Your just scared that his cars going to be quicker than yours LOL

 

cant be arsed

 

i think g is doing a great job and is doing the paint so it makes it his car after so many people saying thats paul johnsons or sunnys fiesta stick at it g it will be boss crazycage i love your car to i just think you should be supportive of other ford people and what g is trying to do who cares who's is faster you both have tasty fiestas and should be showing the vauxhall boys what fords can do

 

shame this turned to shit

 

gaz you could always try making a spoiler from mdf and some fibreglass lol

might be worth a few more ponys !!!!! (this will have relevance to someone here bear with me lol)

my point is we all have to start somewere and also finish it too


dont give up mate ,get it done
and crazycage nothing wrong with a bit of local competition eh may help you both step up your games and put us locally on the map

also like to say personally i dont care if it was pj,s old car , irellavent imho as its moved on and changed
who cares if it doesnt make same/similar figures will still be a useful toy

finish it gaz mate

also for the record gaz forget paint just get it sorted mate

 

shame this turned to shit

 

I've just abandoned my piece of shit project.

 

Why Gary?

To tell the truth I am also losing my patience with my Frst, I have only driven it 4 times in 6 months this year, always seems to be something going wrong lately. Headgasket went last weekend to top it all of.

 

My project is always on going lol.I drive it everyday and there is always something i wanna buy for it.Ive spent ove 3 grand on it now in the 3 n a half years ive had it.That 3 grand includes the paint/body work which was £1150 then the alloys£250 and the leather interior £300.The rest has just been wear and tear items like tyres discs+pads and services items.

 

3 grand isnt that bad over 3 years. mine cost me 28 grand over 7 years before i crashed it and wrote it off.

 

ahhh memories the good ol days heheheh

and no pun intended just nice if the local lads show the way

i can remember you fitting the motor in that

 

what gareths gearbox is gona go, i highly doubt this as its the box that did the 11.6 sec quater and 179.8mph and is worth more than ur fiesta turbo on its own.

And if gareths car doesnt beat urs id be very surprised, after all his car has a bigger spec than urs. better ECU that isnt powered by a hamster on a wheel (gotech = lospec)
and i remember ur other fiesta painted in snot green, y paint it ???? o and ur latest fiesta with mk4 back end - does that make it faster ?????
o ye green is the colour of the day isnt it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gareths car is gona be clean and a all round car, not just fast but looking good too

Full Feature CAR

 

p-f at its best

 

just need to look at it to know that

and what are you gona blame for getting beat in a race this time, last race with me it was your gearbox.......

leave gareth to what hes doing, its a awsome car that hopefully will do big things
if not its still a full feature car !!!!!!!!!

 

and its pauls old shell just as urs was someone elses before you got it, it has evolved and changed so much from when paul owned it just as ians car has now paul has it !!!!!!

 

wasted thread

 

wasted thread

 

get the thread bk on track!!! How many of you have thought of giving up??? Or had bad times,things not going right???

 

its a shame some people are getting the wrong end of the stick lol,

i think most of us have felt like selling up at some point but you never get your money back so just keep at it ,it will be done when its done and it will do what it does.

 

i have though bout giving up a number of times as uno gaz but am 90% there with i now and at least am gettin some use out of it / pissing the neighbours off so am happy lol stick with it mate

 

at the end of the day g don't give up on it, you have a great car in the making that will show a lot of other cars up( apart from mine when it's finished and you will only regret selling it

 

i have spent around 7k i reckon in the last 14 months on the 3dr and it still deosnt run
only needs a few doing but i cant really be fucked anymore

only thing is its not a cosworth, and i wont get much back selling in bits i dont reckon.

so may as awell finish it, but it wont be any time soon as i have better things to do...

 

shame the thread has gone tits up,for want of a better word.
its a constant battle to keep motivated .
planning is the key to getting the end result and decent times.

 

Through seeing your project progress on the pages of PF gaz is great, showing what a home builder can do. Like wise with crazycage and other home builders (no disrespect to other people here)

People get down not seeing £XXXX of car going but just keep your chin up.

If you don't finish it you will never know what it is capable of

Take a month of, put it under the cover. Chill for that time be it on the lash or whatever then get back on it and get it finished

 

i nearly gave up so many times with my old xr2, after getting tommy field to build my mental spec cvh i managed to get metal filings in the engine and completely ruining a 9 mile old engine with a repair bill just shy of 4k, then on my first track day a rocker snapped and jammed in the cam sheering the vernier off and ruining a brand new £750 head, £75 vernier and chiving all 4 of my custom spec £650 pistons

but with a bit of motivation and support from friends and family i kept on going even when i didnt really want to and the end result?

one of the quickest fwd fords on the scene - 12.6 sec 1/4
the fastest fwd mk2 xr2 ever timed as far as i know - 150 mph
and 0 -100 in 10.1 seconds

i got my full front cover feature and loads of mini features and the reward of driving it when done and the attention it got was the best feeling ever

ive just started with the 4x4 fiesta jwrc and have about 20k still to spend i reckon but i knew what i was getting myself in for this time so im preppared,

I tried to get out of it after breaking the xr2 for just under 17k and buying an E46 M3 which was great but i didnt give me the same feeling to drive it so ive sold it and im back in the game

carry on and enjoy all the blood sweat and tears and wedge you have put into it then decide if you want to sell it but finish it first and achieve what you set out to do mate

 

none taken lol, so you going to drop a hint ?? you have me baffled.

 

i shall catch up with you soon and let you know who i am dont post on here much just lurk and tbh i keep myself to myself

well that is once i have a car quick enough to catch you that is

heres another clue ,you ever remember that cruise in the multistory car park all them years back and mr wright in his nova slapped the kerb and trolly,d it lol
think berty had his overheating capri back then ??

 

sound mate , but i still dont have a clue lol and i dont remember a cruise in a muilistory, but i used to go to a lot of them back then.

 

Well like i said most of that was for cosmetic bits like the paint/body work.

 

i see it has are projects are just boys toys, i think not having them we would have a very boring life what else do we have in life really, drive to work everyday walk the dog pipe and slippers

 

Its different for me mines a 20year old banger & I realise that seems that most see their RS's as some sort of dream machine it aint.
Yes I get fed-up because I wanted to quit this lark about 3 years ago but wanted to have one last crack at seeing how fast a Cossie can be made to go.
Used it as a road car for 10 years now im not interested in that, but im still motivated to see if 215mph is possible so I will finish this final development off but at my pace & in my time. If you cant afford to build your dreams dont start cos cars aint important compared to other things in life & should only be a hobby, never let it become anything else.

 

yeah i agree rod, they should be nothing more than a hobby something to enjoy, not something that seems a pain to work on or neglecting family just to fund your project.

the thing is aswell if you don't go the full hog with a project you always regret it because your always thinking to yourself if i had done this if i had done that how fast could i have got how much power, i have done exactly the same thing then ended up getting another

 

i think there a massive waste of time and money. youve work your ass of and build it perfect to then loose 50 % of your money at the end of it ! either buy them done or at least with all the uprated parts but blown up cheap.

well thats my moto and through all my 5 cossies ive had i havnt earned anything but i havnt lost anything finished breaking even after all 5 cars over 7 years. mileage between all of them id guess 20000 miles.