cossiestu

Very nice!

I love white 90spec S2's!
Reminds me of my old one....

Borry

I bolted up the dashboard and got all the wiring in place, just waiting for my new bonnet release cable before I put the dash cluster in

Borry

Thanks

Rich654

Absolutely stunning... love s2's.

Borry

I got my new bonnet cable, fitted it then put the cluster and surround on. Started connecting the wiring for the stalks and then I realised I couldn't find the wiring plug for the horn. So then I had to take it all back out and spent about an hour trying to find it, turns out it was right beside the ignition wires hidden behind the dash

Anyway after that I put everything back together, put the surround on the sunroof handle and put the light into the glovebox. I'm hoping to sort out the screen wash bottle and pump tomorrow, make sure all the lights are working properly and try fit the front seatbelts.

milesy23rst

iTrader: (16)

Great stuff mate be great once its all back together, what did you do with the old pro-alloy cooler mate? as am interested in buying it?

Borry

Thanks

I've still got it, you can pm me your offer. It's got twin Spal fans on it so you can have them aswell if you want.

Borry

I've been busy today, fitted the seatbelts, soundproofing and I've got the carpet in place. Just stopped for some lunch and going back out. I'm hoping to get the seats in and then the centre console and try find a screen wash pump.

Borry

I finished putting together all the seatbelt stuff and put the drivers seat in the car, put the sill trims on and fitted the centre console. I managed to find a screen wash pump so put that and the jets on and I wired up the number plate light. Almost done everything for the MOT now

Borry

It's been a busy week so haven't had time to update this but here's what's been happening.

Last Saturday I took the car for an MOT and it passed!

So since then I've been trying to finish the rest of the stuff, first was the bodykit







I put the passenger seat in and tried the rear seats aswell but I don't have the right brackets for the sides so I'll need to buy some.









I put the decal on the bootlid



I got some oil and cotton braided rubber hose to replace all the silicon vacuum hose that's on right now







Here's a couple of other pictures I took since I've been driving

Danster76

iTrader: (2)

Looking good.
Where did you get the rear light bulb holders, they look new!?

I had the same grief with the brackets fitting my rear seats. Typically, I've stripped my interior out now and binned the brackets else you could of had them!

Borry

I got them brand new on eBay they came with a new plug aswell but I haven't gotten round to wiring them yet, I just used the bulb holders. I think they were about Ł35.

I didn't realise the seat brackets were different between the different years, I've been looking on eBay and some other places but haven't found any yet, it's typical that you've just binned a set

4x4 S2 Cossie

Nice! you dont hang around either by the looks of it.

Best colour too

Borry

Thanks, I was desperate to get it on the road! It shouldn't take too long now to finish the rest.

I defo agree about the colour

cosworth89

Well done mate, very nice looking car...

Borry

Thanks

Borry

I've been busy the past couple of days, I finally gave the car a good wash!











I thought I'd better change the timing belt aswell so I started stripping the belt and tensioner. I have a spare engine and it had a piper vernier cam pulley on so I thought I'd put that on my car, I took it off then looked at the cam and it was a piper 285t so I took that and the followers out and put them into my car my cam and followers were worn and noisy but now the engine is sounding nice and quite

Turbo Al

iTrader: (1)

aye she is looking good there , black bumper stripes/inserts will finish it off nicely

Borry

Thanks, hopefully I'll find some decent bumper inserts soon. I think I might know where I can get some next week though

Borry

I did an oil change and changed the turbo oil feed on Thursday, then yesterday I took the car to a local tuner for a check up to make sure fuelling was all good. We didn't manage to do much though because my new oil pipe was leaking so I ordered a new one when I got home and fitted a bleed valve so we could adjust the boost.

I got the new pipe today, new genuine ford rear wheel cylinders and a set of tailored mats so I changed the oil feed first and made sure it wasn't leaking, which it wasn't and then I changed the silicon vacuum hose going to the boost gauge with the cotton braided one and painted the timing belt cover and fitted it. Just got to make another appointment to finish setting up the car now

Anyway, here's some pictures





























Here's the old oil feed

Turbo Al

iTrader: (1)

oooft! that oil feed pipe is badgered! who do you use for tuning up there? you going to put her on the drag strip next month is it?

milesy23rst

iTrader: (16)

Will give you a shout when i have a few quid and make you an offer on the pro-alloy cooler m8 if you want pm me a rough idea of what you are after for it, and the s2 looks great just need black bumper strips and some spots

Borry

I'm using Colin Linklater from Linkmap Performance, he really knows his stuff and yeah I'm hoping to enter into the drag race, it's on the 21st of this month

Ok thanks hopefully I'll get some bumper strips soon, that'll finish off the outside of the car

Borry

I bought some heat wrap and lagged the exhaust and the bottom half of the charge carrier, I'm hoping it'll help to keep the engine bay temperature down

kidsRS

iTrader: (6)

I tried telling boothy not to sell this!! as i knew after the long wait he had it would be very nice in deed, and that it does you got a true bargain there mate looks very well jelous!

bigryrs

iTrader: (10)

Looks quality mate! you dont hang about! whens the huvv getting started? or you just selling it to me? lol

Borry

Thanks, he did look really gutted when we collected it but he didn't really have much choice... I'm just glad I got a car that's in such good condition

Thanks I'll probably be starting on it properly next year, and no I'm not selling it to you! Lol, if I do change my mind though I'll let you know first

Borry

Took the car to a charity drag race up here and everything went ok, no breakdowns and my fastest time was 15.841 in the pouring rain

Only have 1 picture but have a couple of videos ill upload

Zetecfiesta

Very nice, makes me really miss my mercury grey rs turbo!

Sengaaaa

stunning

Borry

Have done anything to the car for a while now, been busy with other stuff but I've got a few things in hoping to get done in the next week or 2. I bought an exhaust manifold that I'll send away to get ceramic coated during winter and I got a flywheel cover plate, another silly wee thing that was missing.

Here's a few pictures of the parts I bought

Smartdj.

iTrader: (2)

reminds me of my old s2. very nice car bud

Robmatheson

Mint car. Spotted it in town recently. A lot of work gone into rebuilding it. What are you doing with the grey one?

Borry

Thanks

Thanks, I'm planning a full resto to the grey one. Hoping to start it next year, would start earlier but have a few things to do to the white one during the winter.

crazydan

cracking build up!

was good talking to u at the drag

i was the one with the silver saab 9000

Borry

Thanks, it was good talking to you aswell.

I couldn't believe how quick your Saab was! Nice wee sleeper

crazydan

I wouldn't call it wee will hafto meet up soon

original

Car looks very tidy now! Where did you get the replacement chip from? Looks like a powerchip...is it 165bhp one?

Borry

Haha yeah, you do have a point... And yeah that'll be good

Thanks, it's a 195 Evolution chip from Motorsport Developments. When you buy the chip you tell them the spec of your car and they'll adjust the map on it

Borry

Have an interesting update, I bought an Apexi AVC-R and had it set up by Linkmap. I'm so happy with it, much better than the bleed valve and actually have proper boost control now

We got it set at 1 bar on the low boost setting and 1.4 bar on the high boost, car feels a lot quicker now.