right here goes i am new on here i bought my orion for 170 but i sold the cd player out of it so it cost me 150 now i took it for mot and went flying throw i also give it a good polish, the plan was just use it and leve it but its got the better of me and i have all ready put konis on it with i think 60 mil springs, i hve also just pu deposit on a rs turbo am picking it up end of month to put engine in mine here are few pics for now all post some more soon hope you like


this was when i got it







and this is when i polished ialso got engine steemed al get some pics soom










when i slammed it lol i put some nice wide 14inch steels

 

same colour as mine was when i first got it i paid Ł40 for it!!!
its now vw jazz blue with a 2.1 zetec turbo running 12.7 secs 1/4 mile times i believe the fastest orion in the country
not enough orions around good luck

 

Good look with it mate looks a good solid shell to start with . But wot i did find funny you said your new to here but you have 1,797 post to your name . Good lookwith it

 

shit sorry lol i copyed it and pasted from orion reg lol

 

i want it already lol

 

Great! I'm interested in the following updates

 

ha ha john i will update soon as i can

 

liking that mate

 

Looks bob on mate

 

@ Oriurbo, I thought the green orion mk1 that urban racing own Was the fastest one built? Was in ff a while ago. Havnt seen it for a while though and UR is only 5 mins from me

 

hi all sorry about lack of updates right i have sold the engine out of the orion so i will be takeing tha out tomoz if wether permits, so i will update with all pics tomoz

 

good luck with this mate i love orions ill have one some day for a daily runner

 

you gonna update it on the orion reg too or do i have to trawl back through here to find it again ?

 

al update on both mate

 

love orions , banded 15" steels next

they look amazing simple but slammed

 

i have a few things in the pipe line for next year i have put s2 turbo wheels on for now

 

hope your going to get them wheels blasted and painted fella



beef

 

yer i was thinking about gettng them banded but they are only 14s so might be on look ont for some 15s

 

here are a few pics of the rs turbo that the engine is comeing out of

 

come on then Gav chop chop

 

ha ha this weekend it should be in

 

Was the fastest untill mattys beat it's time of 13.3

cracking thread good look with the Orion looks mint!

 

Should go allright that turbo has been sat in a bodyshop for a while

 

right big update been doing it fir past 3 days i got it running tonight i just have to bleed the brakes as i have put the turbo ones on and sort few daft bits out al let the pics do the talking lol


the clutch i took out lol



lsd gearbox



this is what i found when took engine out the orion god knows how long its been there lol




abit random lol but look at a butter knife i found one day lol




here are the rest of the pics





old engine out


old engine

 

your a brave man working on thaton them wind up jacks mate lol

 

ha ha yer its all i had the axel stands were at the other side lol

 

the neighbor from hell lol . good work gavin

 

ha ha grant i know i would of gone fucking mad if it was someone eles lol al buy them all a xmas card lol m

 

good progress there mate

 

thanks mate i was going to paint all engine up but al just clean it up as i go lol

 

some great updates there Gav

 

thanks john

 

brings back memorys i used to rock round in one with chopped springs also in the same spaz chariot blue they were the days

 

here is i little update

 

Nice shiny stuff there mate and good project! ecu is on route