Hiya everyone this is a start to a long restoration project on my k plate saph, i have had the car for a few years now and loved every minuite of it.
The car was standard apart from a stage 1 chip and exhaust when i bought it, i have since added a group a head gasket a chip, light blue injectors, 3 bar map sensor and a t34 .48, then upgraded the turbo to a universal turbos t38 and fitted a helix paddle clutch then got it set up by Carwise uk ( who done a really good job ) and the car felt awsome running 2 bar boost. I then done another turbo upgade to a T4 but have not really used the car much since so i have decided to strip and rebuild the car from bottom to top going to paint the underside then the rest of the car.

So started to remove the engine









































Hopefully will get all the rear running gear and fuel tank off at the weekend.
Thanks for looking!!!!!!!

 

Keep up the good work

 

looks mints,all the best with it mate

 

Tidy Saff mate

 

Very nice mate keep the updates coming

 

look forward to following this thread, fancy doing this myself

 

Thanks for all the comments ive took the interior out aswell now so will have to post some more pics tommorow!!!!!!!!!

 

A bit of an update i have removed all the doors which were a right nightmare to get off i have also removed the boot lid and rear bumper then a few days later got to work removing the rear running gear and petrol tank so the car is just about a shell now!!!
A few pics for you's








A few bits of rust found under the rubber doors seals should'nt be to hard to repair




A few of the boot floor





and then i got it up off the floor and rolled it








and started to clean it off with the petrol i drained from the tank and a brush then wiped with a cloth its coming up quite ok!!!!!




Thats all i have done so far will have to try and get the rest of it cleaned this weekend hopefully.

 

Brian

 

Good start there m8,what box and diffs are you using ?

 

looks like a good clean car. love the cam cover colour

 

Great work , the spit makes the underside job a lot easier

 

i have just been using standard box and diffs and they have done well. will probablys rebuild them using stronger bearings and shot peened gears.

 

Fancy a t38/gt30 myself but was advised to get stronger box.

 

mmm...love a nice smokestone saph me

 

Seen one just like this the other day but in a bit better nick.

Someone was using it as a dog kennel, in there garden.

(Dog looked a bit imbarrased)

Better stock up on unleaded bud, wont be any left by the time it comes back out of the garage.

Carnt wait to see it when its done tho mate, Should look exactly the same.

 

 

Great resto, nice saph Sure that jig is handsome. Keep up the good work mate!

 

love it mate, keep us posted

 

awesome job tht ur doing

 

Wow top work mate.I love the colour of these saffs.

 

Been in the garage for a few hours today removing most of the underseal with a wire brush on an angle grinder will post some pics in a few days.

 

Looks good, how long you reckon it'll take you to finish?

 

I think it will take a while will probably be around this time next year hopefully.

 

nice looking saph quite clean too so hopefully wont need to much work to get finished off,great resto thread too look foward to see in the project finished keep up the hard work

 

nice cozzy mate keep up the top work

 

nice car mate

your a brave man running a t4 and standard brakes

i fucking shit myself a few times when i ran the same

 

lovely saff matey

can i ask where you bought if from?????

 

I bought this from a lad from Durham who i think got it from whitley bay as i still have the advert from the auto trader.

 

nice colourbest thing when cleaning that shit off is to spary the petrol on leave for 2mins spary some more then wipe clean i had to do my brothers escos and it only take a day half to do it

 

Hi mate just wondering how your getting on?

After 3 month I would have thought the body shell will be in the paint shop is it?

 

no mate its not still loads to do to it yet and no time to do it.

 

get cracking mate looks like you have a good shell there

 

little update for us, we havnt done alot to the car cos we hav being fixing and breaking my car. so now we have done alittle to his and ived helped well done most of it cos i want the pile of rust out my garage











what do uses think up to now

 

looking good mate

 

Put the new rear chassis leg in and started to clean the rear end up. We havent done much to the car because we bein on building another saph for a frend and its almost done so we should be getting more done to ower cars. got some pic of the little work we done

 

looking good, plenty done, keep up the good work

 

keep it up

 

Great job, bud

keep up the good work

 

Nice work, where you get the new chassis leg from?


Mart.