off well. Mine were stuck on with tiger seal, which was a bugger and ended me with a badly rippeled bonnet. Im unsure if it can be repaired so It may be carbon bonnet time.


I have also come across a few other issues I dont want to explain just yet , which tbh I think will end up in me getting paint done on the whole front end.


Not the start i wanted at all, but we shall press on.

 

Ok update time.
Right well Im going to post this as if i do ever come to sell the car I will be straight with the buyer and im sure they would like to know things are done properly on the car.

While removing the lights( for de-buftying) wed nite we came across this little mess.
Compare the Nearside (1st pic ) to the offside (2nd pic)



I think someone must of had a bump in it and had it repaired on the cheap.




But not to be put off , we shall press on with and new front panel section, WRC front wings(rl7's and monte 18" are now out the window in favour of some 9" wide comps in matt black) and a front end paint. Dan's dad is a top painter so he doing it all but first we needed to strip out the front end .
So now it looks like this.

 

Next up clean the bay up ready for paint, and get it to the bodyshop to whip off the wings and send them for some beefing up while the front panel and bonnet get sorted.

If the bonnet is so dented I may be on the look out for a carbon one, if anyone knows where i might find one????

 

car looks great, loader!

shame about the damage, but it looks like an easy fix? just change the front slam panel?

 

I fitted those bufty plates to my saph once! Thank god i only used double sided tape.

They still put a small crease in my bonnet, when i took them off.

Shame about the front end, but can be easily repaired.

 

Is it going to be 2wd?

 

cheers fellas, should be ok as said with a new front panel and im getting all excited about WRC front wings and big wide 9" comps too.
I saw a white escort with them saturday and Im dead set on getting them done now as the front end will be getting paint anyway.


Paul,
No mate 4wd, as ive done my rwd hooligan time its about grip and speed with this one.

 

Loader im realy sorry mate i can honestly say in the time i owned the car i never noticed that , but my painter should of when it got painted a few years ago but never told me
If i knew you were wanting rid of the bonnet plates i would have looked out the bonnet liner as i still have it somewhere.

 

No worries mate its cool, its only when I stripped the lights and bumper off it became apparent. If you have the liner still I'll have it.

 

Thats a shame nic but at least its a easy repair a little section will be fine & if nobody seen it before they wont see it again no hurry up n make a monster out it