well after not finishing my restro and braking my 2.1 zvh rs turbo series 2,i bought my self a cossy of simon drake (d7ake) i have had a daft few problems with it nothing major,mainly it was getting to hot fans were not cutting in sorted that out but the main problem was the thermostat was stuck replaced it now and the cars running better then ever.well the winters coming up and i have some plans for this car again,i said i would never do it again but its going to karl and i now know its going to be finished at a very high spec as always.my plans are strip the interior out before going to karls ,have the car picked up and delivered to karls about march time,hes then going to take the engine out strip the underside ,put on a spit and do his magic with it,its going to have the floor painted white all underneath parts powder coated ,old parts replaced with new if needed fuel lines etc.then the engine bay stripped and engine bay repainted,engine stripped rebuilt to a stage 3,long studded etc,and the engine cleaned and painted as well,ive told him to put together a price what parts i need and to go from there,all in about a 5 week turnover ,providing i can get beefys car out of the way lol.

 

nice car mate,

thats a LOT of work you have planned and i think you seriously need to allow more time than five weeks

look forward to seeing the progress though

 

i have already started to sort the suspesion out i got a set of koni adjustables but they needed repainting gave them to karl and he did his magic on them ,i was well happy when i got them back also bought a set of ahmed boojo springs to match them as they say they pair up well. more parts will follow.
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we will see thats the time scale he said could be a couple of weeks over not realy bothered just want it to look mint and the way karls going at the moment the que to his garage is only going to get longer

 

 

This will be one of the cleanest saph's around when finished without a doubt,

Goes well too ! enjoyed the thrash in it even if our lass didn't the noise scared her haha.

 

nice car!

 

belter

 

did you get the springs from rainbird?im buying a set soon.good luck with the resto.

 

yeah thats were there from

 

yeah thats were there from

 

It wasn't bad when I sold it lol, I'm really looking foward to seeing it when the works done, I miss the old girl, reli glad its gone to a good home.

 

looks minty

 

clean car that

 

Love that mate! look so fresh

 

Not at all mate its a clean car to say the least.

It will be mint when finished though

 

It always makes me smile, when I owned it, I did all the shows, and won one or two "car of the day" trophies, but no one said anything to me about it looking good, as soon as I sell it, everyone loves it!

That's happened to me b4 as well wiv another RS, as soon as I sold it, everyone comes up to me now and says why did you sell that car it was really nice doh!

The chap who owned it b4 me looked after it, but I did loads of work to get it like that...shoule be minty mint when its all done.

I havn't got an RS at the moment but I'm working on it!

 

hi si the cars still going well but put away for the winter,in march will be getting the full engine rebuilt and painted also engine bay to,still loving the car,need to get the paint work done due to taking them stripes off,i see your on the look out for another car hope you get one as good as you sold me,hope to see you at some shows.

 

si have yeah got yea date booked with spech...! beefy seem,s to have the jobs hell up ??

 

just seen your quote im getting nearer down the que now carnt wait to be honest ,need to decide what im going to do with the underside (paint) and engine bay and if theres any rot about but i know its in safe hands this time.

 

bump lol....K

 

waiting for the pics mate did he take any and yeah theres rot lol

 

ok seeing as im getting pesterd to post em ill get these up for si and spesh


si's new fabricated rear dust sheilds





freshly powdercoated in cobalt blue





and si's new hand fabbed fuel pump carrier









and now powdercoated





nutserts fitted for anti vibration mounts







both had to be made as both parts are obsolete and no longer available from ford ,


can be made if folk need them though pm spesh for details



b.

 

they are the bollox !

 

thanks for the pics beef they look the dogs bollocks loving the colour is they anything spesh carnt make,getting excited now hurry up with that three door lol

 

Now thats some clever fab work there, very neat they look excellent

 

Glad you like the new bits matey...K

 

just showed the wife she said yeah great (typical woman)

 

fantastic skills

 

Had a few things go wrong with the car recently i thought i would give it a service for the summer ,i ended up spinning the sump pump oil plug,i tryed to change the fuel filter and the carrier fell to bits lol good job i had a new one fitted,i changed the suspension over couldnt believe how well it handles now,then yesterday the sunroof decided to go faster than me but upwards on a blow the cobwebs out blast on a private road,thats cossies for you.get the new sunroof tonight bring it on.

 

Top job on the fabrication

 

I put konis on my saff and i was suprised at how well ot handled too.Its a hell of a lot smoother on the road now.

Who long till it gets started matey.