3dr
 

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This is my project, picked up from portsmouth a 14hour round trip. A prety well known 3dr in the south, been mag featured. Got the shell minus engine box, interior, front bumper, grill ect
It used to have an rs500 front bumper and rear spioler but they where sold before i got to it, it also had touring car centre lock split rim wheels. Id been watching this car for a while, i had a 2wd saph at the time just done a full engine rebuild and new t34 turbo. My idear was to break the sapph and use the engine and gearbox for the 3dr.
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This is what it looked like before;
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Got a front bumper from ireland and a front grill had them painted
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Then the engine was all sorted ready to go in
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The new t34 from C&R turbos was bolted on
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This is how it looked when it was first dropped in
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Got an interior sorted from pete at ashfield top bloke £600 benn in an 33,000mile 500 apparently
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And got a 4spoke rs wheel from fastford show £200 in great nik
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Made a new centre gauge pod
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Then i got a set of TSW hockenhiems 8"/17" had them refurbed with blue centre nuts
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Then i got a set of these lenso bsx 7.5"/16", really waant some comp cxn but these will do for now. Managed to get a RS500 Genuine upper spoiler, needed a bit of work it had been stored stood on its mounts and hadf slightly worped. But my paint man sorted it out(thanx craig a master with the body work AND PAINT)
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Also decided to change the engine loom, got a new braided item
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The new one and the old one
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Also managed to get a RS500 genuine front bumper in great condition had it painted then i fitted it.
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Got some new bumper trin from kent trim supplies just need a splitter now
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Made a turbo heatshield aswell and sorted out some of the pipes, also lowered it slightly. Took the coilovers off and gave them a lik of paint look much better now.
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Had the fuel pump cradle powder coated aswell, also managed to get a 3dr beam and arms so had them done aswell
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The roof lining was looking a bit saggy so removed it and took it to my local trimmers who recoved it looks new now top job
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Also cleaned up one of the powersteering pipes aswell as the gearbox cradle
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stunning mate :clap:,i still have your old hocks mate i havent even taken the wrapper off 3 of the wheels lol

If you ever decide to sell let me know bud

no problem :grin:

nice car mate I remember that when John owned it back in the day :top:

Think i'll be back in a 3dr soon :cry:

Yep Lambs old car, good pal of mine.

Infact i haven't seen him online or heard from him in ages...:sad:

Cheers for the comments
He messaged me a while back when he spotted it on here, not sure what hes up to now.

Looks really well;-)

Cheers fela getting there slowly

Looking good mate
very nice indeed

Think it could have possibly been you who i saw last year in leeds centre when i was pulling out of the esso garage,it deffo had the same rims on(black centre polished lip.)

Probably was fela must of been a dry day for it to be out ha ha.

lol was mate,mid summer i think:grin:

A picture of mine and a freinds mk2 we had just finished at fastford fair

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And a recent engine shot
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i ssoooooo knew you would :cry:

si car looks great and obviously the best colour too :top:

Good project there ,need to get the pics bigger

Bigger pics needed

Can't beat a Moonstone 3dr.

Wished i had seen this for sale, would of transfered everything from the 4i

Steve

Thanx for the comments felas, how do you change the pic size

Just got my friends rocker cover back from the powder coaters
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so pleased to see shes still about and being loved :)

My mate told me about this thread so thought I better take a look see hows shes doing, I still have a big cossy sized hole in my garage hehe

Looking Good, nice to see it back up and running again.

Come on John, its about time you filled up that space in your garage with another one!

Nice to here from you bud, just need a set of wheels like you had now still saving for them thou. You getting another one then?

Cheers fela

Yeah those wheels did look the bollox but they were a pain in the arse I wouldnt go down that route again tbh..

No plans to get another at the moment perhaps one day will see :grin: Keep up the good work though shes looking great!



About time yours was up and runnig again Ian too!!

very nice

cheers fela

Been for its MOT today so when it got back a wash and wax and back in the garage

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Sweet, could do with you washing mine:grin:

looking well mate ,i take it ,it sailed through the mot :grin:

Ye straight through only did 600miles since the last one, hope i get the weather to use it now

Managed to get hold of a snap on interior cleaner of a friend, so shampood the seats and the carpets. Came up prety good i thought

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:drool2:WOW i do like them wheels

AND I LOVE MOONSTONE 3DOORS:DD:

Only colour to have IMO

Cheers fela

gorgeous car :drool:

Any updates dude

Should be in a few days picking some new wheels up 18", will get pick up soon as i get them.

Lovely car you have there.

Cheers fela