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lord

Posted on: Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 8:18:29am

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kayfour

Posted on: Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 8:52:48am

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Wow at the amount of rust you guys have on the roads, so lucky us down under dont have to deal with that problem!

And that last picture you can really see how small the turbo is!

Hope to see more pictures of the parts!

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lord

Posted on: Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 9:47:02am

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I wanna get them on the bloody car!!!

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lord

Posted on: Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 10:29:15pm

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Final bits arrived today. That's my suzuki sport head gasket. 1.4mm to go with n2 and other goodies.

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lord

Posted on: Saturday, May 4th, 2013, 10:33:55pm

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Well had a little play today, whilst baby sitting lol

The car is being attacked by mice!!! Lol before

After. My garage John goodies are looking good.

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nikki

Posted on: Saturday, May 4th, 2013, 10:39:23pm

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I like those Garage John bits, very nice

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doodlepugg

Posted on: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 4:46:05am

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How's the floorpan research going mate? You appear to be stockpiling parts like myself

wait til the warmer weather before getting stuck in aye?

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steve

Posted on: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 9:32:21am

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He's got me on the floor pan gig. Ive got motocraft doing some research but they don't work on the same time frame as the rest of mankind

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lord

Posted on: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 7:48:55pm

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It's doing my head in!!!!!

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steve

Posted on: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 8:22:24pm

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I wont give up on it

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lord

Posted on: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 8:46:40pm

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The one guy I got a quote from doesn't want the work....lol he just said...big job mate....and left.

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steve

Posted on: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 8:53:53pm

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Motocraft would clamp it in the jig. Your talking of taking a big lump of the car away with the floor and all the sills. You would save a lot of money by striping it to the bare shell first.

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lord

Posted on: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 6:48:27pm

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I'm struggling for anyone to take on the job of doing my cappuccino resto... WTF!

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steve

Posted on: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 7:29:02pm

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Why?

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Capposteve

Posted on: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 8:15:42pm

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Should bring it down here. Plenty of decent car restos that would love too

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lord

Posted on: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 9:36:29pm

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People just hmmm n rrrrrrrrr ... N dunno.......and trying to rip me off. I've got 3k for all the work including re spray and welding etc. the car is drivable still

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steve

Posted on: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 11:37:12pm

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Is this what you want doing. Take it somewhere and let them strip the car back to the bare shell engine out and everthing. Put a full floor in all six sills, rear wheel tubs, rear quarters, paint the full shell including the underside and roof. strip and blast the subframes and other suspension parts and powder coat. Fit the Suzuki sport bushes. Put the car all back together . Hey presto like brand new.

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lord

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 12:20:35am

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Yes....

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steve

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 1:17:42am

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You also have a body kit and those fancy back lights. If your thinking of putting them on they don't just bolt on and away ya go. Another few days work just for these bits

Everyone will have different opinions of how much it should cost but i think it will cost a lot more than 3k to do it as a turn key package.

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lord

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 8:53:28am

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The kit has gone. Just the lights left....

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steve

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 9:54:53am

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The lights need the panel on the car altering so they fit. I did Andy's

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lord

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 12:36:52pm

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Oh I see. That's why I sold the kit. Less rebuild cost mate!!

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steve

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 1:01:52pm

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Its a hard thing to put a price to but if you could find a body shop to do it between other jobs to fill gaps in on there working weeks and have the car for a long time. that would bring the bill down. The biggest saving you could make would be to strip the car yourself and put the parts back on yourself. You would know how things fit and how it should look better than any body shop. It would probably be more cost effective to get that shell from Marc its 90% there.

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Andy

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 1:14:19pm

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Have to agree with Steve that there is a lot more than £3k worth of work there. We kept the cost down on my rebuild by Steve doing a lot of the work

We basically stripped it down as much as possible beforehand and then left it with them forever. As Steve said above this was so they could work on it in their slow work periods to keep the costs down. We then reassembled the car ourselves again to keep the cost down.

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lord

Posted on: Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 7:30:50pm

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I think it can be done by someone locally maybe...

I'll strip the car as much as I can. The shell is in good nick i tell you and the shell has never been touched. It's just the floor 30 cm from the sills. I'll update with pics by the weekend!

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lord

Posted on: Monday, May 20th, 2013, 7:21:00am

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I had a little tat yesterday and played about with the floor. I looked at the seat anchor points. The floor connecting to the sills etc.

Took away the sealant and dug the edge of the floor away. Corroded all round the edges of the back of the bulk head.

Where the rear of the floor connects to the thicker sheet metal was tidied up. It wasn't all doom and gloom.

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ycming

Posted on: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013, 10:22:38am

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Good luck with it man

. Seeing pics like these makes me not wanting another cappo !

Ming

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doodlepugg

Posted on: Saturday, May 25th, 2013, 6:09:14pm

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I thought mine was pretty terminal, but i can't see any daylight through mine so i guess it's not so bad :/ I'm close to the £14k mark now inc. Cost of the car, just think of what could be had for that :O could get a nice 911 for that!

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ycming

Posted on: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013, 12:19:13pm

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“	Quoted from doodlepugg, posted Saturday, May 25th, 2013, 6:09:14pm at here	”
	I thought mine was pretty terminal, but i can't see any daylight through mine so i guess it's not so bad :/ I'm close to the £14k mark now inc. Cost of the car, just think of what could be had for that :O could get a nice 911 for that!

That is mental!!! You building a competition car or ?

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doodlepugg

Posted on: Thursday, May 30th, 2013, 3:23:31pm

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It's just gonna be a reliably quick Cappo, for use on road and track. Though it will be a little wild to drive on the road!

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lord

Posted on: Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 11:06:05am

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For those who have bc coilovers here you go....I've just bought these and I think they're a good buy. 7 a corner. Isn't bad to protect the coilovers...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170971979175

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Avar

Posted on: Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 11:56:24am

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Very important buy, i've learnt from my SS coilovers that grit beats ally thread everytime and can cause quite a headache.

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lord

Posted on: Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 12:13:30pm

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I wouldn't fit mine without it. So are your threads battered?? Can't you throw loads of copper grease on em too?

If you wanna adjust them this is ideal. So you know your threads are ok.

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Avar

Posted on: Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 1:28:35pm

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The ally adjustable seat spring has threaded and now locked in place, only way to free it is cut it off

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lord

Posted on: Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 1:49:35pm

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Oh lord. How long has that taken to get like that??

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Avar

Posted on: Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 7:21:11pm

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It didn't take long, i spose it comes down to ensuring they were totally clean before height adjustment, i obviously missed some dirt and then it got caught in the thread and no amount of force would then get it to rotate off.

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doodlepugg

Posted on: Monday, June 17th, 2013, 11:59:32am

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Oh crap :/ definitely a good investment then!

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Ricou

Posted on: Monday, June 17th, 2013, 7:40:05pm

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“	Quoted from lord, posted Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 11:06:05am at here	”
	For those who have bc coilovers here you go....I've just bought these and I think they're a good buy. 7 a corner. Isn't bad to protect the coilovers... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170971979175

Thanks for the link ! Just bought a set

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lord

Posted on: Thursday, June 20th, 2013, 12:10:59am

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Well I had a little play with the coilovers covers just. I was looking at the fitment. It's a thick neoprene and the fitment is ok. They cover the shock and spring fully.

Ok so put them on with the Velcro. Not happy thinking they could get ripped off or fell off. I've got some tie ups in the house. Some long ones and they just fit.

What I've managed to do is thread the tie up through the top. And once I've done this I've put one top and bottom. It's a tighter fit. I wish it was longer.